Farmaajo: We Have No One Else to Blame

I read your article on Foreign Policy with keen eyes and interest. While whining from public officials does not deserve response from any sensible citizen of the Republic of Somalia, I felt compelled to counter false narrative with more objective analysis. 

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The Truth About Somali Piracy by Nuruddin Farah

The Truth About Somali Piracy by Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah - A BBC caption for a story about the Danish hostages just released by Somali pirates reads that “instability in Somalia has allowed piracy to flourish.”

K’naan returns from Somalia with hope rather than despair - Video

K’naan returns from Somalia with hope rather than despair - Video

It’s difficult for the Somali-Canadian hip-hop artist K’naan to precisely express his ambivalence about charity and need, and so, after struggling with his thoughts, he tells this story instead.

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi persecute dissidents

CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi persecute dissidents

Tripoli (Keydmedia) - Documents found at the abandoned office of Libya’s former spymaster appear to provide new details of the close relations the Central Intelligence Agency shared with the Libyan intelligence service — most notably suggesting that the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite that country’s reputation for torture.

Scratch My Back, Too

Scratch My Back, Too

Columbus (Keydmedia) - Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is lobbying to win a five presidential term after the current one is over next August 2011. It could prove a hard sale in a grey political scene in Somalia, but is a doable hurdle, especially when an ambitious politician is sitting on containers of USD cash money to buy his position. What are the political chips that Sherif Ahmed is basing on his political comeback theory?

Somalia: The Wealthy Group Thrives On Starving Population - Scandal!

Somalia: The Wealthy Group Thrives On Starving Population - Scandal!

Virginia (Keydmedia) - Eight Somali businessmen said they bought food from the Contractor - On August 16, 2011, Katherine Houreld of AP has uncovered how relief aid is stolen in big scale in Mogadishu, and perhaps being plundered as early as 1992.

Bancroft Global Development, U.S. Group, Advises African Troops In Somalia

Bancroft Global Development, U.S. Group, Advises African Troops In Somalia

MOGADISHU (Keydmedia) — On the front lines of Mogadishu's streets, Islamist militants battle African Union troops. Standing alongside the peacekeepers are members of an American-run team of advisers, former military men who play a little-known but key role in the war against Al-Shabab.

A DIVIDED TFG & the Polarizing Role of Dr. Augustine Mahiga (Part 1)

A DIVIDED TFG & the Polarizing Role of Dr. Augustine Mahiga (Part 1)

By Prof. Mohamoud Iman Adan- Virginia, USA - The current TFG political machinery is shaky and its incumbents are divided and ever in disarray since its inception in 2008, an inner-conflict presided by President Sherif Ahmed and Sherif Sheikh Adan.

Preparatory Committee calls for National Conference to be as inclusive as possible

Preparatory Committee calls for National Conference to be as inclusive as possible

PRESS RELEASE - Nairobi, 20 June 2011 – The Preparatory Committee for the forthcoming National Conference on Ending the Transition held a fifth round of discussions on Monday. The Committee, which includes representatives from the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), the Governments of Puntland and Galmudug, the African Union, IGAD and the United Nations is responsible for making arrangements for the National Conference.

Fixing the Transitional Process for Somalia (2000-2011) by Ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Abdisalam Adan

Fixing the Transitional Process for Somalia (2000-2011) by Ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Abdisalam Adan

Mogadishu (Keydmedia) - Fixing the Transitional Process for Somalia (2000-2011) - Assessing the Structural Limitations that undermine the transitional institutions and proposals for resolving

Keydmedia Exclusive: Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga on the Offensive

Keydmedia Exclusive: Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga on the Offensive

Kampala (Keydmedia) - The positive popular revolution taking place in Mogadishu is the undoing of Kampala Accord, as well as the UN mingling in the internal affairs of Somalia. The unforeseen political development is not the interest of President Muzeveni, President Meles Zenawi, and certainly it is not in the interest of Sheriff Hassan Sheikh Aden, the Speaker of the Parliament.

Ethiopian Deception & The Ignorance of The Somali Leaders

Ethiopian Deception & The Ignorance of The Somali Leaders

London (Keydmedia) - I have written this article in 2003 at a time Ethiopia hijacked the Somali affairs. My Somali Bothers and Sisters can you think about and relate this what is happening today in Somalia.