When WFP launched Special Operation 105780 in 2007, there was one main objective: to promote the uninterrupted and timely supply of relief items to vulnerable populations across Somalia. At the time, humanitarian access was very limited; port infrastructures in Somalia were in urgent need of repair and these challenges, coupled with large security risks, impeded...
BY TAREK FATAH Alejandra Bravo’s tweet, the day after the Toronto Star’s latest “investigative report” on Mayor Rob Ford, echoed the sentiments of many in this city. She wrote: “This ‘Somali’ thing has to stop. Live/deal in Canada, you’re Canadian. Crack is a ‘Made in TO’ problem (that) we got to solve.” The message barely concealed...
From Mr Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås. ir, Katrina Manson (“Oil thrown on the fire” and “A tangle of converging foreign interests”, Analysis, May 14) rightly focused on the complex challenges facing Somalia. We can all agree that a race for oil resources by foreign oil companies and destabilising rivalries between regional administrations must be avoided. The...
By AHMED ARALE At the height of the Iraqi war and before the US government sent more troops there, Jack Kelly, a national security writer for thePost-Gazette of Ohio, wrote: “It finally appears that President Bush is ready to light a fire under Premier Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq.” He argued that if Bush gave al-Maliki veto power...
NDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA—In 1944, while stationed on Australia’s Wessel Islands, soldier Maurie Isenberg discovered five 1,000-year-old copper coins thought to have been minted in the former Kilwa sultanate, a trading port on an island off the coast of Tanzania. Isenberg marked the spot where he found the coins on a map, and in 1979, donated them to an...
Australia’s High Commissioner to Kenya H.E. Geoff Tooth conducted his first visit to Puntland State, Somalia, May 20-21, 2013. Ambassador Tooth’s delegation, including Deputy Head of Mission Amanda Davis, were received at Garowe Airport by Puntland Minister for Finance H.E. Farah Ali Jama; Minister for Maritime Transport, Ports and Counter-Piracy H.E. Saeed Mohamed Rage; Deputy...
By: Hassan M. Abukar “What I have done in the past is history, what I am going to do in the future is a mystery.”− Mike Tyson. The great Somali poet Abdullahi Suldan Timacadde said, “Clannism provides no shelter; it only causes destruction.” That is only partially true. What is left unsaid is that members...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s new government said on Monday it was pursuing talks to resolve rival claims for control in the south that have stoked fears of a return to the clan wars that pitched the nation into anarchy two decades ago. A local assembly on Thursday declared a former Islamist warlord, Ahmed Madobe, president of Jubaland. Madobe...
By Abdighani Hirad Summary Jubaland State of Somalia came to being on May 15, 2013 after it elected President Ahmed Mahammed Islam (Ahmed Madobe). This bottom up approach, where clans, who have endlessly and senselessly feuded since the fall of late Siyad Barre, coalesced and came together, is a welcome sign to all Somalis and...
Kenyan Vice President Willam Samoei Ruto arrived in the country Sunday to court the support of President John Mahama in making a strong case for a lasting solution to the Somali crisis in the upcoming AU summit in Ethiopia. According to the Vice President of Kenya, the problem in Somalia is also affecting them since...