Opinion
‘Missing youth’ story rattles local Somali community
The story of Somali youth who vanished from the Twin Cities, possibly to fight alongside jihadists in their home country, is transforming the normally...
Read More »An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
I am writing this letter to raise my profound concern for the piracy off the Somali coast. As a Somali American, like so many others throughout the wo...
Read More »Keny-Somalia: Treading Uncharted Waters
The story of Somalia ’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mr. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame signing a memorandum of understanding (...
Read More »Yemen:One of the Many Forms of Hell For Somali Refugees
Most people living in the first world fail to realize how desperate people are to flee the violence in Somalia. The numbers alone only begin to tell ...
Read More »Meddlers botched Somalia
The great irony of Somalia, an irony accentuated by the ongoing pirate dramas off its coastal waters, is not that the world intervened too little in t...
Read More »Opportunity in Somalia
Before the Obama administration considers new military strikes on al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, it should weigh the political costs of such an action...
Read More »Ku-takrifalka dhul-badeedka iyo berriga Soomaliya waa xaaran
Shacabka Soomaliya oo la tabaaleysan dhibaatooyinkii dagaalki dib xoreynta dalka oo Ciidammada Ethiopia, lagu jebiyay, wuxuu aad uga xumaaday warka ah...
Read More »Elastic Somali Politics Lacks Leadership
One of the things we like or hate about Somali politics is its elasticity, complexity and flexibility that morphs with times and endlessly reinvents i...
Read More »Forget "Accountability" for Somali Pirates
The word "accountability" has a nice ring to it. Who can be against "accountability?"...
Read More »Somalia: A Colossal Disservice to Islam
The new faith-based trend of terror in Somalia is having its toll on the morale and the wellbeing of the nation. It is a phenomenon that is strange t...
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