The Yemen-Somalia arms trade
First, a belated career update: in December 2019, I finished my fifth and final year for the UN Security Council, which I served in the...
The SEMG's 2018 final report on Somalia
Below is a link the Somalia/Eritrea's Monitoring Group's (SEMG's) 2018 final report on Somalia, which has recently been made public....
The Pirates of Somalia movie trailer
Some big news... the iTunes trailer for the movie based on my book is now available at http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/the...
SEMG's 2017 reports
The Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group's (SEMG's) 2017 reports on Somalia and Eritrea became public mid-last week. The delay in my posting...
Dabka premiere
On 27 April, Hungry Man Productions was kind enough to fly me to New York for the world premiere of Dabka, the movie based on my book The...
Al Pacino joins the cast of the movie based on my book
When the producers of "Where the White Man Runs Away",* the upcoming movie based on my book, told me that Al Pacino would be playing a...
Sugar and the Shabaab: smuggling, security, and the Kenyan borderlands
Charcoal exports from Kismayo, largely to Gulf countries, constituted the principal source of al-Shabaab revenue before the Kenya Defence...
An Unnatural Divide
Last month I travelled to the Somalia-Kenya border with photojournalist Will Swanson (you can see some of his photos above) to report for...
Journalism in Somalia: booming but beset by dangers
My second article for African Arguments was published today: Journalism in Somalia: booming but beset by dangers MOGADISHU— Mohamed Abdi...
The President's bank
Below is my article on Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's dodgy dealings, published today in African Arguments: The President’s...
