I never went to Somalia but speak good Somali, I made a decent amount of money in the USA, I’m married with 2 kids Allhamdillah.
Is buying land in Somalia, building a nice house there, and having a small farm with few goats, is this possible back home and did anyone you know done it? I have relatives there but no contact.
I heard its dying off and i really hope thats the case
Do we have too many kids as Somalis??
This is mainly for the Somalis living abroad.
Recently a family member of mine from Somali said that we ( my siblings and I) are too westernised and we are acting like gaalo. This is because my siblings all have 2/3 kids and they don’t plan to have more than that, and inshallah I don’t want more than 3/4 when I start having kids. They said that having small families is western culture and that having multiple children is a blessing. When I brought up the cost of raising children they said I was thinking like a gaalo and that Allah would provide for said kids. My parents also agree with this and want us to have more children.
I genuinely don’t think you can have 5/6+ kids and be there for all of them emotionally and physically. Be aware of their schooling and friends and what they’re getting up to on the internet. Often times it ends up being the older daughter/child that helps raise the younger ones whilst the parents are working.
Back home it might be easier to raise kids, coz you have a village to help you and there’s no teachers CPS and someone else monitoring you, but over here it’s different.
Also life has gotten incredibly expensive, wouldn’t it be better to have 2/3 kids and raise them well and in comfortable finance than to have 6+ and struggle financially.
I don’t know why we’re being called gaalo and westernised for not wanting to have multiple kids.
I just want people to hear me out. I wanna know if this is something anyone can relate with.
I am in my early 20s born in America and I’ve always lived in America. I visited Somalia for the first time in 2024. I was there for 5 months. During my time there, my mindset completely changed. I don’t know what was caused these feelings in me and I think it has to be the fact that I was around community family an amazing local neighborhood and I made great friends there as well. I just feel like since I left Somalia I feel like my whole life has been nothing. Every day I wake up here in America I have a very deep yearning for going back to Somalia. I tell my parents daily where I met with comments that I clearly just wanna be lazy and that I just don’t want to work hard and that I just wanna have fun. instead of them understanding that I genuinely feel connected to Somalia.
I spoke to my mentor about this because obviously it’s been years and I’ve never been able to get over this experience. She told me that it was the first time in my life where I was around people that looked like me sounded like me did the same things as me and have the same mindset as me, and that just gave me comfort and that’s all.
it just hurts me that that is not our every day life so I’ve spent the last few weeks just daydreaming and also journaling about how life would be if we all just stayed in Somalia and there was no war. If we all could just go to high school, middle school, college, university all there and live normally. I know that that might not be possible or seen in my lifetime as everyone around me tells me. they tell me that it’s not gonna happen to get out of my head and of course I make dua for Somalia all the time.
I am approaching my last year of university and a lot of my plans have been just to take at least one year fully in Somalia post grad before I return, move on, and get back to my life. My parents are very adamant that they brought me here and that I need to build something.
as a woman, I just don’t know. feel free to be harsh with me. I don’t mind at this point. I’ve heard it all from family friends and other somalis here in my city. They tell me that there’s nothing for me in Somalia.
my dream is to spend a lot of time there. Here in America, I live in a household with a lot of people and we’re just all working all day. I don’t see any family members. We don’t live near any aunts, uncles, cousins. My grandparents are in Somalia still and I’ve only met them once. Of course i’ve become completely tired of this lifestyle. I of course didn’t have a picture perfect time in somali, 3 months and there were some annoying or downs but overall i felt things were natural.
I want to know what I can do to live my truth and my truth is I feel at ease in Somalia when I was in Somalia I was so healthy! physically healthy, emotionally, and now that I’ve returned you know I do have an autoimmune disease now and I have a lot of stressors in my life, but I just think it’s like I’m really pushing myself. I work full-time and I go to school full-time so I just don’t know what it is.
I have a close friend of mine actually who married a guy in Somalia but for her it’s different because her whole family‘s in Somalia it’s just her that’s here in America with her uncle and she moved back to Somalia and I have her on socials and I talk to her often on the phone and she’s like just like me. her and i just laugh about how everyone thinks somalia is so dangerous and boring and horrible. There’s so many great things there. You know she travels all around Africa with her husband and she’s living her life and she’s healthy.
There’s just something missing in my life since i left. I just wanna feel it again. I’ve lived in Arab countries as well before I do dearly love just being in a Muslim environment in general, but being in Somalia was just a game changer for me everybody who’s ever traveled there that I know hasn’t had a good experience and doesn’t wanna go back including my siblings they think that the lifestyle there is just very old-fashioned but I think everyone’s just different and in my personal opinion I thrive there and it would be amazing for me to find someone with a similar mindset as me and to go back with them and I don’t even have like a want in me to wanna build something change lives there. I know it’s not even possible to do that there, but I just want to live there at least for a good amount of time. I don’t know how I can convince my parents. They think that I’m gonna throw away my life if I go there, I don’t Know. Feel free to message me as well if you rather just that instead of commenting.
I also wanted to add that I am first gen! so every single one of my aunts and extended relatives and even my eldest half sister who’s still Somalia, have lived a certain lifestyle and it’s just me and my siblings who live this completely different lifestyle then basically my whole bloodline has ever lived, and I’m appreciative of it. I live in amazing city and an amazing neighborhood with an amazing home and an amazing school alhamdulliah. I think we all are kinda uneasy about what’s going on in America right now maybe just the xenophobia. that doesn’t really affect my daily life I mean it does upset me when I see it on social media but I do live in a liberal city.
anywho what i am saying is it feels unnatural the way im living, and my parents just want the best for me they want me to change the lifestyle they’ve all grown up in. it’s not like i can look around and get advice im doing it all on my own. i do wanna be the change. but damn what’s the compromise here?
This shit just gets worse and worse each time. There was a guy who was in private jets and luxury cars and traveling all over the world and posting it on social media and now he’s locked up, he “allegedly” stole a lot of money from Medicaid and was involved in a prostitution ring. Everyday is something new with these people. Most people might have to move to Tennessee or Kentucky for the same opportunities they had here. This is why haram money will never get you far, you get the consequences here in this world and have a bigger consequences waiting for you in the next.
The actions of a very small minority affects the whole community 😭 it just got soooooo much harder for you as a Somali to start any healthcare related services or business, even if you’re clean and do everything by the book they’ll give you a hard time. They tried to shut down a homecare on some bullshit but luckily that home care had cameras, the auditor literally almost got away with a lie and the only thing that saved their license was because they had cameras In their office where everything unfolded.
Time to look at different businesses like industrial production or supply chain or boring shit like water companies or filtration
Weeks ago I tweeted about a personal situation and mentioned somalia bc thats where it took place, mind u have like 10 followers. Out of nowhere, I receive replies from randoms calling me insults in somali!
I don’t really use X much as I used to, I mostly lurk in spaces that interest me like film and football. But somali twitter kinda changed it never used to be like this back in 2019-2020. People used to be nice, ig the normal ones are employed and inactive bc now its run by incels and femcels
I get being on the edge because of the uprise of racism towards us but wallahi get a life instead of searching up related keywords to the country and turning your anxiety into indiscriminate hostility
I deleted the app it has become a cesspool of every kind of weirdo anyway
Somalia has experienced one of the most rapid expansions of electricity access in the region over the past decade. According to available estimates, national electricity access increased from approximately 15% in 2012 to 61% by 2022, while urban access rose from roughly 30% to 80% and rural access from only 4% to almost half of the rural population. Electricity access is closely associated with economic development because expanding supply supports households, businesses, industry, telecommunications, healthcare, education and other productive activity. [Image 1]
Unlike most countries, this expansion did not emerge through a centrally planned national grid, but largely through private sector innovation giving birth to Electricity Service Providers (ESPs). What began as numerous small, separate generators and mini-grids gradually evolved through expansion and consolidation into larger metropolitan networks, with providers such as BECO and SomPower emerging through mergers between smaller operators. This consolidation has enabled technological upgrading into substations, higher-voltage distribution networks, battery storage and larger generation facilities capable of supplying entire cities and wider regions. [Image 2]
At the same time, Somalia's electricity sector is undergoing a rapid transition towards renewable energy as providers seek to reduce their dependence on imported diesel and lower electricity costs. Private companies have invested in large-scale solar generation, hybrid systems and battery storage, while solar power is increasingly being used for irrigation, water systems, telecommunications, fisheries, cold storage and other productive activities. Growing demand has also produced a wider domestic solar industry involving financing, installation, maintenance and technical services, alongside the emergence of domestic solar-panel manufacturing. [Image 3]
The transformation is also visible from space. Recent satellite analyses have identified Somalia among the fastest-brightening countries in the world at night, with researchers associating the increase with a major expansion in energy access rather than urbanisation alone. Nighttime luminosity cannot directly measure GDP, but its rapid expansion provides an independent physical indicator consistent with growing electrification, urbanisation, infrastructure and commercial activity across the country. [Image 4]
SomEntreprise | Somali Business & Economy
Read the full analysis: Somalia Is Richer Than We Think (Section 18)
https://somentreprise.substack.com/p/somalia-is-richer-than-we-think?
Usually on Facebook I see qabiilists, khat chewers and losers who criticise our women but I have just stumbled on a different side of Somali Social media today.
I haven’t been aware of these newly established academic institutions that are building the foundation for the next generation.
I have posted earlier about Verdant but I have came across these other platforms that are also doing something new and interesting.
Please share any other platforms you know so that we can give them the follow they deserve.
Look at the state of the nation. You have a region claiming to be independent and making deals with the devil (Somaliland) you got other states that claim to be a part of Somalia but hash out foreign deals. On top of that there are like 100 presidents. They obviously were trying to copy the UAE model of federalism. It doesn't work. The parliament is divided by qabil. The smaller the tribe, the smaller the amount of seats they get right? I think this was modeled after Ethiopia's federal government.
We can clearly see that this isn't going anywhere. Corruption is a byproduct of this system because the people who get to the top of these governments are chosen by the Odeyaal? The tribal leaders literally get paid and they themselves are backwards and corrupt.
Things weren't perfect under siyaad barre but we can all unanimously agree that it was far better under his rule. I hate dictatorships because they always lead to civil wars or some type of turmoil. If the turmoil ends quickly, there are no guarantees that you will have a better leader as a result.
Somehow, I feel like Somalia needs a constitutional monarchy of some sort. The nation needs a guiding hand whenever parliament is in shambles. It's worked exceptionally well for the Netherlands and UK. Despite UK going through PMs like flies the King's presence reassures the public that the government is still functioning. It helped back in the 60s-70s when there was economic peril, the Queen's figurehead presence showed the government is full present.
This might get me downvotes and I hope y'all don't report or flag me but it seems like Somalia will not achieve stability until it forcefully removes this system. How tho? The only way I can see it is through war. Someone needs to come out on top and be honorable. Idk my thoughts are everywhere, I wanna hear y'all's opinion.
Hey! I’m not Somali or Indian but I was curious - One of my dad’s friends was half Somali, half Indian - she grew up in Mogadishu and left during the civil war to live in Italy. My dad says she didn’t say a lot about her mother and considered herself 100% Somali. She sadly passed away in 2020 due to covid, but I was wondering, from what part of India could her mother originate from and when approximately did these Indian Somalis migrate to Somalia? There’s not a lot of information about them online so I thought I’d ask here
Jason Arday was found dead in his London home on Friday, nine days after resigning from Cambridge. He was 41. Police say it’s not suspicious. His family said a “campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man.”
He became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 2023 at 37. Autistic, dyslexic, didn’t speak until 11, working class Ghanaian British kid who reached the top of Britain’s most elite university. Then last month a former Cambridge researcher named Nathan Cofnas, a self described “race realist” who has written that in a true meritocracy Black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment,” started publicly questioning his credentials. The Times followed with a plagiarism analysis of his PhD. Arday denied plagiarism but admitted some mistakes. Then the whole British press turned on him.
Someone counted. Roughly 249 articles across 15 UK outlets in 22 days. Times and Sunday Times 44, Telegraph 43, Mail 38, The Spectator alone did 11 pieces and a podcast in 10 days. Serial killers get less. Another Cambridge professor actually found guilty of misconduct still has his job and never got a fraction of this. The Mail had a psychiatrist who never met him diagnosing him from afar. Hours later the Telegraph was questioning whether he was really non-verbal as a child.
I’m not saying Arday was perfect. If he cut corners in his thesis that deserved a proper investigation, which is what Cambridge was doing. What I’m saying is the punishment was never proportional to the alleged crime, and everyone could see it. This wasn’t about academic standards. It was a man being hunted, and now the same outlets are posting condolences.
Here’s why I’m writing this here. We are the next generation walking through the same doors. Our kids are pushing into Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, big law, finance, government. And what this shows is that when you’re a visible minority in these institutions, you’re held to a standard nobody else is. One gap in your CV, one thing that doesn’t add up, and there are people, some openly saying you don’t belong there in the first place, waiting to make an example of you.
That’s not a reason not to try. It’s a reason to go in with clear eyes. Be scrupulous, because you’ll be audited in a way your colleagues never will. Build a support system outside the institution. And take your mental health seriously, because being “the first” or “the only” is not something to carry alone. According to his family, Arday carried it alone for three years before it broke him.
I sent my condolences to his loved ones and the people who love him.
I decided to go on facebook today and I came across Jamal Osman's page. I was shocked by what I saw this man posting, especially considering i saw him as a competent reporter and I have watched many of his segments. I especially loved his old project Dalsoor.
He intentionally makes sure to never use their name and hides behind the somali language, but he clearly supports al shabaab, considering his posts about them goes back years!
He also uses clannist language and refers to ahmed madobe as a sayid (?). Openly calls for violence, saying al shabaab should capture the president and put him on trial (behead him i suppose).
In anothet post he made a distastegul joke about a terror attack that happened in the city saying something about how the al shabaab spokesman Ali Dheere said goodbye to his son. I think the government captured his son around the same time.
I am actually so disgusted by some of the posts, I have never seen someone talk so lightly about the orchestrators of the October 14th attack, that killed and maimed over 1000 civilians.
Please can someone explain what I am seeing here and how channel 4 has a terror apologist on their payroll?
Where the mountains meet the sky
A few days ago I posted about the new Speaker of Parliament, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, and his deep Turkey ties, from his time as Defense Minister to the US pressure that reportedly got him moved out of that role. A lot of the comments pushed back on me, saying Turkey is great for us, they've done more for Somalia than anyone else, why am I being so critical.
Well, here's the first real mistake he's already made in the job.
He posted a message publicly thanking "H.E. Dr. Ziya Öztürkler, Speaker of the Assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" for congratulating him on his election. Sounds harmless. It isn't.
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not a recognized country. It declared independence in 1983 after Turkey's military occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974, and the UN Security Council responded with Resolution 541, calling the declaration legally invalid and explicitly telling every UN member state not to recognize any Cypriot entity other than the Republic of Cyprus. Resolution 550 went further, telling states not to assist or facilitate the entity in any way. Somalia is a UN member. To this day, exactly one country on earth recognizes Northern Cyprus as a state. Turkey.
So when our own Speaker of Parliament publicly addresses someone by an official state title that only Turkey itself uses, he isn't just being polite, he's using the exact language of Turkish recognition, which stands against a UN resolution Somalia is bound by as a member state.
And this is where the hypocrisy really stings for us specifically. We are the country that gets furious anytime Ethiopia, or Kenya, or anyone else so much as gestures toward treating Somaliland as a sovereign entity. We send formal protests, recall ambassadors, cut ties over exactly this kind of symbolic recognition. And now our own Speaker is doing the identical thing to Cyprus, on behalf of Turkey's political interests, without a second thought.
This is exactly the pattern I was pointing at in my last post. Not that Turkey helping us is bad, but that when our institutions get this close to one foreign power, our own officials start speaking in that power's language, even when it directly contradicts principles we demand other countries respect when it comes to our own sovereignty.
There could be real consequences here too. Cyprus is a full EU member state, and the EU operates on consensus, meaning Cyprus can push back hard on anything involving Somalia at the EU level if it wants to make a point about this. That matters more than people realize once you actually look at the numbers. The EU gave Somalia €63 million in humanitarian aid in 2026 alone, following €67.83 million in 2025 and €82.16 million in 2024, on top of a separate €75 million contribution to fund AUSSOM, the mission actually keeping Al Shabaab at bay, making the EU that mission’s single largest funder. Turkey’s total aid to Somalia since 2011 is estimated at just over a billion dollars, cumulative, across more than a decade. The EU is putting in comparable or greater amounts nearly every single year.
If we want the world to respect Somalia's borders and reject recognition of Somaliland, we can't have our own Speaker handing out unofficial recognition to breakaway states on Turkey's behalf. That's not diplomacy. That's just picking up someone else's fight and calling it courtesy.
Link to my earlier post on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Somalia/s/XDEVFzFNdb
I didn’t have any confirmation back in January, but I suspected this. And this is my first time being exposed to American mass media and I was able to figure it out.
So How do Americans keep falling for this again and again?
The playbook is so obvious: Pick an unrepresented community and put them in the middle of a media storm, so the failings of the Prez gets overlooked
(Eg This Summer’s latest non-scandal culture war of transgender people joining the WNBA becoming headline news, so the Prez failing war in Ir\*n, saying he doesn’t care if grocery and gas prices are high and isnotreal and 🇺🇸 armies becoming interlinked gets overshadowed)