Opinion
Somalia seems ripe for the picking; bring out the knives and chop it up
On February 23 something very important for East Africa, and indeed all of Africa, will happen in London. There will be a big conference on Somalia by...
Read More »Negotiating an End to Somalia's War with al Shaabab
In August 2011, after three years of fighting, forces backing the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) took control of the Somali capital of M...
Read More »Why the international community has to come together to help Somalia
In September 1992 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Mogadishu. He could not have known that it would be 20 years before any of his successors set...
Read More »Somaliland borders Are Unalterable
The officials and surrogates of defacto Puntland Administration of Somalia routinely claim in the media that Somaliland Borders are "Colonial Borders"...
Read More »An Open letter to the leaders of Somaliland
The Taleex conference: The Taleex Conference highlighted a challenge Somaliland faced through most of the last twenty years: the perception and realit...
Read More »The London Conference: An Act of False Generosity?
The Somali state has become an object of charity after two decades of political crisis; multiple actors claim that Somalia needs international humanit...
Read More »The last nail to the secessionists’ coffin
The secessionist enclave in the northwest region of Somalia is facing the wall, corned by the unionist communities like a carnivorous hyena being hunt...
Read More »London Conference: Somalia’s expectation for self governance disregarded
So far, the consultations for the preparation of the London Conference on Somalia have been described as mere presentations of seven pre-determined th...
Read More »London Conference: February 2012
Somalia is a failed stated mismanaged by its own people and others. The country is entering its 21-year of instability. The beleaguered population had...
Read More »Congratulations, You Won!!!
You know when you get that annoying pop up after you open a web browser saying “Congratulations You Won!!!”? We all know that it's a hoax and ther...
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