Opinion
Disinformation in Somalia’s Mediascape
We’ve all heard the quote that is often attributed to Mark Twain “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoe...
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Somalia’s President and Intel Chief Should Face Trial for Murder
The political crisis in Mogadishu sparked by the kidnapping and murder of National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) cyber-expert Ikran Tahlil F...
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Somalia’s Leaders Need to Seize Immediately the Lessons of Afghanistan
In January 2021, I published a paper on U.S. policy towards Somalia in which I expressed concern that the rapid withdrawal of U.S. military forces fro...
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What Somalia Can Learn from Afghanistan Fast Moved Crisi
This piece of writing is trying to script some of analysis is what is happening in Afghanistan and what can be learned from the onset. Situation is ti...
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Book review of “Between the devil and the deep blue sea” by Colin Freeman
“Between the devil and the deep blue sea” by Colin Freeman is a book about luck, tragedy, and the enduring spirit of mankind to dig deep into thei...
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Fahad & Farmaajo's Role in the Tigray Crisis [WAR] Demands Accountability
As both federal and resistance forces continue to escalate a brutal and devastating civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, this week the United Stat...
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Somalia’s “Afghan” moment
The events in Afghanistan show that no one can defy gravity, demonstrating that lofty ideals and sophisticated military intervention, however well-int...
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The 1958 Municipal Elections marked the start of a pattern of electoral malpractices culminating in the 1969 disastrous general elections
By 1957, the responsibilities of the domestic affairs of the Trust Territory, had been transferred to the Somali government, established in 1956 (Law ...
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Mass vaccinations in Somalia should be steered by success of polio eradication campaign
A shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and vaccine resistance is threatening to collapse Somalia’s fragile healthcare system. Less than 1% of Somalians hav...
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It is Time for President Bihi to Rein in the Rise of the Power of Religious Zealots in Somaliland
Defamation is a “false statement presented as a fact that causes injury or damage to the character of the person it is about.’ “Lately, the so-c...
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