Opinion
Somalia a failed state.
Some people would argue that Somalia is a failed nation; others would say it’s a failed nation-state. In any case there is no doubt Somalia as a Sta...
Read More »Somalia: Attaining Peace in Country
The recent murder of two prominent Somali journalists, Ali Iman Sharmake, owner of HornAfrik, a leading media organisation in Mogadishu, and Mahad Ahm...
Read More »Would You Be My Father?
Wherever I go I have a habit of meeting and chatting with children but my last encounter with a group of school age children in the outer edge of Baka...
Read More »Why Somalia needs a serious reconciliation
Somalia desperately needs a genuine and comprehensive reconciliation attended by all the relevant parties and stakeholders nation wide....
Read More »SSIA: An Academic Convention or a Gathering of 'Wreckers and Spoilers' ?
The 2007 Triennial Congress of the Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) is scheduled to be held at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio,...
Read More »Genocide, war crimes....: who committed what and against who?
The Mogadishu carnage in April this year has again re-ignited the debate about atrocities, war crimes, and genocide that took place in Somalia, a deba...
Read More »The Last Hope for Somalia and the Wahabi Threat
Somalia is going through a dire change, a change which can make it or break it for good. And it’s the assumption of the well-intentioned Somali publ...
Read More »No Chance for Kulmiye But Reforms
Dr Mohamed Omar’s recent analysis of the upcoming elections in Somaliland and his prediction that Kulmiye will win it by a landslide victory lacks t...
Read More »Silencing The Voice of Freedom
In the chaotic city of Mogadishu, yesterday 11 August, two prominent journalists have been killed , one of them, Ali Iman Sharmarke, who was the direc...
Read More »The Brutality That Perpetuates Violence and Crippled Mogadishu’s Economic Lifeline Must Stop
Fairfax, VA (SDN) - In recent weeks, the Ethiopian military and militias loyal to the Transitional Federal Government have launched a ruthless campai...
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