Different Semantics: Pirates When Poor, Interceptors When Powerful 😅

When you finally notice where he’s actually pointing 😅😂😂

Deni's appearance in Parliament today consisted of 15 minutes of reading directly from a prepared script packed with recycled drone talking points, delivered at the reading age of a four-year-old, followed by a swift exit before any questions could be asked.

Remember when HSM hailed the 10-year maritime agreement with Türkiye as a landmark deal that would strengthen Somalia's maritime security, rebuild the Somali Navy, and protect our waters from illegal fishing? We were told Turkey would take responsibility for maritime security operations and receive 30% of the Blue Economy revenues in return for helping Somalia develop its naval capabilities. Yet in his interview last week, HSM admitted that Somalia's navy is still in infancy and that there has been little international support for building. That raises a simple question: what exactly was this agreement for? If the central justification for handing over a significant share of Somalia's blue economy was to rebuild our maritime defence capabilities, why are we still being told that the navy barely exists and remains dependent on future international support? His statements always seem to raise more questions than answers and often appear to contradict earlier narratives.

I know you love your infographics, so here’s my contribution to the cause. ✊🏽 There are just too many unanswered questions surrounding the architecture being built around Somalia’s sovereign resources. Who owns the companies? Who controls them? Who benefits from them? And where does authority ultimately reside? Until those questions are answered, transparency remains the real issue.

Privatising Sovereignty: The Corruption Scheme Behind Mogadishu’s New "Trade Route" Today in Mogadishu, two companies were effectively launched, but only one made the headlines: Akkon Shipping Lines. As politicians and Turkish executives celebrated a new Turkey–Somalia shipping route, the event banner revealed another key player: Ocean Network Shipping (ONS). While Akkon brings in the cargo, ONS appears to have secured exclusive control over local port paperwork, ship services, and cargo clearances. Under the banner of trade facilitation, ONS functions as a rent-seeking intermediary inserted into the sovereign administrative chain of Mogadishu Port. Rather than allowing shipping lines to deal directly with the port operator or Mogadishu Port Authority, every vessel must pass through ONS for basic documentation and clearance procedures. With no competition, ONS can extract fees from every container, manifest, and clearance file that enters the port. The result is a private tollgate on trade that raises costs for imports and humanitarian aid alike, while diverting revenue away from state institutions and into private hands. This model mirrors the outsourcing of Somalia’s federal e-Visa system to Empire Tech Solutions (ETS). In both cases, core sovereign functions are transferred to opaque private actors, creating opportunities for elite enrichment at the expense of transparency, national security, and economic sovereignty. What is being marketed as trade facilitation increasingly resembles the privatisation of state authority itself.

🚨Somali kings & queens… y’all really not taking advantage of the situation right now?! I’m selling LIMITED EDITION Omar Artan toys, 1st Somali referee to make World Cup history, now a national HERO after getting blocked from the USA. Every single dollar goes straight to President Hassan Sheikh. DM me RIGHT NOW if you want one!

In the 60s, it was the Blacks. In the 70s, it was the Russians. In the 80s, it was the Japanese. In the 00s, it was the Arabs. In the 2010s, it was the Muslims. In the 2020s, it was the Chinese. In the 2025s...it's Somalis. We are not random victims of bad PR. We are targets of deliberate social engineering media narratives, selective stories and political scripts designed to shape how the world sees us.

Omar Artan and Ramla Ali, both elite athletes and leaders in their respective fields. Yet both have suffered major setbacks after working with Hassan Sheikh. When the same pattern emerges multiple times, accountability is needed. HSM should consider resigning and allowing new leadership to take over.

All 20m Somalis should BOYCOTT the 2026 World Cup. There's NO reason to be watching football this summer. Players with Somali heritage listed below must also show solidarity and remove themselves. Instead let's support better sports like cricket, rugby and tennis.

Abdiwali Gaas comes across as arrogant narcissistic, aloof and in denial about his record in government. His Harvard educational claim was debunked this was previously widely disputed and not independently verified. On Bosaso and Garowe airports, they’re politically packaged as flagship achievements, but available evidence suggests external partners handled most of the funding and execution with his role largely limited to political facilitation and ribbon-cutting. Kaar Talk the best Somali political podcast need to do better at holding him accountable and asking the difficult questions.

PhD in State Destruction. Work in Progress. How Somalia's president is using his own academic research to tear the country apart There is a particular kind of danger in a politician who truly understands power. In August 2022, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud defended his doctoral dissertation Examining the Challenges of Clan Politics in State-building: A Case Study of Somalia at the University for Peace. Its central framework, which he called Dual-Power Theory, mapped the tension between informal clan self-governance and the formal institutions of a centralised state. Four years later, he is actively spreading it. The supreme irony is that while Dr Hassan Sheikh Mohamud the scholar meticulously diagnosed how clan structures hijack and compromise formal state-building, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud the politician is utilising that exact academic blueprint to weaponise the clan system. The federal administration has masterfully exploited them to bypass constitutional limitations, systematically fragment federal and regional opposition and finally to drive a centralisation agenda that has pushed the country back to the brink of armed domestic conflict. The clearest example is his electoral reform agenda. His administration has championed a shift from the clan-quota system to direct universal elections, framing it as democratic progress. It is not. A genuine transition demands independent electoral institutions, verified voter registration and a Constitutional Court. None exist and none have been built. Without that infrastructure, direct elections don't empower Somali voters; they hand parliament's composition to whoever controls Mogadishu's treasury and donor flows. That is Mohamud. In March 2026, the Federal Parliament extended both presidential and parliamentary terms from four to five years. Opposition leaders called it what it was: a constitutional coup. The opposition's failure to unite against him is not accidental either. When a rival front begins to gain ground, clan is invoked against them more over the government identifies a competing lineage within the same sub-clan as its leading figure and offers them federal appointments. What follows is a localised survival struggle inside the leader's own base. The Tragedy He Predicted His dissertation concluded two things; 1. Centralised control imposed on a decentralised, clan-organised society does not produce stability it produces fragmentation. 2. When the formal state is captured by narrow interests, the social contract breaks and the country slides back toward conflict. He was not wrong. The question is Did Hassan Sheikh Mohamud study clan politics in order to transcend it or did he study clan politics in order to master it? His actions suggest the latter, his presidency of represents a tragic paradox of applied political science.

"laga bartay, lagana badiyey" is a common Somali expression used to describe a situation where someone who taught or mentored another person is eventually surpassed or outdone by their student. In this context Sheikh Sharif bought Turkey to Somalia, but HSM did much much better

🚨In 1935, the British Government accidentally confessed on the parliamentary record that they did not own the Horn of Africa. Not in a secret memo. On the floor of the House of Commons. They classified the indigenous owners as foreign aliens, then gave away their land. I have compiled the primary source parliamentary archives in the article below. I also translated a French colonial document from 1894 where France catches Britain attempting the exact same legal fraud in Central Africa. The French literally state: "England could not give a territory to which she possessed no title." The hypocrisy is staggering. @_AfricanUnion @ICJ_org @UKParliament @UkNatArchives #Somaliland #Somalia #Awdal #Puntland #SSC #Jubaland #Ogaden #Migiurtinia #HornOfAfrica #InternationalLaw #Geopolitics #Declassified #AfricanHistory #UtiPossidetisJuris

#Breaking HSM Family flees Mogadishu Yesterday an interesting flight was spotted arriving and departing Mogadishu Airport logged under the Air France (AFR) call sign as AFR525, this was not a regular Air France scheduled service. The flight arrived at 11am and departed at 4pm tracked from Mogadishu, Somalia, flew over the Kisumu area of western Kenya and continued into Uganda (Entebbe) and the opposite route on arrival. This is most likely a private charter flight operating under an Air France-affiliated call sign. So yesterday afternoon just as things were kicking off in Mogadishu HSM and/or Family and/or High ranking friends were fleeing the country I suspect with the help of Djiboutian President IOG given the links to the Air France call sign and this private carrier.