Opinion
World must act fast on Somalia
ON return to Somalia for my second tour of duty in April this year, I did notice one basic truth; much had changed. I had been to Somalia in 2007 as p...
Read More »The Balkanization of Somalia
The debacle of the East Africa famine once again hit the international media in summer 2011. Television reports showed the emaciated faces of children...
Read More »Making it Big—A Somalia Writer Tells Her Father’s Story
“I’m my father’s griot, this is a hymn to him. I am telling you this story so that I can turn my father’s blood and bones, and whatever magic ...
Read More »UNPOS and Ethiopia killed the hope for sovereign Governance in Somalia
Reflecting upon the charade that surrounded the UN Consultative Meeting (UN-CM) held at Mogadishu Airport at a time when the entire Somalia is overwhe...
Read More »A Son Returns to the Agony of Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - ONE has to be careful about stories. Especially true ones. When a story is told the first time, it can find a place in the listen...
Read More »Khadra Gaydh: The first” Madam Mayor” in Somaliland
Senior female workers are increasing at public offices both in central and local level since the onset of democracy and multiple parties in Somaliland...
Read More »Somaliland: The winding road up to Sheikh
It’s not fair, I think, that flights to the toughest places leave at the toughest time of day – the night. yet again, to go off to Somaliland......
Read More »A Glance into Somalia’s Future!
If history is any to go by, it has been a collective human-nature to learn best the hardest of ways. Individuals attaining enlightenment, by self-init...
Read More »Why is the famine in the breadbasket regions of Somalia?
The only two permanent rivers in Somalia cut through Bakool, Bay, lower Juba and Shebelle regions. The best arable land that is suitable for and can s...
Read More »In Somalia, famine + bad governance = no future
In the past two months, a number of Somalis seeking food aid in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, have been shot dead by gunmen. Only days ago, anoth...
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