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Ismail H. Warsame

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The Sultan’s Drones: Ankara’s Descent From Somali Patron To Villa Somalia’s Hired Gun – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Somewhere in Ankara, someone should be asking a plain question: what is Turkey trying to win in Baidoa?

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Ismail H. Warsame

The Haud Betrayal: A 1956 File And The Template For Ethiopian Encroachment – OpEd

The Haud Betrayal: A 1956 File And The Template For Ethiopian Encroachment – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Seventy years ago this year, a British colonial file recorded something Somalis have long known in their bones

02.09.2026 2

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Ismail H. Warsame

Correcting The Record: What Ambassador Mohamed Abdi Affey Left Out About Mbagathi – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Ambassador Mohamed Abdi Affey has recently been recounting his years as a Kenyan diplomat and mediator at the

01.09.2026 3

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Whose Piracy, Whose Sea? Puntland Cries Foul As Turkey Strikes Without Coordination – OpEd

Whose Piracy, Whose Sea? Puntland Cries Foul As Turkey Strikes Without Coordination – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni stood in Garacad in late August 2026 and said what Puntland officials have

31.08.2026 5

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Ismail H. Warsame

No Due Process At Sea: Turkey’s Unilateral Strikes And The Case For A U.S.-Puntland Alternative – OpEd

No Due Process At Sea: Turkey’s Unilateral Strikes And The Case For A U.S.-Puntland Alternative – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Piracy is a crime, not a war, and the men who commit it are not combatants who forfeit

31.08.2026 6

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The Baidoa Trap: AUSSOM Risks Becoming Mogadishu’s Political Enforcer – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Sahan’s Somali Wire newsletter calls it a “proto-insurgency” fueled not by jihadist ideology but by political disenfranchisement and

29.08.2026 9

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Ismail H. Warsame

Puntland’s Quiet Confederation: While Mogadishu Fights Over A Broken Constitution, Garowe Has Already Moved On – OpEd

Puntland’s Quiet Confederation: While Mogadishu Fights Over A Broken Constitution, Garowe Has Already Moved On – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Somalia’s political class is consumed by a fight over legitimacy: whether President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s unilateral...

28.08.2026 9

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Ismail H. Warsame

Mogadishu’s Curse: Why Somalia Must Neutralize Its Capital Or Replace It – OpEd

Mogadishu’s Curse: Why Somalia Must Neutralize Its Capital Or Replace It – OpEd

Key Takeaways: This op-ed advances a conclusion that Somali political culture has so far refused to reach: Mogadishu, as currently

26.08.2026 10

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Ismail H. Warsame

Eliminating The Strongman System: Somalia’s Unfinished Constitutional Task – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The strongman is not a Somali invention. He is a global recurrence, from Moscow to Ankara to Budapest,

21.08.2026 10

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Ismail H. Warsame

Galkayo: When The Camera Contradicts The Speech – OpEd

Key Takeaways: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visited southern, Galmudugh-administered Galkayo on Monday, Aug. 17, telling residents at Abdullahi...

19.08.2026 10

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Ismail H. Warsame

Puntland’s Strategic Value Was Recognized By Fascist Italy In 1938, Somalia Still Hasn’t Caught Up – OpEd

Key Takeaways: A single line in a diplomat’s diary, written 88 years ago, is a useful place to start when

19.08.2026 10

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Ismail H. Warsame

Middle East War Expands Into Horn Of Africa As Rival Powers Stake New Military Claims – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The war raging 600 miles across the Gulf of Aden did not stay there. It crossed the water.

18.08.2026 10

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Ismail H. Warsame