key words: its leaders say. Its easy to talk the talk but these leaders need to walk the walk. They say they have improved infrastructure, where and when? People, celebrate when there are actual roads, street lights and free and compulsory education in Somaliland.

Better question why does FB have the Abyssinian flag with lion carrying a cross no less loool

"where are the pictures" ~ Xaji Xundhuf lol

just like bring light to the fact that this was done sirdoonka SSC, This kinda setup has their finger prints

better question is why anybody would call themselves jareer

I thought JIll Scott was the truth until this girl came along, enjoy...

Juxa;718870 wrote: i dont think that is fair, i went back to somalia in 2001 and the people i visited were cleaner than the average qurbaawi. food was cooked and eaten within 2 hours, everything was fresh. the only qashin was the mentality aan meeshan kala tagno. ps: the roads etc were dirty but living in UK meelkasta dirty ah you took what I was saying in the wrong direction, i never meant to comment on the cleanliness of the people you went to see but in eating outside and frankly alpha's post of that hole in the wall kinda reinforces that, lol. alpha, you say that as if it was bad, i'll have you know that one does not need to go outside of philly, it has everything one needs as far as world experience, thank you very much....

unfortunate people are thinking that way in 2011

^ you know what las qorayites are thinking, there is no eastern sanaag as much as you fools keep repeating it

powerful in its immensity if we spend a few minutes to ponder it but most of us do not

i dont think ur helping the man alpha

am gonna have to whole heartily disagree with the prime minister and say these regional admins have brought nothing but positive development to this ofd forsaken country. make as many mamul gobleeds as you wish as long as it leads to any kind of development to any part of Somalia. Whats the worst that can come from it, in my opinion nothing. rather this none sensical warning, he should make sure that any mamul gobled adheres to the rules set in the charter which says that any two or more regions can make their own mamul gobled....

^ I see a movie in the making, JB vs. Godane, lol

I hear the first rule when traveling in the third world is to make your own food and only drink bottle watered, you people going out to restaurants especially that first hole in wall are kinda brave. I hear you lose ten pounds on the first day, lol, is this true for you travelers?

loooooooooooool

Ilaahey ha uu naxariisto Imaamka

^ am not sure, didn't even think about that til you pointed it out Dogs Sniff Out Landmines Across Afghanistan By Danish Karokhel KABUL, Afghanistan, January 2, 2002 (ENS) - A dedicated team of Afghan trainers and their dogs are perfecting techniques for landmine detection that are now in demand in trouble spots across the world. With an estimated 10 percent of the world's entire stock of landmines laid across the country during two decades of conflict, it is hardly surprising that Afghans - or to be more precise, their dogs - have become world experts at finding them. Afghanistan's Mine Detection and Dog Centre (MDC) - a local organization under the United Nations umbrella - is now training mine sniffing dogs sent in from as far afield as Britain and the Czech Republic, and sending others to problem areas such as Yemen and Sudan. Landmine sniffing dog with handler from Afghanistan's Mine Detection and Dog Centre (Photos courtesy Adopt-a-Minefield (AAM)) Mario Boer from Germany, who works with the organization under a government aid program, said, "The MDC training programme is the biggest of its kind in the world and is a low cost, high success operation. "The techniques developed in this country are now being used in other countries suffering from the plague of landmines." The program began in 1989, after the Soviet Union was forced to end its 10 year occupation by anti-communist mujahedin, who then turned on each other in more fighting that paved the way for the takeover by the Taliban. The student militia's brutal regime was only ended by a United States led offensive 12 months ago. It was estimated that some 10 million mines were laid in the country during this nearly 25 years of warfare, ranging from small booby traps that can blow off a child's foot to monsters that can take out a tank. The firing mechanisms can be a simple pressure switch, a trip wire, or an acoustic or seismic sensitive device. Deployed for as little as US$3 each, they cost up to US$1,000 to remove. These devices kill or injure around 20 people across the country every day - many of them children. Deminer works near Jalalbad. (Three photos by Erin Snider courtesy AAM) At the outset of the program, the dogs were bought from abroad and trained by American experts. But the cost of training each one, around US$9,000, was prohibitive for one of the world's poorest countries, and the MDC launched its own breeding and training program. They bought 12 dogs, 10 females and two breeding males, a German shepherd and a malinois from Belgium. "At present we have 211 dogs, 130 of which are working in mined areas while the others are undergoing training," said Javed Ahmad, who heads MDC's training program. "We are getting between 50 and 60 new dogs a year from our breeding program, 80 percent of which are suitable for training." Training begins when the puppies are just two months old, and takes 18 months to complete. They are then let loose in the minefields, where their extraordinary sense of smell enables them to sniff out the fumes coming from explosives, even those encased in metal and plastic and buried deep underground. Detonated cluster bomblets, the remnants of the coalition strikes on Afghanistan to topple the Taliban. MDC trainer Zainuddin explained that mines were normally laid between 20 centimeters (7.87 inches) and one meter (39 inches) underground, depending on the soil conditions. "Our dogs are guaranteed to find them at these depths. One of them discovered a mine buried nearly one and a half meters underground," he said. The Afghan training program is far more rigorous than in other countries where the mines are planted and taken out by hand after each exercise. This often enables the dog to home in on the smell of the trainer left on the metal, rather than the scent of explosives. "We wash off all traces of humans from the mines, let them dry in the sun and then bury them for two or three years before we start using them in our training program," Zainuddin said. "Foreign trainers are copying us now." With so much invested in the dogs' training, and so much depending on them, it is no surprise to learn that they have their own veterinarian and a clinic with the latest equipment and medicines from Germany. "We are dedicated to keeping the dogs fit and free of disease," Dr. Abdul Hakim Hakimi said. The dogs are expected to be on active duty for at least five years. The training starts as a game, using a rubber ball, and gradually moves to dummy mines and then to the real thing. The dogs, on a 10 meter (33 foot) leash controlled by their handler, are taught to sit down next to the spot where they sniff out a mine. "Dogs are perfect for this work - in fact they are twice as efficient as machines," Ahmad said. "Machines can only locate metal, which means they dig out all kinds of objects. Our dogs are only interested in explosives, and can smell them through plastic." These Afghani children from the village of Mazel Khurija have been warned about the dangers of landmines. He said using dogs is less dangerous than other methods, adding that over the 13 years of the program, only 10 people and seven dogs had been killed clearing mines, while a further 26 handlers had been injured - a relatively low number for such an intensive and hazardous operation. The operation is split into 18 groups across the country, with four dogs and 24 handlers and backup personnel for each group. "Each group clears around one square kilometer a year. So far we have cleared 90 square kilometers, which represents some 45 percent of all the territory in Afghanistan that has been cleared of mines. The rest has been done by other, foreign mine clearing organizations," he said. Some 113 square kilometers have yet to be demined, and about 30 square kilometers (247 acres) of former battlefields cleared of unexploded shells. "We are getting requests from all over the world for our dogs to come and help clear mines. Unfortunately because we are stepping up our program in Afghanistan, and have so much more to do, we can't spare many more of them," said Ahmad. Tens of millions of landmines are buried across 80 countries. Someone steps on a landmine somewhere in the world every 22 minutes. {Published in cooperation with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.}

I wonder if dogs could be trained to detect land mines

where are those armed american drones when you need them, these images look like a missed opportunity to wipe these scum

Is not only Zack, this is the most annoying thing about galbeters. They mix everything up, Malawax to them is what some of us call Sabayad/Kimis. I had one galbeter researching the arabic etymology of the word malawax just to tell me its root meaning in arabic or at least the yemeni version is kneading and you don't knead what we call sabayad lol

lol@Dhalinyaro Ka Tirsan Sirdoonka Fallaagada SSC. the Student and teachers have become spies? jokester I tell you.

looool@ caasho garaad, the sensible people on Sol are decreasing by the day Sensei

The Issue is simple people before we go insulting those poor massai. Mr saleeban insists on being the president and some correctly point out that he was chosen as a leader not a President of SSC. At the end of the day though, this is for the SSC people to sort out....

I would love see these people surrounded and hauled to a ship headed for Afghanistan

in another news, somalilanders continue to be obsessed with all things puntland