Opinion
Puntland’s media poodles versus watchdog media
With the recent decision to suspend the reporters of VOA and ban VOA affiliate FM relay stations from broadcasting in its domain, the Administration o...
Read More »An Open Letter to Sheikh Sharif
Before I start my letter, I have a confession to make. I have never supported you before nor did I attend any of your speeches in America. In fact, I ...
Read More »What Can we tell This Child?
Over the past two years it is estimated that tens of thousands of people have been killed in Somalia particularly its capital city, Mogadishu in a mor...
Read More »AL-‘ITISAAM: A Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing
Since 2006 when the Somali conflict became well-known to me, I started a very extensive research which I shall demonstrate throughout this article. My...
Read More »The Sharif I have seen
When, in 2006, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed came to power as one of the leaders of the Union Islamic Courts (UIC), he was part of a group that controlled most ...
Read More »Where have all the good men gone? The coming of age of the ‘lost generation’.
A few days ago as I sat nonchalant reading an article for a class at one of the many cafes that litter the university campus I attend, I happened to o...
Read More »Where are the Beef and the Peace; Mr. Sheriff?
For the Somali citizen, in addition to a life of violence and deprivation, now the prospect of statelessness is more real and terrifyingly nearer more...
Read More »Somaliland is rescued by foreign friends and a watchfull media
With its latest decision to extend or should I say reject the extension, depending on where one stands on Somaliland’s slippery political landscape,...
Read More »The failure of the international community and the resilience of a people
Somalia is officially classified as a failed state where warlords, Islamic extremists, suicide bombings, piracy, secessionists, poverty and anarchy pr...
Read More »Somalia Since "Black Hawk Down"
Whatever agenda the US and UN had about sending 28 000 blue helmet soldiers to Somalia as part of a broad UN Operation in 1992, many Somalis including...
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