Opinion

Black, Muslim and Unwelcome: Is Europe Facing a Somali 'Jihad Generation' Crisis?

MAR 25, 2018

Assailed by negative media stereotypes, racism, low academic achievement and social exclusion, the Somali community is one of Europe's most vilified m...

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Which Way to the Sea, Please? Horn of Africa Journal [Oct/Dec 1978)

MAR 24, 2018

Wars have been fought for centuries over the control of the Somali Peninsula and its long coastline. For centuries, foreign powers have alternately co...

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BERBERA WAX GO’ LAGU QAADEY KA WEYN…..!!

MAR 23, 2018

Waxaa la sheegaa in oraahda kor ku xusan tahay maahmaah ama hadal-qabsi caan ka ah dhulka Soomalidu degto gaar ahaan degmada Berbera ee gobolka Saaxil...

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My Libyan Trip: A Journey into a New Reality

MAR 21, 2018

At the margins of the 5th AU/EU summit which was held in Abidjan- Ivory Coast on November 29-30, 2017, President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has asked...

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DP World: Golden Opportunity for Somaliland

MAR 18, 2018

The recent DP World investment in Ber-bera Port is the largest single direct foreign investment in Somaliland so far. In this join investment, shares ...

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Repeated Emergencies in Somalia: a Donor Fatigue or a Mystified interventions?

MAR 15, 2018

Nearly three decades, the Somalis endured civil wars and natural disasters, the latter instigated an alternate of drought (scarcity of water) and floo...

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Rethinking Humanitarian aid in Somalia: Could New Kismayo be a model for future Resettlements?

MAR 15, 2018

Somalia is home to ever increasing number of internally displaced people ((IDP) and returning refugees from Kenya, Yemen and Ethiopia. Currently appro...

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Mogadishu’s Three Seasons

MAR 14, 2018

In Mogadishu there is a season for everything, we often joked to one another. Together with the rainy season, the motion season and the conference sea...

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Federating Banaadir: Restoring political rights, ending 4.5 toxic formula and offering path to unity for all of Somalia

MAR 11, 2018

No other nation has grappled so deeply to re-establish basic state institutions as Somalia has over the last 25 years. The Somali Civil War that start...

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Civil strife in Ethiopia has the potential to destabilise the whole region

MAR 09, 2018

Ethiopia is experiencing ethnic and political tensions that could have far-reaching implications for its neighbors in the Horn of Africa, and beyond....

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