WSSP Annual Conference to be held on Saturday 16th at UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre.

Asalamu calaikum to you all. Over the past year and half, WSSP has been engaged in an unprecedented experiment to mobilise the Somali people and get them to answer a simple question: will you assist in the post-conflict reconstruction of your country or sit on the sidelines and wait for others to do your work?

To all our members, supporters, ambassadors, activists and volunteers around the world, I greet you all with the Islamic greetings of peace, asalaamu calaikum waraxmatullahi wabarakaatu.

A British gentleman who worked for the UNHCR’s office in Nairobi once told me that the Somalis living in the diaspora have an opportunity to rebuild their homeland. “There are only two kinds of people you will find almost everywhere you travel to in this world --a Jew and a Somali. You and many Somalis around the world today have an opportunity to better your lives and the lives of your people,” he said. At the time, I did not really pay much attention to the gentleman but his words stuck with me a year or so down the road, when I eventually moved to the United States.

By Prof. Mohamoud Iman Adan (Keydmedia) – Virginia, USA – The contemporary Somalia national character is afflicted with great controversy, and the negative spiral uptrend is getting momentum day after day. The status quo of the southern regions remains unaffected as long as the political clique pursues self-interest, while the governed masses fail to rise up and demand their God given rights.