Biruk Terrefe

2 months ago | democracyinafrica.org | Theogene Rudasingwa |Michael B Gyekye |Barnaby Joseph Dye |Biruk Terrefe

January 30, 2025Dear Secretary Lammy,I write to you with urgency and conviction regarding the United Kingdom’s continued financial support to Rwanda, despite its repeated violations of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) sovereignty and the catastrophic human toll that has resulted from its aggression.

Nov 6, 2024 | geeska.com | Mohamed Gabobe |Biruk Terrefe |Harry Verhoeven |Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan

In 1980, shortly after the failed Ogaden War, Hussein Bulhan, an anti-colonial Somali psychiatrist and Fanon scholar, wrote one of his seminal works. In it, he explored the impact of the colonial partitioning of Somali territories along artificial, European-imposed borders on what he termed the Somali psyche.

Nov 5, 2024 | geeska.com | Mahamad Hersi |Mohamed Gabobe |Biruk Terrefe |Harry Verhoeven

Amid the height of campaigns for the presidential and political association elections in Somaliland, the incumbent president and candidate for the ruling party, Muse Bihi Abdi, recently gave an interview to the BBC Somali service. The interview was intriguing, both for its timing and because the president has rarely granted interviews over his seven years in office. Contrary to expectations, his responses left a great deal of ambiguity, political uncertainty, and more questions than answers.

Oct 28, 2024 | geeska.com | Tom J. Farer |Biruk Terrefe |Harry Verhoeven |Mohamed Gabobe

Tom Farer recalls his time in Mogadishu as a legal assistant and his friendship with Mohamed Abshir, who served as the commander of the Somali police before being ousted in the 1969 coup.  In early September 1963, I found myself stepping off a plane onto the hot tarmac of Mogadishu’s airport. It was a quiet and barren place—just a strip of runway stretching between low dunes, with only a passing camel to bear witness. The rusted steps I descended seemed to belong to a forgotten world.