Ahmed M. Said

light up the darkness(iftiimi mugdiga)

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

This video is in Lasanod. It shows two lives: one is a young boy carrying his bag heading to the market to work, while the other is another young boy carrying his schoolbag with books and pens, on his way to school to study.

[Tiffany Savage 🇺🇸 @patriot_savvy]

A DM I just received..

Ummmmm. That’s a HARD PASS FOR ME!

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOT!

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

This project will be implemented in 17 cities across Somalia, excluding North East State.

It is disappointing that @UNDPSomalia which is implementing this project, is distributing opportunities in such an unfair and exclusionary manner.

[Markus Virgil Hoehne @HoehneVirgil]

Good news!
https://t.co/HXWPVRMHPK

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

This is a lesson for every Somalis who insults or slanders others without evidence. The secessionists have made it a habit to defame anyone who holds a different opinion.

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

This is a lesson for every Somalis who insults or slanders others without evidence. The secessionists have made it a habit to defame anyone who holds a different opinion.

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

@HoehneVirgil @MohamoudGaildon Well done

[Markus Virgil Hoehne @HoehneVirgil]

In early 2023, I started, based on my long-term research as social anthropologist across northern Somalia (documented in many writings available e.g. here: https://t.co/Tfnp2ZIsso ), to comment on the war over Lasanod. I explained the background of the resistance of those living in the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) regions east of Burco against the Somaliland government, which had unleashed a brutal military attack on Lasanod, full of civilians, on 6 February 2023.
In the course of the exchanges online, especially on X, those defending Somaliland’s aggression became increasingly vicious, attacking me personally.
On 28 March 2023, @NimkoAli , CEO of @FiveFoundation and known women's rights activist, topped the attacks on me by engaging in libellous statements of the most horrendous kind. She supported the agression of the Somaliland government. She tried to shut me up as a critique of the violent politics she supported, which cost the lives of many in Lasanod and surroundings.
For a women’s rights defender, it was astonishing that she hurled around accusations like “paedophile” without proof. After a time of shock, pain and contemplation, I decided to hold her accountable. My lawyers filed a case against her in early 2024. It now, in mid-2026, concluded with her unreserved apology. She also is paying substantial compensation to me as part of the agreement we entered into.
Hopefully, Nimko learned her lesson and next time thinks twice before she, as a public figure (holding an OBE... 😉 ) with some responsibility for her words and reputation (from which she lives, as women’s rights campaigner), utters baseless accusations against someone. @SpotonSomalia @SheiknorQassim @M_H_Ingiriis @PeteChonka @Jethro_Norman @lhammondsoas @RVInews @UniLeipzig @declassifiedUK @standardnews @PenguinBooks @PenguinUKBooks @carrielbjohnson @BorisJohnson @SpeechUnion @guardian @AJEnglish @somalilandmfa @SomalisVoices @SomalilandChro1 @somalilandusa @GavinWilliamson @SuleimanHashi @GaraadMukhtaar @afyare_elmi @EIshmael_ @RAbdiAnalyst @agaraad @Fundji3 @JewishChron @CUSocOfWomen @SexMattersOrg

[Osman Hassan Badawi @khatumokeen]

No other people in Somalia as the NE people have been victim of so many colluding adversaries for their different reasons - the secessionist enclave, Puntland expanionist megalomaniac leaders, and HSM and his Irir Samaale ideologies, and, on top, a failed leadership of their own.

Can the NE survive all these predicaments? Yes. They have the right people but they need the right leadership. The ball is in their court.

[caawiye @indhataag]

A secessionist Somaliland Min want to lecture the world on Palestine. Israel signs your papers, and suddenly you’re carrying water for them? Reducing an existential, sacred conflict to "just politics & technicalities" is peak proxy behavior to please your new master @palestine

[صدى الشمال 🎙️ @S_shimaal]

أثارت تصريحات وزير رئاسة ما يُسمى بإقليم "أرض الصومال" موجة انتقادات واسعة عقب قوله إن الصراع بين إسرائيل وفلسطين "ليس صراعاً دينياً" في خطاب اعتبره مراقبون امتداداً لنهج التطبيع مع الكيان الإسرائيلي الذي انتهجته سلطات الإقليم والذي تضمن افتتاح ما تصفه بـ"سفارة" في القدس المحتلة

[Elham Ishmael ✍︎ @EIshmael_]

This man truly knows the secessionists one clan enclave “Somaliland” inside out, including the false narratives they rely on which usually go uncorrected. Experts who can see through their fiction are exactly what we need.

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

أثارت تصريحات وزير رئاسة ما يُسمى بإقليم "أرض الصومال"، خضر حسين عبدي، موجة انتقادات واسعة، عقب قوله إن الصراع بين إسرائيل وفلسطين "ليس صراعاً دينياً"، في خطاب اعتبره مراقبون امتداداً لنهج التطبيع مع الكيان الإسرائيلي،
https://t.co/r19RAQikJR

[Markus Virgil Hoehne @HoehneVirgil]

At minute 24, 18 seconds of the video (below) @KrahMax, member of the German parliament for the @AfD
says verbally "I do not want to have 10 thousand Somalis in Germamy." He presents Somalis as burden. He uses them to differentiate in a crude rightwing extremist way between "good" and "bad" Muslims. Not sure what he knows really about Somalis or Muslims anyway. Last time I checked I saw Somalis in Germany being nurses, working for old people, in security, as cleaners, but also as students at universities. Seems Krah is just bullshitting and using Somalis as scapegoats to find his way out of an Islamophobic rabit hole in which he sits anyway, like basically all of AfD.@KotreLena
@nguyen_afd
@P_Plattform @Alice_Weidel @MartinSellner_
@BjoernHoecke @MMSomalitv
@somalianalyst @SomalisVoices
@EIshmael_
@AbdinasirSola @ProfAbdiSamatar

https://t.co/X3m2inC8Hy

[صدى الشمال 🎙️ @S_shimaal]

26 يونيو.. بين ذاكرة الاستقلال وحلم الوحدة.. قصة لا تزال تُروى.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi vowed in a televised address on Thursday that his Iran-backed group would not wait for Arab governments to act against any Israeli foothold in Somaliland.

"We affirm that we will not stand idly by in the face of any Israeli presence in Somaliland," al-Houthi said. "We will not wait for the negligent or complacent regimes to take action. Rather, whenever the Israeli enemy establishes any presence there, we will take the initiative to target it by all available means."

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

@EIshmael_ Warqada dhan iisoodir Ilham

[VoiceOfSomalia @SomalisVoices]

The truth about Somaliland's 1960 independence: It was for union with Somalia.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Houthi Leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi:

We are closely monitoring developments in Somaliland and the activities of the Israeli enemy, whose aim is to gain control over the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and establish dominance over the Red Sea.

We call on the countries bordering the Red Sea to adopt a unified position against the activities of the Israeli enemy. We will not stand idly by if it establishes a presence in Somaliland.

At any time, we will initiate attacks against any presence of the Israeli enemy in Somaliland.

[Ahmed M. Said @AxmedmSaid]

@itamarbengvir

[Abdi Garad, PhD @agaraad]

Muse Bihi (@musebiihi), the predecessor of @Abdirahmanirro, is framing Abdirahman Irro’s visit to Israel as an irreparable moral rupture: not a diplomatic move but an act of complicity in the Gaza war.

In his verbatim words:

“The sitting president [Irro] is the first to visit while Gaza is under assault. Not an Arab country [being attacked], but a people herded into camps are being bombarded.

He is the first president to come and stand beside Netanyahu and declare, shoulder to shoulder, we stand with you.

Where is the justice? Where are the promises they made? Where are the rights? We deem that to be unacceptable and acknowledge that you have exceeded the boundaries.

We pray to Allah that Palestinians achieve their independence. We hope for success for the Muslims, and whoever is against Muslims, we are against them.”