Will Somalia lead the rest of Africa towards a revolution?
This is an interview with the Chair Osman Abokor and Vice Chair Ali Sharif Ahmed of a new political party in Somaliacalled Hanoolaato. This party is getting a lot of exposure lately and I wanted to know what this was all about. Read more
Dalkeygow (Dear Motherland)
Dalkeygow, I hear your calling
Dalheygow, I feel this yearning
A yearning to return to you
My birthplace, my second womb Read More
A documentary has sparked a diplomatic row between the governments of neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, threatening to unravel one of the region's most delicate relationships. Read more
Date: Thursday August 13 2009 London, UK – Hanoolaato Somali National Party strongly condemns the cowardly actions perpetuated against Ulima from Tabliqi Jama’at, in the city of Galkacyo, Somalia during dawn prayers on 12th of August 2009Read more
Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents
The government has created nine ethnic-based regional states and two federally administered city-states. The result is an asymmetrical federation that combines populous regional states like Oromiya and Amhara in the central highlands with sparsely populated and underdeveloped ones.... Read more
The future belongs to you
The struggle that every nation went through to liberate their country was led by their youngsters and Somalia was not an exception. 66 years ago its youth came together to get rid of the colonial rulers from their country. Can today’s young generations play similar role? What will be the consequences of not acting? ...Read more
The Somalia syndrome
This poor country keeps taking one blow after another," Peter Goossens observed two months ago in an interview with The New York Times' Jeffrey Gettleman. "Ultimately, it will break." The country is Somalia, and Goossens directs the World Food Programme, which is now feeding some 1.2 million people there, 15 per cent of the population.Read more
