Opinion
Sharing Joy with Abdi-Noor
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, ...
Read More »"SOMALILAND": END OF THE ROAD TO SECESSION
The leader of the secessionist Administration in Hargeisa, Col. Dahir Riyale Kahin, formerly of Siad Barre's dreaded 'National Security Service', paid...
Read More »Somalis in Ethiopia: A Self-defeating Community
Ask any Ethiopian Somali Speaker and they will give a long list of horrendous, humiliating, repetitive and ever-intensifying mistreatment inflicted on...
Read More »'When they see us coming they must be scared'
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 ...
Read More »Welcome Mr. Minister
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...
Read More »Are Somali Fathers Failing?
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...
Read More »BARBAARINTA UBADKA
Waxyaabaha ugu mudan ee barbaariyuhu inuu ubadka baro looga baahan yahay waxa weeye xuquuqda ay labadiisa waalid ku leeyihiin, si uu baarri ugu noqdo,...
Read More »Can the war in the South facilitate the Disintegration of Somalia?
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...
Read More »More organ donors please.......we are Somalis
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...
Read More »The Audacity of the Ethiopian Occupation in Somalia
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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