Opinion
Somali-Kenyans: A New Beginning is On the Horizon
11 years ago, I worked with Kenya’s Ministry of Planning as a Census Officer in Dadaab, the world’s largest concentration of refugees with over 35...
Read More »A Country in Transition: The Lure of Clan-Based Regional States in Somaliaf
THE COLLAPSE of the authoritarian government in Somalia in 1990 has been the catalyst of enormous change both at a personal, and at an institutional l...
Read More »Who Are the Real Pirates in Somalia?
A new international anti-piracy plan proposed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was discussed on August 25. Russia is suggesting the establishment o...
Read More »Should Somaliland allow the formation of a unionist party?
Ludicrous idea, isn’t it? How can I suggest such a treacherous idea when I am known as an unflinching advocate for Somaliland’s independence and s...
Read More »Galgala: Farole’s Waterloo
Abdirahman Farole, the president of Somalia’s Puntland state, is a latter-day Somali politician of the ilk that ruined Mogadishu and much of the sou...
Read More »Tacsi: Qudbi-suugaaneed Kaloo Galbaday
Mar kale ayay maalmahaan murugo gilgishay bahda qalinleyda iyo halabuurka markii looga naxsaday geerida lama-filaanka ahee abwaan Saalax Xaashi Carab,...
Read More »Boom and bust: the only Somali business cycle.
In Britain start up businesses have a very high failure rate as at least 1 in 3 of them fails in their first three years. However, despite this grim p...
Read More »Editorial: The Constitution and the Mosque
President Obama showed his understanding of the Constitution, and his respect for the American people, last week when he defended the right of a Musli...
Read More »Somalia: To Intervene or Not
On 23 July 2010, just before the African Union Summit in Kampala, the AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping said that he had asked countries such as Sou...
Read More »The Internet battlefield begins following Puntland’s decisive ground victory
Let us not kid ourselves: Puntland government forces stormed and seized the makeshift camps used to make bombs and train teenage boys to shoot at "inf...
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