Opinion
Waiting to strike the Kenya Defense Force?
Mogadishu is famous for its destroyed infrastructure. By contrast, Kismayo, home to about 180,000 people, is striking for its lack of infrastructure....
Read More »Somali leaders should stop entertaining the nostalgia 'two state talks'
In the last two decades, there were much chaos, suffering and little room for substantial and constructive dialogue in Somalia. However, Prime Ministe...
Read More »Somalia’s Oil and Gas Potential
At the moment, Somalia intends to move forward and give hope to its citizens. In order to do that, it must earn revenue to provide the basics: build s...
Read More »Remittance: Not all good news.
Billions are sent every year around the world to loved ones, business partners and for community development through remittance companies. For many fr...
Read More »Reflecting on Professor Ahmed Samatar’s Experience as Somali Presidential Candidate and Member of the Federal Parliament
On Saturday December 15, 2012, Ahmed Samatar told a Somali-Minnesotan crowd in Minneapolis that he left the Somali Federal parliament without permissi...
Read More »The Last Stand of Somalia's Jihad
KISMAYO, Somalia — Incredibly, this small port city, a study in ruin in a country that is a parable of ruin, boasts two airports. There is the new a...
Read More »SOMALIA: IGAD’s Shocking Memorandum of Understanding
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the regional organization for East African countries that include, among others, Kenya, Ethiopi...
Read More »Fear tactics by the Mayor keep Lewiston divided
The Republican Party, delirious with its recent successes but lacking any solutions to the very serious problems that underlie the voters’ unease, h...
Read More »Ethiopia, Kenya decided to takeover Somalia
In implementing their recently concluded regional security cooperation agreement and reaffirming their indefinite military occupation of Somalia, Ethi...
Read More »Somalia's Intervention at COP 18 in Doha
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 18) and the 8th session of the Par...
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