Opinion
Between a Rock and a Hard Place in the Somali Region
With the recent US air strike on Al-Shabaab, what has been the progress one year on from the Mogadishu bombing?...
Read More »Significance of the Televised Somali Cabinet meeting on October 18
The televised meeting of the Council of the Ministers (the Cabinet) chaired by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo on October 18 represented a unique ...
Read More »Reporter’s Diary: Heal Somalia’s former child soldiers, heal a nation
Even by Mogadishu standards, late September was particularly violent....
Read More »Colaada Koonfurta Gobolka Sool: Gumaad iyo Barakac Lagu Guuldaraystay Xalkeeda
Laga soo bilaabo sanadkii 2003 dii, waxaa degaanka koofurgalbeed ee Gobolka Sool oo ay ka mid yihiin degaanada: Dabataag, Dhumay, Dharkayn, iyo degaam...
Read More »The slow agony of a regime and the 1969 military takeover in Somalia.
By late 1960s, signs of growing tensions came to the surface in Somalia becoming a lot more evident between 1967 and 1969. Much of the hope with which...
Read More »Stabilization of Somali Politics now in turmoil
Somalia is in political turmoil exacerbated by the ongoing maneuvers to control the outcomes of upcoming elections for the final showdown in 2020/2021...
Read More »We should talk to al-Shabaab now – we owe it to the Mogadishu bomb victims
Today is the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in Somalia’s history. On 14 October 2017, al-Shabaab suicide bombers drove a truck full...
Read More »Is the care of rheumatoid arthritis in Somali patients associated with implicit bias?
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect people of all ethnicities. There are no published studies that attempt to elab...
Read More »Federalism in Somalia: Disruptive Member States and the Weak Legislative Branch
The process of rebuilding Somalia has been placed in serious jeopardy due to both widening political instability and unrelenting confrontations. This ...
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