Opinion

First Person: Returning to Dadaab

First Person: Returning to Dadaab

JAN 24, 2019

Three main camps – Ifo, Dagahaley, and Hagadera – make up the Dadaab refugee complex; the no man’s land lost in between Kenya and Somalia where ...

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Baidoa residents applaud Norway’s commitment to infrastructural development in the region.

JAN 18, 2019

The recent construction and renovations of roads in Baidoa have greatly transformed the town and its environs....

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Is Nicholas Haysom a Victim of U.S. ‘Dual Track’ Policy on Somalia?

Is Nicholas Haysom a Victim of U.S. ‘Dual Track’ Policy on Somalia?

JAN 16, 2019

It was September 2010, when the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, revealed the Obama administration’s US for...

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Getting it wrong again: UN diplomacy is failing Somalia

Getting it wrong again: UN diplomacy is failing Somalia

JAN 07, 2019

The world expects the United Nations to be as above suspicion as Caesar’s wife....

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2018 HOL Person of the Year: Mustafe Muhumed Omer (Cagjar)

JAN 06, 2019

Arguably, the single most important test for the Somali intellectual of our times is unveiling the truth in today’s noisy and perplexing Somali worl...

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Shaqsiga Sannadka 2018 ee HOL: Mustafe Muxumed Cumar (Cagjar)

JAN 06, 2019

Si loo qiimeeyo shaqsiyadda sanadka, waa inaan fahamno xaaldda dhaqan ama fikradeed oo ka jira dunida manta. Dunida waxaa saameyn ku yeeshey horumarka...

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The Dangers of Misplaced Allegiance.

JAN 04, 2019

The Somali Federal Government’s statement dated January 1, 2019, designating the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) of the Unit...

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2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump’s life

2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump’s life

JAN 04, 2019

Some presidents have really bad years....

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A giant step forward for Muslim women is finally here

JAN 02, 2019

As a Muslim-American woman living in what feels like, based on growing hate crimes and bigoted political rhetoric, an increasingly Islamophobic Americ...

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