🚨 Surprising and disappointing development:
The State Department has reaffirmed formal sovereignty over Somalia while sidelining Somaliland, a missed opportunity to shape the competitive architecture of a critical global maritime corridor.
Recognition of Somaliland by the US would have been a defining act of strategic positioning in one of the world’s most important chokepoints, while expanding US influence in Africa at a moment of intensifying competition with China, Turkey, and Russia.
Somalia is not a coherent or reliable security partner in the Red Sea corridor. It remains fragmented, heavily penetrated by Al-Shabaab, and dependent on external support to maintain even partial control.
Somaliland, by contrast, has demonstrated sustained stability and functioning governance, and offers a far more viable platform for counterterrorism cooperation, Bab-el-Mandeb maritime security, and access to strategic minerals.
It would also have strengthened an emerging Israel–UAE aligned regional axis that is increasingly shaping trade and security architecture across the Middle East and Red Sea corridor, while countering Turkey’s expanding footprint in the Horn and North Africa.
#Somaliland
The UN concluded that the mass killings of the people of Somaliland amounted to genocide. Yet no one was held accountable. History becomes dangerous when the world chooses silence.
@AliOmarMP@AJEnglish UN Arms Embargo should be reinstated. Somalia is irresponsible to be armed at this stage.
Somaliland will never be with failed state of Somalia
Lawless land,,,
Carruurta Soomaaliya waa siddaa, marka ay Somaliland iyo magaalooyinkeeda ka hadlayaan waa dagaalama, se marka ay Soomaaliya ka hadlayaan collaada dhibkeeda way garanayaan.
Agreed.
The Isaaq Genocide in Somaliland (1987-89) under Siad Barre killed 200,000 civilians and the bombing of Hargeisa.
Ilhan Omar’s father served as a colonel in Barre’s army during that time.
Lecturing the world on genocide while silent on this chapter raises serious questions?
⚡️LATEST: Turkish lawmaker @torunkani urged #Ankara “to take immediate diplomatic action” after overnight clashes in #Mogadishu between government forces and opposition troops aligned with former President @HESharifShAhmed and former prime minister @HassanAKhaire, warning that #Somalia “risks sliding back into wider conflict”.
He called on President @RTErdogan and Foreign Minister @HakanFidan to engage all major #Somali political stakeholders, including former leaders, arguing that #Türkiye must act as a mediator for national consensus rather than align with any single faction in order “to safeguard 15 years of Turkish investment and engagement in Somalia”.
Heavy gunfire has broken out in Somali’s capital Mogadishu as government forces and opposition fighters clash over a political dispute.
The violence broke ahead of planned demonstrations against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who decided to remain in office after his term expired last month. He argued that a new constitution that was passed in March granted him another year in power.
The opposition has described the move as unconstitutional and called for protests.
Response to the Turkish Erdogan’s Bootlicking Spy Agent
Listen up, you pathetic Turkish puppet, you cheap Erdogan’s spy agent crawling on your belly for scraps.
How disgustingly shameless and morally bankrupt do you have to be to attack the former Prime Minister and real Somali opposition leaders while slavishly defending the expired, illegitimate, power-thieving dictator Hassan Sheikh Mohamud?
We all know exactly why you’re doing this, you treacherous foreign agent. You and your master in Ankara - the same Erdogan who cut a robbery deal stealing 90% of Somalia’s oil and gas revenues from the Somali people -are terrified. You know that once the opposition wins the 2026 elections (and they will), the new Somali leadership will immediately terminate that criminal, one-sided Turkish oil theft agreement and send your corrupt Turkish bosses packing with nothing but their shame.
That’s the only reason you’re blindly shilling for this constitutional rapist who’s using the Somali National Army to massacre civilians, silence opposition, and cling to power after his term died on 15 May 2026. You don’t give a damn about Somalia. You’re just a paid Turkish mouthpiece desperate to keep your corrupt dictator in power so the looting of Somali resources continues uninterrupted.
Calling a former Prime Minister a “UAE-backed Norwegian warlord” while your Turkish dictator sponsors violence and illegal deals? The hypocrisy is vomit-inducing. The families of the killed deserve justice - but the real criminals are Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, his gang of looters, and foreign agents like you who enable the bloodshed to protect Turkey’s dirty oil robbery.
You’re not defending Somalia. You’re defending Turkish colonialism dressed up as “partnership.” When the Somali people finally kick this dictator out, they’ll kick out every foreign parasite along with him - including you and your Erdogan oil thieves.
Keep barking, Turkish spy. Your desperate attacks only expose how weak and doomed your losing dictator is.
The clock is ticking. The Somali people are coming for accountability.
The era of Turkish puppets and expired dictators is finished. **Get out.**
#KickOutTurkishLooters #TerminateTheRobberyDeal #SanctionHassanSheikh #NoMoreForeignAgentsInSomalia
As Ive said before - if given a choice would a rational person choose Mogadishu or Hargeisa to live in? Events continue to prove that Somaliland is the real functioning state vs Somalia's chaos. US Govt will come to its senses eventually.
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💯 Totally agree with Amb. @TiborPNagyJr. It’s not a matter of mere “preference,” much less “bias.” For the #USA🇺🇲 it is a matter of strategic national interest to engage with an aligned & capable potential partner instead of coddling a hostile, corrupt & ineffective basket case.
To the International Partners of Somalia:
@UKinSomalia@US2SOMALIA@EU_in_Somalia@UNTMIS_
Mogadishu has witnessed more than 20 hours of intense fighting and deadly clashes.
The civilian population has borne the brunt of the violence.
Our journalists have reported the displacement of civilians across large parts of the city.
My friends, colleagues, and relatives are among the displaced by this conflict.
Indiscriminate mortar shelling has caused civilian deaths in Hawl-wadag, Hodan as well as Abdiaziz district.
At least three people, including a woman, have reportedly lost their lives, while many others have been injured.
There is no justification for killing civilians. There is no justification for shelling residential neighborhoods.
There is no justification for displacing people, especially at a time when Somalia is already facing one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises.
The causes of this conflict are widely known. This situation was foreseeable not only yesterday or last week, but months ago.
Repeated warnings were issued, yet they went unheeded.
Today, responsibility also lies with Somalia's international partners, including the United Kingdom @FCDOGovUK, the United States @StateDept, the European Union @eu_eeas, and others.
➡️The time for statements alone has passed. Action is urgently needed.
➡️Somalia needs an immediate meeting of the United Nations Security Council @UN@antonioguterres to review the situation and take concrete steps to prevent further escalation.
The international community should:
➡Pressure all parties to immediately de-escalate and remove armed forces from densely populated civilian areas.
➡Pressure all sides to return to dialogue and agree on a realistic, inclusive, and implementable electoral timetable.
➡️Review the consequences of lifting the arms embargo and assess whether additional restrictions on weapons transfers are necessary.
➡️Consider targeted sanctions against individuals or entities responsible for escalating violence, obstructing dialogue, or endangering civilians.
These measures could help prevent further bloodshed, protect civilians, and create conditions for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.
The time to act is now—not tomorrow, not next week, and not after more lives have been lost. @YvetteCooperMP@marcorubio@10DowningStreet@WhiteHouse
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