Opinion
Reaching the Promised Land: Life on the other side
Following on from my article on Illegal migration from Somalia and the self-declared independent state of Somaliland, this poem seeks to highlight tha...
Read More »The Wholesaling Of Political Islam
I don’t know who deserves the attribution as far as the coining is concerned, I only know—like the terms Islamism, sharia, and jihad— so-called ...
Read More »Medecins Sans Frontieres leaving Somalia: A Victory for terrorists or a loss for the people?
"We are ending our programmes in Somalia because the situation in the country has created an untenable imbalance between the risks and compromises our...
Read More »Unchained Minds: Somalis Mental Health State.
Given the Somalia political and economic turmoil suffered during the civil war, the country’s mental health system collapsed, and mental health diso...
Read More »Somali Children Waiting in vain
On behalf of the many individuals that have supported our hard fought campaign to ban khat from the United Kingdom, I would like to extend my gratitud...
Read More »Kenya and Somalia: Love or dependency?
In his Presidential inauguration speech Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his country has “invested immense diplomatic energy and resources in th...
Read More »Stain on Kenya’s regional policies or the architects of ethnic genocide
I here acknowledge and want pay my highest gratitude to AMISOM’s extraordinary heroic work they’ve been doing in order to bring peace and stabilit...
Read More »Manipulating clan or ethnic political identity for power
The narrative about the political conflict in Somalia has been characterized as “clan power struggle” by the official media for years and the coll...
Read More »The State of Higher Education in Somalia
Higher education institutions have proliferated in Somalia during the two decades of civil war. More than 50,000 students are attending some 50 univer...
Read More »An Open Letter to Prof. Ahmed Ismail Samatar
First Ramadaan Kariim. Secondly, I hope you will allow me to respond through this Open Letter to your recent interview with Universal TV ....
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