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by Mohamud Uluso Thursday, March 27, 2014 The post transitional Somali leaders elected in 2012 were entrusted with the special duty to lead a full-fledged state of Somalia with its sovereignty, unity, economic recovery, security, and institutional capacity restored and to conduct a free and fair national political election in 2016.   Despite the ongoing armed conflict and social and political fragmentation in the country, many Somalis wanted to believe in the possibility of realizing these clearly remote goals because of new international approach for supporting the failed states like Somalia. The diplomatic recognition of the United States was special a special opportunity to seize it. However, the fulfillment of statebuilding and political election in 2016 has immediately become an impossible dream for the convergence of at least four factors: 1. The hostile actions of Kenya and Ethiopia to practically deprive the federal government of leadership and relevan...

Cabdiraxmaan Cadami Bishii  August 2010 dhamaystirkii golaha wasiirrada ka dib Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyada Somaliland Md. Axmed Siilaanyo wuxuu magacaabay guddiyo (Commissions) cusub oo hor leh oo aan wax faa’iido ah u lahayn  qaranka, balse kaliya culays ku haya miisaniyadda kooban ee dalka, hase ahaatee bulshaddu waxay u riyaaqday ama loo bogay magacaabistii Guddida Tacliinta Sare oo dalku baahi weyn u qabay in la helo hay’ad si gaar ah ugu xilsaaran ilaalinta tayda Tacliinta Sare si aanay jaamacadaha Somaliland uga hoos marin heerka jaamacadaha dalalka dunida saddexaad. Muwaadin bal dhugo sheekadan gaaban: Guddoomiyihii hore ee Jaamacadda Hargeysa Md. Cabdi Haybe Cilmi wuxuu ka codsaday Jaamacadda Jomao Kenyatta inay ka damiinato aqoonsiga shahaadada Jaamacadda Hargeysa (accreditation). Si ay isaga hubiyaan in la dammaanad qaadi karo, waxay soo direen wefti ka kooban Shan professor, saddex bilood oo ay Hargeysa joogeen iyo baadhitaan qoto dheer ka dib w...

The Two Powers That Will Decide Ukraine's Fate -- and the Region's By Mitchell A. Orenstein   Putin and Merkel at a news conference in Berlin, November 26, 2010. (Pawel Kopczynski / Courtesy Reuters)   T he last few weeks have revealed some important truths about Europe. Prior to the crisis in Ukraine, most Americans and Western Europeans had become used to a Franco-German Europe. In this version of Europe, which was designed after Westabilize Ukraine. That will help Russia as it attempts to draw a sharp line between its values, culture, politics, and economy, and the West’s.  Thanks to Germany’s role as a key state in the European Union and its deep ties to Russia, it is the only country that could thwart or contain Russia’s grand geopolitical ambitions. It was particular...

The Invasion of Crimea and Putin's Political Future By Brian D. Taylor Graffiti in Moscow, March 3, 2012. (Pawel Kopczynski / Courtesy Reuters) R ussian President Vladimir Putin’s startling military takeover of Crimea in response to the February revolution in Kiev left Western leaders scrambling. Internationally, Putin seems the master grand strategist, just as he had after his successful effort in September 2013 to head off potential aerial strikes on Syria. At home, he appears equally in command, having ruled Russia for the last 15 years, with another ten years a distinct possibility. It would be a mistake, however, to overestimate Putin or Russia -- or to underestimate how badly his gambit in Ukraine could turn out for him. Finding a way out of this crisis requires an understanding both of why Putin instigated it and of how it will affect his rule. Putin’s thinking was on display in a March 4 press conference, his first public statem...

By Robert J. Burrowes March 19, 2014 -  Apart from having its physical needs met, the primary needs of children are for stimulus and attention. Children are genetically programmed to move about to explore their world and to focus their attention on an endless succession of natural phenomena which stimulates their emotional, intellectual and physical development. However, if you confine a child in a pram, pusher, basinet, cot or any other 'imprisoned' space, and particularly if you leave it inside a house or other building (devoid of natural stimuli such as sun, wind, rain, rocks, sticks, leaves, earth, sights, sounds and smells), the child is denied a natural range of movement and the environmental stimuli it needs for its development, including the development of its capacity to become self-reliant. See ...

By Jacob G. Hornberger March 21, 2014 - " FFF "- -  As English colonists living in America understood, living under an empire is not a pleasant experience. Empire officials are inevitably arrogant, pretentious, pompous, haughty, big-headed, insufferable type of people. They believe that others should bow down them, pay them homage, and behave subserviently to them. American colonists, of course, haven’t been the only ones who have had to suffer under the dominion of imperialist officials. Generations of people in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia have had to live under the insufferable rule of officials in the French Empire and British Empire. And now we have the U.S. Empire, whose officials have proven to be no different in how they treat people around the world. Like other empires in...

March 20, 2014 By Liban Ahmad The coup d’état that brought Siyad Barre into power in 1969 is called ‘ a bloodless revolution’. But his ouster was a bloodbath as a result of the violent war waged by armed opposition groups and the indiscriminate killings of civilians after state collapse. Some armed opposition groups took a leaf from the military dictatorship’s book and used large-scale violence against particular groups of civilians in the hope of trying to dominate the state. This is the core argument of Professor Lidwien Kapteijns, whose book, Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 , was reviewed by Mohamed Haji Ingiriis in two 2013 publications. Ingiriis’ first review appeared in the autumn issue of the non-academic Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society ; the second in the winter issue of Africa Today . Apart from the name-calling that says more about the reviewer than the book’s author, Ingiriis asserts that Professor Kapteijns was biased in the...

As a result of decades of exploitation, the Somali people are sick and tired of always being the expendable pawn.   Ethiopian-led AMISOM, together with the Somali government forces, have captured several strategic towns previously ruled by al-Shabab, writes Arman [AFP] Abukar Arman Thursday, March 20, 2014 From the outset, let me make one thing clear: Al-Shabab and its extremist world view is neither constructive nor sustainable. This extremist neo-Islamist group represents one of two nihilistic worldviews that dominated the 21st century political discourse - global (dysfunctional) jihadism and global war on terrorism. Both, due to their applied mantra - with hammer, all problems are solvable - are destined to self-destruct. What has been happening in Somalia is not entirely devoid of that mindset that justified senseless violence across the globe in recent years. In recent weeks, Ethiopian-led AMISOM , together with the Somali government fo...