Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows.

Abdirahman Jeylani Mohamed is the Director of Arlaadi Media Network, a foreign policy journalist, and communications specialist. In the tranquil city of Arta, Djibouti, two leaders — President Ismail ...

Somalia’s repeated appearance in US political rhetoric is not accidental. It reveals ...