Deeqa Cabdullaahi

Civil Engineer, M.S. in Civil & Structural Engineering, Purdue University, Hacettepe Alum, Part-time Political Analyst, Pan-African, Pan-Somali🇸🇴🌍

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

What do you know about this issue that gives you the right to speak on it? These lands belong to the Somali goverment, and these people are living there in makeshift houses built without permission. This is necessary to improve Mogadishu’s roads and ensure proper urban development

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Excellent analysis. Lacking any smart strategy to topple Hassan Sheikh, the Somali opposition is weaponizing Türkiye, Somalia’s greatest ally since the Cold War, and pulling it into domestic politics. Worse still, this misguided strategy has not only failed to unseat Hassan Sheikh, but is also inflicting irreparable damage on bilateral relations. I’ve long tried to explain this; never before has it been captured so well in one piece. https://t.co/dn4Z7poQjT

[Kenya Axis @kenyaaxis]

Somali forces killed an estimated 452–454 Al-Shabaab militants in an intensive air-and-ground campaign between May and August 2026, according to Red Sea Axis’s review of official government statements.

https://t.co/l6PCYC4m1K

[Kenya Axis @kenyaaxis]

Despite an international naval presence, the EU's Operation Atalanta, and expanded security agreements with the USA, the waters off Somalia have once again become the nightmare of global shipping after a decade-long lull. International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) figures summarize the picture mercilessly: after 8 recorded incidents in 2024 and 5 in 2025, Somali waters saw 13 incidents in just the first seven months of 2026 the highest level in 10 years. As of August 27, roughly 67 seafarers from 4 vessels remain in pirate captivity.

https://t.co/TwtzikWb2i

[Kenya Axis @kenyaaxis]

Sudan's war is not sustained by accident it is sustained by logistics. In August alone, flight-tracking data captured 44 cargo flights from the UAE to Ethiopia, now the principal rear base for resupplying the Rapid Support Forces, a militia accused of genocide.

The operation was anything but improvised: 13 different Ilyushin Il-76TD heavy freighters flew the route 22 from Al Reef Airbase, 20 from Al Ain Airport and 2 from Sweihan Airbase. That is more than a flight a day, on average, along a corridor Abu Dhabi insists does not exist.

https://t.co/SrTjd8QzBF

[Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad @AbdiwahabSheik7]

What a complete victory would break
It must be understood clearly:

General Burhan of Sudan is not fighting a local war with regional side effects. He is fighting the region's war on Sudanese soil, and the arithmetic of his victory extends far beyond Sudan's borders.

Consider what a full Sudanese victory would dismantle, piece by piece. The RSF, the axis's only serious military instrument on the continent, would cease to exist as a fighting force, and with it the demonstration that a purchased militia can carve a state out of a state. Nobody should mourn it, least of all its own fighters, because the axis never intended to keep it. A mercenary instrument that has burned every bridge to its own society has no future except the one its sponsors assign to it, and sponsors of this kind assign only two: continued use, or disposal. The Colombians flown home in coffins, the defectors surrendering outside Omdurman, the commanders discovering that Abu Dhabi's generosity ends where its interests do, all of them are learning the oldest rule of proxy warfare. The tool is discarded the moment the job is done or the job fails, and this job is failing. The Bosaso corridor would lose its purpose, leaving an exposed Emirati military presence on Somali soil with no war to feed and a Mogadishu government newly emboldened to ask why it is there at all. The Ethiopian sanctuary in Benishangul-Gumuz would become a liability rather than an asset, documented, protested, and diplomatically costly, with nothing to show for it. The gold circuit through Dubai would remain under tightening EU, UK, and US sanctions with its Sudanese source restored to state control. And the political lesson would radiate outward: Somaliland's recognition project, Puntland's and Jubaland's flirtations with autonomy under Emirati patronage, every secessionist file the axis keeps in its drawer would lose the precedent it was waiting for. Fragmentation projects live on momentum. Sudan is where the momentum dies.

This is why the axis has escalated rather than retreated as Burhan advanced: the Ethiopian bases activated in 2025, the Blue Nile offensives of 2026, the drones crossing the border. The axis understands what is at stake in Sudan better than many of Sudan's friends do. It is not defending a militia. It is defending its entire model, and it is losing.

One side of this war seeks to keep Sudan whole; the other was assembled, financed, and supplied by the UAE-Ethiopia-Israel axis to break it. When El Fasher's berm was filled with bodies, the gold that paid for the bullets was being assayed in Dubai, the mercenaries had transited a runway in Bosaso, and the drones flew from the territory of a neighbor that simultaneously demands a port from Somalia at the price of partition. Every thread of the crime runs back to the same three capitals. Burhan's armies did not only recover Sudanese towns. They stood, in practice, as the shield of every state in the region that the axis has marked for fragmentation, from Mogadishu to N'Djamena.

The Horn of Africa has been offered two futures: a region of client fragments ringing a controlled sea, built by Abu Dhabi, staged from Addis Ababa, and covered by Tel Aviv, or a region of sovereign states choosing their own partners. Burhan is fighting for the second future on behalf of countries that have never sent him a soldier. If he completes his victory, the axis of partition does not merely lose a war in Sudan. It loses the war, everywhere it planned to fight it. History will record who tried to erase the map of the Horn, and who refused.https://t.co/XwCr1UQk2n

[Kenya Axis @kenyaaxis]

Hemedti is the largest and final product of an order in which the state ran its monopoly on violence as a rentable asset; today he is the intermediary who rents that order out to foreign powers. Unless the logic that created him is dismantled, Hemedti’s military defeat will not solve Sudan’s problem. It will merely prepare the ground for the next Hemedti.

https://t.co/rrhU2MaSyv

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

@Salim8Said Well said, dear @Salim8Said. The resilience of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudanese people is indeed remarkable, a nation with such deep military heritage and unity cannot be broken. A stable, united Sudan is a victory for the entire Horn including Somalia. 🇸🇴🇸🇩

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

The Best Ever Food Review Show, one of YouTube's biggest food and travel channels, with nearly 12 million subscribers, has come to Mogadishu. The title says it all: "Minnesota Man Goes to Somalia!!"

A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable. Today, it is simply content.

That is the real story here. Mogadishu is no longer the city the world remembers from old headlines. Security has improved dramatically, explosions that once defined the news cycle have become rare. Walking through Mogadishu today, many visitors say they feel safer than in cities that market themselves as global hubs. Five-star hotels are rising along the coastline. Restaurants are full. The city is alive.

None of this happened by accident. It is the result of the resilience of the Somali people, the determination of Somali institutions, and the support of all stakeholders who invested in Somalia's stability but above all, Türkiye, which stood by Somalia when few others would, investing in its security, infrastructure, and future.

When global YouTubers film food tours in Mogadishu, it means one thing: the world is coming back to Somalia. And Somalia is ready. https://t.co/zK0hbsJkan

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

The war in Sudan was never a quarrel between two generals. It was a war over the map itself, waged by a rented militia, financed by Abu Dhabi, staged from Ethiopian territory, and covered by Tel Aviv. One project, one logic: fragment the states of the Nile and the Horn, because weak states make obedient coastlines.

Burhan understood this, and he is winning. But he is not fighting for Sudan alone. He is fighting our war on Sudanese soil. The corridors that armed El Fasher's killers ran through our region; the same hands keep Somalia divided, Libya broken, and the Red Sea ringed with foreign bases.

That is why the only road back to peace runs through Burhan breaking this axis and driving its project out of our region. And it cannot be his burden alone. Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Egypt, Libya... every state marked for fragmentation must stand as one and push this axis out, together. Dear @AbdiwahabSheik7 I stand with Burhan. The region should too.

[Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad @AbdiwahabSheik7]

Burhan Breaks the Axis: Sudan's Comeback and the Defeat of the UAE-Ethiopia-Israel Project
https://t.co/g0AMukFPlm

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Africa Intelligence: Hemedti and his inner circle visited Tel Aviv twice during Sudan's war. Somalia knows this playbook. Israel courted our separatists for years, then recognized Somaliland's secession. UAE arms the fragments, Israel legitimizes them.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Africa Intelligence reports RSF leader Hemedti and his inner circle have maintained secret, high-level security ties with Israel throughout Sudan’s war.

According to the report, senior RSF figures — including Hemedti’s brothers Abdul Rahim and Algoney — traveled to Tel Aviv in May 2025 and again in February 2026, meeting Israeli Foreign Ministry officials and intelligence officers.

Earlier investigations also linked the RSF to Israeli surveillance technology, including Predator-related phone-hacking equipment reportedly delivered before the war.

Its principal external material backer, however, remains the UAE.

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Ethiopia under Abiy Ahmed has long been the Horn of Africa's central destabilizing force, once targeting Somalia and now doing the same to Sudan.

Somalia's decades of instability owe much to Ethiopian interference. Blocked from repeating that pattern in Somalia because of Türkiye's presence there, Addis Ababa has found another outlet. It is now using UAE money to help fuel the war in Sudan, a country that holds a deep place in Somali hearts.

Every Somali should stand with our Sudanese brothers and sisters on this. Go Burhan, go SAF. Victory to Sudan. @aftaburhan @TSC_SUDAN @SudaneseAF

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Abiy Ahmed’s government appears to have picked a side in Sudan’s war, aligning itself with the UAE and, by extension, Hemedti’s RSF terror group.

Hemedti’s high-level reception in Addis Ababa comes amid mounting reports of UAE-linked cargo flights, military activity around Asosa, and logistical support to the RSF through Ethiopian territory.

Ethiopia is no longer simply being drawn into Sudan’s war by geography.

Under Abiy, it increasingly appears to be participating in a regional power alignment built around the UAE, with western Ethiopia potentially serving as a logistical rear area for forces fighting the Sudanese Army.

That is a dangerous gamble.

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Turkish Navy successfully secured the release of the MV LUTUF, which was carrying Turkish military supplies, after a 10-day operation alongside Somali forces. Warships TCG Gelibolu and TCG Göksu reportedly destroyed four pirate boats, killing 14 pirates and forcing the armed group to abandon the vessel.

https://t.co/VPI90GS7Ug

[Amgad Fareid Eltayeb @Amgad_Fareid]

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Hemedti’s arrival in Addis Ababa today coincides with a surge in RSF militia attacks on Blue Nile, on Sudan’s eastern front. Those attacks are launched from Ethiopian territory—from the Ethiopian army’s Asosa base, which has been allocated to the RSF with growing support from the #UAE.
These are neither new allegations nor unverified claims. They have been documented by satellite imagery and independent analysis, including an investigation by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (@HRL_YaleSPH), which recorded continued logistical and military activity linked to the RSF at Asosa.
Yet we have not heard a single word from Massad Boulos (@US_SrAdvisorAF) about this aggression—or about the state whose territory is being used as a launchpad for the attacks.
Satellites, it seems, can see what American diplomacy prefers not to see. Or perhaps the news has simply not reached Mr. Boulos yet.

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

@HassanAKhaire My condolences to you dear PM. After all he was your king too.

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

One of the biggest N&N trolls out there isn’t even ashamed to share Israeli sources just to smear the President of Somalia. Absolutely disgusting. You’re nothing but a nest of snakes. 🐍

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Dr. Baadiyow's work on Somali leadership is a genuine gift to our discourse, the depth of engagement here is rare, and it deserves real appreciation. This is actually a question I keep coming back to myself: is it the leader who fixes the society, or does the society first have to mature enough to produce the leader it needs? Dr. Baadiyow reads Somalia's crisis through the lens of leadership, but I keep wondering about the other side of it: what about the society itself? Which comes first, really?

[Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow @DrBaadiyow]

On Thursday, 27 August, at 3:00 p.m., we will have a deep and meaningful discussion on my book, Somalia: A State in Search of Exceptional Leadership, organized by the SIMAD Graduate Faculty. This is more than a discussion of a book; it is an opportunity to reflect together on Somalia’s difficult journey, the leadership challenges that have shaped our past, and the lessons we must draw for the future.

Your presence and participation would mean a great deal to me. I warmly invite you to join us, share your thoughts, challenge our ideas, and contribute to a conversation that I hope will deepen our understanding of Somalia and inspire renewed hope for the kind of leadership and nation we aspire to build.

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

Every time I see @DrHodanOsman in the field, welcoming delegations, pushing Somalia's economic ties forward, I'm reminded she's exactly the kind of ambassador we need. She even speaks Chinese. That's how deep her connection to the relationship runs. Go ahead, sister.🇸🇴

[Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Somalia @mocisom]

A Chinese business delegation has arrived in Mogadishu today ahead of the #Somalia–#China Business Networking Forum.

The delegation was received by H.E. @DrHodanOsman , Ambassador of Somalia to China, in the presence of officials from the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. 🇸🇴🤝🇨🇳

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

@MinisterHashi Are you high Ambassador?

[Deeqa Cabdullaahi @deeqaabdullah]

One of the worst things to happen to Somalia is that a characterless figure like Fahad has stayed in Somali politics for so long. He's so devoid of character that he tries to manufacture a public image like a troll, using fake AI-generated photos. Shame on the Arab states that have spent years funding this so-called Islamist, a man who looks like a giant on the outside but is hollow within, and who has brought Somali society nothing but blood and tears. Fahad has never been seen laying a single stone in Somalia. All he knows how to do is spread hatred.

[Fahad Yasin فهد ياسين @FahadBinYasin]

QAXII XASAN-CAGAF-CAGAF.