Garaaad Saleebaan is Garaad but Ahmed diiriye is a self appointed (this is what you two have in common) clan spokesmen. Lets not gett into the business of telling the Garaads what there job is, thank you very much. It is for there people to determine that and the people the Garaad leads decided a long time ago that their leaders would share the fate of their people. If the fate of their people is defending their land from tribal aggressors, that is their fate too and their role is to lead their people in taking back their land. Hope that helps.

Silly but how can UN workers be ambushed in the capital of the state?

UN staff escape Somalia ambush 08/04/2008 21:16 - (SA) 'Happy to see pirates killed' Four killed in Mogadishu Three Somalis killed in clashes Five killed in Somali blast Aid workers snatched in Somalia SA urged to end Somali crisis 15 000 Somalis forced to flee Nairobi - Two staff members of the UN refugee agency narrowly escaped an ambush on their vehicle by armed militiamen in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Puntland, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. The vehicle was carrying a foreign aid worker and a local driver, both employed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and was ambushed on Sunday in the town of Garowe. "More than 20 bullet holes were counted in the UNHCR vehicle," the statement said, adding that the pair escaped unharmed. The police escort later arrested four suspects and recovered assault rifles, it said. One policeman was wounded in the leg during an exchange of fire with the militiamen. "The security situation in Somalia's Puntland region has been deteriorating for the past few months, making the delivery of assistance to vulnerable people increasingly difficult," the UNCHR said. Two aid workers and a journalist were abducted late last year and a German aid worker was briefly held in February in a region disputed by Puntland and the neighbouring breakaway region of Somaliland. Two other aid workers - a Kenyan and a Briton - employed by an India-based organisation and contracted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation are currently held by gunmen in southern Somalia.

For Immediate Release: April 8, 2008 Krista Minteer (212) 845-5207 Somali Women’s Rights Activist Wins Roger Baldwin Award Hawa Aden Mohamed honored for her work with women and girls affected by violence More About Human Rights Defenders NEW YORK—Somali women’s rights activist Hawa Aden Mohamed has been selected to receive the prestigious 2008 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award for international human rights defenders, Human Rights First announced today. Human Rights First selected Mohamed to receive the Baldwin Award for her significant contribution to the struggle for human rights as the founder and director of the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD), a Somalia-based organization that operates primary and vocational education programs for impoverished, displaced and minority women and girls, and works within communities to promote women’s rights and abolish the practice of female genital cutting. Mohamed began working to improve conditions for displaced women in Somalia in the late 1970s. Forced to flee the country when civil war broke out in 1991, Mohamed chose to return to Somalia and continue her work on behalf of thousands of women and girls. “Hawa Aden Mohamed has provided education and other assistance to tens of thousands of women and girls in a country ruptured by violence and chaos,” said Maureen Byrnes, Executive Director of Human Rights First. “The world may have forgotten about the crisis in Somalia, but Ms. Mohamed has never stopped working to assist the most vulnerable.” Through GECPD, Mohamed mobilizes women to defend and advocate for their rights in society, beginning at home. The center serves over 500 women and children in many towns and villages with medical care, vocational and income-generating trainings, support for more than 50 orphans, and the only public school for girls in the area. Over 3,000 women participate in the organization’s innovative literacy and awareness learning circles that address issues such as family relations, health, education for girls and women, women’s work load, and natural resources management. GECPD has also been at the forefront of the peace and reconciliation movement in Galkayo, working to ensure that the town is not redivided along clan lines. The center has touched tens of thousands of women since it was founded in 1999. Mohamed will be presented with the award in New York later this spring. She will also meet with international organizations and policymakers in Washington and New York. Human Rights First received nominations for extraordinary human rights activists from all over the world. An international selection committee judged that Mohamed should be given the award considering the distinctiveness of her work, the effectiveness with which she has advanced human rights in Somalia and the considerable risks she faces as a result of her work. The Award is named in honor of Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the International League for Human Rights. The award is presented by Human Rights First every other year to a human rights organization or activist outside of the United States that has made a distinguished contribution to the protection and promotion of human rights. In alternate years the ACLU selects a U.S.-based winner. Click here to learn more about the Baldwin award and its past honorees. humanrightsfirst.org

LOL, they might as well if they have taken LA and Ceerigaabo, right?

Suldaanka, this is not Somaliland vs. the rest of Somalia, however much improvement, its seems like a lot of cash to carry around.

i wonder how difficult it would be for people to use bank cards rather then money in wheelborrows JB. Does Dahabshiil offer that service and were are they accepted?

Indian words: Sabuun Kursi Sanduuq Badhasab Gaari rooti

talow Somaliland ma SOL ba recognition seen doonta JByow?

those pics are from the Seychelles faynuus and Malika. Even though its right next to Somalia, its saddly one of the most expansive Islands to vocation. But i read that Garaad Maxamuud Ali Shire decedents leave there so at least there will be few half malis if go there.

kenya?

why, should it be part of maakhir?

Red Sea, kulmiye is busy celebrating a bygone era, one more mujahid this and mujihad that makes wonder how those people listen them at all. Mr. waraabe from ucid, i believe, is the only racist in all of Somalia. Reyoole looks much better standing next to that retired mujahid and mr. addis is closer then mogadishu.

one is for a united Somalia and the other wants to break Somalia up, i think its pretty simple to tell which one is a Somalidiid. As for ethiopial, i think it was the Somalidiid who claim that those from addis are closer to them then those from Mogadishu.

Somalis, never learn from no matter how short a time ago. Boqor Cade and Ina afqudhac thought the same about Xaabsade just a few months ago. there is nothing shrewd about this, if the he fires the biggest supporter he has among rer SSC. Mind, Fu'ad is for more loyal to Somaliland then Xaabsade was to either administration and in that sense, he is more valuable.

LOOOOOOOOL, this is what you get for joining the Somalidiid. No Sland minister has fought for Sool as much as this guy but now he did not accomplish anything? Reyoole fired him because he was against the new clan regions and the fact that all sland has done for Las Anod was to replace one askari from puntland with another from waqoye galbet while promising the people they would provide some vital services, using for their own they money they were supposed to use for that they collected from rer w.galbet. truth be told, the only development done in SOL was to few offices with the Sland flag, while the docters of the hospitable have been arrested and God knows what happened to the other members of the civil service.

nice building, glad to see the government reopening civil services centers. Along with the recent appointment, clearly the governments is making some progress.

^ didn't bother to read all that nonsense but i agree with everything you said about the ******, afweine and muster yey but why leave cade, the sayid and that other fool running around in kismayo? one question though, does not your support and celebration of everything SNM clan or Somaliland clan put you squarely in the middle of the very "qabiilist ilk" you deride in this forum?

^ lol, pics of m-dheeRe and cyadiid always make me lough. but what is the point?

loool, but no, i hope that we get country lead by those in the red areas

nin wajaale jooga, if that is even the case, is not trafficking anyone, tRuth be told. RI foR one would like all the people involved in human trafficking to be shot on the spot but we all now that they wait foR people to come to the coast, waiting in theiR boats. unless their is body of water between somalia and ethiopia that i am not awaRe of, then he was, otherwise, isku xeeshoda and think before bring the lies of reyoole to people.

can a non-existent country have a president?