Opinion
The Unintended Consequences of the King Hearings
On July 27 Rep. Peter King held his third Congressional hearing on the “radicalization” of Muslim Americans, putting the spotlight on Somali Ameri...
Read More »Social Media Failing Somalia Famine Victims
Horrifying: 29,000 children under the age of 5 dead in the last 90 days alone in Somalia. 29,000 children, who most of us using social media have hear...
Read More »Women's Exclusion Worsens Somali Crises
On July 22, 2011 the newly appointed Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, a Harvard-trained professor of economics, announced his 49-member cab...
Read More »This is the time for the whole region to pull together
The people of East Africa face an extraordinary challenge. Amid the worst drought in 60 years, some 12 million people — in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia ...
Read More »SOMALIA: the Genocide in the Making
Saalim S. Saalim’s compelling, stirring song not only echoes the current Somali drought coupled with unbroken butchery and escapism that have manife...
Read More »Genocidal politics and the Somali famine
Droughts are common in the Somali peninsula, but only an exceptional one produces famine. For instance, the Horn of Africa drought of 1984 did not pro...
Read More »The Drought and Famine in Southern Somalia: "Only Peace and Immediate Ceasefire can make a difference”
Excellencies: The world is watching and your actions will make history: The ongoing drought and famine in Somalia reflects one of the painful moments ...
Read More »Famine in Somalia: The story you are not likely to hear any time soon
I knew the real story about the famine in northern Kenya and Somalia would probably never be told when I watched a young foreign aid worker “reporti...
Read More »Why can't we end famine in Somalia?
The droughts in Somalia, whose people have been battling a devastating civil war for more than two decades, are the worst in 60 years....
Read More »Rep. King must realize Somali Americans are allies
Editor's note: Altaf Husain is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, assistant professor at Howard University School of Socia...
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