Opinion
What Somalia Can Learn from Afghanistan Fast Moved Crisi
This piece of writing is trying to script some of analysis is what is happening in Afghanistan and what can be learned from the onset. Situation is ti...
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Book review of “Between the devil and the deep blue sea” by Colin Freeman
“Between the devil and the deep blue sea” by Colin Freeman is a book about luck, tragedy, and the enduring spirit of mankind to dig deep into thei...
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Fahad & Farmaajo's Role in the Tigray Crisis [WAR] Demands Accountability
As both federal and resistance forces continue to escalate a brutal and devastating civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, this week the United Stat...
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Somalia’s “Afghan” moment
The events in Afghanistan show that no one can defy gravity, demonstrating that lofty ideals and sophisticated military intervention, however well-int...
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The 1958 Municipal Elections marked the start of a pattern of electoral malpractices culminating in the 1969 disastrous general elections
By 1957, the responsibilities of the domestic affairs of the Trust Territory, had been transferred to the Somali government, established in 1956 (Law ...
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Mass vaccinations in Somalia should be steered by success of polio eradication campaign
A shortage of Covid-19 vaccines and vaccine resistance is threatening to collapse Somalia’s fragile healthcare system. Less than 1% of Somalians hav...
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It is Time for President Bihi to Rein in the Rise of the Power of Religious Zealots in Somaliland
Defamation is a “false statement presented as a fact that causes injury or damage to the character of the person it is about.’ “Lately, the so-c...
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Somalia is walking in Afghanistan’s footsteps
In his 2010 memoir Decision Points, former United States President George W Bush explained his rationale for the decision to invade Afghanistan in the...
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To understand China’s plans for Afghanistan, take a look at Somalia
The term “The Great Game” was coined to describe the great power competition between tsarist Russia and the British Empire in Afghanistan during t...
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Why Somalia’s grand strategies aren’t working
Afghanistan shows that billions of dollars and years of international support aren’t enough. Somalia’s insecurity problem needs a Somali solution....
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