Opinion
U.S. Special Representative for Somalia's Speech in Columbus, OHIO
I’m pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you tonight in Columbus -- a city that is one of the most important centers of the Somali diaspora...
Read More »Pledge: It’s for a purpose
On October 1st 2011, five students were invited to a local fundraiser in Northern Virginia held for the famine victims in East Africa. Disappointed w...
Read More »A thousand fatwas for Somalia's al-Shabaab
A truck bombing by the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab that killed more than 100 people in Mogadishu last month – an attack that targeted students ...
Read More »Kenya ma ku guulaysan doontaa hawlgalkeeda Soomaaliya, xageese ku dambaysay diidmadii Shiekh Shariif
Faragalinya ay Kenya ku samaysay Soomaaliya, waa mid ay Soomaalidu ku kala qaybsameen fikir ahaan, iyadoo ay qaar taageersanyihiin in wax walba oo Sh...
Read More »Pain of being a Kenyan Somali
Ethnic stereotypes are not necessarily a bad thing — it is one thing to be stereotyped as liking the good life, dressing well, wearing the latest Ar...
Read More »An Open Letter to: The People of Southern Somalia; the Somali people in general;
Drought- affected people in the Horn of Africa; the International community and World Citizens; Intergovernmental Authority of Development; African Un...
Read More »Kenya: War on Somalia Unwinnable
It was a telling moment Kenyan leaders will sit with the Somali prime minister weeks after the invasion of Somalia to come up with gobbledygook face-s...
Read More »UN & NGOs: Aiding Somalia or escalating the conflict
Corruption is an elusive concept because what may be corruption in one society may not be seen to be so in another society due to its inconspicuous na...
Read More »Kenya's blundering mission in Somalia
Kenya's surprisingly brave march into southern Somalia, which began in mid-October, brings to mind the analogy of Kenya as a clumsy, overgrown, weak-m...
Read More »History Repeats Itself with Somalia Invasion
Kenya’s ill-advised incursion into Somalia on Oct. 16 after a rash of kidnappings in the tourist paradise of Lamu will most likely lead to a long an...
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