Opinion/Analysis

By Osman Sultan Ali The people of Eastern Somaliland face the severest drought in nearly 100 years. Their livestock have already been decimated. The inhabitants are starving and may soon die in large numbers unless a massive aid intervention is undertaken now. However, Mr. Hussein Abdi...

By: Sharmarke Abdi Musse The people of Somaliland from north to south have been encountering serious inflations. The dollar rate has reached unprecedented rate.The living conditions have been invariably inflated by the increase of dollar rates since the livelihood is based on Dollar currency. People are...

Why African photographers don't get to tell African photo stories in Western media. rites Jayawardane By:M Neelika Jayawardane @Sugarintheplum M Neelika Jayawardane is an Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York-Oswego. Whenever "Africa" is in the headline of mainstream US and European media sources,...

Why African photographers don't get to tell African photo stories in Western media. writes Jayawardane by":M Neelika Jayawardane @Sugarintheplum M Neelika Jayawardane is an Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York-Oswego. Whenever "Africa" is in the headline of mainstream US and European media sources,...

By:Kalkidan Yibeltal An analysis on what the rising ethnic nationalism among the historically powerful Amhara means for the country's future. Amba Giorgis, Ethiopia - Etenesh* sits alone on a worn cow skin in her mud-walled home in Amba Giorgis, a small Ethiopian market town in the...

By Bashir Goth Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar, 308 PP. Indiana University Press, 2016 “To hold a pen is to be at war.” --- Voltaire   Why I review this book As a firm believer in democratic principles and an...

Abdulahi Mohammed Duale Somaliland’s former foreign minister is a seasoned diplomat with  a real leadership experience. He is one of the longest serving cabinet ministers in Somaliland, he was a cabinet member for 17 years out of the 25 years Somaliland existed after regaining...

In the post-truth world, a far-right embrace of social media threatens the broadcasting of truth. t-elect Donald Trump used social media profusely during his electoral campaign By:Ahmed Al Sheikh Ahmed Al Sheikh is the former chief editor of Al Jazeera Arabic. In the social media era, everybody...

In May 1991, Somaliland emerged as a self-declared independent state in the aftermath of the failure and subsequent collapse of Siyad Barre’s Somalia. Although ethnically and linguistically Somalilanders are undistinguishable from their counterparts in Somalia, the republic of Somaliland has achieved an important distinction:...

By ABDILATIF ADAN Elections are always intense, starting from the campaign period to the balloting day, and so is Somalia’s indirect electoral process. The campaigns for various positions are underway in the capital Mogadishu and the various regional capitals. On the streets of Kismayo and...