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Ahmed I. Samatar
James Wallace Professor of International Studies and Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship, Macalester College, St. Paul, Mn. USA.

He is as distinguished as any Somali of national accomplishment. Still tall with a straight back, the gait strong, the mind in full alert, the greatest living Somali master of the oud (kaman), Ahmed Ismail Hussein, Hodeide, is now nearly eighty.


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Cabdillaahi Cawed Cige, Liverpool UK edleh@hotmail.com Dukaankaygu sow nabadda ma iibiyo?
Maalintii la ii keenay waxa aan mooday in ay miridh kasta wax noqon karto. Waxa la iigu dhiibay kartuush si cad loogu muujiyay ‘Walax jabi og, fadlan dhankan u taag’. Tabtii la iigu sheegay, ee aan farriinta meesha ku qoranna ka akhriyay ayaan kartuushkii u qotomiyay. Read More...

A. M. Yusuf | wayeel@operamail.com


Walaal, kaalmee agoonta!
Sheekadan waxa qoray wiil yaraa ee agoon ahaan jiray. Waxa loo hibeyn, lagu na maamuusi agoonta Soomaaliyeed.
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By: Sultan Mohamed Sultan Garyare

Somalia is located on the Horn of Africa, with an estimated population of between 9 and 10.5 millions. After 17 years and many attempts to restore governance since the overthrow of Siad Barre’s regime in 1991, Somalia has had puppet government backed by Ethiopian troops for over three years but it is a weak government that cannot control the country, because it is incompetence and illegitimate.

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A. M. Yusuf | wayeel@operamail.com
sow inaan dhunkado ciidda taan dhaxashadaa maaha? sow dhuuxa ubadkii ku jiray tuu dhursugo maaha? sow waxa dhalaan loo korshaa dhaqan rugeed maaha?… dhexdayada ninkii soo galaa ee dhibo ka doonaaya ee dhaan shisheeyaad wataa sow ku dhiman maayo? dhudhub oodan kii kula damca ee bohosha dheereeya isna kuu dhegoolaynayaa sow ku dhici maayo?…
Bamfas, Cali Xasan: Dhambaal

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A. M. Yusuf | wayeel@operamail.com

Duur looma jabin geesigii dirirta waynaaye
Kun kaloo ciyaar lagu dilay iyo dawgal baa jiray
Oon deer deero u hardiyin sida dugaaggiiye...
Wax badan baa karbaash lagu dirqiyey duq iyo wiilkiine
Nin garkii camuud loo daray oo dabada loo xayday
Oo ulo dubka iyo jiirka suga lagu daliigaayo
Oo kuman dadkiisii ahaa daawasho u joogto
Oo aan la diirine farxaan lala dareeraayo
Waa dabac idiin gooniya oon duulna waafaqin
Afqallooc: Sheekh Bashiir
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Maxaa Loogu Baahan Maansooyinka?
A. M. Yusuf | wayeel@opermail.com

"Wixii qooma aadmiga
Ee qabkiisa dhaawaca
Ayaa qeexi oo dhili
Oo sarbeeb ku kala qali"

Bashir Goth: Qudbigii Suugaanta

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The Ethiopian government’s human rights record remains poor, both within the country and in neighboring Somalia, where since early 2007 thousands of Ethiopian troops have been fighting an insurgency alongside the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.

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By Abdulkadir A. Mohamud (Jangali)

After a couple of fruitless attempts from IGAD and the Arab League to mediate between Transitional Federal Government and Union of Islamic Courts, the USA gave the final “GO” to Ethiopian troops to crush the UIC. On December 28th 2006, Ethiopian troops, backed by US warplanes, entered in Mogadishu.
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SOMALI CAUSE WARNS AGAINST ADDING MORE FUEL TO A RAGING FIRE. As Africa’s worst humanitarian crisis, the last that Somalia needs is another layer of political complexity; another reason to perpetuate violence and further fragment this failed state.

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By Jason McLure

Somalis living in Ethiopia are caught in the crossfire between the government and rebels.It was early one morning in July when 400 Ethiopian soldiers came to Ridwan Hassan Zahid's village of Qorile, 120 miles southeast of Degehebur, Ethiopia, a dusty market town. The small settlement of ethnic Somalis in eastern Ethiopia was suspected of supporting separatist rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), and the government troops were out to exact revenge.

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By Prof Amina Mire

Victory is near but with victory there is all too real potential that it could be stolen and that more misery could be ahead for our nation and people. The greatest danger at present facing our nation is the occupation forces of Meles Zinawi, the criminal warlords and the USA. Today, these are clearly marked existential enemies of Somalia.


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The Ethiopian occupation genocide has collapsed irretrievably onto itself in Somalia. The Resistance grows every day in lethality and mass appeal. Consequently, what is taking place now UN diplomatic circles and European capitals (as well as in Saudi Arabia) is largely a byproduct of and driven by a realistic US policy reassessment of the failed Ethiopian occupation of Somalia. Giving up on the Ethiopian regime it brought into Somalia 2006, the US in 2008 is moving towards securing its own vital strategic interests in Somalia through dialogue

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Despite Ahmed Dirie’s brief public service history, he accomplished what few other man achieved in all civilizations. Ahmed Dirie revived the ever diminish Somali-esteem and pride by standing up against a brutal enemy with unfettered support from the only supper power, United States of America. At first glance, Ahmed Dirie seemed a very fragile and naïve individual as he was not a heavy build/muscular and highly educated man.

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By. Dr. Omar N Mohamed
From the time Immemorial, The Ethiopian kings, (Menelik and Haile Selassie etc), the Marxist leader, Mengistu Haile Meriam and the TPLF leader –turned into Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi tenaciously sought to occupy the coastal areas of Somali and control the Somali tribes. They tend to have common views about the Somalis.

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By Lahra Smith
A reassessment of U.S. policy toward Ethiopia is very much in order. A year has passed since Ethiopia intervened in Somalia, and its troops are bogged down there in an ongoing low-intensity conflict that has created a grave humanitarian crisis.

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By Abdirizak Omar Mohamed
Surprisingly, it marks the first anniversary of Ethiopia’s illegal occupation of Somalia, and I write this piece in memory of those who were killed, looted and raped by this aggression of the unholy alliance of the Ethiopians and its TFG militias, everyone who died while resisting occupation is a martyr, and it is within every Somali’s god given right as well as under international laws to resist occupation and liberate your country from outside aggression.

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American foreign policy is the direct cause of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia - the worst in all of Africa, according to United Nations officials. That's why, until recent days, U.S. corporate media said little or nothing about the hundreds of thousands of Somalis - now numbering at least half a million - who face death by starvation and disease because of a war instigated and facilitated by Washington.

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Madaxii adeegayaasha Tigreega C/laahi Yusuf Axmed ayaa warar ku dhow dhow eheladiisu waxaa ay sheegayaan in xaaladdisa caafimaad ay si weyn uga dartay habeenkii xalay ka dib markii uu si lama filaan ah dhiig u matagay dabadeedna miir beelay.


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By Abdulkadir Abdirahman

It was this time last year when the Ethiopian invading troops marched into Somalia particularly the Capital, Mogadishu, with its 2.5 million populations in state of peace, but today the population has drastically dwindled to less than one million because of the mass killing, indiscriminate bombardments, prevalent rape and the massive displacements.

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