Opinion

Don’t Abandon Somalia

JAN 24, 2011

NAIROBI (IDN) - Twenty years after the Somalia President Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted on January 26, 1991, the country in the Horn of Africa remains ...

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A new research on Somali young people in the UK

JAN 24, 2011

First and foremost, I owe a great debt of gratitude to all the young people and their parents who willingly shared the most intimate details of their ...

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The Clock is Ticking in Somalia

JAN 23, 2011

In Somalia, the clock is ticking toward the end of The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The TFG's te...

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My flag will be left at home

JAN 21, 2011

On Sunday, Somali Ethiopians will come together for the arrival of Somali Region State President Abdi Omar in Minneapolis....

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Mapping the points of a star

JAN 20, 2011

Britain, at the time it was shedding its African colonies, organised a referendum in which Somalis in the region voted overwhelmingly in favour of joi...

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The uprising in Tunisia: A different prospective

JAN 19, 2011

The world is witnessing an uprising of the North African country of Tunisia and the mayhem that is taking place on the streets. Ever since the Prime ...

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Somalia: The Way Forward After August, 2011!

JAN 19, 2011

At the end of August, this year, the mandate of the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is to end. Some Somalis, both inside and outside of S...

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Dear Immigrant: Be Free, Be a Taxpayer

JAN 19, 2011

I wish to share with you my personal reflections about what it means to be an immigrant taxpayer in a welfare state such as Sweden....

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Somaliland: An alleged sexual deviant gets his day in court

JAN 14, 2011

A court in Somaliland has found a German man guilty of making pornographic films of Somali women and has given him a four- year prison sentence and US...

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Will Southern Sudan rekindle Africa’s many forgotten liberation movements?

JAN 14, 2011

Will international support for Southern Sudan’s self-determination rekindle Africa’s waning, and in some cases forgotten, self-determination movem...

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