Audio By Vocalize President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen” declared that he recognised only the 2012 Provisional Constitution as Somalia’s legitimate constitutional framework. [File, Standard] When federal troops entered Baidoa in late March, 2026, the move was interpreted in two sharply different ways. Some saw the federal government restoring constitutional order after South West State suspended cooperation with Mogadishu. Others saw it as the centre using force against a regional administration that had rejected constitutional changes. The sequence matters. In mid-March, South West State suspended cooperation after disputing constitutional amendments. Soon after, President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen” declared that he recognised…
Author: By Awale Kullane
Audio By Vocalize President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen” declared that he recognised only the 2012 Provisional Constitution as Somalia’s legitimate constitutional framework. [File, Standard] When federal troops entered Baidoa in late March, 2026, the move was interpreted in two sharply different ways. Some saw the federal government restoring constitutional order after South West State suspended cooperation with Mogadishu. Others saw it as the centre using force against a regional administration that had rejected constitutional changes. The sequence matters. In mid-March, South West State suspended cooperation after disputing constitutional amendments. Soon after, President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed “Laftagareen” declared that he recognised…
Audio By Vocalize President William Ruto and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in New York, USA, on September 21, 2022. [File, Standard] As global order strains and multilateral institutions falter, Africa cannot afford absence from the United Nations Secretary-General race. Contesting the office is not about entitlement or symbolism. It is about refusing to be discounted in a world being reshaped in real time. This is not a season for lowered eyes or hesitant steps. History does not pause when the world tightens its grip, it accelerates. In moments of global uncertainty, some retreat and others hesitate. Africa should…
Audio By Vocalize President William Ruto and United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in New York, USA, on September 21, 2022. [File, Standard] As global order strains and multilateral institutions falter, Africa cannot afford absence from the United Nations Secretary-General race. Contesting the office is not about entitlement or symbolism. It is about refusing to be discounted in a world being reshaped in real time. This is not a season for lowered eyes or hesitant steps. History does not pause when the world tightens its grip, it accelerates. In moments of global uncertainty, some retreat and others hesitate. Africa should…
President William Ruto and Chinese President Xi Jinping during bilateral talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. [File, Standard] Great powers stage their rivalries on summit platforms, but African countries, including Kenya, live with the consequences in prices, supplies, and stability, and must learn to read the architecture beneath the drama. Kenyan households feel the cost of great power rivalry long before they see it on a summit stage. When superpowers study one another, they reach for the Thucydides Trap, the fear that a rising power and an established one are destined for collision. But when…