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Jan 4, 2025 | 
geeska.com | Mahbub Abdillahi |Ahmed Ismail Samatar
“The city we once knew and grew up in has changed,” a long-time resident of Borama reminisced, lamenting the transformation of his hometown, which had once been a safe haven for thousands of Somalis from across the country but has changed dramatically in the last two years. “The diverse community that made this city welcoming and unique is no more. It feels like many other isolated, single-clan-dominated cities now,” he says.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
geeska.com | Mahbub Abdillahi |Faisal Ali |Ahmed Ismail Samatar
The 29th Conference of the Parties (Cop29) opened this year in a subdued atmosphere in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The recent re-election of Donald Trump—who, during his previous term, withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement and repeatedly dismissed the climate crisis as a “hoax”—has cast uncertainty over the US’s role at this year’s conference.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Mahbub Abdillahi
During this election campaign in Somaliland, we have witnessed a troubling resurgence of political clanism and blind loyalty tied to it, posing a grave threat to Somaliland’s democratic ideals and progressive aspirations. This resurgence now risks undermining basic principles of good governance, such as the rule of law and the impartiality of the civil service, reverting to the very clanist system we once sought to move beyond.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
geeska.com | Mahbub Abdillahi
The plastic bag ban, intended to safeguard the environmental health of Somali cities, already appears to be stillborn policy. The government urgently needs to adopt a new approach that collaborates with communities instead of imposing top-down rules. Earlier this year, Somalia’s ministry of environment and climate change (MoECC) made headlines by declaring a nationwide ban on single-use plastic bags.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
geeska.com | Ubah Ali |Abukar Arman |Mahbub Abdillahi |Suhaib Mahmoud
How does a refugee camp, a transient place between A and B, become a home? Kakuma shows us how. The movement of people from their homes is not a modern phenomenon. Historically, individuals were forced to leave due to wars, persecution, environmental disasters, ethnic conflicts, and other push factors.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
geeska.com | Mahbub Abdillahi |Suhaib Mahmoud
Ahmed Samatar, the prominent Somali scholar and intellectual, has been ousted from his political party, Hilaac. But is the problem with him or our political system? In a televised media briefing, a spokesperson of the Hilaac political party leadership announced that it had ousted its founder and leader, Professor Ahmed Ismail Samatar.
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May 30, 2024 | 
geeska.com | Mahbub Abdillahi |Abdiaziz Mahdi |George Roberts |Faisal Ali
Somalia’s failure to outlaw the charcoal trade and provide alternatives for citizens’ energy needs risks turning the country into a man-made desert In January 2012, then prime minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Gaas, wrote a letter to the UN security council calling on member states to support Somalia’s efforts to outlaw charcoal production.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mahbub Abdillahi
Since my college years, I’ve been fascinated by the nature of social structures and how they shape both individuals and society as a whole. This curiosity has led me to ponder questions about the most appropriate way to live. It prompted me to question the extent to which I should exercise my individual freedom. I’ve been particularly interested in understanding how one can live with the highest degree of personal agency and freedom without infringing upon the rights of others.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
en.goobjoog.com | Mahbub Abdillahi
By Mahbub M AbdillahiInnovation hubs are recognized as ecosystems that promote collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship, offering promising avenues for addressing evolving local and global challenges. In the context of the human-induced climate crisis, these hubs present a unique opportunity to leverage local solutions and accelerate efforts in mitigating and adapting to the disproportionate impact of the climate change induced crisis.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
gorfayn.org | Mahbub Abdillahi
|CommentaryThis week, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) took a decisive step by imposing a ban on the production, import, export, manufacture, trade, and use of single-use plastic bags in Somalia starting June 30, 2024. This bold decision has garnered widespread support from the public and environmental activists as well as livestock herders whose livestock habitually die from consumed littered plastic waste, accelerating the ongoing campaigns against plastic pollution.
