At 72 years of age, poet Abdullahi Ma’allin Ahmed (Dhoodaan) recently died in Harar, Ethiopia. He was a renowned Somali poet with unrivaled talents and miraculous voice. He is considered to be one of the most outstanding Somali poets, albeit his contentious traits. Poet Dhoodaan would use his poems as a weapon whenever he felt …
With the advent of Somalia’s new federalism, Somalis should be allowed to put their regions in order and govern themselves, or else the country will revisit another dictatorship era. In the eyes of many people, Prime Minster Saacid’s visit to kismayo is anything but a sincere one, partly because his statements concerning what he saw …
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Journalists have the right to interview people, but they must be scrupulous about their news stories and abide by principles of journalism. In fact, the journalists research and write stories for local, regional, national and international media outlets, depending on their mandates and scope of work. Both broadcast and print journalists present events in the …
The election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud–who had been neither a seasoned politician nora popular figure prior to his debut–has astounded many political analysts and turned dreams of heavy weight presidential hopefuls’ upside-down, but the new president must stomach all hard circumstances that are ahead of him and lie in wait for him if he is quite committed …
Somali region’s former president is out, but don’t rejoice yet. What goes around comes around. The former president of the Somali region of Ethiopia was sacked and stripped off all positions he had held for the region, including an executive position, on 10 July 2010 based on a poor leadership performance over the course of …
