Opinion
The madness and chaos of Somalia is good: Tales from a broken country
I just returned from the Somalia capital, Mogadishu. I got the first taste of Somalia in the departure lounge of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airpo...
Read More »Oil can be a boon for Somalia
Ever since the fall of the Somalia’s pro-US president, Mohammad Siad Barre, in 1991, the country has been in a state of chaos and disorder. In the a...
Read More »Draft Constitution: An instrument for balkanization and brutalization of Somalia
The people of Somalia face the looming dreadful reality of becoming a vanished nation/country because of the Draft Constitution soon to be rubber stam...
Read More »What if Anders Behring Breivik had been a Muslim?
Can you imagine if the confessed Norway mass murderer was a Muslim or an Arab? When the terror was unfolding in the peaceful European nation of Norway...
Read More »Not the Right Time for Talks: BetweenSomalia’s Transitional Government & Somaliland
In the midst of incessant heart breaking barrage of ghastly bad news emanating from their motherland, the Somali public saw a ray of hope in last week...
Read More »ABS syndrome - why we Somalis cannot honour ourselves...
While at a meeting in London with the new Turkish Ambassador for Somalia, I realized why people cannot seem to drag themselves out of a chaos that has...
Read More »Radical Idea of the Day: Hire Africans to Cover Africa
Many major Western media outlets assign one correspondent for the entire continent -- more than 11 million square miles. He or she will be based in Jo...
Read More »Let the Roadmap caravan reach its destination
Following his recent miraculous escape from the despicable act of terrorism and attempt assassination on his life, and that of some important members...
Read More »Al-Shabab & ASWJ: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
I have no doubt that the absolute majority of Somalis will agree with me that both Alshabab and the so-called Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a (ASWJ) have ruin...
Read More »Refounding Somalia: Constitution & Islam
Earlier this month, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG)-appointed Committee of Experts (CoE) on the Constitution held a “constitutional review...
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