“If you wrote a letter to God and asked him for the best soil and climate conditions for farming, this is what he’d send you,” says Miguel Bosch, an Argentine agronomist who manages Hoyo Hoyo, a nearly 25,000-acre corporate soybean farm in northern Mozambique. “It is a paradise for growers. I’ve spent many years farming in Brazil and Argentina and have never seen such soil.” Not only the fertile land, but generally Portugese colonies in Africa seem more stable, prosperous and forward-looking than the average non-Portuguese colonies in Africa? Angola Mazambique Cape Verde Saõ Tomé and Príncipe

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> Are you Barawaani Mr Holac? I like Baraawe and its native people (not the post 1991 settlers) :-D Yes and No.

^^ lol. Are you serious?

I don't think this is true. Nobody else is reporting it.

Excuse me for the hyperbole, but why do Somalis always have to comment on any picture someone posts? I have non Somali friends, and they don't do that. Their favorite comments on any topic? 1. waaw, mashalah 2. looool 3. kixkixkix I don't get it. They don't say much or have any debates. It is either greetings (salaan) or waaw or kixkixkix.

Xabad, why is this a joke.? Do you not see the hypocrisy? What do you call an American jew who enlists in the IDF and fights for a foreign country (Isreal) on the basis of religious ethnicity? A jihadist? A loyal jew? A freedom fighter? A "lone soldier"

This was an inspiration and something that I have carried within me since coming back How long did you stay there?

Ciid Mubaarak ya SOLers.

Xabad hates Islam so much he will always find an excuse to bash the muslims. Edit: original comment was meant for the other topic.

Thanks for the good news in a week full of a depressing stories. It is time this government does something, instead of being defensive in the face of Al-shabab onslaught.

Adam, I have never heard of any Somalis in Syria after the war. I thought they all went to Turkey?

Khayr, if eating Khat can stop a young Somali kid from turning into a bomb, wouldn't that be great? I agree with you that we have a corrupt government and we should work hard to get rid of these buffet-eating belly-giants, but we are talking about kids being turned into suicide bombers, not some ideal youth activism.

Cubano, you like cigars? lool. Somalia captured hundreds of Cuban communist fighters during the 1977 war. My father told me that the Cubans fighters were physically so out of shape and fat, that Somalis used to called them naasdheer meaning Cubans with "long breasts". Why did Castro send mercenaries that were so out of shape to fight against the lean, mean Somalis?

What a shameless man. He should be telling the Mogadishawis to watch out for the terrorists and assassins and work with the security forces instead of trying to instigate a repeat of the 1991 massacre in Mogadishu. Daahir Alas is a clanist demagogue always blaming someone else for the problems at his doorstep.

Deeq, calm down saxiib. You don't have to get worked up on something you have no control of.

We can't ignore that clan politics is at the center of the country's problems.

It is time . [Culusoow] Ha ina dhaafo. These are the words of our resident scholar - Mr. Galbeedi. The few words above are simple, yet carry deep meaning and depth. For Galbeedi, the quintessential optimist, to utter those words, it shows you how resigned he is to the fate that we, as Somali people, have hit bottom. I don't know whether I should be sad or celebrate.

Allah u naxareesto Saado Cali Warsame. They say when it rains, it pours. We hit bottom.

AMISOM has not served us well. AMISOM has been a complete failure. Pray for AMISOM's rapid departure.

I chatted on the phone with an academic relative of mine in the Wash/VA area today after Saado's news arrived. He was as far pessimistic as to say "Somalia is at a point of no return" because of extremism. I disagreed with him, but I don't know if I have a credible reason as to why. How do we find a way out of the current situation?

Thank You Lazy. Pests like this idiot are what is destroying our future. I don't care if he claims he was setup. Let him rot in jail for all we care. End recruitment for terrorists Al shabaab. Be very afraid chicken Jihadis.

Russian academic defines extremism in the practical world. The head of the Caucasus, Central Asia, Urals and Volga Region Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oriental Studies, Alikber Alikberov, talks about extremism in the Caucasus. According to the expert, the expansion of the extremist movement is caused by a collapse of traditional values among youngsters. The definition of extremism is very vague. There are many possible definitions and no widely-recognized one. There is of course a legal definition, but it's different in all countries of the world. The most important thing is what people actually mean when they use this word. The direct meaning of the word is "something extreme" or to be more specific extreme political, social and religious views. Moreover it's also an extreme way of pursuing one's goals. Extremism is often compared to a revolutionary movement, however this is not entirely justified. Still, in some Islamic countries, such as Iran, extremism is labeled as a revolutionary ideology. From this point of view radical Islamism is indeed a revolutionary movement. Radical Islamists call for the destruction of the present world, they are not ready to compromise. There is no easy way to defeat extremism. Otherwise it would already be defeated. There are however certain mechanisms to prevent its expansion. They all should be used. The first way is to support the educational system. Extremism is always a form of protest. This protest may be a social, political or religious one. It's a protest against the current social order. However this protest becomes intense only in case of serious social transformation, which is always a very complicated process when old values are becoming dated and are replaced by new ones. That is why a successful system of Islamic education is a key to an adequate struggle against radical Islamism. It's also necessary to form a civil society, a single multi-ethnic nation. That is the only way to prevent separatism. We have to overcome existing social, inter-ethnic and inter-faith antagonisms in order to maintain social peace. In such a way we will be able, if not to defeat extremism completely (which is hardly ever possible), then to become a more harmonious society.