Abukar Arman, Somalia Correspondent
Abukar Arman is Somalia's Special Envoy to the United States, living in Ohio. Abukar writes about issues that affect Somalia and its people and the relationship between Somalia and the USA.
| Somalia and the Slippery Slope of Jubbaland | |
| Two contending men with heavily armed militias have each declared himself the 'President of Jubbaland' (and a third one has declared himself as the President of Wamoland.) | |
| 09:33 May 22, 2013 PST | |
| Somalia Conference and Rivalry of Civilizations | |
| Was this the result of collective amnesia, or was it a deliberate action articulated in a carefully crafted language? If I were a betting person, I'd go with the latter. | |
| 20:01 May 14, 2013 PST | |
| Terrorism and Mock Media | |
| It could be that these express narratives were not in any way intended for political or security expedience and that they were all evidence-based, but... | |
| 10:33 May 5, 2013 PST | |
| Somalia, US, And The Dual-Track Letdown | |
| Somalia in particular and the Horn of Africa in general are at such a volatile stage that any misstep - domestic or foreign - could only further exacerbate that perilous condition. | |
| 14:51 Aug 14, 2011 PST | |
| Peace, Security, and the Upshot of Political Subjugation | |
| IGAD was right in describing Somalia's still-raging political fire as a situation likely to pose a serious threat to the stability of the region and perhaps beyond. | |
| 03:42 Jul 10, 2010 PST | |
| The Muffled Screams of Gaza | |
| The mission was led by Judge Richard Goldstone, former member of the South African Constitutional Court and former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. | |
| 18:16 Jan 19, 2010 PST | |
| A New Paradigm for Engaging Somalia | |
| If there is any wisdom to be gained out of this young 21st century it has to do with the costly lesson that 'hard power' (mainly military, technological, and economic) alone cannot sustain peace or political influence. | |
| 12:19 Dec 31, 2009 PST | |
| Shariah in Lawless Somalia | |
| The Somali people are desperate for a government and indeed a system of governance (any for that matter) that they can invest their trust in; a system that protects them against injustices and guards their God-given right to life, to own property... | |
| 06:29 Oct 16, 2009 PST | |
| Institutional Islamophobia and the Politics of a Minor's Choice | |
| To these political predators, facts are elastic variables; they are inflated when they are available to support their cause and are conveniently fabricated when they are not. | |
| 05:14 Sep 14, 2009 PST | |
| Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion | |
| Starting with his inauguration speech in which he stressed on the importance of relaxing the defensive posture so that the demonization process could stop. | |
| 12:56 Aug 14, 2009 PST | |
| Somalia, Outside the Violence Box | |
| the Somali political problem is escalating into a new phase of violent struggle. And unless the current momentum is significantly slowed, a longer lasting much bloodier sectarian war is bound to replace the old ones. | |
| 10:29 Jul 8, 2009 PST | |
| The Neo-Islamists' March of Ignorance | |
| In the eighteen years since the collapse of the central government, fifteen official attempts were made to reconcile warring factions competing for power. All of which have failed. And now the Islamists who were the last hope to save this severely h | |
| 17:18 May 26, 2009 PST | |
| Piracy, Geopolitics, and Private Security | |
| To adequately understand the piracy situation would require context beyond the illegal activities. Albeit, in the past eight years, America and much of the world were inculcated with an ill-advised notion that context is obsolete and that the offici | |
| 04:47 Apr 29, 2009 PST | |
| Jihad Against The Abuse Of Jihad | |
| In light of the rampant extremism and militarism around the world, nothing proves more dangerous than the manipulative alteration of truth to reach certain political ends. | |
| 16:20 Mar 24, 2009 PST | |
| On The Menace of The Vanishing Somali Youth | |
| There is a glaring deficiency in this...everything is overblown out of proportion without having credible evidence to substantiate a transnational threat that. | |
| 16:36 Mar 3, 2009 PST | |
| Is 'Good Leadership' the Panacea that Somalia Needs? | |
| Good governance requires setting in motion the necessary process that allows good decisions and policies to be effectively framed and implemented as well as setting up an objective system of accountability. | |
| 10:18 Feb 6, 2009 PST | |
| Gaza: What 'Moral Clarity'? | |
| In his piece 'Moral Clarity in Gaza ' which appeared on Washington Post, Krauthammer has this callously offensive declaration to offer: 'Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. | |
| 10:54 Jan 12, 2009 PST | |
| The Belligerence of Oppression | |
| Whether or not President-elect Barack Obama would bring fresh ideas that can pave the way for lasting peace between Israel and Palestine is yet to be seen. | |
| 04:40 Dec 31, 2008 PST | |
| Somali Piracy and the Enchanting Water Circus | |
| These lucrative enterprises have steadily soared in the past two decades while Somalia was rapidly descending into a deadly spiral of anarchy. | |
| 03:23 Dec 1, 2008 PST | |
| Somalia: The Specter of Detrimental Trusteeship | |
| This is articulated in its National Security Policy and Strategy posted on the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Foreign Affairs website. | |
| 03:11 Nov 11, 2008 PST | |
| Somalia after the Ethiopian Occupation | |
| Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, failed US foreign policy... | |
| 11:36 Oct 27, 2008 PST | |
| Islamophobia Run Amok | |
| With few exceptions, gone are the days when the perpetrators of hate would march with banners explicitly expressing their bigoted perceptions and attitudes. | |
| 03:24 Sep 24, 2008 PST | |
| External Factors and the Prospect of Peace in Somalia | |
| No objective individual would disagree that the commonsensical approach to problem-solving is to first identify the problem, then tackle it at its source. | |
| 14:34 Aug 11, 2008 PST | |
| Islam In The Age of Extremism | |
| It is the impetus pushing lawlessness, gluttonous greed and downright disregarding of human rights. It is a massive boulder blocking the path to peace. | |
| 10:46 Apr 8, 2008 PST | |
| The Role of People of Conscience in Cultivating Peace and Preventing Human Rights Abuse | |
| The full text of a message (the Somali plight) delivered at the 5th Annual Martin Luther King Human Rights Forum held on Jan 17th, 2008 at the MLK Center in Atlanta, Georgia by Abukar Arman. | |
| 06:38 Feb 15, 2008 PST | |
| Engaging Somalia Via The Road Least Traveled | |
| Worsening conditions for the ailing nation of Somalia, costly quagmire for Ethiopia and political wild-goose chase that produced a new hotbed of Anti-Americanism in the Horn for the US. | |
| 04:36 Jan 7, 2008 PST | |
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