Opinion
The Roadmap:focus on the destination
This week the Roadmap signatories meet in Addis. Their aim? To resolve a number of outstanding issues relating to the political process. And it’s vi...
Read More »Kenya’s security forces losing the battle for Somali hearts and minds
I am glad that Charles Onyango-Obbo had the gumption to ask the “elephant-in-the room” question in hisreport on military actions in Somalia publis...
Read More »The Ethiopian Engima
Mariam was painfully thin. Several of her 13 children peered out from behind her with hollow eyes. "I am trying to save my children. We are not living...
Read More »Occupy Somalia
The EU Naval Force made headlines this week by blasting a pirate base on Somali shores and pirate ships out of Somali waters. The well-publicized and ...
Read More »A tribute to my hero Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar
Hearing of the death of Dr. Abdishakur Sh. Ali Jowhar struck me as a thunderbolt out of the blue. At no time can one be prepared for death but at time...
Read More »Widespread Irregularities is Reported on the Selection of the Traditional Clan Elders
Media reports have indicated widespread irregularities on the selection of the traditional clan elders. I would like to briefly demonstrate and prove ...
Read More »How America Settles Down Somalia (And, By Extension the Piracy Problem)
Nice Washington Post story about how the U.S. is training Ugandan soldiers (along with some from Burundi, Sierra Leone and Djibouti) in Uganda on how ...
Read More »Why Hiil Qaran Party Will Not Have a Significant Impact on the Politics of Somalia
On Saturday, May 12th the weather in Minneapolis was exquisite. It was sunny and beautiful day. It was a day for spending outdoors; not a day to liste...
Read More »Somalia faces acid test ahead of new order
On a political path strewn with obstacles and dangers, Somalia stands at a new crossroads.The term of the current Transitional Federal Institutions en...
Read More »Somalia: Rescuing the process of transition
Sheikh Bashir Salad, the chairman of the Council of Religious Scholars of Somalia, has issued a statement criticising the content of and the process f...
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