Obey the brokers, or risk collapse Somali politics has always had a talent for hiding ugly realities beneath respectable language. No word hides more…
Op-eds
The Double-Dealer’s Dilemma: Identity, and the Business of Victimhood
Playing victim in Hargeisa and power broker in Mogadishu how the same narrative sustains both In the high-stakes theater of Somali politics, few narratives…
Somalia’s Foreign Policy Problem: Patronage Over Performance
How Patronage Shapes Somali Diplomacy In Architecture of Fragility, Somali foreign policy was described as a system shaped by fragmentation and competing centers of…