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Training the army that will either stabilize the country, or fail it. Tristan McConnell Somali National Army troops are trained by European Union soldiers in Jazeera, Mogadishu. (Tristan McConnell/GlobalPost)   QORYOOLEY, Somalia — In the end, it wasn’t clan militias or Islamic militants but a government soldier who killed Dr. Osman. Over his 54 years, the pharmacist had earned a reputation for fair dealing in business, kindness among friends, and piety in the mosque. A family man, he had survived Somalia’s clan wars and then kept his head down when the Islamic militants known as Al Shabaab overran his hometown in southern Somalia five years ago. A follower of a softer, mystical branch of Islam, he obeyed the ultraconservative occupiers’ harsh new rules — don’t smoke, don’t chew khat, pay the Islamic tax, go to the mosque five times a day without fail — and carried on. In February of this year,

Inta inoo muuqatay Kulmiye waxa uu ahaa mid ka mid ah saddexda Xisbi qaran ee Somaliland laakiin wuxuu ka kooban yahay xisbiyo yaryar iyo kooxo kala aragti duwan ama kala ujeedo ah kaliya waxay ku bahoobeen Umbrella-da Kulmiye . Markii ay mucaaridka ahaayeen heshiis waxay ku ahaayeen hal qodob oo qudha oo ahaa in si kasta oo suurto gal ah loo rido xukuumadii Daahir Rayaale sharci iyo sharci daraba. Xisbiyada yaryar iyo kooxaha kulmiye inkasta oo aanay wax badan isku wafaqsanayn hadana waxay leeyihiin dabeecado (Charateristics) isku mid ah waana arrimaha isku soo jiiday in ay meel ka wada duulaan, dhamaantood ma aaminsana dimuqraadiyada xataa xisbiga dhexdiisa waa dambi in la soo hadal qaado in lagu tartamo mansabyada qaar ka mid ah. Kulmiye mucaaridnimada waxa uu u yaqaanaa in maamulka la curyaamiyo iyo in lays hor taago mashruuc kasta oo ay dawladu wadato. Ma laha iyagu aragti siyaasadeed oo fog ma arkaan warna kama hayaan waxa ka socda caalamka, g

Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo 23 May 2014   After 23 years as an independent nation, Somaliland is still being denied recognition, says president Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo.

By Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo Posted  Saturday, May 17  2014 In Summary It is not the first time, of course, that our young country has asked the AU to take this momentous step. President Dahir Rayale Kahin, my predecessor, first applied in 2005. The African Union is proving, exactly as far-sighted as its architects hoped, a tremendous force for good for our continent. Year by year, its authority and influence is grows as it provides an indispensable platform for Africa to come together to address our many opportunities and challenges. As we look around our continent today, the need for the AU’s intervention – both in response to terrible emergencies [as we have seen in Nigeria] and to accelerate wider progress – has rarely been greater. So I am genuinely reluctant, on behalf of my country, to add to an already packed agenda. But I believe the AU should no longer put off recognising Somaliland as an independent country and full member. It is not

Abukar Arman Ambassador Abukar Arman is the former Somalia special envoy to the United States and a foreign policy analyst. AMISOM's forces have only complicated Somalia's security situation, argues Arman [Reuters]

Thursday, 08 May 2014 00:00     Written by Mohamed Bihi Yonis AS regional and global leaders gather for the World Economic Forum in Nigeria – Africa’s most successful economy – to discuss the necessity of inclusive growth, it is the less fortunate, the forgotten and the disenfranchised, which will rightly be at the centre of the debate. I – and all my fellow citizens - hope that time will be found at the Forum to discuss the extraordinary position of Somaliland, a country which has been forgotten by the global community.  Next Sunday, (May 18) our country will celebrate the 23rd anniversary of its declaration of independence. Yet despite fulfilling all the legal requirements to be recognised by the international community and the African Union, our country is still officially treated as an autonomous region of Somalia. This ignores both history and reality.    Somaliland and Somalia existed separately until 1960 when a disastrous but voluntary decision was ma