Somalia is located on the Horn of Africa, and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the north west and Kenya on its south west. This is a country with a troubled past and the present and future does not look bright either. Civil war, military coups, border disputes and warlords are the [...]
America, in a ritual that it undertakes every four years, is about to elect a president. Our choices for the highest office in the land are a man who has done absolutely nothing in two years in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, and a man that has done too much for too long in the [...]
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Because of the grave financial and economic crisis, the new US administration limits the various overseas adventures and, while focusing on Afghanistan, they plan on leaving Iraq in 2010. This does not bode well with the militaristic plans of a small group of paranoid minds who would enjoy greatly an environmental catastrophe following an amphibious [...]
The area of Somalia has being inhabited for over 2,500 years by Afar, Cushitic and Somali ethnic groups. From the first century, Romans and Greek were trading in and out of the ports of Hafun and Mosylon-Bandar Gori on the Somali coast. The Aksumite Empire controlled the north-west of the region from the third century [...]
After the happiness, celebration, and euphoria of the rescue of Captain Phillips begins to subside the darker side of the drama begins to unfold. To start with, these were teenagers, one possibly as young as 15 years old. Going forward, America is now in the cross hairs of the Somalia and pirate hatred. Anyone looking [...]
As the world’s attention is now fixated on the Somali pirates who hijacked the Maersk Alabama ship in their quest for profits, it’s fascinating to watch the circus of the American justice system attempt to enforce U.S. laws in a lawless region off the coast of Somalia. Abduwali Muse, the lone surviving pirate (the one [...]
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We spend so much of our time debating about the politics of Somalia, and sometimes it can seem like mere drudgery. We rarely think of coming up with something new that can help us learn anything about our past mistakes as Somalis in order to solve the crisis of our country. For this in mind, [...]
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