The dramatic fall in the price of oil has had some unusual effects on the petro-economies of the Persian Gulf. Countries like Saudi Arabia have grown dependent on importing cheap foreign workers to do the jobs its citizens won’t. Now, traditional sources of domestic labor like South Asia have become uneconomical in straightened times. Saudis […]
Tag: Somalia
Somalis Become Victims of Al-Shabaab’s Violence Twice Over
The original article was posted on The Huffington Post on April 17, 2015. Following the murder of nearly 150 students in the Kenyan city of Garissa by the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, local leaders sought to lay the blame entirely at the feet of Kenya’s large Somali refugee population. The attacks of Al-Shabaab have been portrayed […]
Tears of Defiance, Resilience and Courage: Through It All, Somalia Will Rise
Op-ed by Hibaaq Osman, originally published online in The Huffington Post. Last week, I could only watch on television news as soldiers herded scores of my countrymen on to trucks like livestock, to be driven to detention centers. Women carrying babies struggled to climb onto the cumbersome vehicles, built not for carrying humans but […]