Opinion

Sharing Joy with Abdi-Noor

JAN 21, 2008

I have known Abdi-Noor Mohamed since he joined Authorsden several years ago. He has always had a very deep and burning desire to write about Somalia, ...

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"SOMALILAND": END OF THE ROAD TO SECESSION

JAN 21, 2008

The leader of the secessionist Administration in Hargeisa, Col. Dahir Riyale Kahin, formerly of Siad Barre's dreaded 'National Security Service', paid...

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Somalis in Ethiopia: A Self-defeating Community

JAN 19, 2008

Ask any Ethiopian Somali Speaker and they will give a long list of horrendous, humiliating, repetitive and ever-intensifying mistreatment inflicted on...

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'When they see us coming they must be scared'

JAN 19, 2008

Call it fatalism, resignation or sheer naivety, but Osman Adam (46) says he doesn’t waste much time pondering over what he will do when armed thugs ...

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Welcome Mr. Minister

JAN 17, 2008

From the internet I have learned that Ahmed Abdisalam Adan, a friend and a college mate, has been nominated a minister for information in the Somali T...

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Are Somali Fathers Failing?

JAN 17, 2008

One cold winter evening, a friend of mine and I were chattering inconsequentially of nothing in particular when we entered his house. Dead silence wel...

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BARBAARINTA UBADKA

JAN 15, 2008

Waxyaabaha ugu mudan ee barbaariyuhu inuu ubadka baro looga baahan yahay waxa weeye xuquuqda ay labadiisa waalid ku leeyihiin, si uu baarri ugu noqdo,...

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Can the war in the South facilitate the Disintegration of Somalia?

JAN 15, 2008

The Transitional Federal Government, TFG, and the Union of Islamic Courts, UIC, are both oblivious to the dangers that the country faces in these dif...

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More organ donors please.......we are Somalis

JAN 13, 2008

Today the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has opened a national debate on a system of organ donation where organs of the dead will be made avail...

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The Audacity of the Ethiopian Occupation in Somalia

JAN 12, 2008

From the time Immemorial, The Ethiopian kings, (Menelik and Haile Selassie etc), the Marxist leader, Mengistu Haile Meriam and the TPLF leader –turn...

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