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Professor Samater, I beg your pardon for the liberty I am taking by approaching you in submitting these few lines for your kind consideration. Sir, honest to God I am one of those Somalilanders who highly appreciate your arrival back at home to participate in the renaissance and rebuilding that shattered beloved homeland. And I believe much that you are a valuable asset to Somaliland, locally and internationally that will enhance and intensify the motion power of the wheel and wagon of reconciliation, peace, progress, development and democratization of our young State that is encountered with many obstacles and hindrance. But frankly speaking, lately I am not impressed by the first shot you strike towards the goal. Instead of narrowing the gap of difference and being the magnetic field to attract the expelling poles and regarded as a good – omen on the table of negotiation, you became a part of the dividing factors. My dear Professor Mr. Samater, the presidency post, the prim...

By Yusuf Deyr A winter thunder is rich man’s food, and a poor man’s hunger.  Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Beauty starts with a good letter of introduction.   Hargeisa is the umbilical – Cord of Somali Culture and literature.  The city and the capital of all Somalilanders.  The cradle of peace and love. The master and the nursery of all Arts and Fun.  The Holy – Temple of the Somali literature and the grassroots and the common dominator of the Somali Culture.  It  has a claim to fame to  all kinds of music, art, and fun, from Rap to Blues (  From Siinley and Deeley to Qaraami  ).   Expressed in lyrics of silky prose and verses, that has been drawn with well decorated charming irony and analogy. Impressive, honest, and genuine feelings of a touch of a true love, patriotism,  to express sadness, stress or depression,  mourning or condolence engrave...

There was a character in the history of Italy called Cola de Rienzo. He was a knowledgeable and eloquent person. He mesmerized all of Italy one time and everyone followed him. They chased the Barons out of Rome, and Cola was made the head of the country. Soon people got tired of his vanity, boastfulness and transgressions. People rebelled against him and the same mob that gave him the glory, captured him and torn him to pieces. I do not want that fate to happen to Ahmed Samatar. A man that I admired all my life. A great soccer player, a musician, a wonderful journalist and broadcaster and a formidable academician. Years ago I used to criticize Ahmed on his stand of maintaining the union with the south. (Read my article. Thousand Questions to Prof Ahmed Samater) . Now that is past and Ahmed is back to Somaliland , I welcome him again to the family and congratulate him on the superb job he is doing in soldiering for Somaliland and joining many others before him in the lines o...

By Andre Vltchek  February 26, 2016 - " Counterpunch " -   Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed to float on the surface is toothless, irrelevant and incomprehensible: a foolish outdated theoretical field for those few remaining intellectual snobs. Philosophy used to be the most precious crown jewel of human intellectual achievement. It stood at the vanguard of almost all fights for a better world. Gramsci was a philosopher, and so were Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho-Chi-Minh, Guevara, Castro, Frantz Fanon, Senghors, Cabral, Nyerere and Lumumba, to name just a few. To be a thinker, a philosopher, in ancient China, Japan or even in some parts of the West, was the most respected human ‘occupation’. In all ‘normally’ developing societies, knowledge has been valued much higher than material possessions or naked power. In ancient Greece and China,...

Somaliland: “That dream became a nightmare” Awil Ali Du’ale DE JORGE FERNANDEZ "Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn’t exist”, writes Ryszard Kapuncinsky in his introduction to The Shadow of the Sun. “What can I say about a country that I cannot find on the map of a continent that doesn’t exist?”, asks herself Hayat in the documentary. It is true that Somaliland had ceased to exist for a while such as we understand the existence of a state. In 1991 there was no government, no army or police, no hospital or a single school, no people and no animals. There were only scattered stones on a burnt out terrain. After the colonial period, Somalis had a dream; to unify all their clans under the same territory, the Greater Somalia that Mussolini had envisioned was to integrate British Somaliland, French Djibouti, Ogaden in Ethiopia and north eastern Kenya with Somalia ...

By Peter J. Schraeder The United States government should officially recognize the independence of Somaliland, a moderate Muslim democracy in the Horn of Africa.  Such an argument may seem counterintuitive at a time when tensions are rising in the region.  But I submit that it is precisely because of those rising tensions that it is time for the Bush administration to act, especially if it is truly serious about democracy promotion, counter-terrorism, and curtailing the spread of Islamic fundamentalism. Why does Somaliland deserve U.S. recognition? First and foremost, it is important to recollect that, after achieving independence from British colonial rule on June 26, 1960, Somaliland was duly recognized as a sovereign entity by the United Nations and thirty-five countries, including the United States.  Several days later, on July 1, the independent country of Somaliland voluntarily joined with its newly independent southern counterpart (the former UN Trust T...

Tuesday November 3, 2015 SOMALILAND, a slim slice of Somali-inhabited territory on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, ticks almost all the boxes of statehood. It has its own currency, a reasonably effective bureaucracy and a trained army and police force. The government, located in the capital city of Hargeisa, maintains a respectable degree of control over its territory: the country is, by and large, peaceful, in stark contrast to Somalia to the south—where bombings and a rampage through a popular hotel in the capital killed at least 14 people at the weekend. Somaliland enters into legal contracts (signing, for example, oil-exploration licenses with foreign corporations), and it engages in diplomatic operations with the United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union and nations such as Britain, America, and Denmark. But it has yet to receive official recognition from a single foreign government in the years since it declared independence in 1991. To the outside...