Opinion

Who wants to march to war with a traitor?

DEC 07, 2006

Meles Zenawi's recent speech in his house of clapping puppets and clowns that he calls "parliament" was not only funny but also absurd. Ethiopia's muc...

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Where Were the Troops When We Needed Them?

DEC 07, 2006

Today the UN Security Council has unanimously approved sending African Peace keeping forces to Somalia to prop up the weak transitional government sea...

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ISLAMISM AS A POLITICAL TOOL IN SOMALIA:

DEC 05, 2006

The takeover of the Al-itihad al-Islami of Mugadishu in June, 2006, and later expansion of its control over much of the south, has been but a great fr...

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FOREIGN INTERVENTION WILL UNIFY SOMALIS AND WIDEN THE CONFLICT

DEC 05, 2006

The declaration of war by the Ethiopian prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his parliament’s approval that Ethiopia should go to war with Somalia on the...

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England: One Law for Muslims, one for the Rest

DEC 05, 2006

England is fast becoming but simple a plot of land floating in the sea instead of a nation of culture guided by a rich legal tradition. It is a tail o...

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Gathering Of Losers

DEC 02, 2006

e gathering that I am referring to is that of a group called “Northern Somalis for Peace and Unity” that is getting together on Dec.1 in Washingto...

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Meles Zenawi’s war with Somalia: A gimmick to divert attention from Ethiopia’s internal political crises

DEC 02, 2006

With the World focused on an imminent all-out civil war looming in Iraq and the Middle East at large, the warlords in the horn of Africa are gearing u...

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Any (One) of us ...

NOV 30, 2006

According to the latest UN reports which were compiled in 2003, in Somalia there were 40,000 Adults with HIV/AIDS, nearly 60% of them were women....

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Outsourcing the Somali war to a Tigrean warlord

NOV 29, 2006

War in the Horn of Africa appears imminent. If large-scale violence breaks out, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and the Bush administration w...

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The Miracles at Hargeisa and Mogadishu. What lessons can be learned and what is the path to the future?

NOV 29, 2006

Elusive peace is finally at hand in both Hargeisa and Mogadishu, two cities that are home to a quarter of all ethnic Somalis. Euphoria about the upc...

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