Opinion
Somali Diasporas call upon the UN and the UN Security Council to Stop Ethiopia’s Aggression and Meddling in the Internal Affairs of Somalia
We, the undersigned members of Concerned Somalis in the Diaspora, are deeply dismayed by the international community’s indifferences to the unfetter...
Read More »Building an Insurgent State in Somalia?
The Somali insurgent movement Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Movement of Warrior-Youth) has controlled nearly all of southern and central Somalia s...
Read More »Extension of TFP Term of Office Would Maintain the Status Quo
The recently announced extension of the term of the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) for further 3 years is illegitimate (according to Transition...
Read More »Sh. Omar Faaruuq: A Remembrance
Sheikh Cumar Faarooq is laid to rest in Saudi Arabia, may Allah shower his mercy upon him and grant him Jannah. Amen. Without doubt, Sheikh Cumar Faa...
Read More »The Libyan crisis through the lenses of the Somali civil war
As you read this article, Libya is being torn apart by what seems like a looming civil war. This huge country is disintegrating into fiefdoms where an...
Read More »In praise of Somali women: A poem in honour of international women's day
While her brothers are away playing She helps her mother While her brothers prepare to eat...
Read More »A tale of two Shabab movements: Egyptian and Somali
As I watched the youth-driven upheavals that have awoken the comatose Arab people into action to reclaim their dignity and their freedom, I could not ...
Read More »Somalia: Beyond August, 2011
With prospect of a genuine alternative looks pretty precarious – or murkier than ever--, within only six months or so, in August this year to be pre...
Read More »Stopping Piracy, A Better Way
It is clear anti-piracy navies patrolling the Indian Ocean failed their core mission in putting a stop to Somali pirates as the recent killing of four...
Read More »Somali pirates make a blood-red se
A warning ignored is an invitation for disaster, as the recent kidnapping and murder of four Americans by Somali pirates tragically illustrates. Just ...
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