Opinion
Africa’s Pulse: An analysis of issues shaping Africa’s economic future
Global headwinds are slowing Africa’s economic growth as countries continue to contend with rising inflation, hindering progress on poverty reductio...
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Personal reflection from former Somali Telecom Minister at the Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 (PP-22) in Bucharest
The Plenipotentiary Conference is the most important event for the highest policy-making body of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and ...
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Al-Shabaab: A Satan that must be defeated
I want to start with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. “Our lives began to end the day we become silent on things that matter”. We have been si...
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How I survived one of the longest terrorist’s hotel sieges in Mogadishu
It was around 7:00 pm on a Friday evening on the 19th of August 2022; we had just finished our evening (Maghrib) prayers. The open-air veranda at Haya...
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Somali Police Force in Need of Forward-Thinking Leadership
A police officer's role in society is to maintain public order and safety by protecting members of the public and their property, enforcing laws, prev...
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We should have worked harder to get the Ismael Abdulle story right
It was an incredibly powerful story that deeply touched Star readers and significantly changed the life of a young man in Somalia....
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The successful liberation of Hiiraan without Hirshabeele Support.
The successful liberation of some cities in Hiiraan from Alshabab by a local Militias called Hawadle Macaawisleey in August provides pointers for the ...
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Building Somalia’s state and security and stabilising the Horn of Africa
For decades, Somalia has suffered from being a “failed state” and the current drought is making things worse. The EU is providing economic and hum...
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Somalia: A Country with Failed Leadership
Over the past 32 years, Somali elites, politicians, educators, elders, and the public at large were seeking to find a stable Somalia that is at peace ...
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