Opinion
What Has Mogadishu Done Wrong?
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...
Read More »Mogadishu: stands firm!
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 ...
Read More »Somalia Require Genuine Reconciliation and Political Compromise - Not a Misguided Congress
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) announced that it will convene, in the middle of April, what it terms as a national “reconciliatio...
Read More »Memo to the Somali Government
Imagine a reconciliation process in Iraq that fails to include militias or Sunni and Shia hardliners? How about a reconciliation process in Afghanista...
Read More »SOMALIA: GENOCIDE/WAR CRIMES AND HUMMANITARIAN DISASTER
newsinsideSince the US-backed Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia in December last year, Ethiopian troops and their client militia of the so-...
Read More »Somaliland vs Puntland: The struggle between clan and country
The statement from the Somaliland ministry of information was characteristically undiplomatic and bellicose “The Somaliland National Army entered Dh...
Read More »The search for big oil
Two years ago, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia announced to the world it was essentially open for business. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed ...
Read More »Uganda: Where is Uganda Heading?
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...
Read More »Ethiopia’s Invasion of Somalia
Reports that the forces of ‘transitional president’ Abdillahi Yusuf and his Ethiopian allies have committed war crimes against civilians in the co...
Read More »Make-or-break peace talks in Somalia
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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