Opinion
Somalia International London Conference: A Great Recognition To The Contribution Of The Diaspora
On May 11, Somalia will be marking one of the most important milestones in the history of the country since the efforts to reconstruct the country beg...
Read More »Securing progress in Somalia
It’s never a good sign when the recommended mode of transport through a national capital is by armoured convoy. As I bumped along the streets of Mog...
Read More »London Predatory Carnival On Somalia
I cannot think of any Somali national issue that was debated in the public domain as vigorously, and as intelligently, as the London Conference on Som...
Read More »2017 London Conference on Somalia: Context and Scope
A Kleptocratic government - a government whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people –monopolized the So...
Read More »Haddii Jidku kaa khaldamo!!!
Kitaabka Qur’aanka waxaa Ilaahey usoo dejiyay in aadamiga aan jidka noloshu ka khaldamin, wuxuuna na siinayaa tilmaamo iyo tusaalooyin lagu hago nol...
Read More »Africa has vast agricultural potential – so why are we due to import $110b worth of food annually by 2025?
The African continent has the potential to feed itself and even have surplus food to export to other parts of the world. But instead, the continent im...
Read More »Somaliland: Exhausted Consensus? North/South Divide? Opportunity for Meaningful Dialogue
Having returned from Hargeisa three months ago I found resilient, tolerant and striving society with a common courtesy and humour we are commonly know...
Read More »Somaliland: Can We Save The Sinking Nation? Part One
If you are on board of yacht in Med Sea and see Somalilanders from Burco or from anywhere else in the world in dilapidated boat sinking. Would you pa...
Read More »Review Rejoinder: A Response to Kapteijns’ Revenge on The Suicidal State in Somalia
It is my belief that readers of Lidwien Kapteijns’ review of my book, The Suicidal State in Somalia: The Rise and Fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 196...
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