Op-Ed

THE MOTHER OF ALL HYPOCRISIES

THE MOTHER OF ALL HYPOCRISIES
Making speeches about morality, democracy and human rights here in the west is as easy as slicing a pie, but honoring what is preached is a whole different ball game. The leaders of the Western world claim to be the sole custodians of democracy and human rights. In spite of everything [...]


Traditional Elders Call On Government Not To Disrupt The Election

Editorial – Rayale wages war against the Commission through his minsters
The distribution of voter registration cards enters its final phase as the process receives overwhelming public support. The opposition parties praised this crucial step of Somaliland’s democratization. The international community is behind it and the Diaspora Somalilanders congratulated the Electoral Commission for their remarkable achievements [...]


Election Time

Election Time
It is election Time; yes it is good to hear that we will have our long waited election. Did you make your mind and think on who you will give your vote too?? You should thing twice and look to who is running for this election first;


Signing the Code of Conduct is a Good Augury for Somaliland’s Presidential Polls

Signing the Code of Conduct is a Good Augury for Somaliland’s Presidential Polls 
 The much anticipated Presidential polls of Somaliland that had been repeatedly procrastinated by the failed and repugnant Riyale administration is finally seem to be afoot with the people of Somaliland are going to the polls in June next month to choose a new [...]


2009 Year in Review: In Depth News Analysis: Somaliland, World

2009 Year in Review: In Depth News Analysis: Somaliland, World
Top Two Themes
(1). Mr. Rayaale  resign now to save whatever is left of your tarnished name!
(2). Mr. Rayaale reverse the sale of the historical islands of “Saadin and Ceebat” now!


The West Let Rayale Off The Hook

The West Let Rayale Off The Hook; Now They Must Keep Him on a Tight Leash It is an indisputable fact that president Dahir Rayale Kahin would not have been in office today had it not been the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) brokered by western donor countries between the government and opposition parties.


“Somali’s in Khayelitsha and other informal settlements in South Africa are more worried about Survival and Xenophobia-but not terrorism” Saeed Furaa

Re: 2010 terror plot
“Somali’s in Khayelitsha and other informal settlements in South Africa are more worried about Survival and Xenophobia-but not terrorism” Saeed Furaa
 I respond to recent unconfirmed media reports that published allegations made by Prof Hussein Solomon, head of the International Institute of Islamic Studies in Pretoria discrediting the Somali Community in South Africa [...]


Remembrance Day for those who lost their lives for the sake of SL Independence

Somaliland is remembering the brave men and women who lost their lives in the struggle for independence and for the freedom and peace we are enjoying today. October 17th is worth remembering for many reasons.


Aging Men with Dirty Diapers

 
Ah, to be a little kid again with skinned knees that is easier to heal than broken heart.  In the golden years of childhood, we used to be ourselves and nobody else.   As kids we did things just for fun and to make us laugh.  Authenticity was an involuntary impulse in our veins. There were [...]


Political Brinkmanship: A Close Call for Somaliland

On 26th of September 2009, the ISG members met to discuss the implications of recent Agreement sponsored by the international community between the Somaliland parties and the subsequent historic  unanimous vote of the House of Elders on the 25th of Sept, 2009, to endorse it.