Opinion

France's Burkini Bigotry

AUG 21, 2016

After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students’ skirt lengths, France’s perennial problem...

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2016 Somali Election: Extended Legitimacy or Increased Profiteering.

AUG 20, 2016

Somalia has finally publicised the long awaited Somali election schedule for the country. Since then the country has gone into election fever. Politic...

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Should Somalia leap into new age of governance?

AUG 19, 2016

The Somali nation is young yet strangely enough wild and complex, as it has existed thousands of years. It passed through difficult upheavals, bu...

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Hanging by a Thread: Somali’s Traumatic Past and Uncertain Future

AUG 18, 2016

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 ...

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Our Journey to Mogadishu: Fear and Hope

AUG 13, 2016

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.... ...

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Members of Somalia’s Leadership Forum Disagree on their Official Communiqué

AUG 13, 2016

Four years of highly “Enhanced” international engagement between the federal Government of Somalia and the International Community did not lead to...

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Somali Politics and Gendered Culture: Finding Simplicity in Complexity.

AUG 05, 2016

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...

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Hargeisa International Book Fair: Narrow Inspiration

AUG 03, 2016

Why our minds are always limited? Why our thinkers scared to cross clan boundaries. Why do we always think so narrowly?...

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Can Somalia Hold Credible Elections in Time?

AUG 01, 2016

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...

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Obituary: Buri Mohamed Hamza, Minister of state for Environment

AUG 01, 2016

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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