Opinion
Open letter To President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas
Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to offer my heartiest congratulations on your recent election as president of Puntland state of Somalia...
Read More »Solution to Prevent Turmoil in Africa
Over the years, many African countries have suffered from turmoil. Tensions are particularly high in the DR Congo, Central African Republic (CAR) and ...
Read More »The road to a full democratic Somalia by 2016:
By 1988, Somalia was ailing severely because of a system that lasted for two decades, repressed the freedoms and oppressed the people. Socially, polit...
Read More »Somalia: Commentary on the new Cabinet
From the beginning, the daily leaks about the selection process of the new Cabinet (Council of Ministers) of Somalia headed by Prime Minister (PM) Abd...
Read More »IMAGINE: Somalia Under IGAD Trusteeship in 2016
Midnight, 16 Sept. 2016 – The story you read is partially fact and partially fiction about what would happen at the end of the tenure of the present...
Read More »What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Tale of America at War in the 21st Century
These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington's global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my min...
Read More »Al-Shabab: Guardians of Somali identity?
British Channel 4 journalist Jamal Osman had an exclusive on al-Shabab that included a training and graduation ceremony. The picture that emerged was ...
Read More »Somalia Needs a War on Poverty
That the Pentagon admitted, this month, to sending its military back into Somalia after a 20 year absence of explicit involvement (never mind the exte...
Read More »Idol Worshippers
Camped out for several days, young girls are anticipating the nail biting moment when their favorite celebrity walks out. He or she waves from a balco...
Read More »Abdiweli Gaas: Hope ahead?
The former Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Abdiweli Gaas) became the President of the semi autonomous Puntland region of Somalia on Wednes...
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