Opinions

Youth Employability: Is the Quality Deficit of Higher Education Contributing to Youth Unemployment in Mogadishu?

Somalia has one of the youngest populations in the world. It is estimated that around 70% of the country's population is under the age of 30. Nonetheless, 41% and 35% of young people between the ages of 15–19 and 20–24, respectively, are job seekers. While about half of the young population…

Milking the Somali government: the politics of the status quo

By Mahad Wasuge

OPINION: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is driving Somalia towards unavoidable failure

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Amid a devastating security crisis, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's new administration has now hit its road to failure. Unable to curb corruption, nepotism and deep political crisis. The last example could be Southwest and Puntland states now considering severing their…

COP27 outcomes and their implications for Somalia

World leaders gathered in Sharm El-Shaikh town in Egypt for the 27th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP27).

Start Building Somali's economic muscles to avert recurring food insecurity

Most vulnerable are receiving end of manmade difficult -on the report of FSNAU September 2022 It is unfortunate nearly 6.7 million people are facing acute food crises while 1.8 million children are likely to be acutely malnourished it is time now to hold Somali Government accountable for start building…

Getting a grip on Somalia's Gold rush

By: Abdirizek Abdikadir

The net-zero impact of World Bank projects in Somalia

By: Jacfar Jimcale The World Bank (WB) is launching the Somali Electricity recovery Project (SERP) which will cost 150M USD and its worth mentioning that the money is not coming from WB account. It comes from Multi-partner Fund (MPF) account which is managed by the WB. Countries like EU, Japan and UAE…

Russia's Romance With Africa After Soviet Collapse

By Professor Abdullahi Shehu The collapse of the Soviet Union and the decades of the 90s seemed to have reversed the gains made in Africa-Soviet Relations and by extension, in Africa-Russia relations. Understandably, it was a period of politico-ideological downturn and harsh economic realities for Russia,…

Opnion: Creativity starts with imagination

Creativity starts from imagination, and if we had not imagined, dreamed and fancied, we would not have realized all these achievements, and no human being would have been able to achieve all these inventions and innovations.

We cannot let rising hunger in Africa be our legacy

13 October 2022, Accra – As we mark World Food Day on 16 October, one in five people in Africa is going hungry. More than a billion Africans cannot afford a healthy diet. Africa is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. This situation is not sustainable.