Opinion
A Response to “The Invention of Faysal Roble” article
I read the article “The invention of Faysal Roble” by Mr. Mohamed Haji (Ingiris) posted on Hiiraan Online on October 25, 2010 with mild indignatio...
Read More »Sharif Sh. Ahmed Vs Sharif Sh. Hassan
The political stalemate and the conflict between the President and the Speaker have its root cause in the draft constitution. The speaker, former prim...
Read More »Justice for Somalia’s Oppressed Minority
In a protest outside Downing Street, a hundred Somali protesters gathered on Whitehall. When I enquired what they were doing, a girl no older than me ...
Read More »Somali unity: A tale of five countries and not two
It was early on the disreputable day of October 21st, 2010 that I tuned into the BBC at 7.00am. They have been covering a press conference held by Joh...
Read More »The Invention of Faisal Roble: The Manipulation of Mind and Media
The great French playwright, Molière, once said, “Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant,” which literally means, “An educated fool is m...
Read More »Somalis Must Speak More Forcefully Against the Radicals within Their Ranks
The assistant principal of a Minneapolis based Somali-populated charter school, Banadir Academy, recently condemned a group of Somali Imams who joined...
Read More »The Rise & Maybe the Fall of The Elite Somali Political Dynasty
Many recent high profile appointments and the following power disputes serve as an evidence to what the Somali public have long been complaining that ...
Read More »Memories of Colonial Africa
I was born in 1954 in colonial Africa. One of my most cherished mementos from the colony of Nigeria is one of the pennies I received for my school lun...
Read More »The Miracle Map
The photo you see here is a Somali map lying just outside my house in Braås, Sweden. Coming back from Växjö on a very cold October afternoon, I saw...
Read More »Why the new PM is the right man for the job
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo), the new Prime Minister designate was a former colleague of mine and fellow civil servant in Somalia’s Foreign M...
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