Opinion
Why latest foreign ‘re-colonisation’ project of Somalia is doomed to fail
In the first two decades of the 20th century, Somali warrior-poet Seyyid Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (nicknamed the “Mad Mullah” by the British) fough...
Read More »From Garadag “State” to London Conference: Mr. Silanyo’s Checkered Journey to Power
As Somaliland takes a slide into the unknown, many questions come to the mind of those of us who advocated and still believe in the legitimacy of the ...
Read More »Somalia's Future and the London Conference
(Mogadishu & Minneapolis). The upcoming London Conference on Somalia is, potentially, a promising occasion to finally put the country on the road to p...
Read More »Somalia seems ripe for the picking; bring out the knives and chop it up
On February 23 something very important for East Africa, and indeed all of Africa, will happen in London. There will be a big conference on Somalia by...
Read More »Negotiating an End to Somalia's War with al Shaabab
In August 2011, after three years of fighting, forces backing the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) took control of the Somali capital of M...
Read More »Why the international community has to come together to help Somalia
In September 1992 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Mogadishu. He could not have known that it would be 20 years before any of his successors set...
Read More »Somaliland borders Are Unalterable
The officials and surrogates of defacto Puntland Administration of Somalia routinely claim in the media that Somaliland Borders are "Colonial Borders"...
Read More »An Open letter to the leaders of Somaliland
The Taleex conference: The Taleex Conference highlighted a challenge Somaliland faced through most of the last twenty years: the perception and realit...
Read More »The London Conference: An Act of False Generosity?
The Somali state has become an object of charity after two decades of political crisis; multiple actors claim that Somalia needs international humanit...
Read More »The last nail to the secessionists’ coffin
The secessionist enclave in the northwest region of Somalia is facing the wall, corned by the unionist communities like a carnivorous hyena being hunt...
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