Opinion
Our Land is not Yours to Appease Somalidiid
Appeasement has become a dirty word in the lexicon of the English language and all because of its historical connotations. On 30 September 1938, a for...
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Somalia Must Save Itself from Qatar
Somalis, both at home and abroad, were optimistic when Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was elected Somalia’s president in February 2017. Diplomats and the...
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The legal wrangling over the Act of Union between the two States of Somaliland and Somalia in 1960.
The constitutionality of the Act was not entirely clear, as no formal Act of Union had been signed in time....
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The Djibouti Conference and its ramifications for Somali Unity
Somaliland came to the negotiating table with an attitude that smacks of what Kennedy was talking about in a speech that addressed the Berlin Crisis....
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Black Lives Matter - Somaliland Version
After the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, the world witnessed the worst riots ever. The protesters cry "Black Lives Matter...
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Election: Marathon for a better future for Somalia
This is the ontology upon which the Somali nation state was constituted. These are still the tenets which bind us together as Somalis....
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Time for reconciliation and apologies to Ethiopian Somalis
To redress injustice, and increase the visibility of Somalis amongst Ethiopians, a national reconciliation conference should be held in Jigjiga...
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UK and Somalia fighting the effects of climate change
In Somalia, extremes of climate are now more common. Serious droughts – like those in 2011 and 2017 – happen once every few years rather than onc...
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It is time to declare oppression as a global pandemic!
As the world battles the COVID 19 pandemic, there is arguably a much deadlier and more persistent pandemic. That’s the oppression pandemic. But unli...
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President Farmaajo and Biihi Are Uniquely Placed: Get Unity Done
In the course of the last seven years, I have observed and wrote a lot about the subject of Somalia and Somaliland much to the like and dislike of bot...
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