Looking at the décor and video backdrop, Caare is living large. It doesn't look like the good Colonel is stationed anywhere close to a dhufays dagaal.

This is the new flag. Hargeisa/Mogadishu/Djibouti unite in colors and design.

lol@ Oodweyne. Somalis in the Kilil are doomed to being stooges till eternity. Isn't Abdi Aynte also SOL member? They are both here man. We just have to figure out who this new guy is among us.

I read in Twitter that Shide used to claim Oromo ethnicity in the past. OO, do you have any information on this?

A new liberation front announced in "Addis Ababa"?

Lol@ Somali tribes tripping over each other trying to find their Oromo ancestry. That was hilarious. How does a Somali tribe convert itself into Oromo? Don't you have to be a "Gob" person with a respected, proud lineage?

The kid can't even catch his breath. He is about to explode it seems. It is apparent guys like Lema, Jawar and Abey are still fueling this ethnic hate even after Illey was ousted.

Is Mukhtar Ali playing for Saudi Arabia?

Turkey Inc reeling as crisis prompts bailout speculation Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Desperate measures are in the air in Turkey: Trading rooms are awash with talk of a bailout by the International Monetary Fund and potential capital controls. But there's a vacuum at the core of economic policymaking. The central bank and government have remained largely silent as the currency plummeted to record lows and the US imposed sanctions and threatened more. The lira rebounded after falling by the most in a decade on Monday, getting a lift from news that Turkish officials were headed to Washington for talks. The yield on 10-year bonds surged above 20pc to an all-time high. Capital controls are now "more than a tail-risk scenario now as the authorities show no signs of reverting to more orthodox policies", said Shamaila Khan, AllianceBernstein's director of emerging-market debt in New York. What the lira really needs is "independence of the central bank, tighter fiscal policies and an IMF programme", she said. Late on Tuesday, the IMF put out a statement saying it has "received no indication from the Turkish authorities that they are contemplating a request for financial assistance". Meanwhile, US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's call with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday was, generally speaking, a "good sign". Yet the radio silence from Ankara is deafening. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won almost absolute power in June elections, is a staunch critic of higher interest rates and investors worry that he may be standing in the way of the central bank. "It is very difficult to foresee an about-face by the authorities," said Per Hammarlund, chief emerging-market strategist at SEB in Stockholm. "The moment when Turkey will be forced to go to the IMF for support is drawing closer." The lira is buckling under the weight of one of the widest current-account deficits in emerging markets and inflation is spiralling ever higher. As of July it was running at more than three times the central bank's target, driving the real policy rate to below 2pc, the lowest since December. Ten-year yields fell 19 basis points after earlier surging as much 42 basis points to a record 20.09pc; the benchmark stock index was up more than 2pc. Although investors are pushing for a significant rate increase from the central bank, there is growing consensus it is going to take more than monetary policy to reverse the tide. "It's going to be a shock of one type or another: either a policy shock or a macro shock or some combination of the two," said Christopher Granville, managing director for EMEA and global political research at TS Lombard in London. "But the way to sugar that pill," he said, would be a "political accommodation with the West. That would make the pain much less." Turkey's deputy foreign minister Sedat Onal was leading a delegation with officials from the finance, justice and foreign ministries to the US, the foreign ministry in Ankara said in a statement, fuelling speculation that a deal to patch up relations - strained by Turkey's detention of an American pastor - may be in the works. The US remains a solid friend and ally of Turkey, the US embassy in Turkey said in a Twitter post, as it denied news in Turkish media that a US official predicted the lira would weaken to 7 per dollar. On Monday, the central bank boosted banks' access to dollar liquidity by $2.2bn, an effort to take some pressure off the lira. The currency trimmed its losses briefly, only to plunge to successive record lows through the night as investors saw the move as evidence that the bank's hands were tied. The lira's meltdown is not only hurting consumers' sentiment and wallets, but it's pushing corporate balance sheets closer to the abyss. Companies that borrowed heavily in foreign currencies now face a growing burden due to the tanking lira. Turkey Inc is weighed down by $337bn of foreign-exchange liabilities, with a shortfall of $217.3bn net against assets, according to central bank data. Bank borrowing costs are also rising ahead of more than $100bn in debt payments coming due over the course of a year. "It will remain like this until the central bank commits unconditionally to hike rates and keep them high until inflation has turned," Henrik Gullberg, a strategist at Nomura International, said by email. "The market needs that sort of hard commitment." Investors are watching closely to see whether Turkish banks will maintain access to the foreign funding they need to keep economic activity humming. Turkish lenders have a good record of foreign borrowing even at the height of a financial crisis and are strong enough to weather a slowdown, according to bank executives. But the nature of the current crisis raises the possibility of a new set of external shocks, most notably from the US, which is retaliating with economic attacks against Turkey's imprisonment of American citizens. Even if foreign banks continue lending to their Turkish counterparts, "costs will rise and access to markets will be hampered, with many investors not willing to increase their exposure to Turkey," said Trieu Pham, an emerging market credit strategist at ING Bank NV in London. "If sanctions were applied on banks, that would be the worst-case scenario given the high external financing needs, but that's not a likely scenario for now." Last week, the US started the pressure by sanctioning two ministers, and on Friday it announced a review of duty free trade for about $1.7bn in Turkish exports. The Turkish government has been trying to negotiate relief for a two-track investigation into state-run bank Turkiye Halk Bankasi, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has already warned Turkey that "the clock had run out" on its deadline to set the prisoners free. The heads of Turkey's two largest banks say they're still able to borrow. "There is no issue at all regarding the syndication," Akbank TAS Chief Executive Officer Hakan Binbasgil said on July 25 during a teleconference after the bank's first-half earnings. Akbank borrowed a total of $1.15bn in syndicated loans in August 2017, $945m of which will mature in September, according to a public filing. Turkiye Garanti Bankasi CEO Ali Fuat Erbil said strong relationships allow banks to roll over loans even against a turbulent economic backdrop. "In the toughest days I remember during 2008 and 2009, our rollover ratio was around 88pc, not below 80pc," Mr Erbil said in an earnings teleconference on July 26. Fitch downgraded Turkey and then 24 Turkish banks further into junk in July, saying tougher financing conditions and a weaker economy will likely hit the performance of the banking sector. Even a 100pc rollover ratio doesn't meet Turkey's needs at a time of weak capital inflows, according to Inan Demir, an economist at Nomura. "Investors are watching restructuring demands and their impacts on banks' balance sheets and creditworthiness very closely," he said. "I don't know when these will have a negative impact on foreign borrowings, but we can't say that they will have no impact on foreign lenders' appetite." (Bloomberg)

Investors Doubt Turkey Will Easily get IMF Help As Turkey’s currency plummets, investors are concerned that one much used crash mat may not be there to break its fall: An IMF bailout. Since the beginning of last year, the International Monetary Fund has stepped in 16 times with funding for countries that have spiraling debts or falling currencies, most recently a $50 billion package for Argentina. The Turkish lira has fallen almost 30% against the dollar this year and yields on its bonds have risen fast, but investors question whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would ever agree to the sort of stringent demands that the IMF asks for in exchange for loans. The IMF said Wednesday that Turkey hasn’t asked for its help. It may never do so. But the idea that the IMF is there can act as a backstop for the currency and bonds of troubled countries. Many investors currently don’t see that safety net easily coming together for Turkey, adding to the pressure on one of the world’s largest emerging markets. “I think it’s hard to believe that the IMF could help Turkey or for Turkey to ask for the IMF to help in a balance of payments crisis,” said Luca Sibani, senior portfolio manager at Epsilon SGR. “This is a further element of vulnerability” for Turkey, he said. Emerging markets have come under intense pressure amid a strengthening dollar, higher U.S. interest rates and an escalating trade conflict. That heaped extra strain on Argentine bonds and the peso earlier this year, but its June IMF’s deal stabilized the country’s markets. For Turkey, investors worry about President Erdogan’s influence over monetary and economic policy. Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images For Turkey, investors worry about President Erdogan’s influence over monetary and economic policy after he granted himself the right to appoint the central bank’s governors and named his son-in-law as finance minister. Investors fear the growing sway of Mr. Erdogan, who has expressed a preference for lower rates, will discourage the central bank from taming inflation that hit an annual rate of 15.85% in July. Turkey is especially vulnerable to falling currency, given the nation’s large pile of foreign-currency debt. Its external debt stood at 53% of gross domestic product at the end of 2017, according to the IMF, one of the highest levels among emerging economies. As the lira slides, that debt becomes more expensive to pay off. What’s more, over a third of that debt comes due within a year, while 40% is in floating rate debt, making it more expensive to repay as interest rates rise. The IMF is likely to see Turkey very differently to Argentina, analysts say. Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri secured a rapid and large bailout in part because he was perceived as trying to return discipline to the country’s economy.

It is very bad when people start talking about IMF bailout for Turkey. This is more than bizarre.

Turkey has not approached the International Monetary Fund to ask for financial assistance, an IMF spokesperson said on Friday. "We have received no indication from the Turkish authorities that they are contemplating a request for financial assistance," IMF spokesperson Randa Elnagar said in an emailed statement. Elnagar said the Fund would have no comment on the sharp drop in the Turkish lira. "The IMF does not comment on day-to- day currency activity," Elnagar said. The lira fell as much as 18 percent against the dollar amid a diplomatic row between Ankara and Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump deepening the tensions by doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Turkey. "I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20 percent and Steel 50 percent," he said in a Twitter post. "Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!" Trump said. Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar exchange hit 6.41 early Friday before easing slightly, while it stood at around 5.46 as of 5 p.m. local time on Thursday. The dollar/lira exchange rate was at the level of 6.46 at around 21.30 p.m. local time on Friday.

I've been using World Remit for a while to send money to Hargeisa. It is really easy. Takes one second for the other person to receive the money and their fees are reasonable.

Jawar Mohammed walked the walk.

lol. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. The MFO's statement is plain stupid. The big fat Saudi prince is calling his puppet states asking for loyalty and our leaders fold like a cheap suit when the phone rings. No principles. But in fairness to Cawad, he was probably instructed to do this by his bosses in Villa Somalia.

Ducaale, you are twisting people's words. I don't think Galbeedi wants Oromo or any entity to perpetually rule Somalis in Somali Galbeed. Galbeedi wants the Somali region to be free, but his argument is that, in the current circumstances, Oromo rule of Ethiopia will be much better for the Somalis than the previous TPLF. I disagree with him on that because so far the Oromos haven't delivered, but I don't insult him or belittle where he stands, because in the end he may be right and in few years we may all be calling Galbeedi a genius for telling us the truth. I agree with Galbeedi that the Somalia enclaves politics is a minor potato at this particular time. There is the Somali Galbeed fish to fry and that is his focus at this time.

Poor Canada. Try that bullying with Trump and he would spontaneously combust.

I 100% agree with Galbeedi here.

Jawar is in Finfinne. What will it take for Maakhiri to go.

After the surrender of the ONLF to Abey, we need a new generation of fighters that will make sure our occupied land is eventually liberated.

Let us hope there is no more bloodshed and that Illey truly decided to go peacefully. Let us hope the new leader is not a puppet of the Oromos. The Somali region needs strong leadership to protect its people, territory and resources.

I completely disagree saxib. Occupation is not the solution.

Ask Abiy why he wants a regime change.