09 May 2024
8:40
-273.2°C
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
By Mr. Mohamud M Uluso (KON) - After years of overlooking the real needs of the Somali people, it is significant change longed-for that Somalia’s statebuiling featured in the strategic agenda of the key actors of the International Community (IC), namely the G8 powers1 in their ministerial meeting held in London on April 11, 2013, under the UK Chairmanship.
Abdulkadir Osman “Aroma” - Recently I have read and gave cursory look at your book entitled “Clan cleansing in Somalia”, published 2013. As you said you had travelled and visited places like: Addis Ababa, Jigjig, Djibouti, Yemen, Nairobi, Netherlands as well as Rome & London, but never travelled to Somalia.
By Drs Fatuma Lamungu Nur - Since the independence of Somalia in 1960, Jubbaland regions became the target of all Somali invaders from other regions, and the neighbouring countries, creating chaos and one of the most complex crises in Somalia.
By Dr. Mohamud M Uluso - The Resolution 2093 adopted by the UN Security Council on March 6, 2013 endorses the long overdue partnership mission between the Federal Government of Somalia and the International Community for the peacebuilding and statebuilding of Somalia. The mission is ambitious, complex and treacherous but the right one.
Nairobi (KON) - Weapons still being bought and sold illegally in the Somali capital, despite government efforts to close down the trade.
By Mohamud M Uluso - Clan politics, rivalry and hatred have ruined the social bond, moral principles and trust among Somalis who share common language, culture, territory, history, and religion. Now, three political manifestations -secession, clan based federalism, and unitary decentralized political system- divide them and are obstacle to the recovery of the lost nation of Somalia.
Mogadishu, Somalia - Ali Hassan spends his day sitting in a former mosque, now a ramshackle shelter for drug users, idly staring at his cell phone as he waits for it to ring.
Nairobi (KON) - The recent execution in Somalia of a soldier convicted of rape and the detention of a journalist investigating sexual assault have given the traditionally taboo issue of gender-based violence an usual degree of prominence.
Less than two years ago, its capital was a war zone. No longer - Eighteen months ago, central Mogadishu was like an African Stalingrad. The heat may have been equatorial but everything else seemed strangely familiar: a dirty cat-and-mouse war, often fought hand to hand among the spectacularly bombed-out ruins of a once-thriving city centre.
Laila Ali - The sound of bullets that was once so common in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has been replaced by the noise of construction. New buildings and business are emerging from the carnage and lawlessness that pervaded the east African country for more than two decades.
By Laila Ali - Having fled violence in their home regions, Somali women remain at risk from sexual predators while in temporary homes.
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09 May 2024
8:40
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