Opinion

Kenya’s Ecomonic Woes During Global Pandemic

Kenya’s Ecomonic Woes During Global Pandemic

JUN 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been projected to have the potential to cause a global economic recession thus far resulting in adverse economic climate ...

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The cultural challenges to remittances must not be ignored

The cultural challenges to remittances must not be ignored

JUN 29, 2020

For almost the last decade, the survival of the remittances industry has been at the front of most Somali people’s minds. It is, without a doubt, a ...

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Can UNSC Recover from the Humiliation and Loss of Credibility Suffered in Somalia?

Can UNSC Recover from the Humiliation and Loss of Credibility Suffered in Somalia?

JUN 27, 2020

In the past three and half years, the UN Security Council (UNSC) suffered shameful humiliation and loss of credibility in Somalia because the Federal ...

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Solving the Somali puzzle

Solving the Somali puzzle

JUN 27, 2020

This week marks the independence of Somalia from the yoke of British and Italian colonization. During its colonization, Somalia was divided between Br...

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Direct election or ‘enhanced indirect’ election for Somalia? Analysis of the relevant regulations

Direct election or ‘enhanced indirect’ election for Somalia? Analysis of the relevant regulations

JUN 26, 2020

On 7th June, the joint 17-member parliamentary committee tasked with the preparation of election regulations – which requires only parliamentary app...

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Somaliland’s sacrosanct borders and territorial integrity

Somaliland’s sacrosanct borders and territorial integrity

JUN 25, 2020

Among other things, leaders of Somaliland base their claim for statehood that Somaliland was once British protectorate and gained its independence on ...

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Our Land is not Yours to Appease Somalidiid

Our Land is not Yours to Appease Somalidiid

JUN 24, 2020

Appeasement has become a dirty word in the lexicon of the English language and all because of its historical connotations. On 30 September 1938, a for...

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Somalia Must Save Itself from Qatar

Somalia Must Save Itself from Qatar

JUN 23, 2020

Somalis, both at home and abroad, were optimistic when Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was elected Somalia’s president in February 2017. Diplomats and the...

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The legal wrangling over the Act of Union between the two States of Somaliland and Somalia in 1960.

The legal wrangling over the Act of Union between the two States of Somaliland and Somalia in 1960.

JUN 23, 2020

The constitutionality of the Act was not entirely clear, as no formal Act of Union had been signed in time....

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The Djibouti Conference and its ramifications for Somali Unity

The Djibouti Conference and its ramifications for Somali Unity

JUN 22, 2020

Somaliland came to the negotiating table with an attitude that smacks of what Kennedy was talking about in a speech that addressed the Berlin Crisis....

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