Opinion
Too little too late for Somalia
On Saturday I asked if a fatwa could solve Somalia's problems. The consensus among those commenting seemed to be that it couldn't and, after hearing s...
Read More »Can a fatwa solve Somalia's problems?
Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai, along with an international cast of...
Read More »Something Should Be Done
If you look at Somalia with a heart of peace, you will see beauty, you see plains and plateaus, you see hills and a chain of mountains. You see a vari...
Read More »Stay Away From Somalis!
"What's another word for fastidious?" I ask as I glaze blankly at my computer screen. "Thesaurus," answers Amina, my cubicle neighbour, as she types a...
Read More »WFP's Zero Option for Reform
The humanitarian crisis in Somalia has been exacerbated by drought, famine, protracted war and inflation. It has been extensively described in the wid...
Read More »Letter to the members of the Somali Diaspora (No. 23)
1. The news from your home country is often a mixed bag but as always I would rather look on the positive side – never or rarely reported - and see ...
Read More »Fadeexado diblomaasiyadeed oo hareeyey booqashadii Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya ee Guriga Downing Street
Madaxweynaha Soomaaliya Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed ayaa toddobaadkan socdaal ku yimid magaalada London. Booqashada Madaxweynaha ayaa, marka laga eego...
Read More »Somaliland Vs. Somalia: A reassessment of the fundamentals
What is to come of the next Somaliland elections? If our good friend, the Somali version of Mr. Ten Percent Man, is to rig the next election and claim...
Read More »Putting surviving members of the defunct Somali Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) on Trial
Two seemingly unrelated events have caught my attention in the last few days; the US Supreme Court hearing on the Ali Samatar torture case and two rev...
Read More »Women Are a Force to Produce
8 March is the International Women Day but for Somali women it is a day speak about attrocities and pain and look forward to ways and means to liberat...
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