By Nicola Nasser The internal crisis in Egypt has indulged the country in its most critical foreign relations test since these relations were shaped by the U.S. sponsored Camp David accords and the peace treaty with Israel in 1979. An indicator is the warnings against travel to Egypt from east and west, which are exacerbating...
Odhaahda Tifaftirka: Taxanaha Aadan Makina waa sheekooyin gaagaaban oo si joogto ah loogu soo bandhigi doono degelka WardheerNews ugu yaraan toddobaadkiiba halmar. Sheekooyinkan oo uu qoray halka uu qaarkoodna ka tarjumay Adan Makina oo ka tirsan Bahda WardheerNews waa kuwo aad u xiiso badan islamarkaana ay xikmadi ka dambeyso. Haddaba waxaannu taxanahan ku billaabaynaa sheekada cinwaankeedu...
By Dr. Abdi.M. Warfa The crisis in Kismaayo has the potential to undermine the Somali Federal Government. It also threatens to bring the fragile and recovering nation back to the brink of civil war. Compromise is the only way out” (HIPS Policy Briefing, Kismayo Crisis: options for compromise, June 4th, 2013) President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud:...
Prof Said Sh. Samatar AUGUST 4, 2013 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY as the day when the world came to a standstill, the sun gawked from his sphere in astonishment, the moon tore into the heavens with a prodigious peal of Somali laughter, the stars gazed on earth with luminous incredulity. What drove these celestial...
By Matt B The Somali Federal Government (SFG), established in August 2012, has been widely welcomed as Somalia’s first “post-transition” government, receiving breathlessly upbeat media coverage and plaudits from the international community. Matt Bryden argues in this report that these buoyant judgments are based on highly selective appraisals of the situation. The SFG remains...
By Carima Nur I am shopping with my mother at Giant; the top of my braided head barely meets the counter of the register while my mother’s head soars high above my sights. We walk past the register, and begin to shop. As we pass the different aisles, I take a quick whiff of each...
By Faisal Roble Every government that came to Mogadishu since the Barre regime had claimed to be legitimate. The loudest noise and more intense claim for legitimacy had been echoed by the current government. On the contrary, the current government is less legitimate than its predecessor. Given how much it erred and abused the recently...
By Nicola Nasser The Israeli Jewish settlers of the Palestinian territory, which was occupied by Israel in 1967, are dictating unilaterally the demarcation of the borders with any future Palestinian state, thus rendering its creation impossible; holding the Israeli decision-making process hostage, they have become the real killers of peace, who brought the twenty –year...
W.Q.Burhaan Cali Marka uu ii muuqdo waan naxaa, marka uu ii soo dhawaadana jiririco ayaa tin iyo cirib i saaqda. Haddaan bannaan marayo waddada ayaan uga leexdaa, hadduu meel ciriiri ah igaga horyimaadana alla bari ayaan galaa anoo hiifaya oo haaraamaya oo mararka qaarkoodna nacladaya ayaan isweydaaranaa waa haddii xarig qoorta ugu xiranyahay saaxiibkiisna wado,...
By Ali Jimale Ahmed PhD I first heard of Abdi Latif Ega’s debut novel Guban last November, when, towards the conclusion of an event where I was the discussant of scholar Mahmood Mamdani’s new book Define and Rule, Mamdani asked me out of the blue: “Have you read Gubaan?” Unsure of what he was saying,...