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FARMAAJO’S MONEY MAN TURNS TO SELLING SNAKE OIL
Read moreHere he goes again, again. Somalia’s finance guru doing what he does best: mixing imagination, fiction, and deception to finance a gigantic fraud. For four years he toured the world, paid homage to the headquarters of the World Bank, IMF, and associated lender clubs. For four years, he attended myriad multilateral and…
The Ogaden Question: A perennial Conundrum that Preoccupied Every Ethiopian leader but None Got it Right
By Prof. Hassan KeynanThe Ogaden Question (OQ) has been a constant and powerful dynamic in the complex historical processes that convulsed Abyssinia and its successor, Ethiopia. It has occupied this sensitive and inherently radioactive…
HOGGAANKA IYO XUKUUMADDA DAWLAD DEGAANKA SOOMAALIDA: FLANQAYN IYO TALOOYIN
Hassan KeynanLix bilood ayuu Madaxwayne yahay Mudane Mustafa Maxamad Cumar. Xukuumaddiisuna intaa way ka da’ yartahay. Hase yeeshee waxaa durba dhan walba kaga imanaya hadallo iyo qoraallo diiradda saaraya hoggaamintiisa shaqsiga…
CITIZEN QALBIDHAGAX: 2018 SOMALI PERSON OF THE YEAR
Citizen Abdikarim Sheikh Muse #Qalbidhagax has arguably been the undisputed 2018 Somali Person of the Year.2007-2017 the TPLF were after him for a decade but could not get their bloodstained hands on him. He was a commander of the ONLF…
Is Speaker Mursal Playing the Mercurial Janus-faced Politician?
By Prof. Hassan KeynanEight months ago Mogadishu was in the throes of a protracted and nasty political squabble engineered by Villa Somalia in cahoots with all kinds of political opportunists and predatory conmen in Mogadishu. The principal…
Who Confederates with Whom in the Horn of Africa? And on Whose Terms?
The story unfolding in the Horn of Africa is truly unbelievable. The whole story revolves around Ethiopia’s new, young and relatively inexperienced Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed. From the moment he assumed office, something akin to The Big Bang…
Africa and the Scourge of Illiteracy: Staggering numbers to reflect on the International Literacy Day (8 September 2018)
The latest data (2015) from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Adult and Youth Literacy: National, regional and global trends, 1985-2015 show that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is home to over 191 million adults (15 years and above) who lack…
My Name is Freedom
I am notWho you think I amI am notWho you say I amI am notWhat you perceive I am.I amWho I am.I am one and manyYoung and oldAncient and modernNear and farLocal and globalPerfect and profoundly flawedA creature of limited means and abundant…
Garbaduubkii Muwaadin Qalbidhagax: Sannad ayaa ka soo wareegay, welina Garsoor ma helin lagamana Garaabin
Maanta waa snadguuradii 1aad ee Garbaduubkii Muwadin Qalbidhagax. Laakiin dhacdadaa naadirka ah saskii laga qaaday iyo mahadhooyinkay reebtay weli way ku taagan yihhin dadka Soomaaliyeed. Qisada Qalbidhagax waxay noqotay mid ka gudawayn kana…