Tonight is the first night of Chanukah. Modern celebrants (including Senator Hatch) focus on the miracle of the Menorah, which tradition tells us sta...
"I'm not going anywhere. I prefer to die in my house", Abdilahi Ahmed Ali, a drought-affected herdsman in Somaliland ************************** The...
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: A New Strategy for Afghanistan SI Analysis: US President Obama announces a new strategy for Afghanistan t...
Muhammed interrupted me by pounding the ground, laughing out loud and exchanging a few words with Seleban Yussuf , the village's elder sitting next to...
Only two countries in the world have failed to ratify The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia and the United States, which drafted more of its provisions than any other government.
Why do they call Mogadishu grainy, ugly and hellish? It is a difficult place, where war is tattooed on hands and tongues, but you have to have loved a place to see its true colors.
The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.
Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.
Can lawless Somalia be governed by Shariah? It depends! The Somali people are desperate for a government and indeed a system of governance that they can invest their trust in.
This Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs
Somalia's civil war constitutes a danger to the whole region, but it is not the only cause of instability. How far will chaos spread, and what is the appropriate US policy response?
The week's top stories in foreign affairs: Redirecting Missile Defense SI Analysis: The Obama administration announces that it is scraping plans fo...
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Osama bin Laden's lame 9/11 message and Barack Obama's lethal approach in Somalia raise a central question: Are we not in fact much closer to achieving our central goal in Afghanistan than most imagine?
An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.
What kind of language should American bloggers use in writing on foreign affairs, particularly regarding combat zones like Afghanistan and Somalia?
Secretary Clinton's meeting with Ahmed in Kenya in August, and the increased aid she offered to Somalia, conveyed substantial US support for Ahmed's government. Yet his position is still uncertain.
International aid agencies predict this winter may bring the worst food crisis to Ethiopia since the infamous famine of 1984-85.
There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.
Westerners must do more than sympathize with Africans. We must seek to understand the causes of their predicaments: a deadly intersection of climate change, war, and displacement.
We ignore Africa at our peril. The African continent will only become more important in the future, and the whole world has a stake in what happens there.
