Abdullahi Halakhe

“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear,” Toni Morrison

When Major General Siad Barre seized power in Mogadishu in October 1969 and supercharged the Pan-Somali irredentist project – the Soomaaliweyn vision of a Greater Somalia uniting the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and Djibouti – Moscow offered military hardware in exchange for access to Berbera’s port and airfields. The calculation was transparent: Berbera gave the USSR the capacity to monitor and interdict maritime traffic transiting the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf. The Horn was not a humanitarian concern for either superpower. It was a chessboard, and Berbera was the square that controlled the board. Read Analysis: theelephant.info/analysis/2026/… @QulshTM @somalilandmfa @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

You cannot onboard a new system into a complex environment and call it disruption. You are just adding chaos with better branding.

“The informal economy is not a primitive version of the formal one. It is a parallel system with its own logic, trust infrastructure and way of finding a fair price before sunset. Every platform that has attempted to digitise it has learned this at a high cost.”

@AnneMitaru @cbeekeeping Asking for all of us, dadangu!

@cbeekeeping Can it grow in Semi Arid areas?

Instead of constructing a stone 'fence', how about planting a live one? This is the fragrant rich 'Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow'.

@lewis_ngunyi For a player that talented, he is an insufferable prick.

Bernado Silva might be the most unlikeable player in the prem, what an insufferable sight.

Ramadhan is over when you see Xhaka pro-Max showing up in the Tyneside Derby in the only way Xhaka does.

The most dangerous modernizer is not the one who lacks intelligence — it is the one who lacks context. Amorim and Alonso were not undone by football. They were undone by the oldest institutional truth: that systems require consent, and consent requires belonging.

And so former players who needed no translator for what the badge demands arrived. Interim by title, native by instinct. At Old Trafford and the Bernabéu, the familiar tongue proved more durable than the foreign genius.

Ruben Amorim and Xabi Alonso Both arrived as prophets of a new football faith — high-press, positional, total. They did not inherit clubs. They inherited cathedrals and were asked to rewire the electricity while the congregation still prayed inside.

There's TH14, and DB10, but PV4 is my favourite Gooner!

@DarrenArsenal1 Darren, I can vouch for that!

Got a cab yesterday, Ethiopian guy in an Arsenal shirt. He said 140m live in Ethiopia and he thinks 100m support Arsenal. 😀😀😀😀

@waweru Mwalim, Eid Mubarak. Be kind!

Sudden fame seems to be the kryptonite for many geopolitical analysts IMHO … the Chinese Canadian prof is becoming increasingly incoherent and disjointed … keeps altering his narrative based on audience … a sure fire sign of a charlatan/ intelligence asset ..🤔🤔🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣

🇺🇳⚖️ Exclusive: Judges clear ICC’s Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims “Panel appointed by war crimes court’s governing body says UN probe has not established any ‘misconduct or breach of duty’ by chief prosecutor” @IntlCrimCourt via ⁦@jsoufi⁩ middleeasteye.net/news/judges-cl…

This is the sort of project that EAC, and quite frankly Africa should be leaning on.

From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver @thenation published my essay with a few additions in its latest issue with the valued support of the @econhardship. Thanks to both. thenation.com/article/societ…

The delicious irony of watching of all the people, Tucker Carlson nonchalantly exposing the utter moral depravity of the Western media and political elite, is not something I had on my bingo card. Does Israel have a right to exist? Israel exists already!