Opinion

Reaching the Promised Land: Life on the other side

AUG 17, 2013

Following on from my article on Illegal migration from Somalia and the self-declared independent state of Somaliland, this poem seeks to highlight tha...

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The Wholesaling Of Political Islam

AUG 16, 2013

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 ...

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Medecins Sans Frontieres leaving Somalia: A Victory for terrorists or a loss for the people?

AUG 16, 2013

"We are ending our programmes in Somalia because the situation in the country has created an untenable imbalance between the risks and compromises our...

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Unchained Minds: Somalis Mental Health State.

AUG 11, 2013

Given the Somalia political and economic turmoil suffered during the civil war, the country’s mental health system collapsed, and mental health diso...

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Somali Children Waiting in vain

AUG 08, 2013

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...

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Kenya and Somalia: Love or dependency?

AUG 05, 2013

In his Presidential inauguration speech Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his country has “invested immense diplomatic energy and resources in th...

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Stain on Kenya’s regional policies or the architects of ethnic genocide

AUG 04, 2013

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...

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Manipulating clan or ethnic political identity for power

AUG 04, 2013

The narrative about the political conflict in Somalia has been characterized as “clan power struggle” by the official media for years and the coll...

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The State of Higher Education in Somalia

AUG 03, 2013

Higher education institutions have proliferated in Somalia during the two decades of civil war. More than 50,000 students are attending some 50 univer...

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An Open Letter to Prof. Ahmed Ismail Samatar

AUG 01, 2013

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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