Abdi Khadar

[Mohammed Taqi @MohdTaqi11]

اليوم يومك يا #صوماليلاند 🤍

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

At the Culture Centre in Hargeisa Somaliland was an impressive display of old korans…was well worth the visit and hospitality was extremely welcoming…

[Habtamu Nini Abino @abino11]

If Somaliland Signs the Abraham Accords: The Day the Horn of Africa’s Geopolitics Change Forever

If Somaliland were to sign the Abraham Accords in Washington alongside President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, it would not be a symbolic gesture. It would be a geopolitical earthquake.

The Abraham Accords are not merely a peace agreement between Israel and Arab states; they are the backbone of a new strategic architecture led by the United States. They bind diplomacy, security, technology, finance, and regional order into one umbrella. For a small, unrecognised state to step into that framework is to step onto the front line of global power politics.

For Somaliland, this would mean one thing above all: recognition through strategy, not sentiment.

When the President of the United States signs an international agreement with the President of Somaliland in the White House, the debate about whether Somaliland is a “region” or a “state” effectively ends. International law is not shaped only by declarations — it is shaped by practice. A state that enters binding covenants with Washington and Tel Aviv, and is treated as a sovereign security partner, is a state in all but name. And once America moves, others follow.

Mogadishu’s claim would not collapse because of rhetoric, but because of irrelevance. The moment Washington treats Hargeisa as a strategic ally, Somalia’s narrative of “territorial integrity” loses its global audience. Power rewrites the map.

Economically, the Abraham Accords would unlock a different universe for Somaliland. This is not about aid; it is about integration into the Western economic ecosystem. Israeli technology, American defence cooperation, Gulf capital, and Western financial institutions would converge on Berbera and Hargeisa.

Ports become insured.
Projects become bankable.
Natural resources become investable.

For the first time, Somaliland would move from survival to acceleration — from a brave unrecognised polity to a regional economic hub linking the Red Sea, the Gulf, and East Africa.

Security is where the transformation becomes irreversible.

To join the Abraham Accords is to enter the U.S.–Israel security architecture. It sends a clear message to Al-Shabaab, hostile militias, and destabilising regional actors: Somaliland is no longer a grey zone.
It is now under the strategic umbrella of the world’s most powerful military alliance.

That is deterrence.

It also reshapes the Horn of Africa itself. Ethiopia gains a stable, Western-aligned maritime partner. The Red Sea becomes anchored by a pro-Western corridor. The Gulf gains a reliable African gateway. And the United States secures its northern Indian Ocean flank without deploying another war.

This is why the rumours matter.

If President Cirro walks into the White House to sign the Abraham Accords, Somaliland will not just be joining a peace agreement — it will be joining history.

For decades, Somaliland built a state without recognition.
The Abraham Accords would recognise the state because it already exists.

And in geopolitics, legitimacy does not come from sympathy.
It comes from strategic necessity.

If this happens, the Horn of Africa will never look the same again.
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[Shay Gal שי גל @ShayGal84]

The State the World Pretends Not to See

The Somaliland question was framed wrong from the start.

My latest statecraft analysis via @SomalilandChro1 (thanks to @Saeed_beeldeeq) ⬇️

It’s not whether Somaliland deserves recognition.
It’s why the system rewards dysfunction and punishes self-rule.

🇮🇱 Israel’s recognition mattered because it recognised something familiar.
Not perfection - responsibility.
Institutions before applause.
Consent before permission.

Somaliland built legitimacy first.
Recognition didn’t follow.
That alone exposes the flaw.

Calls to “return to Mogadishu” 🇸🇴 don’t fix Somalia
(decades of intervention have proven Somalia cannot be “fixed”, certainly not now, after it has chosen dependency on Ankara).

They ask Somaliland to absorb its failure.

🇹🇷 Turkey and 🇮🇷 Iran exploited ambiguity.
They expanded influence where sovereignty was outsourced.

Somaliland chose the opposite path.
Internal order over proxies.
Institutions negotiated, not imposed.
Consent over coercion.

And this is the point many miss:
In one of the Horn’s harshest environments, Somaliland built a democracy.
Elections were contested. Power changed hands. Defeat did not trigger collapse.

Here, that is not rhetoric.
It is achievement.
This isn’t a plea.
It’s a reckoning.

Somaliland isn’t asking to be seen.
It already exists.

🔗 https://t.co/95jiW2TL8n

[Horndiplomat @HornDiplomat]

Horndiplomat Arabic

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

Abdullahi Hashi Abib is a Somalian member of parliament who has publicly presented himself as an advocate against corruption. Yet offshore records tell a more complicated story. According to the Offshore Leaks database, Abib was listed as both director and shareholder of an offshore company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 2006.
That company was registered through Accounts Centre International Ltd, a corporate services provider operating out of 29 Harley Street in London.

This address has been widely documented as hosting more than 2,000 companies, many of them offshore structures, and has repeatedly appeared in investigations involving fraudulent or opaque business activity. While using such an address is not illegal on its own, it is a familiar feature of fraudulent activities.

What makes the situation more striking is the timing. Abib’s offshore company was registered during the same period he was involved in running a Kansas-based nonprofit, the ‘Somali Social Services Voluntary Fund’. The overlap between a charitable organisation in the United States and an offshore entity in a known secrecy jurisdiction raises obvious questions about transparency and purpose.

The most troubling connection, however, emerges from reporting on illegal and abusive fishing operations. In January 2016, a Virginia-registered company, SVG Fisheries Development Somalia Co. Ltd, was incorporated by Abdillahi Hashi Abib. Thai authorities and investigative journalists have linked this company to ownership of a vessel connected to the Al Wesam fishing fleet, a fleet that has been associated with serious allegations including labor abuse, trafficking, and other human-rights violations. Some vessels linked to the fleet have drawn the attention of international law-enforcement bodies, including Interpol.

There is no public court ruling tying Abib personally to criminal activity. Still, the pattern is hard to ignore: offshore companies, shared intermediaries, shell-company addresses, and links to a high-risk fishing fleet. Taken together, these associations sit uncomfortably alongside his attempt to create a public image as an anti-corruption campaigner.

His record suggests a selective stance—opposition to corruption when practiced by others not because it’s wrong but because he’s excluded and not involved in it

[Sarhaye @inasarhaye]

Why should the United States fund a UN project in Somalia when Turkey effectively controls the country’s key strategic and economic assets?

Turkey controls:
1. Mogadishu’s only international airport
2. Mogadishu’s only major seaport
3. Somalia’s marine resources
4. Oil and natural gas resources
5. Exclusive use of Somali airspace and territorial waters
6. A large, permanent military base
7. A 900-square-kilometer ballistic missile development site.

Given this level of control and benefit, Somalia functions more like a Turkish vassal state than an independent partner of the United States. If Turkey holds the primary economic, military, and strategic advantages in Somalia, then Turkey—not U.S. taxpayers—should be responsible for funding Somalia-related UN projects.

[Abdi Khadar @khadaryoonis]

@MPDrAbib If there was an “ounce” of respect for constitution or rule of law in Somalia, you wouldn’t have run away to America in fear for your life!

Somaliland has been a de facto and is doing much better than Somalia without wasting billions of $ from international community

[ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24]

Jendayi Frazer Former U.S. Assistant Secretary has called for international recognition of Somaliland, becoming the third former U.S. Assistant Secretary to do so.
@Abdi_Odweine

[Abdi Daud 🇦🇺 @haadka]

ICYMI 👀

A former U.S. Assistant Secretary revealed she actively pushed for international recognition of Somaliland while in office.

Her biggest regret?

She says she did not push hard enough.

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

This is exactly what Algeria's foreign minister said at the UN General Assembly in September:
"Establishing a state is not a choice, but a necessity. It is not a favor, but a right.”

Only when it refers to the Palestinians does the UN support and applaud, and when it comes to Somaliland, they condemn and oppose.

[Fahima A Ali — SOMALILAND RE-RECOGNITION MOVEMENT @FahimaAli49]

Somalia’s dictator tried to erase Somaliland—and history shows what followed.

Your hatred, insults, and threats will never bend us, let alone break us.

[Abdi Khadar @khadaryoonis]

@georgegalloway @georgegalloway Celebrating a communist perpetrator who changed Somalia into a Marxist state is VERY LOW!
He has the blood of 500,000 Somalis in his hands!

[Ismail Ahmed @IsmailiAhmedR]

Credible reports indicate that passports and full identity details of tens of thousands of travellers who obtained Somalia’s e-visa were left exposed and are now being exploited by transnational crime syndicates linked to the Minnesota fraud. These stolen identities are reportedly being used to conceal the true beneficiaries of illicit funds moving through banking networks.

What was once a niche tactic used by rogue actors in informal cash networks has become industrial-scale identity laundering, enabled by systemic failures in a state-linked digital platform. Investigations by Al Jazeera and others found that the e-visa system allowed bulk extraction of sensitive records without proper authentication—no sophisticated “hack” was required. Data confirmed as exposed includes names, passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses, photographs, and contact details. At least 35,000 individuals, including U.S. and UK nationals, were affected in the initial breach, and records relating to as many as 100,000 people may now be accessible to organised criminal networks.

Having worked in international remittances for over two decades—as an academic researcher, a UN compliance adviser, and founder of a global money transfer business—I view the mass availability of passports and KYC data as a serious national-security concern, not merely a financial crime issue. The U.S. Embassy in Somalia has confirmed that thousands of U.S. nationals were affected. This warrants close scrutiny by the U.S. Treasury and other agencies investigating transnational fraud.

Mogadishu-based Premier Bank of Somalia controls payment collection, underwrites risk and oversees implementation of the e-visa system. It operates the programme with Empire Tech Solutions (ETS), which manages applicant data and receives a share of visa fees. ETS is owned by the family of Somalia’s president. #USTreasury
https://t.co/GVWhyJA04y

[Somalilanders @Somaalilanders]

Anyone who doubts Somaliland should listen to @EdnaAdan, former Foreign Minister of the Rep of Somaliland and the mother of this young nation. Who is Edna Adan Ismail?

- Former Regional Director for @WHO in Africa
- Former Foreign Minister of Somaliland
- Winner of the Templeton Prize (2023)
- Woman of the Year – 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World 2024
- Winner of the Gusi Peace Prize (2025)
- Founder of Edna Adan University Hospital in #Somaliland
- Known as the “Iron Lady of #Africa

[Presidency | Republic of Somaliland @Presidencysl_]

After more than three decades of peaceful self-governance, constitutional order, and democratic practice, Somaliland has received its first formal international recognition as a sovereign and independent state.

This development affirms an objective reality that has long existed. Somaliland meets the legal, political, and institutional criteria of statehood under international law.

— H.E. President @AbdirahmanIrro

[Sultan Abdikariim (Waayo-Arag) @SSTHawdReserve]

https://t.co/DVw92wHHhZ

[Abdillahi @daljire01]

Boqor Boormadow: Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud laba jeer oo hore ayaan dhaliilay oo laba jeerba ergo ayaa la iisoo diray si aan u joojiyo rasaasta. Laakiin maanta wiilashaydii ayaa badhna la qashay badhna la jidh dilay, ragga dilayna waanu garanaynaa.

[Abdillahi @daljire01]

I'll be briefing on the latest updates and meetings regarding Somaliland's youth who have been tortured in Muqdisho. https://t.co/gaCIePI0Zx

[Abdillahi @daljire01]

Dear Somalilandes,

Sida la socotaan dilkii Cabdinaasir Muuse Dahable ee uu ka danbeeyay @Amoallinh wuxuu mudo ka shaqeynayay sidii uu dilka dusha ugu saari lahaa dhalinyaradii ay wada degenayaan guriga, mudo 16 sano ahna ay wax kasoo wada baranayeen dugsiga Sheekh.

Maanta waxaa lasoo xaqiijiyay in mid ka mid ah inta si xun loo jidh dilay oo koronto lagu qabtay laga duubtay muuqaal uu ku qiranayo dilka Cabdinaasir. Cabdiraxamaan Cabdillaahi oo ka mid ah dhalinyarad xidhan sida dadkii soo arkay xaqiijiyeen waxaa go’an laba farood oo ay dhaawacday korontadii lagu jidh dilayay. Tani waxay la mid tahay dadkeenii Jazeeri lagu layn jiray oo kale.