Opinion
Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the s...
Read More »Why drone attacks in Somalia is ill-advised
According to recent media reports, the US administration of President Barack Obama is considering to use drone attacks as the least option to help the...
Read More »Kenya should keep out of the Somalia conflict
The recent report by the UN Monitoring Group on Somali (The EastAfrican, March 29-April 4) linking the Kenyan government to the Somali crisis should s...
Read More »General Ali Samater’s Predicament: A Witch Hunt or a Legitimate Search for Retribution
Over the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to read several articles that were published by some of the most prominent newspapers in the United Sta...
Read More »A Reply to Dr Abbas’s Rebuttal of Mr Goth’s Somaliland: America’s Underestimated Friend.
This is a reply to Dr Mohamed Abbas’s 1st April 2010 rebuttal ‘Mr Goth’s Article Represents an Old Disease’ of Mr Bashir Goth’s 23rd March 2...
Read More »Somalia’s Last Chance
While the current Somali transitional government is by no means perfect, there are at least a couple of things it has been doing right- putting in pla...
Read More »Somali music between Maryan Ali’s refined taste and Al Shabab’s philistine manners
Never have I felt so much hope and gloom at the same time for Somali music; that wonderful aesthetic product by default of the otherwise harsh Somali ...
Read More »‘East African accent’ is offensive
In recent public safety alerts, the University of Minnesota Police Department has consistently utilized the phrase “East African accent” as a desc...
Read More »Is Yusuf-Garaad the Only Photogenic Broadcaster at the BBC?
If, like me, you were dismayed by the omnipresence of Yusuf-Garaad Omar, the chief of the BBC Somali Service, on the website of the Service lately, yo...
Read More »Secularism for Somalia Forever
In response to a recent article that I have posted at Hiiraan.com commenting on President Sharif‘s visit in Britain, some readers who contacted via ...
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