WHILE the battle against the Al Shabaab militants is still be going on, East African countries seem to have already won a major war in Somalia — one they never set out to fight. At nearly all events held by AMISOM (the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia) and international organisations operating in Mogadishu, there […]
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Article That Annoyed Uganda’s ‘Great’ Revolutionary: In Somalia The UPDF Finally Found Its Freedom And Peace
When I returned from Somalia, I wrote this article that was published in Uganda’s main independent paper, Daily Monitor, on May 3, 2012 with the title “In Somalia The UPDF Finally Found Its Freedom And Peace”. I was afraid when I was writing the article that I had allowed myself to get sentimental and misty-eyed […]
Somalia Doesn’t Have To Fight To Conquer: Somalis Are Already Africa’s Small Kings And Queens
We are told that the 20-year madness and bloodletting in Somalia has been fuelled by clan turf wars, criminality, Islamic Jihad, piracy, and even national resistance against foreign powers (the USA, Ethiopia, African Union Peace Mission, and lately Kenya). A less talked-about driver for the conflict, is the desire to create a Greater Somalia; […]
