Projects that will be finalised This year. 1. Burco - Ceerigaabo Road - 300 km of fully locally funded paved road will be finished in September 2020. This road has already cut the travel time between Burco and Ceerigaabo by half. People now can have their breakfast in Hargeisa and have lunch in Ceerigaabo. A tremendous improvement. 2. Berbera corridor Road - 200km modern highway that will connect Berbera to the trading town of Togwachale will be completed by October this year. 3. Berbera Port expansion - the new 400m Berbera Port Container Terminal will be completed by October this year 4. Berbera International Airport - the newly refurbished with new 4km runway, will be opened later in the year. Projects that will be turning sod in 2020 1. Hargeisa - Burco Road via Oodweine, funded by African Development Bank and Somaliland Government, this 180km hinterland road will cut travel time between Hargeisa and Burco by 1/2. The current road via Berbera is total length 300km. The new road via Oodweine will be 180km. Travellers will be saving over 100km of fuel expense and a lot of time. This road will also help cut time to far Eastern regions i.e. time to reach Ceerigaabo will be further cut. 2. Djibouti - Jigjiga Road via Borama, also Funded by Africa Development Bank, this is 250km Road that will link Djibouti and Jigjiga passing through Borama. 3. Drill babe Drill - The first Oil well of many will get drilled this year. 4. Ceerigaabo - Mait Road - a 30km steep downhill/uphill road that winds down through Daallo Mountains and crosses Tabca Pass. This road will cut travel time to and from coastal communities. 5. Mait Fishing Port - A port that will serve as an economic hub for Sanaag regions to tab into the rich fishing seas on its shore.

Abdisalaan Hereri goes to Sanaag, a program about Burco to Ceerigaabo Road.

It used to take 4 hours to travel between Hargeisa and Borama. And when President Siilaanyo funded the 30km Dilla - Borama Road, the travel time has been cut to 2 hours. That means, the 30km rough road between Dilla and Borama used to take 2 hours. Now this is the same road.

Dhaqaale, beautiful reasoning and points of arguments. Democracy doesn't put food on the table. Give me a well run state and economy peppered with a bit of nationalism any day over democracy.

All the signs of resource curse can already be seen in Somalia. With a powerful country like USA, Cash rich Qatar already buying their horses in the game. It is going to be one of the world's textbook examples of how not to tap into one's resources. Nin aan waxa jooga garan, waxa soo socda ma garto. Fortunately, in Somaliland the people are where the power is. And one thing that differentiates Somalilanders from others is that, in Somaliland everything is discussed in the daylight, nothing is hidden. Anyone knows everything that is to it in Somaliland. It is just our nature and our way of doing things. In the case of Somalia, it is very much like Mafia bosses. A lot of things is done behind the curtains, a lot of heads roll and a lot of blood is shed to settle petty scores.

And this:

And this one from IGAD:

Once again this statement from U.S. embassy in Xamar proves how beesha caalamka bahlaha loogu rifay.

He is appointed by Muuse Muqayil miyaa? No wonder reero jaad marqaaniste isla yihiin.

Qof walba ayaa arko taas. Xataa Xasan Sheekh would readily admit if he was honest to himself. Waxaa qosol iyo yaab ah Shariif Sh. Axmed ka soo yiraahdo London in Xamar maamulaan kuwii afka duubnaa, intaas ay ka tahay dowladda ku xumee laakiin uunan arkin as a former president his words could be misused by kuwa ka soo horjeedo horumarka Soomaaliya. Kuwaas afka duuban waagee dowladiisa jirtay Tarbuunka ayee si toos u xukumi jireen iskaba dhaaf meel kale.

Waa runtaa. What tipped the scales in dowladda dhexe's favour was after kicking out kii Reer Koonfur Afrika ahaa ee Qaramada Midoobay u fadhiyey Soomaaliya. Many, including some so-called Soomaalis midnimada Soomaaliya ka soo horjeedo, were expecting severe repercussions. Others, especially Western diplomates based in Muqdisho, saw Soomaaliya fledging its newly re-acquired muscles that they started paying to respect more.