Significance of the new Berbera port to global Britain

By Adil Dirie

Tariqah community: Socio-cultural and religious transformation
by Nasra Dahir Mohamed

Tariqah village in Sheikh, Somaliland was established in 1813 by Sheikh Adam Ahmed Iimaan, who was a student of Ahmed Ibnu Idris, a Moroccan scholar, Sufi and the founder of.....

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Reminiscences from Peace Corps Volunteers

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the young people of the United States: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country’. Under the leadership of Sargent Shriver the Peace Corps came into existence on 22 September 1961.

Thousands volunteered to serve, and from 1962 to 1978 nearly 500 Peace Corps Volunteers served in Somalia, mostly on two-year assignments. They worked in agriculture, in school construction, in medical fields, in education, and even in legal fields.

Overwhelmingly, these Volunteers agree that Somalia gave them more than they could ever have given Somalia.

In this issue of our journal we are pleased to publish the reminiscences of a few of these individuals.

October morning by Nick Kremer
The first thing I saw every morning was the broad expanse of the Indian Ocean. My third-floor apartment was in a building of unknown lineage in Shingani, one of Mogadishu’s older neighbourhoods. The whitewashed....

Koka-Kola by Jeanne d’Haem
Hunger comes and goes like the tide; you can forget about it for a while. Thirst is different; your throat aches, and you can’t think about anything else.....

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Overturning 500 years of habeas corpus precedents
by Martin R. Ganzglass

Unlike many other Peace Corps Volunteers in Somalia who were teachers, I served as a lawyer. Dr Paolo Contini, an Italian-born American citizen then employed by the.....

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Anglo-Somali Society

Significance of the new Berbera port to global Britain

Tariqah community: Socio-cultural and religious transformation by Nasra Dahir Mohamed

Reminiscences from Peace Corps Volunteers

October morning by Nick KremerThe first thing I saw every morning was the broad expanse of the Indian Ocean. My third-floor apartment was in a building of unknown lineage in Shingani, one of Mogadishu’s older neighbourhoods. The whitewashed....

Koka-Kola by Jeanne d’Haem Hunger comes and goes like the tide; you can forget about it for a while. Thirst is different; your throat aches, and you can’t think about anything else..... Download the full article here!

Overturning 500 years of habeas corpus precedents by Martin R. Ganzglass

Tariqah community: Socio-cultural and religious transformation
by Nasra Dahir Mohamed

October morning by Nick Kremer
The first thing I saw every morning was the broad expanse of the Indian Ocean. My third-floor apartment was in a building of unknown lineage in Shingani, one of Mogadishu’s older neighbourhoods. The whitewashed....

Koka-Kola by Jeanne d’Haem
Hunger comes and goes like the tide; you can forget about it for a while. Thirst is different; your throat aches, and you can’t think about anything else.....

Download the full article here!

Overturning 500 years of habeas corpus precedents
by Martin R. Ganzglass