Jahawareerka ugu wayn ee ku dhacay dadka Soomaaliyeed waa qaabka dawladnimo ee aynu qaadanay iyo sida khaldan ee loo isticmaalay. Tusaale, inta badan goobaha shaqada waxay la daala dhacayaan farqiga wayn ee u dhaxeeya qaabeenta shaqada (work-as-designed) iyo qabashada shaqada (work-as-done). Midda hore waxay si toos ah u hagaysa sidee loo qaban karaa shaqada taalo, […]
Jun 12 2015
Somalis are presently divided into 4 cohorts
A former senior politician once told me that Somalis are divided into 3 groups. I have expanded it to 4 and elaborated it. Somalis are presently divided into 4 cohorts: 1) The first group are those whom have physically endured life under the colonial administrations experienced the emotional and psychological cost to attain freedom/independence. This […]
Jul 10 2014
Strife in Somalia – Sayyid Ahmad Khalifah
The late prominent Sudanese journalist, Sayyid Ahmad Khalifah, who interviewed many Somali personalities (both civil war and government actors) wrote this piece (excerpt of a long editorial in Asharq Al-Awsat) in December 1991 (food for thought — from a foreign observer): “Mogadishu is nearly a 90-minute flight from Nairobi, and I spent that time with […]
Jun 3 2014
National Reconcilation By Dr Omar Osman Rabeh (written in 1990)
Amazing article that I have stumbled upon, written by the late Dr Omar Osman Rabeh. A visionary who predicted in this article (written a whole year before the central government collapsed in 1991) the vicious cycle that the country would be engulfed in for decades to come. Dr Omar Osman, hailing from Awdal, northern Somalia […]
Jul 3 2012
The emergence of externally backed Somali sub-states; the saga continues
It is no secret that for the past two decades; dozens of regional administrations – many overlapping their virtual regional borders – have sporadically emerged. Notwithstanding that majority were driven by the recent US Policy change in employing the US dual-track approach; it seems that the external actors continue to spur this process fully knowing […]
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