Opinion
Marginalising women in Somali politics
Somalia has recently selected its parliament on Somali soil for the first time since the civil war of the late 1980s. This is a significant achievemen...
Read More »End of an Era: The Passing of Meles Zenawi
Somalia has seen plenty of turmoil for the last two decades, however, one figure has remained constant over these last two decades who influenced, med...
Read More »The Somali spirit will triumph, with or without an effective government
This week Somalis have a reason to celebrate as a new government assumes office to see the country through the post-transition political process....
Read More »SOMALIA’s 2012 Election & Security Process Assessments
Somalia's upcoming permanent government is supposed to be a model for national reconciliation and good governance; the so called signatories, largely ...
Read More »A Call for Sisterhood: A Paradigm Shift in Somali Political Leadership
In the recent months, there has been a lot of uproar about The Garowe II Principles and subsequent Protocols establishing the composition of the Somal...
Read More »Enough is enough; it is time to withdraw from Somalia
When last year’s verbal war broke out between State House and the Governor of the Bank of Uganda over the buying of ‘jet fighters’ without parli...
Read More »The Last Appeal for Transparency
The world continues to wonder about the lack of peace in Somali after so many years. However; what they don’t know is that the international communi...
Read More »Does the end of the transition in Somalia mean keeping the status quo?
The renewal of interest by the international community since 2011 to endSomalia’s twenty year civil war and institutional decay has been welcomed in...
Read More »Somalia's 20-Year Experiment in Hybrid Governance
Later this month, Somalia’s eight-year political transition is scheduled to end with the declaration of a “post-transition” government. Casual o...
Read More »A Constitution of Ambiguity and Deferment
If constitutions are supposed to make boundaries of the government’s legitimate authority over its citizens and state or regional administrations cl...
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