Opinion
Israel and Somaliland – long-lost brothers?
Israel faces many adversaries that don’t recognize it or its right to self-determination; Somaliland is also unrecognized as a state by most countri...
Read More »Djibouti’s Mysterious Absence from Horn of Africa Reintegration: Who is to blame?
The positive political changes in Ethiopia and Eritrea and the dynamism in the Somali leadership had rekindled hope that the countries in the Horn of ...
Read More »Siyaad Barre was a Nationalist, regardless of his shortcomings
Nearly 50 years ago, October 21st was a day that will remain in our Somali psyche and will be remembered as the birth-day of the revolution; hundreds ...
Read More »Leadership Crisis Caused Freeze of Statebuilding Efforts in Somalia
Somalia is mired in out of control political and security situation created by broken electoral promises, egregious abuses, and foreign policy blunder...
Read More »It must be love………?
I could not believe my eyes when I watched leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia enjoying a meeting in what seemed a love affair in the northern Et...
Read More »The Special Position of Somalia’s Remittance Industry
The non-bank financial entities in Somalia have played a critical role in an economy where the state has been absent or weak. The thriving mini-indust...
Read More »The Global Somali Diaspora Condemns Terrorist Attack in Melbourne, Australia
The Global Somali Diaspora (GSD) Australia condemns terrorist attack in Melbourne, Australia....
Read More »Recommendations from the Somali Agricultural Professionals Conference
A conference organized by Somali agricultural professionals was held in Columbus, Ohio on June 22-24, 2018. The professionals who attended the confere...
Read More »Balance of Power between Federal and State Governments of Somalia
My purpose in this article is to illustrate the balance of power or the collaborative relationship between the Federal Government (FG) and Federal Mem...
Read More »Modesty Undressed
It’s no secret that for decades now women have been bombarded with mixed signals about what modesty means. We’re either wearing too much to the po...
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