Editors note: As the United States undergoes a highly contested election campaign that could make history by electing Kamala Harris as the first female president, WardheerNews revisits a 2008 article by Adan Makina. The piece explores the topic of women in leadership, arguing that the time has come for a woman to assume the presidency...
(ERGO) – Asho Ahmed Nur, 37, is the only woman driving a tuk-tuk taxi in Burao city in Somaliland. Although this has offered her a living, it has also presented unique challenges for her as it is known to be men’s work. “When I get to the taxi stand and the other drivers in the queue...
By Saida Hassan On December 2017, two months after the largest terrorist attack in Somalia’s history, I landed in Mogadishu, Somalia. Most people were puzzled as to why I would forgo the security of a middle-class life in the United States for the chaotic, dangerous, and, as they put it, hopeless situation in Somalia. I...
By Jeremy Britton A woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 39, is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM. Noor, from Harrow in north-west London, took the child to a private house for the...
Somalia’s first-ever UNFPA FGM Innovation Challenge has given girls the know-how, tools and funds to fight female genital mutilation (FGM) with creative ideas, initiatives and campaigns. Nearly 99 per cent of women and girls in Somalia aged 15 to 49 have suffered the savage practice of FGM. Most are cut by traditional practitioners between the...
MOGADISHU, (Xinhua) — The education journey for Najma Abdullahi Qarey, a 24-year-old Somali woman, is intriguing and inspiring at the same time. Abdullahi got married at a younger age by her parents who live in a community that believes that the only way to safeguard the dignity of their daughters is to marry them off...
Mogadishu – One morning in 2011, Fatima Ismail Mohamed was seated in her 8th grade classroom in the Somali capital of Mogadishu waiting for the lesson to begin, when suddenly her friend seated next to her dropped to the ground, writhing in pain. At the time, she did not understand what was happening. As she progressed through middle...
Warda Ilyas Ahmed, 25, spent two years searching for jobs in Mogadishu based on her hard-earned university degree in agriculture. But when she kept on getting rejections, she turned to entrepreneurship and has set up a growing laundry service business that currently employs 13 other young people. “I was unemployed yesterday, and today I am...
Escaping the war in Somalia, Jawahir Roble – also known as JJ – arrived into the UK when she was only 10 years old. After many challenging years, JJ became renowned as a trailblazer in football as she became the UK’s first ever female Muslim hijabi referee. At the age of 10, JJ was unable...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will send the Kingdom’s first female astronaut and a male astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) during the second quarter of 2023. Astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni will join the crew of the AX-2 space mission, Axiom Space’s second all-private astronaut mission to the ISS. “The step aims to empower...