(2)Eritrean Independence: Is It Worth All the Sacrifice?
Listen By, Yosief Ghebrehiwet, Some readers are wondering what is it that I am trying to do with my latest article, “(I) Eritrean Independence: Is It Worth All the Sacrifice?” Am I trying to kill the very idea of “Eritrea”, however feeble my effort may be? Not at all! Some of the emails that I [...]
Opposition’s efforts to topple Somali Government must not succeed – Ban
Listen UN 23 July 2009 – Repeated attempts to overthrow Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are a source of deep concern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a new report, calling on the international community to continue its support for the struggling Horn of Africa nation.The spike in attacks by insurgents comes “at a time when [...]
Somali Gunmen Kidnap Foreign Aid Workers
Listen MOGADISHU - Somali gunmen kidnapped three foreign aid workers on Saturday in a raid on a Kenyan border town, then went back over the porous border into the Horn of Africa nation, officials and residents said. Cross-border raids are fairly common in the remote region, but usually involve cattle rustlers or gangs of robbers [...]
Donor Help Crucial As Health Situation Crumbles in South And Central Somalia-UN
Listen Jul. 16, 2009- Donor assistance is urgently needed as the health situation in southern and central Somalia, including its violence-wracked capital, Mogadishu, continues to deteriorate, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today. Violence in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation has impeded access to essential and life-saving health services, as well as to clean [...]
Do We Have Plan B in Somalia?
Listen editorial Jul. 15, 2009- Mogadishu is on fire. The radical Al-Shabaab rebels are closing in on the battered capital of Somalia. As a result, Ugandan soldiers who form the bulk of the African Union peace-keepers in the lawless horn of Africa country are in harm’s way. Three were reportedly killed last week, in addition [...]
A Vision For African Integration
Listen By Salah Abdi Sheikh* Part 2 African countries have failed individually and collectively as a regional block. The colonial experiment is dead; the creation of African states based on haphazard borders without the consent of communities and the creation of colonial borders has resulted in the biggest failure of any civilization ever. In December [...]
Kenyan Ex-Leader Says Don’t Look to Obama for Answers
Listen Former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi cautions Kenyans from putting excessive hope in U.S. President Barack Obama and says Kenyans should be focusing on finding local solutions to their problems. Mr. Moi’s remarks come on the heels of President Obama’s visit to the West African country of Ghana where he called on African leaders [...]
Dissolve the African States – Part 1
Listen By Salah Abdi Sheikh Africa is a concoction of states brought together by a colonial decree that haphazardly created states out of existing nations. The states were to govern a physical location created out of disparate tribes and clans with no common language, culture or interests. Large clans and small clans, pastoralists and farmers, [...]
Somalia, Outside the Violence Box
Listen Whether in Somalia or elsewhere, any attempt to tame religious extremism with violence leads to costly tragedies and disenchantments. And anyone who doubts this ought to simply reevaluate the miserable results of GWT — the global war on terrorism. So it goes without saying: a non-violent paradigm to solving problems is direly needed. And [...]