Saudi-Iranian relations
The Saudis declared that they are indirectly supporting the US military attack on Iran provided that these attacks would be limited to Iran`s nuclear facility...
Religion as Weapon
The exploitation of religion as a weapon is nothing new. This nauseous and heinous business of using religion as a weapon had emerged along with the kingship or monarchy within Islam...
Ethiopian opposition group castigates Meles
Meles has been sending to the international community that without his blessing and without his party`s control of power, Ethiopia will disintegrate and the Horn of Africa will be a safe haven for Al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism...
Puntland Begins Repatriating Ethiopian Migrants
Puntland have begun repatriating hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and 12 flights had been chartered, providing assistance in Bosasso and Ethiopia...
Somali refugees recruited to fight Islamists
The U.S.-backed TFG and its Kenyan allies have recruited hundreds of Somali refugees, including children, to fight in a war against al-Shabab...
Somali Phone hackers
A company was mistakenly charged about 100 million won ($86,000) in mid-October for having made thousands of calls to Somalia and the Maldives over a three-day period...
ElBaradei, the Next Egyptian President?
Mohamed ElBaradei`s campaign slogan resembles that of Barack Obama. He is on record stating that he is trying to build a consensus for change...
White supremacist hacked to death on his farm
Eugene Terre Blanche was found with head injuries, a machete on his body & a knob-headed stick nearby on his farm after an alleged dispute with the workers...
Africa Needs To Examine India`s Involvement in Continent
India is all set to follow China`s footprints into Africa through an India-Africa summits where it hopes to rediscover old relations and expand these into a growing partnership where the “unbroken marriage” will be turned into a “fresh honeymoon”...
Human Trafficking
“Human trafficking is increasing in Somaliland. Before, no one believed that human/child trafficking existed in Somaliland but such kinds of crimes occur here...”...
A Christian militia in America`s midst
People of virtually every religion have committed violence by framing political struggle in terms of good and evil...
AFRICOM and the USA`s Hidden Battle for Africa
The 2006 invasion of Somalia by the Ethiopian forces was clearly a proxy war, with AFRICOM providing the logistics allowing al-Shabab to claim a legitimate reason for its war...
Arabs Failing to Oust Unsuccessful Leaders
An Arab writer says: If an Arab leader is a failure who sits by the phone and waits for instructions from the United States, and who has been in power for decades, then the real failure is the people who do not know how to oust this failed leader suffocating them. ...
Strange Alliance at the U.S. Supreme Court
A peculiar coalition of defenders is urging reversal & insist that Samantar should be immune from suit. To hold otherwise, they warn, would violate international law...
Sheikh Sherif`s TFG: Thirteen Months On
Sheikh Sherif`s problems are internal & Many of his colleagues in the Islamic Courts now in the insurgency do not want him to be a successful president...
Doku Umarov`s Ideas
Umarov and his doctrine of the Caucasus emirate constitute the intention to take control of one-fourth of Russian Federation territory...
Text of Arab Summit`s Sirte Declaration
At the end of their 22 Summit in Sirte in Libya yesterday, Arab leaders urge all the Somali sides to abandon violence and fighting, adopt the method of dialog, and support the national reconciliation programs...
Nairobi: The refugee capital of Africa
Refugees from Somalia, Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan are migrating from the crowded, squalid camps in Kenya`s hinterland to Nairobi...
Radio Mogadishu
Whoever controls Mogadishu controls Radio Mogadishu, and now a weak but internationally recognized TGF that doesn`t even have a firm grip on the capital but is ensconced in the hilltop neighborhood where the station is located...
“Armenian Genocide” Debate
It`s that time of the year again, the time when we turn the clock back to 1915. Once again everyone is trying to force something down someone else`s proverbial throat by invoking “morality” and “historic facts.” ...
Qoyane market
Qoyane is a very old market located in a capital in East Africa – by Zahra J. Saleh...
An Interview with the New Al-Azhar Shaykh
The Shaykh downplayed the fatwa of prohibiting prayer in mosques, in which bodies are buried, & confirmed that prayer in mosques, which include graveyards, is permissible...
Gulf Press Downplays Arab Summit in Libya
“Most of these Arab summits have turned into ceremonious occasions that are more interested in decorations appearances than results & decisions”...
The Arab Summit
In the past, people used to call for holding an Arab summit when disasters strike, but now, Arab Summits themselves have become political disasters par excellence...
Camel-loving Saudis respond to cull of the wild
Saudi camel enthusiasts have mounted a “massive” internet campaign calling on their countrymen to bring the Australian animals to the desert kingdom...
Have a Nice World War
Here is news of the Third World War. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa...
Status Quo is Not an Option
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today said,“We are a quarter of the way into the second year of the TFG`s term and managing the status quo is not an option...
Border Dispute Between Saudi Arabia and UAE
Relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia are facing a new political crisis in addition to their dispute over the oil-rich fields of Al-Shaybah and Khur Al-Udayd...