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 Osman Hassan Dear Ahmed First Ramadaan Kariim. Secondly, I hope you will allow me to respond through this Open Letter to your recent interview with Universal TV . General Comments This was a superbly articulated interview, truly a vintage Ahmed Ismail Samatar stuff that continues to be the talking point in the social media....
By Faisal A. Roble The UN’s Monitoring report on Somalia and Eretria, (Letter dated 12 July 2013 from the chair of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea addressed to the president of the Security Council on behalf of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions...
Prof Said Sh. Samatar SOMALI CLANISM is a force in the land to be reckoned with. Don’t snicker! By the end of this animated screed, you will be thoroughly persuaded. Somali clanism is at once earth-shattering and globe-trotting, coming along as a happy camper wherever Somalis set foot, from Siberia to Senegal and from the...
Halkan ka dhegeyso barnaamjka RaadRaac oo maanta aanu ku waraysanayno Xasan Abukar oo ka hadlaya Kooxaha Islaamiyiinta Soomaaliya.
By Yasmeen Maxamuud Stolen Seas is yet another “Pirate” documentary for a world that has become obsessed with Somali Piracy. The filmmaker follows the hijacking of the CEC Future; a Danish owned ship flying with a “Bahamas” flag (big companies rent flags from mostly poor countries to bypass legal restriction) that was hijacked while traveling...
By Abdelkarim Hassan (WDN)- The capture of Sh. Hassan Aweys, the ailing senior leader of Al Shabab, poses a genuine test to President Hassan Sh. Mohamuod’s administration that enjoyed an international support since its inception. Aweys, a former Somali army cornel, top leader of the defunct Mogadishu Union Court and founder of Hisbul Islam who...
Waxa Tiriyay: Faarax Cali “Gammuute” E-Mail: farahgamute@gmail.com Wax la yidhi, labay ka murugtay. Jiq bay isku noqdeen. Geedkay ka fursan weyday. Waayeel kala gaadhaa loo guray. Waa loo muddeeyay. Ammin dheer baa golihii lagu kulmay. Gar laysu hankaabsay. Mudduci tiisa marsanaya iyo madaacale deedafeynaya ayay ku soo gudhay. Odayaashii dhexda ahaana, “Ilaahow gar eexo ha nagaga...
By Muktar M Omer WardheerNews Contributor Email: muktaromer@ymail.com The cause and effect debate As the dispute between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the self-declared Jubaland Regional State (JRS) intensified, the national debate reverberated with matching intensity. Pro-Jubaland politicians and media traced the source of the impasse to the ambitions of an overbearing central...
By Faisal Roble Email faisalroble19@gmail.com Conflict by Design Somalia is a country of cultural unanimity with political disunity. While the former attribute is an organic phenomenon, the latter is often the product of faulty leadership. A report at a Joint meeting of the Royal African Society on May 1, 1958 asses the Somalis this way:...