Opinion
SOMALIA: GENOCIDE/WAR CRIMES AND HUMMANITARIAN DISASTER
newsinsideSince the US-backed Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia in December last year, Ethiopian troops and their client militia of the so-...
Read More »Somaliland vs Puntland: The struggle between clan and country
The statement from the Somaliland ministry of information was characteristically undiplomatic and bellicose “The Somaliland National Army entered Dh...
Read More »The search for big oil
Two years ago, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia announced to the world it was essentially open for business. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed ...
Read More »Uganda: Where is Uganda Heading?
Last July when I started writing about my meeting with a strange Seer, the prognosis was of terrible days and upheaval soon to visit Uganda and Rwanda...
Read More »Ethiopia’s Invasion of Somalia
Reports that the forces of ‘transitional president’ Abdillahi Yusuf and his Ethiopian allies have committed war crimes against civilians in the co...
Read More »Make-or-break peace talks in Somalia
Jendayi Frazer, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, must have been the highest ranking US government official to visit Somalia in 13 years...
Read More »Violently opposing the Ethiopians is not a panacea
The recent fighting in Mogadishu is a sign of more suffering and displacement to come if we don’t stop these unnecessary deaths and destruction of t...
Read More »Is Somali a Cannon fodder of a proxy war?
Somalia has been turned into a theatre of war in which too many actors are on the stage. There are insurgents who want to fight the African peace keep...
Read More »The Influence of Islam in Nuruddin Farah’s Writings
Together with other prominent world writhers such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Alice Munro, Toni Morrism, David Malouf, and Is...
Read More »Ich Bin Ein Hawiye (I am a Hawiye Citizen)
Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is a city living a clandestine nightmare that even Dante could not imagine. But on this day nothing could conceal t...
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