Opinion
To stop pirates at sea: Address the lawlessness on shore in Somalia
After several anxious days watching a tense standoff at sea, Americans are overjoyed by the rescue of captain Richard Phillips and the crew of the Mae...
Read More »Silanyo is a True Leader, Visionary and True Somaliland Hero!
Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silaanyos' leadership role is dynamic and it simplifies that his leadership qualities and political expertise is something that...
Read More »Polygamy in the West
Although polygamy was supposedly outlawed by the Vatican ( the Pope's headquarter in Rome) hundreds of years ago, the practice is still far from dead ...
Read More »Shari’a Law: Recipe of Disaster
Many people advocate the implementation of Sharia Law in Somalia. However, we should ask the subsequent questions: why should the embryonic Somali gov...
Read More »‘Missing youth’ story rattles local Somali community
The story of Somali youth who vanished from the Twin Cities, possibly to fight alongside jihadists in their home country, is transforming the normally...
Read More »An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
I am writing this letter to raise my profound concern for the piracy off the Somali coast. As a Somali American, like so many others throughout the wo...
Read More »Keny-Somalia: Treading Uncharted Waters
The story of Somalia ’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mr. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame signing a memorandum of understanding (...
Read More »Yemen:One of the Many Forms of Hell For Somali Refugees
Most people living in the first world fail to realize how desperate people are to flee the violence in Somalia. The numbers alone only begin to tell ...
Read More »Meddlers botched Somalia
The great irony of Somalia, an irony accentuated by the ongoing pirate dramas off its coastal waters, is not that the world intervened too little in t...
Read More »Opportunity in Somalia
Before the Obama administration considers new military strikes on al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, it should weigh the political costs of such an action...
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