Torrential rains causing intense floods devastated and displaced thousands of Canadians in the province of Alberta in June 2013 and the Southern parts of the province suffered the most devastation. The effects of the devastation are still lingering. Alberta is Canada’s fourth largest province with a population of 3,645,257 people and a land totaling 661,190 …
Jidwaaq community is entitled to demand its rights and denounce what is happening in Jigjiga, capital City of Somalia region of Ethiopia. What is happening in Jigjiga is a systemic displacement, land grabs, arbitrary arrest and other atrocities of different forms, mostly aimed at the Jidwaaq community. In mid 2013, about 30 elders and intellectuals …
The survival and rights of a Somali clan that has traditionally been the gatekeeper of the Somali identity in Ethiopia’s Somali region must be protected if the region’s Somali clans aspire to preserve and invest in their collective wellbeing. The rights and survival of Jidwaaq clan (Abasguul, Bartire & Yabare) are currently at risk with …
At 72 years of age, poet Abdullahi Ma’allin Ahmed (Dhoodaan) recently died in Harar, Ethiopia. He was a renowned Somali poet with unrivaled talents and miraculous voice. He is considered to be one of the most outstanding Somali poets, albeit his contentious traits. Poet Dhoodaan would use his poems as a weapon whenever he felt …
With the advent of Somalia’s new federalism, Somalis should be allowed to put their regions in order and govern themselves, or else the country will revisit another dictatorship era. In the eyes of many people, Prime Minster Saacid’s visit to kismayo is anything but a sincere one, partly because his statements concerning what he saw …
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