Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
NAIROBI — When Virginio Bresolin passed away recently in Merka, a coastal Somali city run by Al Qaeda-inspired rebels, so did the last of a generation of Italians who emigrated under Mussolini.
He worked as a blacksmith, spoke fluent Somali and rusty Italian, and few people noticed when he died.
Fifty years after independence, [...]
February 9, 2010
“The trouble with Somalia- the violence-wracked Horn of Africa nation, basically revolves around the raging leadership row.
It is both pathetic and unfortunate that for the last 19 years, leaders in Somalia, in a vicious cycle of events, have continually been imposed on the citizenry by the superpowers, a situation that has not only [...]
25th January 2010
The Council adopted the following conclusions:
“The Council remained concerned about the situation in Somalia and its regional implications, recalling its 27 July Conclusions. It expressed its continued full support to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia.
It stressed the need for the full implementation of the Djibouti Agreement (19 August 2008). The [...]
By: James Dickson
annarbor.com
Water insecurity is a particularly serious problem in the Puntland region of Somalia, where the nearest water source is about 40 miles away – roughly the distance between Ann Arbor and Detroit.
The people of Puntland have to travel the distance by foot, oftentimes with their children and the family’s cattle.
Last year, Ann Arbor’s [...]
by Abukar Arman
The stakes are much higher than ever before. And, despite the negative reports that dominate the news and thus perpetuate the sense of hopelessness, voices of reason are becoming more audible against the current senseless violence, chaos and extremism. More and more Somalis are coming to realize that the path ahead leads nowhere [...]
