Opinion
Baashe vs. Talyanle: A Golden Opportunity Lost
On August 06, 2017 two members of Somaliland’s House of Representatives (HoR)—Mr. Bashe and Mr. Talyanle—ran for the “Speaker of the HoR.” I...
Read More »Rebuilding Somali National Army (SNA)
Somalia’s leaders have realised that the training of SNA will greatly contribute to the stability of the nation’s future. As part of the state re...
Read More »Somalia Mourns the Death of Its Best Known Neurologist
The sad news about the death of Professor Mohamed Jama Salad has spread fast and far within Somalia and beyond its shores....
Read More »Reflections on my time in Hargeisa: In the country of strong women and broken men
I have only visited Somalia once before this trip- this time is different. I am not here on neither holiday nor visitation, but for work. Coming to th...
Read More »Baaq - Samata-bixinta Puntland
Halkaan waxaan Isimada, indheer-garadka, gancastada, culumaa’udiinka, iyo ururad bulshad reer Puntland ugu soo gudinyaa baaqan aan u magac darey SAM...
Read More »Muslims in the Crosshairs of Hate
Human history is peppered with dreadful accounts of minority communities who were deliberately demonized before atrocities were committed against them...
Read More »Cash not food is best for Somalia
The United Nations has come up with a wizard new way of taking the fun out of famine camps....
Read More »Kenya’s elections show how the media has sold its soul
In Francis Imbuga’s 1976 play, “Betrayal in the City,” the Kenyan playwright and literature scholar describes life in the fictitious, dystopian,...
Read More »Corruption in Somalia is a crime against our Country’s development
So far, no arrests have been made against any government officials in connection of stealing public funds. The effects of these thefts are kickbacks i...
Read More »The Artisan Grace - Poem
The following excerpt which I use as an introduction to the poem is from an article I wrote in 2007 about the status of the Gabooye community among th...
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