Opinion
Policy actions needed to build on Book Fair success
The Somali Book Fair scene is booming and there is no greater happiness than people, especially, young people, rushing to attend such educational even...
Read More »A sea without coast guards: Foreign illegal trawling and waste dumping in Somalia’s waters
Somalia’s coast became home to illegal fishing and toxic wastes. It’s difficult to expose every illegal maritime activity in Somalia waters but I ...
Read More »Jubbaland Elections—a Consequential and Outcome!
Jubbaland is a place filled with potential triumph and promise of hope. It is a place with a vibrant river, fertile soils, the beautiful Indian Ocean,...
Read More »The IMF and the World Bank Are Not the Solution to Somalia’s Socio-economic Problems.
...The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank cannot help Somalia; only good leadership, sound policies and a change of attitude from al...
Read More »Somalia faces the worst undemocratic political Election in 2020
President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was elected in 2017 to accelerate the building and strengthening of “a federal, sovereign, and democratic republ...
Read More »March1956: The First Parliamentary Elections in Somalia. The Indirect vote
The Italian Trusteeship Administration in Somalia (AFIS) was responsible to the UN with precise guidelines to follow. One of the immediate tasks of th...
Read More »The Recent Al-Shabab Resurgence: Policy Options for Somalia
The idea of writing a comprehensive briefing policy paper on the state of security of Somalia arose from a one-to-one interview I had with two Al-Shab...
Read More »People of Jubbaland are in Between two Hard Rocks
As outlined in my letter to the Somali President: Looming political Conflict in Jubbaland on December 26th 2018, today people of Jubbaland are in betw...
Read More »Israel’s ban of Omar and Tlaib is a grave misstep
The Post reports, “Caught between the opposing views of President Trump and Democratic leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed h...
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