Opinion
A Land of Camel Milk and Honey
Here’s the ethos of Somalia, as a former Mogadishu resident explained it to me: “If I use a dollar to buy food, then tomorrow I have nothing. If I...
Read More »The Aftermath of Ethiopia’s Invasion: Somalia Reverting to Anarchy & TFG Slipping Further into Irrelevance
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG), under the current leadership of the Interim President Abdullahi Yusuf and his Prime Minister Ali...
Read More »Somalia's Government, Somalia's Affair
In the west there is a fear of Islamic terrorism, triggered in the most part, and rightly so, by two New York skyscrapers being brought down by hijack...
Read More »U.S. aid will help Somalia, not intervention
Iraq is often compared to the likeness of Vietnam, given its undefined goals. If Iraq is Vietnam, then Somalia is Cambodia in the "Domino Theory of Te...
Read More »Listener’s Notes on Nuruddin Farah
On February 8, 2007, Nuruddin Farah, the renowned, an around the world revered, respected writer and as of late a yearly Nobel Prize for Literature no...
Read More »NIGHT TIME IN MOGADISHU
In the capital city of Mogadishu, Somalia, saying "Good night" is quite heavy. It is more than two words because between 2:00 and 3:00 AM the ......
Read More »Somalia Reverts to Political Fragmentation
As violence mounted, the T.F.G. announced on February 20 that it had formed an "anti-terrorist unit," which had been trained by Ethiopian forces and h...
Read More »"Somalia Reverts to Political Fragmentation"
During the first three weeks of February, Somalia continued its slide into political fragmentation as violent attacks against occupying Ethiopian forc...
Read More »TFG can help or heart Somalis.
TFG squashed the pride and dignity of Somali people when they lead the way and allowed Ethiopian war machines to march into Somalia, but they can stil...
Read More »Governing Somalia
In the last throws of 2006 Ethiopian forces invaded Somalia, and with Somalia's Transitional Government (TG)forces drove the Union of Islamic Courts (...
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