Opinion
The United Nations ‘Somali Project’ leaves too many queries unanswered
For the past two decades, Somalia has been one of the international community’s most highly-funded, yet, as the current famine has revealed, “Proj...
Read More »Somalia, Dark Clouds and Silver-lining
The painfully haunting pictures of severely malnourished children on the verge of death, transmitted through all forms of media tell a horrific tale o...
Read More »Save Somalia from another round of Warlordism
The subtle rhetoric from this new generation of International Aid Organizations (IAOs) in the midst of a looming human suffering in Somalia ‘AGAIN�...
Read More »Conference in the midst of humanitarian catastrophe
According to the international media, almost 300,000 children were killed by the famine in Somalia and others will die in the coming months unless ext...
Read More »A World Forgotten
Imagine waking up in the morning, anticipating death. Imagine making the decision to leave your 3 year old daughter on the side of the road to die, in...
Read More »We are Kenyan Somalis and we have no apologies to make
I would like to react to Prof William Ochieng’s opinion piece in theDaily Nation of August 9 titled: Should Somalia be Allowed to Join East African ...
Read More »Should Somalia be allowed to join East African Community? Most decidedly
In a paper which I read at a recent conference at Maseno University, I argued that as we prepare to admit the new independent state of South Sudan int...
Read More »Communities must protect health workers
(CNN) -- The exodus of international NGOs following their ban in South Somalia has denied civilians any relief from the vast impact of the famine....
Read More »Somaliland finally comes out of its shameful silence
Somaliland has finally spoken. It says it is ready to participate in the international efforts aimed at easing the suffering of the starving Somali pe...
Read More »Somalia famine 'crime against humanity'?
Somalia is known to most Americans as the setting for the book and film "Black Hawk Down" and as the world center for modern-day pirates. It is the po...
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