Opinion
The Forgotten Lessons of Black Hawk Down
The disaster in Somalia offered America a glimpse of the future of warfare. No one listened....
Read More »A Somali National Economic Board
This is part of an upcoming book I am working on. I thought it may be useful to present it today in view of the ongoing discussion on National Assets ...
Read More »The Struggle of a Somali Kiwi
New Zealand is a vision of beauty and home to 4.7 million Kiwis with 7,000 Somali Kiwis making up that total. The Somali Kiwis have found it difficult...
Read More »Tax agency's targeting of my mosque just doesn't make sense
On Aug. 22, Muslims around the globe observed Eid Al-Adha, one of two major festivals celebrated each year by people of the Islamic faith. As has been...
Read More »A New Dawn for the Horn of Africa Nations
In an article on Hiiran Online on 17 August 2018, I called on Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia who were working to bury the decade old enmity (Ethiopia a...
Read More »The Kismayo Conference: A Failing Grade
In early September, the Somali regional leaders met in Kismayo. It was a meeting where the President Mohamed Farmajo was not present, but yet his big ...
Read More »Call Us ALL American
Abdi Iftin, a Somali refugee who grew up in war-torn Mogadishu, recently wrote a memoir describing his experiences in Somalia and his journey to the U...
Read More »Sino-Somali Cooperation Enters a New Phase
Sino-Somali cooperation dates back to 1960s, when Somalia was in its first decade of independence, and China in its second decade of communism under ...
Read More »Wrangles between the Federal Government of Somalia and the Federal Member States is detrimental to progress in Somalia
It has been a fateful week in Somali politics, one that could shape the Presidency of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo. Last weekend, the leaders of Somalia...
Read More »Why Somalia cannot Join Kenya as one 'Unit'
I was intrigued by the title of an article written by a certain Karanja Kabage, a Kenyan, who is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. The article w...
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