Somaliland, the unknown peaceful stabilized state in the Horn of Africa
In the name of Allah most gracious and most merciful, first, I would like to thank Allah for giving me this opportunity to write this essay and I ask him the conformity of reality, honest, transparency, and guiding to the path way. Second I would like to express my appreciation and recommendation to my people [...]
Draft Constitution challenges Somalia’s will for nationhood
The debate on the Constitution-Making Process in Somalia shifted to a perilous level after the international community demanded IGAD to submit the list of the critics –labeled “spoilers” of the peace process of Somalia for referral to the International Criminal Court and to the UN Security Council for incontestable harsh punishment. Compulsory acceptance or legitimate rejection with [...]
Draft Constitution: An instrument for balkanization and brutalization of Somalia
The people of Somalia face the looming dreadful reality of becoming a vanished nation/country because of the Draft Constitution soon to be rubber stamped through fraudulent political and legal process. As usual, the International Community and the media will join force to publicize the new constitution as a success story for Somalia. In contrast, the [...]
2012 Somali politics and the next internal and external patterns of conflicts
For the past 2 years Somali politics has entered in to a new area, and Somali tribal leaders and politician has not hesitated to proliferate versions of what it will be the end of Somalia ever having a centralized government, the return and 2012 being the heights of traditional rivalries between tribal groups, jihadist group, [...]
Repeat of 1884: Somalia leaders compete for foreign domination
The death of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, former President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) in Dubai, UAE on March 23, 2012 has sparked intense debate about his political legacy. Without doubt, president Yusuf left an indelible mark in the Somali history. Some would like to present him as a national hero, patriot, warrior, [...]
An odious affair: The UN in Somalia
The Somali people have suffered a great deal and are heading towards oblivion unless dramatic action is urgently taken. Somalia’s condition is the product of internal and external actors’ attempt to realise their respective political agendas. The cumulative effects of the military dictatorship, cold/terror warriors, faction leaders, warlords, client Somali regimes, Ethiopian and Kenyan invasions, [...]
Prospects of Dual Marriages in Muslim World
It is unfortunate, that many of Muslim men don’t give women’s rights. What I men are misunderstanding or intermingling the rights of human being and what is called happiness. Destroying the happiness of your sweet heart while your justification is I am fulfilling what creator said. Marriage is a common institution for whole the world, [...]
Somalia: Origin of the Crisis and perspectives for the Future
A speech given at the United Nations Association (Oxford Branch) My warmest greetings to you all. Let me at the outset express my gratitude to the President Professor Andrew Hurrell who gave me this rare opportunity to tell the story of my unjustly treated country and whose voice is and was never heard. The origin [...]
Somalia: After the London Conference
Download the report as PDF file The London Conference has no precedent in the amount of time and effort that the British government put into the subject of Somalia. The UK, remember, did not even provide troops for Operation Restore Hope (1992-5), offering only logistical support to UNOSOM II. Apart from the predictable flurry of [...]
The Enigma of the London Conference on Somalia
If there is any consensus on the nature and the outcome of the London Conference on Somalia – that brought together representatives of over 50 nations that included a number of Muslim nations – it must be the fact that it was a puzzling event that raised much speculation. Now that the fanfare has ended, [...]