Opinion

Feeding off Somalia's anarchy

APR 30, 2007

GALKAYO, Somalia–Beyond clan rivalry and Islamic fervour, an entirely different motive is helping fuel the chaos in Somalia: profit....

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Inside Africa's Guantánamo

APR 30, 2007

This is the most lawless war of our generation. All wars of aggression lack legitimacy, but no conflict in recent memory has witnessed such mounting l...

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Somalia’s Radical Hutus and the Bloodbath in Mogadishu

APR 30, 2007

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has declared that the war in Somalia has produced, since the beginning of the year, more refugees than any o...

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RUINOUS MOGADISHU - ANOTHER US DEBACLE

APR 24, 2007

As anticipated, catastrophic consequences of human suffering of the recent war of invasion of Somalia sanctioned by the United States of America have ...

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An Open Letter to Silanyo

APR 23, 2007

Please accept my sincere apology for using your nickname in the title of this missive to you. Tradition dictates that I, a man many years your junior...

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Why oppose the TFG when there is no alternative?

APR 23, 2007

Our country has been without a government for 17 years and every attempt to create one has ended in failure. Today the Somali people for the first tim...

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What Has Mogadishu Done Wrong?

APR 21, 2007

Mogadishu is the capital city of Somali and it is also the seat of all commercial activities taking place in the country. But the wars have diminished...

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Mogadishu: stands firm!

APR 21, 2007

A full scale war has erupted in Mogadishu today! The Ethiopian occupation army is foolishly sucked in a dirty house to house urban warfare which they ...

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Somalia Require Genuine Reconciliation and Political Compromise - Not a Misguided Congress

APR 20, 2007

Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) announced that it will convene, in the middle of April, what it terms as a national “reconciliatio...

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Memo to the Somali Government

APR 19, 2007

Imagine a reconciliation process in Iraq that fails to include militias or Sunni and Shia hardliners? How about a reconciliation process in Afghanista...

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