Somalia: Far from a failed state?
Somalia: Far from a failed state? With leaders from more than 50 countries and international organisations due to gather this week for the London Conference on Somalia, BBC Africa analyst…
RUNTA XIJAABKA
RUNTA XIJAABKA Hordhac Kahor Inta aan dooda la xariirta runta xijaabka guda galin waxan jeclahay in hordhacan aan kuxuso arimaha soo socda: Marka hore in diinta Rabiga tahay mid…
Somalia: Getting Somalia Wrong – Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State
BY MAGNUS TAYLOR BOOK REVIEW The next book in the African Arguments series is Getting Somalia Wrong by BBC journalist Mary Harper. It is a complex account of a country too often stereotyped by…
You lazy intellectual African Scum!
They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute,…
TIJAABO!!
Hormarka ummadaha waxaa sal iyo faracba u ah tijaabo ku dhisan aragti cilmi ah oo muddo dheer laga soo shaqeenayay. Waxyaabaha ay bulshooyinka tijaabiyaan waxaa ka mid ah, aragtiyo ka…
Dabarka maskaxda
Afeef Qoraalkani wuxuu hordhac u yahay dood haddii ay maskaxdu idanto lagu dhaqaajin doono qof kasta oo garan la’ meesha dadka soomaaliyeed ay kaga xiran yihiin xargaha adag, oo cid…
Suubban Yarey (Sheeko Gaaban)
Waa xilli abaar ah, roob barinka ka da’anawaxaa ugu danbaysay waqti hore. Dhammaan xoolaha iyo dadka waxaa ka muuqda diif daran. Xaaladda nololeed ee tuuladu waa mid aad u liidata,…
Three Ways to Do Something About Famine in Africa
This is a guest post by Majka Burhardt, the author of the recently released book Coffee Story Ethiopia. She describes herself as “an adventurer who believes difficult conversations can change…
Rape Epidemic: Somalia’s Other Crisis
The supposed sanctuary of Kenyan refugee camps can’t protect Somali women from the horrors of a growing rape epidemic. The three refugee camp sites built by the Kenyan government at…
In Somalia, new famine born of out of old failures
By Nuruddin Farah If the past is anything to go by, TVs the world over will show heart-wrenching pictures of malnourished Somali babies with distended kwashiorkor bellies; of flies feeding…