Opinion
What if Anders Behring Breivik had been a Muslim?
Can you imagine if the confessed Norway mass murderer was a Muslim or an Arab? When the terror was unfolding in the peaceful European nation of Norway...
Read More »Not the Right Time for Talks: BetweenSomalia’s Transitional Government & Somaliland
In the midst of incessant heart breaking barrage of ghastly bad news emanating from their motherland, the Somali public saw a ray of hope in last week...
Read More »ABS syndrome - why we Somalis cannot honour ourselves...
While at a meeting in London with the new Turkish Ambassador for Somalia, I realized why people cannot seem to drag themselves out of a chaos that has...
Read More »Radical Idea of the Day: Hire Africans to Cover Africa
Many major Western media outlets assign one correspondent for the entire continent -- more than 11 million square miles. He or she will be based in Jo...
Read More »Let the Roadmap caravan reach its destination
Following his recent miraculous escape from the despicable act of terrorism and attempt assassination on his life, and that of some important members...
Read More »Al-Shabab & ASWJ: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
I have no doubt that the absolute majority of Somalis will agree with me that both Alshabab and the so-called Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a (ASWJ) have ruin...
Read More »Refounding Somalia: Constitution & Islam
Earlier this month, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG)-appointed Committee of Experts (CoE) on the Constitution held a “constitutional review...
Read More »The State of Somali Union
In any federal system, the gray area between the powers of the federalgovernment and those of the constituent states is a constant battleground. What ...
Read More »The Memory of a Nation
If you want to see where Somalia is headed, just see which voices sound loudest and travel fastest. No doubt, you will find that such are the times w...
Read More »Abdullahi Yusuf - As seen by many
Abdullahi Yusuf passed away late last month in Dubai; he is currently in his grave and needs neither praise nor slander as he departed to his final de...
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