‘A jail you have to pay to stay in’ - Mail & Guardian Online

 Safia (17) has never been to Somalia. She has lived in South Africa all her life and says “I feel more South African than Somalian,” in a broad Joburg accent. She has lots of friends, but this doesn’t mean she is entirely accepted — and her “otherness” is often used to exclude her. …Read more

Somali Intellectuals Rebuke Ethiopian Attack against

I believe it is totally unacceptable that a UN Conference takes places with focus on one member state in trouble, and at the same time another UN member state carries out an attack against the Conference-focused member state, without the UN, the hosting country (Turkey), and the Conference participants (who hypothetically represent the focused-state) having anything to say.

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Istanbul Conference on Somalia Failed to Denounce IGAD, Fake Ethiopia, Puntland, Somaliland as Pest

The Istanbul Conference on Somalia (21 to 23 May) proved to be another ludicrous, yet expensive theatrical act that the insensitive international community of misrepresented and non-represented nations (UN) staged as an expression of revenge and rancor in front of the eyes of the shocked Somalis. …Read more

Somalia. Overwhelming Rejection of TFG, Puntland, Somaliland and the CIA-controlled Shabaab

Political commentary, criticism and analysis can be elaborated at three levels, namely local, regional, and global. A few days ago, I noticed a convincing criticism of the TFG failure, composed by a young and shrewd Somali commentator and political analyst, Mr. Nasr Ibn Othman. Even more convincing is Mr. Othman´s earlier critique of the pathetic Puntland administration. …Read more

Drifting towards Extremism?

They say Muslims must adopt democracy, one man, one vote, and yet, when Muslims vote and chose their leaders in a democratic way, the west says, no…no…no, we cannot accept that, because you did not elect our candidates but voted for someone we do not like! And what is that? Is the whole democracy talking just a mockery?

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OHRC, Ogaden Denounce Racism in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia): No Elections with Political Detainees

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

May 20, 2010

 The forthcoming farcical elections in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) received another blow today, when the Ogaden Human Rights Committee (OHRC) issued a press release to highlight the dramatic situation that prevails in Ogaden and to underscore the fact that real elections anytime anywhere mean no political detainees at all. I therefore republish the integral text of the Press Release, adding related info about the OHRC and the historical background of the Ogaden Genocide.

Ethiopia Should Release Unconditionally All Political Prisoners in the Ogaden

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Europe’s Latest Anti-African Bias: Euro 49 bn for 1 bn Africans vs. Euro 110 bn for 11 m Greeks

 May 2, 2010 proved to be another spectacular landmark for the anti-African policy-making of the European Union. The unfortunate event highly illustrates the colonial and racist nature of the 27-nation club. However, one must admit that most of the European countries are devoid of Anti-African prejudices and policies, except for their misperception of the World and African History, which again should not be attributed to them, because most of them followed the track of Anglo-French Orientalist and Africanologist pioneers in falsification.

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For the Oromos, it´s Now or Never!

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
May 01, 2010

 I received many mails and letters of different contents, following my recent article “Without a Correct Vision of Today´s World, Oromos Cannot Bring Forth an Independent Oromia” (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/without-a-correct-vision-of-todays-world-oromos-cannot-bring-forth-an-independent-oromia.html).

In the aforementioned article, I enumerated several points of disastrous misperception of our world that put obstacles in the Oromos´ path for national liberation; I stressed the point that, in a global world, “the entire global community has to be taken into account “by the every group struggling for national independence”.

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The Al-Shabab Horror

For Somalis caught between Islamists and weak government, fleeing is only option.
By Sudarsan Raghavan

Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, April 17, 2010

IFO, KENYA — Two Islamist militants delivered an ultimatum to Zahra Allawi’s daughters: marry them or die. The men were from al-Shabab, a militia linked to al-Qaeda that is fighting Somalia’s U.S.-backed government. The two girls were 14 and 16.
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UN sponsored Euro-American bounty hunters on the loose in Somalia

In the first killing of its kind, private security contractors shot dead a Somali pirate in a clash that left two skiffs riddled with bullet holes, officials said March 24.
But who determins who is a pirate and who is to be killed?
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