Opinion

Repeated Emergencies in Somalia: a Donor Fatigue or a Mystified interventions?

MAR 15, 2018

Nearly three decades, the Somalis endured civil wars and natural disasters, the latter instigated an alternate of drought (scarcity of water) and floo...

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Rethinking Humanitarian aid in Somalia: Could New Kismayo be a model for future Resettlements?

MAR 15, 2018

Somalia is home to ever increasing number of internally displaced people ((IDP) and returning refugees from Kenya, Yemen and Ethiopia. Currently appro...

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Mogadishu’s Three Seasons

MAR 14, 2018

In Mogadishu there is a season for everything, we often joked to one another. Together with the rainy season, the motion season and the conference sea...

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Federating Banaadir: Restoring political rights, ending 4.5 toxic formula and offering path to unity for all of Somalia

MAR 11, 2018

No other nation has grappled so deeply to re-establish basic state institutions as Somalia has over the last 25 years. The Somali Civil War that start...

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Civil strife in Ethiopia has the potential to destabilise the whole region

MAR 09, 2018

Ethiopia is experiencing ethnic and political tensions that could have far-reaching implications for its neighbors in the Horn of Africa, and beyond....

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Soomaaliya & Doorashada 2020.

MAR 06, 2018

Waxan u qaatay qalinka in an si kooban u dul_ istaago dalkeena iyo doorashooyinkii xoriyadii kedib ama kuwa la filayo 2020 ahmiyada at shacabka ugu f...

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Restoring the Foundation of the Somali Police Force

MAR 05, 2018

Somalia would benefit substantially from police reform, especially one that adopts a civil policing system where officers work for the people rather t...

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What Berbera Port Agreement Means for the Federal Government of Somalia

MAR 05, 2018

The signing of the tripartite agreement on Berbera Port made to coincide with the visit of the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia in...

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The UAE still supports al-Shabaab through Somalia's illicit charcoal trade

MAR 05, 2018

Since the inauguration of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) in 2012, the United Arab Emirates has increasingly vied with other regional powers f...

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The New Way of Working is not exactly “new’ to Somalia

FEB 28, 2018

Justin Brady talks with internally displaced people in Gaalkacyo, Somalia. Thousands of families had been displaced by violence and were forced to liv...

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