Opinion
Kenya’s much-hyped ‘invasion’ of Somalia a strategic miscalculation
The invasion of another country is calculated to achieve one or a combination of several strategic outcomes. The strategic outcomes include:...
Read More »The Kenyan Army's Illegal Invasion of Somalia
We, the undersigned members of Concerned Somalis in the Diaspora and inside Somalia, are deeply concerned and troubled by the illegal incursion of Ken...
Read More »Somali Parliament warned K-TFG leaders against committing treason
On October 8, 2011, the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia (TFP) passed a law (resolution) that made crime the implementation of one of the pr...
Read More »We Were Pirates Once, and Young: An American Way to Understand Somali Pirates
When Somali pirates started making international news, journalists and politicians said, in so many words, “Forget the romance of eye patches and pa...
Read More »Don’t Force Statehood On Somalia
The model for Somalia is Switzerland. Don’t laugh! Political power in Switzerland lies in the cantons – the 26 proud self-governing communities. T...
Read More »The need to talk to al-Shabab
The recent heinous attack in Mogadishu that claimed more than 70 innocent lives, mostly students queuing up for scholarship to Turkey demonstrates two...
Read More »The New Somalia Roadmap: Perpetual conflict in the making
Notwithstanding, the devastating famine that has so far killed thousands of Somalis and put Somalia on the news recently, there was a political consul...
Read More »Panthom Pirates in Puntland (Review Essay)
The scourge of piracy in the Somali littoral, and clan-anchored breakaway region of Puntland in particular, represents what Markus Rediker has demonst...
Read More »Could Turkey Succeed in Somalia Where the Rest Have Failed?
In an article this week in the American Foreign Policy magazine, the Turkish Prime Minister urged the world to follow Turkey’s example in ending the...
Read More »Where is Israel's compassion toward refugees?
The plight of 28-year-old Somali Abbas Said Omar that was reported yesterday in Haaretz by Dana Weiler-Polak casts an embarrassing light on the Interi...
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