Opinion
An open letter concerning “The Garowe Principles”
We, Somali citizens, former leaders and civil society personalities, are gravely concerned about the implications of the “Garowe Principles.” Sign...
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Holding a Somali conference in Garowe, the capital of Puntland State was high praise for the local population and opportunity for all Somalis to engag...
Read More »The Garowe principles: Solution or deepening the Somali crisis
A document referred to as the Garowe principles came out of the Somali national consultative constitutional conference held in Garowe city of the semi...
Read More »The Somali Famine, Despair and Resilience
Viewing from afar the grim images of women, children, and elderly suffering from the agony of protracted civil-war and the worst famine in Somalia thr...
Read More »Why the Somalis are grateful to Turkey
Somalia in the last twenty years has suffered enormously, in terms of collapse of law and order, natural and human-made calamities, displacements of i...
Read More »Marginalization of the Somali Intellectual Class
In every society there is a small group of people who possess adequate authority to influence positive (or negative) change....
Read More »In response to Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar “The End of Somalia: Scenario of Partition”
“A sheep” says a Somali adage “sees the sky only when it is being slaughtered”. The proverb has anticipated the fate of the Somali people… T...
Read More »UN staff’s performance in Somalia constitute a crime against humanity
One of the most frequent complaints I heard during my recent visit to Mogadishu was the lack of physical presence of United Nations staff in this war-...
Read More »State and Society in Somalia: The Social Impact of Siadist Bequest
Reading Richard Dowden’s piece ‘Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia’, posted on the website of the Royal African Society recently, stimulates me ...
Read More »The End of Somalia: Scenario of Partition
“A sheep” says a Somali adage “sees the sky only when it is being slaughtered”. The proverb has anticipated the fate of the Somali people... T...
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