Opinion
UN staff’s performance in Somalia constitute a crime against humanity
One of the most frequent complaints I heard during my recent visit to Mogadishu was the lack of physical presence of United Nations staff in this war-...
Read More »State and Society in Somalia: The Social Impact of Siadist Bequest
Reading Richard Dowden’s piece ‘Don’t Force Statehood on Somalia’, posted on the website of the Royal African Society recently, stimulates me ...
Read More »The End of Somalia: Scenario of Partition
“A sheep” says a Somali adage “sees the sky only when it is being slaughtered”. The proverb has anticipated the fate of the Somali people... T...
Read More »How to win in Somalia without fighting
Today the Kenya military campaign in Somalia will have been going on for exactly two months. Perhaps, appropriately, a cheeky friend wrote me to refle...
Read More »Ismail Nur: A Glimpse at the Life of a Giant
I, and my brother Mohamed H.Bahal and both our families are extending our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the family of Ismail Nur who...
Read More »Maryan (Aryette) Omar Ali: A life dedicated to Somali popular song
On December 7, 2011, Maryan Omar Ali, also known to people as Aryette, passed away in the McCall Medical Center in Etobicoke, Canada. She had struggle...
Read More »Dignity is in peace, not in cowardly murder
All Somaliland communities were shocked by the gruesome and cold-blooded murder of innocent people sleeping peacefully in their own homes in Seemaal a...
Read More »Somali clans in Minnesota
Yes, they do. All you have to do is go to the Starbucks coffee shop on Riverside. Every Somali tribe probably sends about five men to represent them a...
Read More »Famine as a crime against humanity
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Several months ago, I wrote an essay entitled "Genocidal Politics and the Somali Famine". It appears that the coordinator of ...
Read More »Kenya's media in bed with the military
Pictures of Kenyan military tanks rolling into Somalia. Defence Minister Yusuf Haji flanked by his internal security counterpart George Saitoti and Po...
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