Opinion

Somalia Needs a Winning Strategy not Dual-Track Approach

JAN 27, 2011

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote an important article at Foreign Policy Magazine May/June issue called “Helping other Defend Themselves�...

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The Power of Hindsight; Lessons from The Past

JAN 26, 2011

“We shall go and stand before a mirror, look and reflect on ourselves. Let as ponder and ask ourselves what our interests, the interests of our chil...

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In search of a Somali constitution

JAN 25, 2011

The debate over constitution-making in Somalia has moved to centre-stage and the international community is in the driver's seat....

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Mr. Silaanyo’s boomerang trajectory with free speech

JAN 24, 2011

As always; it has to start with gagging freedom of speech. Not bad governance and corruption and not even rampant ignorance, disease and poverty. It i...

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Don’t Abandon Somalia

JAN 24, 2011

NAIROBI (IDN) - Twenty years after the Somalia President Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted on January 26, 1991, the country in the Horn of Africa remains ...

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A new research on Somali young people in the UK

JAN 24, 2011

First and foremost, I owe a great debt of gratitude to all the young people and their parents who willingly shared the most intimate details of their ...

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The Clock is Ticking in Somalia

JAN 23, 2011

In Somalia, the clock is ticking toward the end of The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The TFG's te...

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My flag will be left at home

JAN 21, 2011

On Sunday, Somali Ethiopians will come together for the arrival of Somali Region State President Abdi Omar in Minneapolis....

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Mapping the points of a star

JAN 20, 2011

Britain, at the time it was shedding its African colonies, organised a referendum in which Somalis in the region voted overwhelmingly in favour of joi...

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The uprising in Tunisia: A different prospective

JAN 19, 2011

The world is witnessing an uprising of the North African country of Tunisia and the mayhem that is taking place on the streets. Ever since the Prime ...

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