Opinion
Is the Attack in Hayat Hotel Show a Complete Security Failure
Al-Shabaab has carried many attacks that have claimed a lot of lives including civilians and government officials. They often replicate their tactic o...
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Left Behind: Deeply Broken Somalia
Somalis and foreign partners hailed the peaceful transfer of power between the elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and the outgoing President Moha...
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The Noble Biological Role of Women in Society
Rights to education and employment are not just women’s rights but they are also noble human rights issues because when women do well the whole soci...
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Leveraging the FinTech industry as an emerging economic opportunity for Somalia
Many African countries have been positioning their economies as major fintech hubs in a way that sets them apart from their respective countries....
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MAAMUUSKA ABWAAN HADRAAWI: DOWRKA REER BELEDWEYNE
Eebbe u naxariistee Abwaankii weynaa, Maxamad Ibraahim Warsame (Hadraawi), xaqii baa ku yimid waxaana la geeyay gurigiisii dhabta ahaa. Xaqiiqdii waxa...
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Alarm bells as Somalia’s new president sours relationship with Ethiopia
The new government in Somalia that won elections held in May has got off to a rocky political start in its relations with the relatively powerful and ...
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Somaliland Can Help the U.S. Win the New Cold War
China is making too many friends. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have shown that they are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars...
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Goodbye Genius Hadrawi: the Scholar of Philosophers, and the Philosopher of Scholars
The great Somali poet, philosopher and scholar Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame (Hadrawi) passed away on the 18th of August 2022, in Hargeisa, Somaliland. A na...
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Remembering Hadrawi: My Teacher, Mentor and Friend.
I was fortunate to have met Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame (Hadrawi) in the early years of my schooling. It was in Aden, now Yemen, which was a British colon...
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Beenbeene: The Model Opposition and Hopefully The Model Minister
Today, I am breaking a cardinal rule of mine: Never to discuss publicly, showcase or flaunt my relationships with politicians. I keep that private. Pe...
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