Opinion

What Has Mogadishu Done Wrong?

APR 21, 2007

Mogadishu is the capital city of Somali and it is also the seat of all commercial activities taking place in the country. But the wars have diminished...

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Mogadishu: stands firm!

APR 21, 2007

A full scale war has erupted in Mogadishu today! The Ethiopian occupation army is foolishly sucked in a dirty house to house urban warfare which they ...

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Somalia Require Genuine Reconciliation and Political Compromise - Not a Misguided Congress

APR 20, 2007

Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) announced that it will convene, in the middle of April, what it terms as a national “reconciliatio...

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Memo to the Somali Government

APR 19, 2007

Imagine a reconciliation process in Iraq that fails to include militias or Sunni and Shia hardliners? How about a reconciliation process in Afghanista...

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SOMALIA: GENOCIDE/WAR CRIMES AND HUMMANITARIAN DISASTER

APR 18, 2007

newsinsideSince the US-backed Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia in December last year, Ethiopian troops and their client militia of the so-...

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Somaliland vs Puntland: The struggle between clan and country

APR 18, 2007

The statement from the Somaliland ministry of information was characteristically undiplomatic and bellicose “The Somaliland National Army entered Dh...

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The search for big oil

APR 17, 2007

Two years ago, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia announced to the world it was essentially open for business. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed ...

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Uganda: Where is Uganda Heading?

APR 16, 2007

Last July when I started writing about my meeting with a strange Seer, the prognosis was of terrible days and upheaval soon to visit Uganda and Rwanda...

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Ethiopia’s Invasion of Somalia

APR 16, 2007

Reports that the forces of ‘transitional president’ Abdillahi Yusuf and his Ethiopian allies have committed war crimes against civilians in the co...

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Make-or-break peace talks in Somalia

APR 15, 2007

Jendayi Frazer, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, must have been the highest ranking US government official to visit Somalia in 13 years...

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