The Role of Diaspora in Reconciliation & Peace-building in Somalia
Sat, Sep 7, 2024
The Role of Diaspora in Reconciliation & Peace-building in Somalia The Horn Brief Magazine–September 05, 2024 I left Somalia three decades ago as the civil war spread across the country. I painfully witnessed my country’s organized dismantling and the collapse of its state institutions. As a young graduate with hopes of a promising future, all […]
Becoming a Certified Accountant: A real-life experience
Sat, Aug 31, 2024
August 31, 2024 By Ali Haji Warsame It was sometime in 1997. I was working in Abu Dhabi as a Senior Accountant for one of the largest private companies in the city. I did not expect a significant shift in my career without being a Chartered Certified Accountant, but that prospect seemed far off. My […]
Integrating Somalia into EAC bloc a masterstroke
Sat, Apr 13, 2024
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Courtesy | AFP By Mohammed Awil The Federal Republic of Somalia joining the East African Community (EAC) was long overdue. The delay was due to unavoidable circumstances emanating from lack of a recognised government since the 1991 civil war. But it would deposit its ratification instruments of the Treaty of Accession with […]
Raising tariffs in African countries further weakens their economies
Tue, May 30, 2023
Main roles of tariffs are generating government revenue, protecting local goods against foreign products and restricting foreign goods from flooding the local market. By Mohamed A. Awil international relations consultant, is a former ambassador of Somalia to China According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), taxes are intended to raise revenue for financing government expenditures […]
Somali Businesses Should Promote the Rule of Law
Sat, Feb 8, 2020
A. H. Warsame: Political accountability and rule of law Entrepreneurship is the one of the post-1991 success stories from Somalia. Some economists describe unbridled capitalism as the basis for the entrepreneurial drive that help Somalis cope with state collapse. Certainly the story of entrepreneurship in Somalia is not altogether rosy particularly twenty nine years after the state collapse in 1991. One […]
The Case for Accounting Standards in Somalia
Sat, Nov 2, 2019
Shortly after Somalia’s Auditor General published the annual government audit and compliance report (Annual Performance Report 2018) followed by an interview with the Minister of Finance in response to the report, the Somali public started to discuss the merits of the report and the ministerial rebuttal. An Auditor General passes a judgment on how public […]