๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ, ๐๐จ๐ก๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐, ๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ซ:
As he was leaving Aden Adde International Airport, he witnessed a #Ugandan peacekeeper slap a young #Somali traveler after the young man took photos of the airport. The soldier threw his camera to the ground and smashed it. The young man shouted, "๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ?"
My professor immediately stepped in and angrily confronted the soldier, asking why he was treating a Somali citizen that way. The soldier looked at him and replied: "๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฐ. ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ? ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ."
My professor said those words shocked him. He boarded his flight without saying anything. While sitting on the plane, after he had calmed down, he kept thinking about what the soldier had said. The words were deeply insulting, but he also felt they reflected the painful reality Somalia was living through. He told me he cried inside because he wished the soldier had been wrong.
Today, many Somalis are still driven by emotion instead of unity. Even now, if @aussom_ were to leave, many opposition leaders would no longer feel safe. The President and his regime would "take care" of anyone with a different political opinion.
#Somalia @US2SOMALIA @_AfricanUnion @IGADsecretariat
The United States has said it will prevent the United Nations supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia from the start of next year, two documents showed, in a move that officials said is likely to end its operations. https://t.co/tMaRq7o40D
#WHO chief rebukes bishopโs migration remarks, says labeling people โinvadersโ denies their humanity
Addis Abeba โ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has criticized remarks by conservative Catholic Bishop Athanasius Schneider describing migration to Europe as an โinvasion,โ saying such language dehumanizes people fleeing conflict and hardship.
In a post on X, Tedros said he read the bishopโs remarks โwith a heavy heart,โ arguing that referring to human beings as โinvadersโ strips them โof their faces, their names, their stories,โ and warning that โhistory teaches us where that road leads.โ
The WHO chief was responding to widely circulated interview clips of Bishop Schneider, a traditionalist Catholic prelate serving as auxiliary bishop in Kazakhstan, who has repeatedly argued that large-scale migration to Europe constitutes an orchestrated effort to undermine the continentโs Christian identity.
In interviews published by conservative Catholic and European media outlets in 2025 and 2026, Schneider repeatedly argued that migration to Europe is โan orchestrated political actionโ aimed at suppressing Europeโs Christian identity. He has described the phenomenon as an โinvasionโ and linked it to what he characterizes as a broader agenda of cultural transformation.
โThe people arriving on Europeโs shores are not an army. They are families fleeing war, hunger, and despair,โ Tedros wrote, adding that migrants include โChristians and Muslims alike, mothers carrying children, young people who buried their dreams to survive.โ
He said portraying migration as โa plot against a continentโ ignores both evidence and migrantsโ humanity.
Tedros also invoked Christian teachings in challenging the bishopโs framing, writing that Europeโs Christian heritage โis not defended by fear. It is defended by living it,โ and citing the biblical passage, โI was a stranger and you welcomed me,โ which he described as โnot a political slogan; it is the Gospel itself.โ
While acknowledging that โborders donโt matterโ is not his position, Tedros said migration should be managed โwith order, fairness, and honesty about its pressures.โ However, he distinguished between border management and rhetoric targeting migrants.
โThere is a difference between managing migration and demonising migrants,โ he wrote. โThe first is policy; the second is a wound to our shared humanity,โ Tedros said.
โCompassion is not weakness, and fear is not faith. May we choose to see people, not plots.โ
Ethiopiaโs national ID program hits a milestone:Ethiopia's national digital identification system has now registered more than 46 million people, making it one of Africa's fastest-growing digital identity programs. Officials say the initiative is becoming a cornerstone of the country's efforts to build a modern, inclusive digital economy.
Chinese residential complex goes viral with rooftop misting system that drops temperatures 5โ8ยฐC in minutes.
Multiple high-rise towers simultaneously spray fine water mist from rooftop nozzles, enveloping courtyards and buildings in thick clouds.
South Africans are out in the streets across the country today demanding that foreigners leave their country. These are scenes from Durban where the protests are so far described as largely peaceful
๐น via @SiphamandlaGoge
Do you know the difference between the refugees of 1951 and the refugees of 2026?
The Refugee Convention is still the same, but the political climate is not. Across #Europe, migration is increasingly viewed through the lens of border control and state sovereignty.
Before choosing an irregular route, you need to understand that todayโs reality is very different from the one in 1950s or 80s.
#Migration #Somalia #HumanRights #Refugees #MHR #SS
The tragic escalations in Jalalaqsi and Ari Cadeeye are not isolated incidents. They are the direct price of a central apparatus entirely distracted by executive survival and unilateral constitutional rewrites in Mogadishu. When the centre abdicates its primary duty - national security - the frontier inevitably fractures. We must return immediately to the constitutional baseline and halt this descent into localised instability.