Or perhaps he is already a nomad.

Congrats to the new President.

Great pictures indeed. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Great video.

Nomads, please let us not attack each other for creating topics. Everyone has the freedom to post any topic of choice as long as the rules of the website are followed. If it is not interesting to you, just don't reply to it. These kind of attacks are not the tradition of SOL nomads. We should never be trashing another nomad's topics as long as the nomad is following the rules of the website.

I am positive many nomads would agree some of the attacks above against Abdiweli clearly highlight all that is unfair, misguided and nasty about Somali politics. I listened to the Audio and Abdiweli didn't say anything nasty or out of line at all. Subxaanalaah. Abtigiis, that comment of yours was quite unfair. Our beloved Abtigiis should never loose his towel over things like this Ugaas.

Congrats to Prof. Jawaari. This is a great opportunity for the country. It is amazing elections held inside Somalia are going so smoothly.

Where is Lazy Girl? Her feed must have blacked out.

The nomads who are watching this live, would you kindly update this thread instantly as coverage goes on. This is our tradition for election coverage. C'moon. Don't let us down. We are depending on your feed.

I am getting feeds that this one is really up in the air. We shall see!

lool@Macruuf. Twitter truly exceeded our expectation. Facebook page is not supposed be out yet. It went online recently.

An amazing come back indeed. My birth city of Mogadishu has shown resilience no other capital has shown. It is truly remarkable. Xiinoow, awoowe aniga iyo adigaa harnay.

Somalia Online does have a new facebook page. We hope to make it useful soon. http://www.facebook.com/somaliaonline

Amin Amir ayaa dabada ka riixaya ninkaan cusub. There is a slight risk for Shariif Xasan's clan in its strategy to abandon the Speaker-ship post. If the position goes to another clan, there is no guarantee Shariif Xasan's clan will get the Presidency or the PM post. Let us keep in mind there is the Northern Clan which never had the PM or Presidency and they could get one of the top three positions this time around. That would effectively mean Shariif Xasan's clan will miss the top three posts.

That is my friend Idiris. I am glad he is doing well. Prove everyone wrong Idiris!!!

I believe Shariif's sub clan didn't forward most of its list of candidates yet.

Good list overall. I am seeing less than 15% is women in this initial batch. 9. Fahmo Axmed Nuur 12. Khadiija Maxamed Diiriye 36. Dr. Muumino Sh. Cumar 39. Fadumo Nuur Maxamed 40. Fowziya Maxamed Sheekh 47. Luul Cabdi Aadan 59. Muna Ibrahim Abiikar 68. Xabiibo Maxamed Kheyr 69. Xasan Macalin Xuseen 107. Sacdiya Careys Ciise 110. Sahra Jama Ali 113. Aamino Cumar Jaamac 121. Busharo Cabdi Diriye4 130. Caashakoos Maxamuud Cumar 135. Cadar Abdi warsame ***** 140. Duniya Maxamed Cali 141. Faaduma Xasan Cali 142. Faduma Odowa Rageh 148. Khadra Ahmed Ibrahim 158. Sahro C/qadir C/raxman 159. Saynab Maxamed Caamir 160. Xiis Hassan Aadan 161. Xiis Muuse Cawl Cali 172. Amina Mohamed Abdi 177. Caasha Xaaji Cilmi 195. Nadifo Maxamed Osman 197. Qaali Axmed Diiriye 198. Sacdiyo Cumar Sheegow 199. Samira Xasan Cabdulle

As much as it comes off as disturbing, I am not in fact surprised by Xariif Xasan’s silly attempt at bullying his way to the top. This is, after all how he became the Speaker without any tangible education.

FRANKFURT: As Europe battles its never-ending debt crisis, Turkey, with its flourishing economy, is increasingly attracting the attention of German companies, as well as German-born Turks in search of a job. The Turkish economy is the envy of the crisis-wracked eurozone: its gross domestic product (GDP) has expanded by an annual average 5.4 percent over the past 10 years. Its public debt has fallen below 40 percent of GDP, much lower than the majority of European countries. And inflation, which was once dizzyingly high, is now under control. "Flattening growth in (Europe) will trigger new growth and foreign direct investments in Turkey, making it an indispensable part of long-term strategic planning for European firms," consultancy Roland Berger wrote in a recent study. Turkey has a population of 74 million, of whom more than 60 percent are 35 years old or younger. And with purchasing power growing from year to year, there is strong demand in areas such as infrastructure, energy, cars and the financial sector. These are precisely the sectors where German companies excel: out of around 30,000 foreign companies in Turkey, nearly 5,000 are German, according to the German-Turkish chamber of commerce in Istanbul. Indeed, the number of new German-funded companies set up in Turkey last year shot up by 14 percent to 534. Tedrive Steering, a maker of steering systems and components for the automobile industry, is one of them. The small specialist engineering firm, based in Wuelfrath in Germany's industrialised Ruhr region, has selected Turkey as the site for its first overseas assembly plant. The Turkish automobile market is "growing fast" and "German technology enjoys an excellent reputation there," said the company's chief executive Thomas Bruese. "A lot of German companies have long been present in Turkey, but new subsidiaries, branches and joint ventures are signing up to the chamber of commerce," a sign that they are expanding their activities in the country, said Ralph Jaeger, deputy chief of the chamber of commerce and finance chief of RWE Turkey. RWE, Germany's number two power supplier, is investing 500 million euros ($615 million) in the construction of a gas-fired combined cycle power plant at Denizli, in the south west of Turkey, to supply some 3.5 million households with electricity. The plant is scheduled to be up and running at the end of 2012. RWE and other German companies can benefit from the close social and economic ties that Turkey and Germany have enjoyed for decades. Germany is in fact Turkey's main trading partner, accounting for 10.3 percent of its exports and 9.5 percent of its imports, according to data published by the Germany Trade & Invest development agency. Germany invited hundreds of thousands of Turkish "guest workers" to come and work during the country's economic miracle back in the 1960s. They stayed and some three million Turks now form the largest immigrant population in the country. Indeed, it is the younger generations of those immigrants -- Germans of Turkish origin who are equally at ease in both the Turkish and German languages and cultures -- who are increasingly being recruited by German companies for their Turkish operations, said Jaeger. A private training centre in Kreuzberg, a multi-cultural district in the heart of Berlin, offers apprenticeships in German, English and Turkish in industry and in the hotel sector, with placements in German companies in Turkey. "We want to train young people who will eventually be beneficial to the German economy," said the centre's chief Nihat Sorgec, himself of Turkish origin. "At the same time, it helps to dispel the image of Turks being socially underprivileged. So it's a win-win situation," Sorgec said. Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012 http://www.brecorder.com/world/global-business-a-economy/72467-turkish-economic-miracle-woos-german-businesses-.html

"waar bal kaas eega qurbajoogtaa ee iska dhigaya qurbadhal" :) I have another suggesition; Qurbadheer Qurbadheer - Somalis who have lived abroad longer relative to age. "Dhallinyaro iyo odayaal qurbadheer ah ayaa beryahan ku soo badanay magaalada Hargeysa. Qurbadheerta oo u badan Soomaali af-soomaaligii illowday oo in dheer qurbaha ku noolaa ayaa shacabka magaalada Hargeysa waxay ka cabanayaan dhaqan xumadooda". Maanta laga bilaabo, Alpha waa Qurbadheer.

:D How about qurbadhal? Qurbadhal - Born and raised outside of Somalia "Soomaali badan oo qurbadhal ah oo qaarkood ay yihiin dhallinyaro loo keenay Hargeisa arrimo la xiriira dhagan-celis ayaa ka cabanaya dhibaatooyin ay ka mid yihiin kaneeco iyo duqsi xilliga deyrta roobku da'o."

Shariif has just destroyed all he has built in the last few months. This fit of temper was really not necessary. He could have sorted the Ahlusunna debacle while in Nairobi. There was no need to abandon ship and look like an immature brat in front of the world. Either way, this game is all too familiar to us political junkies. Shariif has built an empire and "Beesha Shanaad" is slowly taking it apart. I still think he has a chance to be elected.

Oba, the TFG is busy campaigning. This week Mogadishu is fawdo.

And back to jail soon hadaanu howlaha siyaasadda gacanta kala bixin.

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto the marxuum. I noticed the description of these incidents is always the same whether the killing was in Mogadishu or anywhere else. 1. Two assassins 2. The killers used pistols 3. The victim was coming out of a mosque 4. killers run away on foot There is absolutely no creativity at all in these killing and I am surprised the perpetrators are never chased, caught or even found later.