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Somalia is on the move. It is pushing for foreign investment, and large infrastructure projects are changing the face of its scarred capital city, Mogadishu. These developments could promise better fortunes for Somalis as the country emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic
Mohamud M Uluso —Despite the troubling silence of African, Islamic, and Western leaders about the Kenya government’s brutal human rights violations against the Somali community in Kenya for their ethnic background and about its unlawful military and diplomatic actions in Jubba regions of Somalia, a glimmer of hope emerged in April when two Nordic diplomats renewed a focus on peacebuilding and state-building in Somalia.
Djibouti (KON) - The legal case of a former CIA detainee suing the government of Djibouti for hosting the facility where he says he was detained could be helped by the contents of a still-classified Senate report.
ABDI LATIF EGA — Twitter is abuzz and Somalis are trending in Kenya, not for reasons of their own, but rather impositions beyond their capacity. There is quite a lot of outrage from all corners that Kenyans venture, from the passionately human to the average reactionary comments in “ full support” (“remove them”) of the state.
M. Iftin. H —Hundreds of ethnic Somalis living in Nairobi's Eastliegh neighborhood have been arrested following Monday attacks that killed six people in the Somali populated neighborhood.
Mohamud Uluso — The post transitional Somali leaders elected in 2012 were entrusted with the special duty to lead a full-fledged state of Somalia with its sovereignty, unity, economic recovery, security, and institutional capacity restored and to conduct a free and fair national political election in 2016.
Abdulkadir Mohamed Osman, “Abdiboqor” - The UN's Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG)'s latest 14-pages report said, "Arms for Somalia were diverted to militias and systematic abuse by officials happened after loosening of embargo has allowed diversion of weapons to armed groups including Al-Shabaab". The report also recommended the reinstating of the arms embargo on Somali.
Robleh Mohamud Lafcanbe — Recently, Universal TV aired a comedy sketch of President Silanyo in a show titled “Faaliyaha Qaranka”. Subsequently, the Minister of Information of Somaliland held a press conference condemning Universal’s actions and revoked their operating licence in Somaliland.
By Catherine L. Besteman - How do genocides end from the point of view of those most harmed? Often genocides only end when those targeted flee to a safe place. The best way to end a genocide may be to get those targeted out of harm’s way in a hurry.
Asad Hared - Towards the end of last year, I and many others across the world have seen inhumanly atrocities over Kabhanley attack.
Dr. Mohamed Ali-Nur Hagi - It is not simple to reconstruct easily public institutions in post-conflict situations, where human behavior enclaves the public welfares, holding in captivity outside the boundaries of what their constitution sanctions.
Mohamud M Uluso - Donor projects and practices are undoing the principles and goals of the New Deal for Somalia, a partnership Compact intended to consolidate the “national political settlement” spelled out in the “Provisional Constitution” as a foundation for the Somali State.
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