Opinion
France's Burkini Bigotry
After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students’ skirt lengths, France’s perennial problem...
Read More »2016 Somali Election: Extended Legitimacy or Increased Profiteering.
Somalia has finally publicised the long awaited Somali election schedule for the country. Since then the country has gone into election fever. Politic...
Read More »Should Somalia leap into new age of governance?
The Somali nation is young yet strangely enough wild and complex, as it has existed thousands of years. It passed through difficult upheavals, bu...
Read More »Hanging by a Thread: Somali’s Traumatic Past and Uncertain Future
Across Somalia, on 1 July 1960, there was great jubilation and celebration as the country had gained independence from both Britain and Italy after a ...
Read More »Our Journey to Mogadishu: Fear and Hope
One night, my mobile rung ‘ding...ding...ding’ “can I talk to Yusuf” asked a lady. “It is me, Yusuf” I responded. “I am your sister.... ...
Read More »Members of Somalia’s Leadership Forum Disagree on their Official Communiqué
Four years of highly “Enhanced” international engagement between the federal Government of Somalia and the International Community did not lead to...
Read More »Somali Politics and Gendered Culture: Finding Simplicity in Complexity.
At the end of 2016, Somalia will select a new government. The current governing body will be replaced by a new administration chosen by 275 parliament...
Read More »Hargeisa International Book Fair: Narrow Inspiration
Why our minds are always limited? Why our thinkers scared to cross clan boundaries. Why do we always think so narrowly?...
Read More »Can Somalia Hold Credible Elections in Time?
Ahead of the eve of the Somali Leaders Forum (SLF) meeting in Mogadishu, there are positive signs as Somalia prepares elections in the next few months...
Read More »Obituary: Buri Mohamed Hamza, Minister of state for Environment
On 25 June 2016, Buri Mohamed Hamza, a State Minister of the Premier's Office for Environment was martyred in Mogadishu, in a treacherous criminal act...
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