Opinion

The Music Stops

NOV 20, 2013

The troubling revelations about the recent disagreement brewing between the Somali President and the Prime Minister provide further evidence, if any w...

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Donor projects undo the “New Deal for Somalia”

NOV 19, 2013

Donor projects and practices are undoing the principles and goals of the New Deal for Somalia, a partnership Compact intended to consolidate the “na...

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The Climate Change Talks in Warsaw and the Devastating Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones

NOV 17, 2013

The 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19) is currently convened in Warsaw...

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Returning refugees from Kenya will destabilize Somalia

NOV 16, 2013

NEW YORK — Somalia, Kenya, and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) this week signed an agreement outlining the return to Somalia of nearly hal...

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Why We Should Not Rebuild the Somali State

NOV 14, 2013

Coarsely stated, the average Somali person is now wondering whether a strong Somali State, if resuscitated or more correctly, if created, can get a gr...

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Somali community rejects Kenyan delegates lobbying for legality of khat in UK

NOV 14, 2013

While the UK prepares to ban khat in line with the rest of the western world, it appears that Kenyan taxpayers are being asked to pay for a group of l...

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The rising cost of living is starving the nation

NOV 10, 2013

The cost of living is rising globally and even in the most developed of nations such as England there is concern about whether the ordinary citizens o...

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Mohamed Farah (The Broker)

NOV 09, 2013

Long before the Toronto Star labeled me the 'Broker' in their desperate attempts to obtain a video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, I was help...

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Djibouti opposition: how the USN ought to be lulling the international community to their side?

NOV 02, 2013

There are few things that the USN (the Djiboutian coalition parties) must do first - in order - to win the hearts and the minds of the entire Djibouti...

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In Support of Nuruddin Farah's Article

NOV 02, 2013

Nothing much has been written about Somalia's current President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who came to power a year ago. That is probably because there is ...

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