By Mark Tran, The Guardian, London. The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today. The Senlis Council, which has strongly criticised US policy in Afghanistan in the past, is particularly scathing of the Bush administration's "abject policy failures" in Somalia. It said air strikes, support for Ethiopian troops that attacked Somalia last... Read Full Story
Paris court has charged six Somalis with taking a French luxury yacht’s crew hostage off Africa this month, officials say.The six were flown to Paris after being detained on Friday by French commandos in a helicopter raid, soon after the 30 hostages were released.The hostages - 22 French citizens, six Filipinos, a Cameroonian and a Ukrainian - were seized a week earlier.No passengers were aboard the Ponant at the time of the abduction. A senior legal source said Somali President Abdullahi... Read Full Story
By Nour Ali “Knowledge and wisdom are really the privilege of a faithful Muslim. If you have lost them, get them back even though you may have to get them from the apostates.” “That knowledge which remains only on your tongue is very superficial. The intrinsic value of knowledge is that you act upon it.” I am writing this article to express my opinion against the worst criminal self interest TFG Gov. Abdullahi Yusuf and Ghedi are genies among us or dumb and dumber. Somalia known as a Nation... Read Full Story
I'm surprised by the fact that the Bush Administration concedes that its policy on Somalia is failing. The Bush Administration now acknowledges that its approach to Somalia by suppoting Ethiopia to oust the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) was a miscaculation. In my opinion, this has come as a confession that the foreign policy of Mr. Bush is not based on facts but on fairy tales as far the war on terror is concerned. Bellow is an article on the situation by the East African Standard Newspaper... Read Full Story
This is why people find it difficult to donate, whether food or money or anything. There is never an assurance that our donations will arrive to its destination without being picked through, stolen, or denied. Apparently, in Somalia, a goodwill truck carrying food and supplies was stopped from coming into the country. The supplies have [...] Read Full Story
1970 Somalia was strongest country in whole Africa military wise and economic wise. It had failed since then. Today we are worth then in the past, because in the past we had a good political leadership which we more nationalism rather then being pubbet leaders who are serving other interest in Somalia. SYL showed the best leadership in Somalia. How come we not in engaging in dialogue among us since we all belong to one tribe which all the six major clans are related one to each other, one... Read Full Story
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