Empowering our Community
[show_avatar email=11 align=left user_link=last_post show_name=true avatar_size=74] Taliyaha Sirdoonka iyo Nabad-sugidda Soomaaliya, Jen. C/raxmaan Maxamed Tuur-yare ayaa warbaahinta madaxa-banaan ugu baaqay inay wixii maanta ka dambeeya Al-shabaab ugu yeera... More »
One afternoon two years into my captivity, in a dirty villa, I sat up on the mattress and noticed that my guard had left the room. His rifle lay on a mat. I considered grabbing it. The pirates were holding me in Galkacyo, a regional capital in central Somalia.... More »
Mpeketoni, site of the massacre on Sunday of at least 56 people, was created in the 1960s by a large influx of Kikuyu who had been displaced from their land in Central Kenya during the State of Emergency in the 1950s. The coastal town in Lamu county, which wa... More »
Kinachosubiriwa ni kuwa na mipango thabiti ya kukikuza katika medani za ufundishaji shuleni, uandishi wa vitabu, matumizi yake katika vyombo vya habari kama redio, runinga na magazeti. Tunataka vyuo vya ualimu viwe na walimu waliobobea katika lugha na fasihi... More »
Xildhibaanada Baarlamaanka Federaalka ah ee Soomaaliya ayaa maanta lagu wadaa inay cod u qaadaan mooshinkii ka dhanka ahaa dhismaha Baarlamaanka Jubba oo muddo labo todobaad ka badan doodiisa ay taagneyd. Baarlamaanka ayaa kulmaya todobaad kadib markii uu dib ... More »
Mogadishu – At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of clashes in villages near Somalia’s border with Ethiopia, officials and traditional elders said Sunday. The sources said the clashes involved Somali clan militia and members o... More »
Raymond Marchand, President of Conoco Somalia 1. “Views of an Old Africa Hand.” Cable from US Embassy in Mogadishu to State Department Headquarters. 30 September 1990. Cable Number: Mogadishu 08487. Source: Freedom of Information Act release (2006-01-288) to K... More »
Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd., chaired by former U.K. Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, has proposed a deal with the Somali government that may grant it as much as 90 percent of the country’s prospective oil revenue. A draft production-sharing agreement... More »
Deegaan waxaa asaasay dhalinyaro aqoonyahanno ah oo dareemay mas’uuliyadda ka saraan waxbaridda Ubadka Soomaaliyeed. Dugsiga waxaa la asaasay 16 August 2006, Xilli ay Dalka ka jirtay baahida waxbarashada asaasiga ah, halkaasoo uu Bulshada Soomaaliyeed kula qay... More »
Xukuumadda Somaliland ayaa qoxooti Somali ah oo kasoo cararay dalka Yemen u diidday inay ka degaan Dekedda Magaalada Berbera kaddib markii ay dhawaan sheegtay inaysan qaabili doonin Qoxootiga Soomaaliya kasoo jeeda ee kasoo cararaya colaadaha Yemen. Doonida ay... More »
SOON AFTER JOINING al Shabaab, Ibrahim met the most famous American fighter in Somali history — a young U.S. citizen from Alabama, Omar Hammami, known in Somalia as Abu Mansour al Amriki. “He was a happy, young guy — typical Western,” Ibrahim recalls. Ibrahim ... More »
Post intervention civil war, pre UIC (1995-2005) Since then, the civil war has continued unabated. The smaller northern populations in Somaliland and Puntland have enjoyed relative stability, while elsewhere factions, militias and warlords have struggled to co... More »