Opinion
The Somali untouchables
If you think that Dalits (untouchables) exist only in India think again. We have them in Somalia. But what makes the situation of ours even worse is t...
Read More »Clans and crisis in Somalia
Apart from Rwanda and Burundi, Somalia is the only other culturally homogeneous nation in Africa; yet it has been bedeviled by the curse of clannism....
Read More »Somalia: The Other (Hidden) War for Oil
The U.S. bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya and three days before a large anti-war action in Washington,...
Read More »Response to Ambassador Kebede’s Article
On 27 April 2007, the Guardian ran an article entitled: ‘Thousands flee as shelling by Ethiopian tanks kills hundreds of civilians in Somali capital...
Read More »Somalia asked us to save them from this brutal sub-clan
A Guardian article last week appeared to represent the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in Somalia as a government of national consensus and a "popular" ...
Read More »The Grand Compromise
The purpose of this paper is to seize the opportunity presented by the new developments in Somalia. The politics in Somalia has always been a zero-sum...
Read More »Violence Unlikely to End in Somalia
Since February 1,300 people have died in the fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, mostly civilians. The violence has been ebbing and flowing since...
Read More »Getting Ethiopia out of Somalia
THE UNITED Nations' Office for Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia reported that the recent clashes between Ethiopian troops and Somali resis...
Read More »Vision for the Future
For a long time I have neglected poetry and its fancy I let it dry like a nectar in the dessert Maters of importance had many times passed My mind ...
Read More »THE PROPOSED ROAD MAP TO GOVERNANCE, NATIONAL DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION: UNRECONCILIATORY AND A FRADULENT SCHEME
The TFG has acknowledged in its proposed reconciliation document that the current Somali crisis demands a political solution, as military victory rare...
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