Blogging Somalia's Untold Stories with One Blog at a Time

The year 2007 was perhaps the harshest time to the millions of Somalis particularly those in Mogadishu who were already suffering from 16 years of unremitting chaos resulted by the civil war. In that year, the humanitarian crisis in Somalia has reached on a scale which was not seen since the early 1990s. For those of you, who might not remember the context and the crisis in the country at that time, let me give you a glimpse overview. In late 2006, the Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia under the pretext of protecting its own borders from the growing Islamic movements in Somalia, among them Islamic Courts Union (ICU) who controlled the capital city and much of the southern coastal parts of the country. The outbreak of the battel begun on 20 th December 2006 in Baidoa, the fourth largest town in Somalia located about 243km West Mogadishu. On 29 th December after series of deadly fighting the Ethiopian troops together with security forces of the transitional federal government ma

It might be difficult or unimaginable  for us to understand the evolution of social media and how it is affecting our way of life until we  look ten years back comparing how life was different from today’s picture. The globalization idea which might have been a simple theory over few decades ago is now practically happening in real. From posting pictures, live videos on Facebook and Instagram to tweeting 140 characters on twitter and snapping moments on Snapchat in anywhere and anytime in the world, there is no doubt that social media is now changing our lifestyle into a whole different level. For some people, it is was unimaginable and beyond their assumption at the beginning of the 21 st century that this was possible. Well, it happened. And just to be grateful for these gifts, let me start by thanking Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams who created the Twitter and the two genius entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Mike