Opinion
UN’s Nickolas Kay for Somalia: A Major Political Liability to Avoid
Nicholas Kay, who is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Somalia, has clearly overstepped his mandate by interfering Somalia’...
Read More »The Power Tussle!
The dichotomy of a powerless/powerful prime minister and a powerless/powerful president has confused many ordinary Somalis. Some say the president has...
Read More »Frailty and Gladiatorial Combat in Somalia
It is that cyclical season of winner takes all. It is that all too familiar gladiatorial executive combat all over again. Yes, the Villa Somalia has o...
Read More »Enacting Zero Tolerance policy on the potential importation of Ebola into Somalia:
The transmission of the Ebola virus among a population is attained through the direct and close physical contact with infected body fluids such as blo...
Read More »Social creativity is more important in Somalia than sophisticated weapon
“A Sick man has a hundred advisers” is one of the widely used proverbs in Somalia and it is at best relevant to the on-going conflict in the count...
Read More »Somalia: Conundrum of an Activist
As issues of the day may dictate, the norm for activists is to engage on substantive issues such as calling for peace, justice, and freedom. To achiev...
Read More »Somali Federalism: Far easier Middle Shabelle to rejoin Banaadir than to join Hiiraan?
Federalism would be defined as form of government in which a sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a the governing authority (the central g...
Read More »Somali Shilling: valueless currency that needs a new policy
The official currency of Somalia is the “Somali Shilling”. It is the weirdest currency anyone could encounter. Unlike normal banknotes, the Somali...
Read More »In our Federal Constitution, the Powers of the President are Largely Nominal
Recently I heard the president saying more than once that he has different views on a lot of political issues quite the reverse to that of the PM. Wit...
Read More »Put-Up Job for Copenhagen Conference on Somalia
The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the United Nations Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) are frantically engaged in put-up job for the first Minister...
Read More »