Opinion
The Corroding ‘Lead Camel’ Effect
As in old caravans ‘Where the lead camel goes, so shall others’. Such goes the Somali proverb, notwithstanding its regional variations and dialect...
Read More »Affirmative Action for Somalia
Fauzia Haji Adan was sworn in on Monday November 19, 2012, as the Somali Federal Republic's deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, mak...
Read More »Why are journalists being denied access to the ‘liberated’ Kismayu?
After nearly a year of regaling the media with success stories about their incursion into southern Somalia, the Kenya Defence Forces seem to have sudd...
Read More »Somali leadership has failed its young people
The Somali community’s leadership is largely to blame for the youth crisis that is crippling the East African community in Canada....
Read More »The Somali President has spoken; can anyone hear his agony?
In a speech that I consider to be one of the most powerful and most compassionate speeches that any Somali leader has delivered for a long time, Somal...
Read More »The Impact of KDF Action in Garissa
Garissa town was the provisional headquarters of North Eastern Province during Moi Regime. Since Narc came to power, it has be destabilizes by officia...
Read More »The politics of a Somali belonging in Kenya
Last year around this time, I was eagerly anticipating my trip to Nairobi. My last visit was in 2008 and I could not wait to be greeted by the warmth ...
Read More »Is It the Advent of a New Era in Somalia?
Last Tuesday, the new cabinet of Somalia was endorsed by the Parliament. The new and lean 10 Minister cabinet includes Somalia's first-ever woman Fore...
Read More »The Message that the Somali Government Must Deliver to COP 18 in Doha
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 18) and the 8th session of the Par...
Read More »Only in Kenya are victims of terror attacks robbed while they are dying
Every now and then, I ask myself what it is about Kenya that turns people into shameless, greedy, cruel human beings....
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