Opinion
Letter: Failure on pirates
As the union representing 23,000 maritime professionals, we read your report (Cuts force navy to drop Somalia pirate patrols, 9 May) with utter dismay...
Read More »Oil fuels chaos around the Horn of Africa
It is election time in many parts of Africa. Advocates will disappear or suddenly die mysteriously or are just murdered. A recent example is the West...
Read More »Draft Constitution challenges Somalia’s will for nationhood
The debate on the Constitution-Making Process in Somalia shifted to a perilous level after the international community demanded IGAD to submit the lis...
Read More »UN threatens the Somali democratic movement
Minneapolis, MN - On May 1, 2012, the UN Special Representative (SR), The African Union Special Representative (AUSR), and IGAD Facilitator for Somali...
Read More »A Tribute to Somali Patriot Abdihayi Osman Garaad
Today, we lost Abdihayi Osman Garad, a true Somali patriot, a polished intellectual, a man of great integrity, a peace activist, and a courageous Soma...
Read More »Somali pirates see their ambitions trimmed
UNITED NATIONS — There has been a significant drop in ship seizures and hijackings by Somali pirates in the troubled waters off East Africa....
Read More »Somalia’s Draft Constitution: a Case of Local Priority VS Regional and Donor interest
The latest prescription to re-engineer the re-emergence of Somalia as a weak and divided state is drawing a strong resistance from the wider Somali pu...
Read More »Hiiraan and the Somali Constitution: the Prototype of Somalia’s Dystopic Future
On Dec 31, 2011 the Ethiopian army forced Al Shabaab out of Beledwayne. It was a one day affair. Al Shabaab reported that they withdrew for tactical r...
Read More »Somalia, Sovereignty In Catch-22
For more than two decades, Somalia’s sovereignty has been in limbo- or in an utterly defunct status. Though there are many causes, a particular one ...
Read More »Time To Push The Political Track In Somalia Stalemate
It has been six months since our men and women moved in to Somalia to fight Al Shabaab and protect our territory. Since then, much has happened on the...
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