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It is Time to Move Beyond The 4.5 Formula and Nurture a Sense of Citizenship and Create Civic Government
By Daud Ed
Thursday, September 27, 2007
“society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.” – Thomas Paine “Common Sense”– Read the rest of this entry »
The literature you are about to read is divided in 4 parts. Its contents are based on facts and fictions. The players are the stakeholders of Somali politics and blights: Ethiopia, warlords, “fadhikudirir”, ICU and the rest of the world.
by Abdirizak Omar Mohamed
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The bogus clan reconciliation conference that was concluded in Mogadishu last month produced zilch results when taken into account the huge resources and efforts invested by the international donors. From the outset, major donors of the conference envisaged that the twice delayed clan conference would not yield positive outcome due to its ambiguity and flaws with respect to the framework for the reconciliation as well as the parties to be reconciled, yet the donors, mainly EU countries decide to fund the conference after they were pressured by the USA. However, in private many of the donor countries resisted funding such sham clan reconciliation; because conceptually they knew for a genuine reconciliation to take place the adversaries of the conflict should be brought to the negotiation table. Read the rest of this entry »
Badhan:- Wareegto cusub oo kasoo baxday xarunta madaxtooyada ee Maamul goboleedka Maakhir ee Soomaaliyeed ayaa lagu magcaabay masuuliyiin kala duwan oo isugu jira Agaasimayaal guud iyo Xoghayayaal qaarkood ay cusub yihiin, taasoo madaxweynuhu ku tilmaamay iney tahay dhammaystirka maamulka Maakhir, wixii hadda ka danbeeyana masuul kasta lagu dabo gelayo xilkiisa. Sii Akhri »
Buraan:Degmada Buraan ee Gobolka sanaag ayaa waxaa si wanaagsan uga da ay Roobabkii dayrta Todobaadkan gudihiisa waxaana roobabakaasi ay ahayeen kuwo lugu diirsaday oo si wanaagsan uga day Dhamaan Dhinacyada iy darfaha Degmadaasi Buraan,kaas oo dhamaan Bulshada Reer Buraan aad ugu riyaaqeen iyadoo Dadka Roobka Hilaadiyaa ay sheegeen in Roobkaasi uu u sii gudbya dhanka Miyiga ah. Sii Akhri»
As unity seems to emerge out of the Asmara meeting of hundreds of Somali delegates, vowed to keep infamous ‘Ethiopia’ out of Somalia, war erupts in other parts of the multi-divided Somalia. A tit-for-tat, good and bad news follow one another in a precipitating rhythm. Read the rest of this entry »
Badhan:- War goor dhoweyd soo gaaray wasaaradda warfaafinta ee Dawlad goboleedka Maakhir State oo ka soo baxay Xarunta Madaxtooyada Dawlad goboleedka Maakhir ayaa sheegaya in la magcaabay laba gobol oo ka mid ah Gobollada uu yeelan doono Maamul goboleedka cusubi, waxan qoraalka ku cad magacyada Gobolada la magcaabay, magaala madaxdooda, iyo masuuliyiinta maamuli doonta oo ay ka mid yihiin, guddoomiyayaasha gobollada iyo madax kale . Sii Akhri
by Avv. Abdurahman Hosh Jibril
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Asmara Gathering: “If the TFG negotiates with this rebel group,
it would set a uniquely immoral precedent by rewarding bad behavior”
The Asmara gatherings had all the fanfares of a political confab; the hotels, the number of the conference attendees, the political rhetoric emanating from leading figures, delivered with the solemnity of a religious sermon, not to mention the flag waving and chest thumbing of the attendees who have wrapped themselves with the Somali flag; A good party, yes, but below the radar, it is obvious that this gathering has already ended up in an abysmal failure for several reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Who really benefits from a weak Somalia?
By Ali H. Abdulla
April 17, 2006 — Balkanization refers to the division of a place or country into several small political units, often unfriendly to one another. The term balkanization comes from the name of the Balkan Peninsula, which was divided into several small nations in the early twentieth century.
Somalia fits the above description as a place inhabited by one race that shared a lot of the ingredients for the formation of a country. We can compare it to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that was united by King Abdul Aziz Bin Saud to become a modern state. Somali recorded history documents two similar unsuccessful attempts to get united as a country under one leadership. Both attempts were frustrated by foreign powers. Read the rest of this entry »
