Opinion
UN threatens the Somali democratic movement
Minneapolis, MN - On May 1, 2012, the UN Special Representative (SR), The African Union Special Representative (AUSR), and IGAD Facilitator for Somali...
Read More »A Tribute to Somali Patriot Abdihayi Osman Garaad
Today, we lost Abdihayi Osman Garad, a true Somali patriot, a polished intellectual, a man of great integrity, a peace activist, and a courageous Soma...
Read More »Somali pirates see their ambitions trimmed
UNITED NATIONS — There has been a significant drop in ship seizures and hijackings by Somali pirates in the troubled waters off East Africa....
Read More »Somalia’s Draft Constitution: a Case of Local Priority VS Regional and Donor interest
The latest prescription to re-engineer the re-emergence of Somalia as a weak and divided state is drawing a strong resistance from the wider Somali pu...
Read More »Hiiraan and the Somali Constitution: the Prototype of Somalia’s Dystopic Future
On Dec 31, 2011 the Ethiopian army forced Al Shabaab out of Beledwayne. It was a one day affair. Al Shabaab reported that they withdrew for tactical r...
Read More »Somalia, Sovereignty In Catch-22
For more than two decades, Somalia’s sovereignty has been in limbo- or in an utterly defunct status. Though there are many causes, a particular one ...
Read More »Time To Push The Political Track In Somalia Stalemate
It has been six months since our men and women moved in to Somalia to fight Al Shabaab and protect our territory. Since then, much has happened on the...
Read More »The madness and chaos of Somalia is good: Tales from a broken country
I just returned from the Somalia capital, Mogadishu. I got the first taste of Somalia in the departure lounge of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airpo...
Read More »Oil can be a boon for Somalia
Ever since the fall of the Somalia’s pro-US president, Mohammad Siad Barre, in 1991, the country has been in a state of chaos and disorder. In the a...
Read More »Draft Constitution: An instrument for balkanization and brutalization of Somalia
The people of Somalia face the looming dreadful reality of becoming a vanished nation/country because of the Draft Constitution soon to be rubber stam...
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