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Immunization is a success story for global health and development, saving millions of lives every year. Between 2010 and 2018, 23 million deaths were averted with measles vaccine alone, the number of infants vaccinated annually – more than 116 million,…
Weedhaha Af-Soomaaliga waxa badiba weheliya weedhtoosiye ama qurubweedheed (sentence particle) siiba kuwa wartebineed (declaratives). Qurubweedheedyada raaca weedhaha wartebined waa: 'baa' 'ayaa' 'waa' iyo 'weeye'. Weedhtoosiyaha 'ayaa/baa' waxa uu ka dambeeyaa oo la guuraa magaca iyo wixii raaca. Weedhtoosiyaha 'waa' se,…
Warsan Shire, a British national born of Somali parents in Kenya, and Nayyirah Waheed an African poet in the United States, through their poetry collections, Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth (2011) and Salt (2013), respectively, address the issues…
This paper examines how sustained public management reform impacts on quality of public service delivery in Somalia. It adopted a desk research methodology, which involves reviewing existing literature and collecting data from existing resources to study the research topic. The…
Throughout his fiction, essays, and interviews, Nuruddin Farah, who was declared “persona non grata” in 1976 by Siad Barre and who has returned to Somalia only a few times since then, elucidates the advantages of being in exile and its…
This paper examines the political themes in three collections of poetry by Abdirahman Gaileh Mirreh (1942-2000). Motivated by what he witnessed in his native Somalia, Mirreh's poetry is driven by his belief in democracy, freedom, and human rights. This paper…
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This paper examines three collections of poetry by Abdirahman Gaileh Mirreh (1942-2000). If anything, Mirreh can be described as a poet who uses his words to advance a more democratic, more just, simpler, and greener world, not just for humans…