China Daily: Stark reality in a Somali community
According to the US-based Foreign Policy magazine`s last three annual indexes, Somalia has not had a functioning central gov`t since civil war broke out in 1991...
UN official welcomes anti-piracy force; questions remain
Ten years ago, Puntland government hired a British security company, Hart Security, to train a coast guard in a program that was ultimately unsuccessful. Some analysts believe graduates of the course deserted and became pirates...
Gbagbo sworn in as Ivory Coast president
Alassane Ouatara is “the legitimate winner” of presidential elections in Ivory Coast, EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Saturday as outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo was sworn in despite international rejection...
Which Way to the Sea, Please?
Biyokulule Online is pleased to present to its esteemed readers one of the best works of Somalia`s distinguished writer Nuraddin Farah...
Last Poets Sing of a Country on the Brink
Many Somalis despair that poetry has been “banished into the wilderness by the AK-47. The grim fact is that Somalia`s literary death tops its political demise”...
Bad for America, good for East Africa
A June 2010 report by the environmental watchdog, Greenpeace, titled “The toxic ships: The Italian hub, the Mediterranean area and Africa”, traced the Mafia links to Somali toxic dumping...
UN Urges TFG to Complete Remaining Tasks
The Security Council urged the TFG to redouble its efforts on reconciliation and the completion of the constitution-making process...
US Diplomatic Leaks
Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information that could prove embarrassing to its allies ...
Saudi women forced to stay single by male guardians
Faced with a lifetime of being forced to remain single, an increasing number of Saudi women, many of them university graduates with good jobs, are going to court to dispute their fathers` refusal to sign off on their marriages....
A Somali teen, lured into `holy war`
“Bras are like creams to whiten skin. They are a trick. You should be normal,” he said. “That`s what it says in our religion.”...
Upcoming referenda “time bomb” for Sudan
Attempts to scuttle the referendums could result in a major civil war that would have far-reaching repercussions in the entire region...
Meles warns Egypt
Meles says, “I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story. I don`t think the Egyptians will be any different and I think they know that.”...
IGAD Deliberation
The 16th extra- ordinary session of IGAD assembly urges the TFIs, IGAD & the international community to examine & provide appropriate political options before the end of the Transitional period...
Yemen on the Brink
Yemen is a country on the brink. Military intervention by the West may be the only way to prevent a descent into chaos....
Column Views Causes of Rise of Political Islam
There are plenty of differing reasons behind the rise of political Islam, ranging from widespread discontent with institutionalized corruption to the attractiveness of an untested alternative with a solid Islamist rhetoric and legitimacy...
Sunday Telegraph: Dogs of war to take on pirates
British Government is in secret talks to send British mercenaries to Somalia to confront the pirates attacking commercial shipping and behind the kidnapping of Paul and Rachel Chandler...
Saudi Monarch’s Sickness Brings Succession Issue Forward
More than one of the sons of the founder King Abd-al-Aziz Al Sa`ud have expressed a wish to be named crown prince and each believes that he deserves it more than the others...
M/weynaha Mustaqbalka
Maahmaah ayaa oraneysa “Boqol-u-taliye Boqol ulood buu leeyahay”. Haddaba, waxaanu sugnaaba waa 2011, oo ah waqtiga la filayo in “boqol-u-taliyuhu” (The West) uu usha badalanayo ...
Mr (10 x 4) + 5 List
Last month, PM Farmajo uttered “I haven`t seen any place read 4.5 system in the new constitution, I believe it is a big issue that needs to be tackled - it can damage Somali people”. Probably, Farmajo meant that (4 x 10) + 5 ≠ 4.5....
Radio Bar-Kulan refuses to kowtow to Islamists
If you`re the organizers of Somalia`s newest radio station, you ignore the death threats and defy the bans. You broadcast plenty of music and soccer matches...
Commentary says Democracy spoils moral standards
Moral standards in Kabul have deteriorated to such an extent that couples can indulge in kissing in front of their community like in France & Dubai...
How to slaughter a digital sheep
Instead of sacrificing a real sheep, Turkish and Arab Muslims living in Germany sacrifice digital sheep - also called an electronic sheep...
Only Muslims Can Defeat
The simple reason why the West cannot defeat Al-Qaeda is that the battle is not essentially between West and Al-Qaeda...
War Saxaafadeed
War saxaafadeed ay soo saareen Beesha Tanade ayaa xusay in xukuumadda dalka aan lagu dhisin qaab gobollo ee uu yahay wax qeybsi beeleed...