Opinion
Somalia's Leadership: substance or rhetoric?
These are serious times with serious challenges that require serious leadership capable of envisioning free and united Somalia based on peace, justice...
Read More »ONLF and its supporters Confronted by reality
A famous quote was "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Well, I have to say reading all these...
Read More »The irrelevancy of Somaliland
In the past four weeks, a flurry of news articles, commentaries, official statements, and opinions of different perspectives some sympathetic to and o...
Read More »Somalia: Intervening to destabilize
During the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, the United Nations Security Council the western diplomats, and some commentators were discussing the urgency...
Read More »The U.S. and Somaliland: A Strategic Guide to Partnership
A great deal has transpired in the little over two months since I last raised the question of Somaliland in this column, repeating a call I made two y...
Read More »Will divisions undermine Somali rebellion?
By mid-2007, when the fighting in Somalia was routinely described as an "Iraq-style insurgency," victory seemed likely for the extremist Islamic Court...
Read More »Are Somalis in the Diaspora the gravediggers of the Nation?
The word Diaspora by original definition is in ancient Greek, means scattering and refers to any people or ethnic population who are forced or induced...
Read More »UK: Citizenship Contract
Major changes proposed to the way foreign nationals achieve British citizenship. The proposed changes follow a consultation and a series of 'listening...
Read More »A Vignette of Vigilance to the Premier of Somalia.
I am well aware of my country’s contribution to the wanton destruction of Somalia. And if the writer, as an Ethiopian, is expected of an apology to ...
Read More »Somalia: What Is In a Clan Name?
Clan names are not a crime, but they belong to another era. The Somali nation has come a long way from the nomadic life in the open savannah. What def...
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