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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.
These brothers will compete in the Best Short Film category for their film Asad which was written and directed by acclaimed American commercials director Bryan Buckley of Hungry Man, Asad is set in a war-torn fishing village in Somalia and follows a 12-year-old boy who must decide between falling into the pirate life and rising above it to become an honest fisherman.
By MEGAN BURKS - The United States officially recognized the Somali government last month for the first time since 1991, alerting Somali refugees in City Heights and throughout the world their homeland is making a comeback.
By James Reinl - The shopping malls and market stands of a Somali-dominated suburb in eastern Nairobi have been quieter than usual.
The country recently has shown enough positive movement that the Obama administration recognized Somalia's government for the first time in more than two decades
London (KON) - Khat, a stimulant drug, is chewed by around 90,000 people in the east African and Yemeni communities in the UK. But now the Home Office is considering banning the substance. Jamal Osman finds out why.
17 January 2013U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEOffice of the SpokespersonJanuary 17, 2013REMARKSSecretary of State Hillary Rodham ClintonAnd President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh MohamudAfter Their MeetingJanuary 17, 2013Treaty RoomWashington, D.C.
By Mr. Mohamud M Uluso - Consistent with his unfailing mission to speak for the best interest of the failed, fragmented and powerless Somalia, Professor Michael Weinstein of Perdue University, Indiana, USA has tried one more time to reason with the Somali Elite and the International Community (donor/powers) about the main problem hobbling the Provisional Federal Government (PFG) of Somalia as its predecessors through his analysis published on December 29, 2012.
By Malkhadir M Muhumed - Only a day after Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was sworn into office, the stark reality of his country dawned on him: Army commanders told him “they can’t rule out the possibility of security forces moving out of their bases to rob the public and businesses” in the capital because they were not paid for five months. Nor did they receive rations for three months.
Kenya and Ethiopia Insist Arranging Local Administrations in Somalia - By Abdi Dirshe - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the regional organization for East African countries that include, among others, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, has recently published an unsigned and troubling Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which indicates that the new government of Somalia is allowing Kenya and Ethiopia to oversee the “political and administrative arrangements in South-central Somalia". Ethiopia claims that this MOU was signed by a Somali General, Mohamed Sheikh Hassan, authorized by the Somali Prime Minister.
By K'naan - HERE is a story about fame. I heard it first as a fable in Somalia, before living it out in America.
London (KON) - Once, he spent time playing computer games and eating curry. So how did Mo Farah become a man driven enough to win double gold at the Olympics?
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20 April 2024
7:48
29 September 2022
