While all people of goodwill would welcome the President’s apology to Somaliland’s unilateral claim of atrocities by Barre’s Junta, he deliberately, or, naively ignores the war crimes and gross human rights violations committed by the regime in Mudugh and Kismaayo. Add to this, the banditry, plunder and robbery of Barre’s retreating and fleeing forces in Bay and […]
Allow u naxariiso Yusuf Cismaan Samater Bardacad, Xoghayii Xisbiga Bidixda ee SDU (Gareedka), iyo Mudane ka tirsanaan jirey Baarlamaanka Somalia xukuumadahii rayedka ahaa ka hor 1969. Marxuunku wuxuu u ugu xiraa Siyaad Barre 18 sano, dambi iyo maxkamad la’aan, qol mugdi ah oo go’doon ah. Boqolaal kun oo kale ayaa iyana kasoo wada baxay “Kuliyedda […]
By Katrina Manson, OCTOBER 6,2015 Nuruddin Farah: ‘I write about Somalia to keep it alive’ The author on death and corruption in Somalia The first time someone attempted to ban Nuruddin Farah from writing he was nine years old. It happened again, twice, when he was 18 and 28. Then at 31, he was threatened […]
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In November 14-15, 2002, an international conference on the Horn political and economic integration was held at Institute on Black Life in Tampa, Florida, USA. The Keynote Speaker was the former President of Zambia, Mr. Kenneth Kounda, a reknown Pan Africanist. Presenters were mostly academics of Ethiopian origin in the USA. There were negligible number of […]
Let me state the undeniable fact about prevailing New World Order, and with regards to the reality in Somalia as well as elsewhere in the so-called “Developing World’. The world went through two devastating World Wars. Why? When a state becomes more powerful economically and militarily with large population, it invariably seeks hegemony (domination) in […]
An army is tasked to defend state frontiers, not fight insurgents and maintain public order because the collateral damages are too huge to use the national army that way. Public resentment would be too condemning to afford, if the army is utilized that way and the very exercise defeats the whole purpose for creating the army. A country infested with extremists and terrorists like […]
Somalia’s Federal Minister of Education clearly demonstrates why he is not the right person for the education portfolio. He went on TV to talk about a longstanding disagreement between the Federal Ministry of Education and Puntland State of Somalia on administration and certification of secondary school leaving examinations. Clearly this is a complex subject involving […]
