Rashid Abdi ✓

@RAbdiAnalyst · Nairobi, Kenya · joined 17 Mar 2016

Researcher/Analyst, Horn of Africa, Middle East. Defence, Security, Politics, Major Power Competition, Strategy, Forecasting, Humour, Cuban Cigars. Views mine

486 373Followers

5 738Following

94 150Posts total

227.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views8 126this account6 116median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.67%this account2.57%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.85%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	8 126	6 116	1.33×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.67%	2.57%	0.65×
Engagement rate	0.85%	1.40%	0.60×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

158.6K9 Feb

2.7K

1.1K

4.6K

22K3 Sep

473

709

590

8.1K

10.6K

17.7K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.72%9 Feb

1.36%

2.76%

2.61%

0.50%3 Sep

0.85%

1.27%

1.53%

0.84%

0.65%

1.47%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes63.1%1 270 in total

Reposts18.5%372 in total

Replies8.8%178 in total

Quotes2.1%43 in total

Bookmarks7.5%150 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

#BREAKING Turkey today took the fateful step of becoming directly and deeply entangled in intra-Somali political warfare and power struggle. The deployment of its military aerial assets to go after key enemies of the Hassan Sheikh government is chilling, marks a dangerous http 17.7K views · 155 likes · 71 reposts · 22 replies 03 Sep 2026 Somalia update: I have received strong documentary evidence and confirmation from an impeccable source that close to 80 Somali soldiers trained in Galmudug crossed into Ethiopia, but most were on their way to Bakool region of Somalia, their original home. The soldiers were on 10.6K views · 58 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 A powerful essay from Prof Abdi Samatar on Turkey's intervention in Somalia from 2011 to 2026 appearing in the African left-leaning political economy journal, Pambazuka. Samatar argues the intervention is neo-colonial, exploitative and invokes Islam as cover for penetration - 8.1K views · 50 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst They are Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) trainees disguised as Somalia National Army on vacation. But, the question is why do Somalian government have to recruit #Somali_Ethiopians of #Ogaden tribe and got trianed in the failed state of Somalia in the first 590 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst Sounds like sleeper cells amateurishly planted by Saudi Arabia getting busted. This is what happens when desert dwellers think they are some kind of CIA because they have free oil money when they used to cooked bread in the sand 🤭🤭😂😂 709 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst 400k followers and not even 10 likes 473 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 #BREAKING The Somali Regional State of Ethiopia and the Federal Government in Addis are jointly interrogating dozens of Somali National Army (SNA) recruits who completed training in Galmudug and then crossed over into Ethiopia. I am told the bulk of the soldiers are from the h 22K views · 78 likes · 19 reposts · 9 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst The reality is that the backbone of Somaliland always was the Isaaq, who were also mainly backing the SNM that in 1991 decisively influenced the outcome of the clan-conference in Burco. Somaliland developed from a hybrid political order in which all clans in the nor 4.6K views · 85 likes · 10 reposts · 22 replies 09 Feb 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst Dahir Riyaale was also the longest serving President in Somaliland, this crushes their argument https://t.co/1Ew4Wsf8as 1.1K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 09 Feb 2026 @RAbdiAnalyst Yes every TV Channel talks Isaaq🤣🤣🤣, most famous Clan it the world 🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/UXjjJYqLh6 2.7K views · 34 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 09 Feb 2026 Mogadishu's favourite talking point is that Somaliland is Isaq dominated and a single clan cannot become a nation-state. Reality is that Somaliland is a multi-clan state and has historically done more to become more inclusive than any Somali polity in the Horn. The Isaq are the 158.6K views · 759 likes · 249 reposts · 116 replies 09 Feb 2026