Photoshop wey dhaaftay markaan. Muuse Muqayil inay tuuji dhexda yaalo camal ku fadhiisiyaan ayee keeneen. Eebboow adigaa heybad dad siiyo wretched secessionist bilaa xishoodka u astur isku xaarkooda.

It was circulated on Facebook at that time, imposing Muuse Marqaan's face on another leader in the middle of the back. Cabdinaasir Sola was among who qarxiyey beentooda loo jeeday.

Faisal Roobleh's take: ------------------ Talk of the Town Part I: An Unfiltered Perspective: The Djibouti Conference As some of you asked me to reflect on the Djibouti talks between Somaliland and Somalia, here is my unfiltered reaction. Although the youngest in age, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia was the elder in the room – that is in perspective and vision. Representing the only empire in the Horn of Africa, and the first populist Cushitic leader, he was comfortable both in his skin and to be among his “brother" Somalis. He laid out the context of the conference which is to achieve a meaningful regional integration. He did not miss to shower praises on the Somalis and invoked the phrase that lately became popular but vague and at times over-used – that Somalis are resilient. The elder host, President Ismail Omar Ghele, always artful in magnanimity and hospitality, a fact not lost on PM Abiy, was tactful to avoid politics in his presentation; he quickly zoomed into the benefits of what Djibouti always promotes - the movement of goods and people with open borders. Most Somalis missed this core value of Djibouti’s but let themselves mesmerized by a pan-Somali song reverberated in the hallways of the conference. Well, there was nothing pan-Somali or Somaliweyn in substance about the conference. Coming back to Somaliland/Somalia, let us look at the form and substance of the conference separately. Form: In the case of Somaliland, President Muse Bihi met the leaders of the two main political party leaders prior to his departure. In a televised meeting at his palace, it is inescapable to see the nodding and body language that lends approval to Mr. Bihi’s departure by both Faysal C. Warabe and Mr. Ciro. One could easily glean from that meeting room that both opposition leaders were well briefed and in turn offered their consent to the President. This was followed by Adna Adan’s well-timed press conference prior to the Somaliland delegation's departure. In that impressive conference, Adan established the record that Somaliland and Somalia have been regularly negotiating since 2014. She went agenda by agenda and through all the dates, leaders, and venues of all the conferences the two sides engaged in. She also never missed an opportunity to remind the world the pains and sufferings Somaliland people experienced in the hands of the former Somali Republic. At times she was so graphic she arose the emotions of Somaliander so as to build mass base for their departure to the talks. Once I finished listening to her speech, she won some kudos in her persuasion. From there I gleaned that the Somaliland delegation will go to Djibouti with a strong theory to make its case. And so it did. Later on this issue. Add to that how Somaliland succeeded to dictate the architecture of the participants – that unionists from Somaliland or even executive leaders from certain clans were off-limits to come to the meeting. That resulted in the absence of key personalities from northern Somalia who believe in the union concept. Even the Foreign Minister who is from Puntland was weeded out of the conference – Mr. Awad had to stay back in Mogadishu. One cannot forget the richness and thickness of the resumes of the delegation of Somaliland. Adding the work and life experience of Salyman Adan (a veteran of Somalia’s higher education), Adana Adan, (former first Lady of Somalia's preeminent politician and founder of the current Somaliland state and an accomplished medical professional in her own rights), Fratoon, educated at Sheikh School, Lafole, UK and MA degree from the US) constituted the core delegation team. President Bihi himself was an army colonel in Somalia's volunteer army and joined Somali National Movement later. In the background, this team was aided by Dr. Mohamed Bihi, a retired and refined senior officer at Africa Development Bank and Osman Sheik, a retired senior officer at World Bank. Taken together, this team possesses close to 300 years of combined work and life experience. Icing on the cake is that they by and large started their struggle for Somaliland in the late 1970s. They have what I call lexejeclo fornor ownership of the Somaliland cause. Following will be Part II and Part III soon including (1) Form for Somalia and substance of and speeches of both sides.