Opinion
Are you a mercenary or a patriot?
The problems we are facing today are misconduct, politicized tribalism, embezzlement, and complacency with corruption. Every Somali is feeling these ...
Read More »The Clannish Wailers
Lately one is liable to find a barrage of unti-Somaliland articles in most Somali websites. In fact one of these websites namely wardheernews.com has ...
Read More »The "war on terror" and the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Africa
Approximately three months ago, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), pressured out Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi. Surprisingly, this pol...
Read More »Ethiopia’s Next Steps on Somalia
Prime Minster Meles Zenawi’s timely interview with the BBC on 20 December 2007 reaffirms what his administration tirelessly has been saying for quit...
Read More »Desirable and undesirable actions of Eidul Adha
The celebration of Eid Al-Adha is symbolic of sacrifice and is a joyous occasion. Salatul Eid is fard upon all Muslims in the tradition of the sunnah....
Read More »An Open Letter to H.E. Ismail Omar Gelle
We, the Somali people in the Horn of Africa may belong to different countries, but despite our territorial separateness we still share our common Soma...
Read More »SOMALIA’S NEW FEDERAL SYSTEM: CAN IT WORK?
As most of us are well aware, the 14th National Reconciliation Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, for a period of two years (2002/2004), had resulted ...
Read More »Who Does the ONLF Represent? A Response:
Ismail Ahmed had such a potential and promise with me, at the onset of his article—Who does the ONLF represent?—with his starting off questions, f...
Read More »The Africa Command Prospect and the Partition of Somalia
As the US Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, was recently visiting American forces in Djibouti, the Washington Post was reporting how the Pentagon ha...
Read More »A Sad Anniversary
Twelve months ago this month, Mogadishu has witnessed one of it worst tragedies ever. Ethiopian warplanes bombarded the airport, which was then contro...
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