Somaliland is invited to attend a London conference on Somalia. This conference is spearheaded by the British Government and there are conflicting reports stating different scenarios of what the international community is attempting to achieve through this conference. I hope the international community is sophisticated enough and not naive to confuse Somaliland with the anarchic Somalia. The... 

“A sheep” says a Somali adage “sees the sky only when it is being slaughtered”. The proverb has anticipated the fate of the Somali people… The butcher has arrived. The knife is sharpened. The Somali is about to see the sky for the first time. This paper is about epiphanies the Somali will behold at the moment of truth, at the edge of the event horizon from which nothing ever returns, just... 

Education: the necessary utopia missing in Somalia Greetings, According to the scientific archaeological excavations, humanity’s achievement through education begins in East Africa sometimes two and half million years ago by the Paleolithic, also known as the “Old Stone Age or Hunter-Gatherers” in historical perspective. During this era human beings had manufactured among other things,... 

Our independance and our existance came after long struggle for liberation; that means we Sacrificed our life and property to gain freedom. Evereyone has a good idea about the long way that somali people came through to declare independace from the brutal westren colonials.When you read Somali poems and listen their national songs, you will realize that Somali people are and will remain freedom... 

I would like to express my condolences to all innocent graduating students who were on a scholarship to Turkey and their parents, who got killed earlier this month in what’s described as one of the worst attacks since 2007. On Tuesday October 4th 2011, a bomb detonated near the ministry of education, in Mogadishu, Somalia. The bombing killed at least 70. It came after a tranquil time period when... 

Perhaps, there are several stages of clan warfare missions planned to eliminate Somalis. The first of which was to convince certain clans to believe that they have been undermined by their brethren clans. This has never been hard to be accomplished. It was simply to say; “look, clan X acts like they are better than you, they want to rule you, they undermine you, they have already taken your property,... 

Somalia is currently experiencing what has been declared the worst drought that the region has ever come across in 60 years. Droughts are a natural phenomenon in Somalia. Unfortunately, the southern part of the country is deeply revolved around farming, therefore it was these areas that were most affected by the drought. Somalis are nomads who depend on their livestock for everyday life so when rainfall... 

“Was Somalia always like this?” I heard this question posed frequently on mainstream media networks. My homeland, the land of my sweet childhood memories was now associated with horrific images of people starving, crying…hurting. So far, more than 29,000 children have died and more than 12 million Somalis are at risk of starvation in the Horn of Africa. The current famine and the previous one... 

William Jefferson Hague, UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs  Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State for foreign Affairs  By Farah Kolley ——————– Dear Secretary, As undeniably known by those interested in knowing it, the Somali/Ogaden struggle for self-determination began right after the allied powers notably the British persuaded by the United... 

For the past 20 years, Somalis have fought, horrified and shattered each other in any form that any human being could ever imagine or envisage. Somalis were prisoners of warlords, clan leaders, religious tyrants and foreign influence (UN, AU, Ethiopia and others). None of that triggered Somalis to stand together in one voice and show the world that they can distinguish good and bad. Moreover, they...