Opinion
How to win in Somalia without fighting
Today the Kenya military campaign in Somalia will have been going on for exactly two months. Perhaps, appropriately, a cheeky friend wrote me to refle...
Read More »Ismail Nur: A Glimpse at the Life of a Giant
I, and my brother Mohamed H.Bahal and both our families are extending our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the family of Ismail Nur who...
Read More »Maryan (Aryette) Omar Ali: A life dedicated to Somali popular song
On December 7, 2011, Maryan Omar Ali, also known to people as Aryette, passed away in the McCall Medical Center in Etobicoke, Canada. She had struggle...
Read More »Dignity is in peace, not in cowardly murder
All Somaliland communities were shocked by the gruesome and cold-blooded murder of innocent people sleeping peacefully in their own homes in Seemaal a...
Read More »Somali clans in Minnesota
Yes, they do. All you have to do is go to the Starbucks coffee shop on Riverside. Every Somali tribe probably sends about five men to represent them a...
Read More »Famine as a crime against humanity
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Several months ago, I wrote an essay entitled "Genocidal Politics and the Somali Famine". It appears that the coordinator of ...
Read More »Kenya's media in bed with the military
Pictures of Kenyan military tanks rolling into Somalia. Defence Minister Yusuf Haji flanked by his internal security counterpart George Saitoti and Po...
Read More »Lewiston: Somalis are committed
I am writing to express my concern about some statements made by Robert Macdonald as a candidate for the office of mayor of Lewiston (Nov. 29). I beli...
Read More »Putting Somalia into an AU Trusteeship is the Only Option
When the heavy rains let up, Kenyan soldiers will be able to continue their advance on Kismayo, Ethiopian troops will take Baidoa, and Ugandan and Bur...
Read More »Kenya's Invasion of Somalia: Manifestation of US Hegemonic Agenda
With much bravado and arrogance, Kenya declared invasion of Somalia on October 18, 2011 in what it justifies as “a hot pursuit of Al-Shabab”. Sev...
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