Opinion
Will President Farmajo Be Able to Realize that Somalia Is Worse-Off Than 2 Years Ago?
8 February 2019 marks the end of the second year of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo in office. During this period, Somalia suffered state politica...
Read More »Waxaa la soo gaaray waqtigii shacabku guran lahaayeen miraha Sharciga Isgaarsiinta
Labo sano ku dhowaad ayaa laga joogaa markii xukuumad iyo wasaarad ahaanba aan xilka la wareegnay, sidoo kale sanad iyo bar ayaa laga joogaa markii uu...
Read More »Ignore Museveni’s hubris, Somalia is a functioning state
Leadership, it is said, requires a fine balance of humility and hubris. Despite its splendid recovery, Somalia still is, sadly, a target of ridicule a...
Read More »President Farmajo Expelled UN Envoy to Deny Accountability and Justice to Somali Victims
For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed...
Read More »Don’t Let Ethiopia Become the Next Yugoslavia
Within a few shorts months, Ethiopia has witnessed a dramatic transformation. The new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, signed a peace agreement with Eritre...
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First Person: Returning to Dadaab
Three main camps – Ifo, Dagahaley, and Hagadera – make up the Dadaab refugee complex; the no man’s land lost in between Kenya and Somalia where ...
Read More »Baidoa residents applaud Norway’s commitment to infrastructural development in the region.
The recent construction and renovations of roads in Baidoa have greatly transformed the town and its environs....
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Is Nicholas Haysom a Victim of U.S. ‘Dual Track’ Policy on Somalia?
It was September 2010, when the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, revealed the Obama administration’s US for...
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Getting it wrong again: UN diplomacy is failing Somalia
The world expects the United Nations to be as above suspicion as Caesar’s wife....
Read More »2018 HOL Person of the Year: Mustafe Muhumed Omer (Cagjar)
Arguably, the single most important test for the Somali intellectual of our times is unveiling the truth in today’s noisy and perplexing Somali worl...
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