Opinion
A Reply to Dr Abbas’s Rebuttal of Mr Goth’s Somaliland: America’s Underestimated Friend.
This is a reply to Dr Mohamed Abbas’s 1st April 2010 rebuttal ‘Mr Goth’s Article Represents an Old Disease’ of Mr Bashir Goth’s 23rd March 2...
Read More »Somalia’s Last Chance
While the current Somali transitional government is by no means perfect, there are at least a couple of things it has been doing right- putting in pla...
Read More »Somali music between Maryan Ali’s refined taste and Al Shabab’s philistine manners
Never have I felt so much hope and gloom at the same time for Somali music; that wonderful aesthetic product by default of the otherwise harsh Somali ...
Read More »‘East African accent’ is offensive
In recent public safety alerts, the University of Minnesota Police Department has consistently utilized the phrase “East African accent” as a desc...
Read More »Is Yusuf-Garaad the Only Photogenic Broadcaster at the BBC?
If, like me, you were dismayed by the omnipresence of Yusuf-Garaad Omar, the chief of the BBC Somali Service, on the website of the Service lately, yo...
Read More »Secularism for Somalia Forever
In response to a recent article that I have posted at Hiiraan.com commenting on President Sharif‘s visit in Britain, some readers who contacted via ...
Read More »Somalia: Tide Turning Against Extremism
In Somalia there are signs that opinion is building against the extremist group Al-Shabaab, who threaten attempts to restore stability. A recent confe...
Read More »Lackadaisical Experts add to Somalia’s Agony
The 21st, Reconciliation meeting among Somalia’s adversaries was convened in Addis Ababa from 13th to 19th of March 2010, without discerning the lig...
Read More »Qabuura Faagista Shabaab iyo Qaaya tirista Diinta
Urururka Shabaab oo lagu yiqiin afkaar badan oo ay la yaabeen culimo iyo caamo badan ayaa lasoo if baxay habdhaqan hor leh oo in badan ku riday afkii ...
Read More »Mr. Gosh’s Article Represents an Old Disease
The era of Somali warlords has ended, but sadly, another dimension of warlordism has began to emerge: a new generation of warlords who are armed, not ...
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