<cite> @SomaliPhilosopher said:</cite> The women has put herself in the public eye and made controversial and insulting remarks. Her giving birth does not exclude her from critique. Plus, given her ego, I don't think she would prefer being viewed in realm of her motherhood. Also, putting aside my idealism, at the moment I support the SL pursuit of independence, unless the situation in Somalia changes, which I hope would warrant some reconsideration. My problem lies with the means this secession is pursued, particularly the demonizing of other Somalis. I'd also consider Somalia to be ruled from Hargeisa. Though, my only concern is this edna aden type belief of superiority and demonization. This is what holds back SP from being a staunch SL nationalist. your opinion is invalid. you don't have the qualified privilege to hurl insults at all. you are useless and a Somalilandiidist. your opinion on this matter is clearly engendered by your hatred, negativity and ill-will towards the SL Rep. Edna Adan EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1. Ecole de la Nativite, Djibouti, Cote Francaise des Somalis 2. Burao Girls School, British Somaliland Protectorate 3. Borough Polytechnic, London. UK, GCE and Pre-Nursing course, 1954/1956 4. West London Hospital, London, UK, General Nursing Training, 1956/1959 5. Hammersmith Hospital. London, UK, Basic Midwifery training, 1960 6. Lewisham Hospital, London, UK, Midwifery Specialization, 1961 7. Margaret Sanger Center, New York, USA, Family Planning, 1983 8. Clayton University, Georgia, USA, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 1988. 9. Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1998, Health Care in Developing Countries. 10. Honorary Doctoral Degree, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, May 2002 QUALIFICATIONS . Doctoral Degree in Humane Letters from Clark University, Worcester, Massachussets, USA . Certificate, Health Care in Developing Countries, Boston University, USA . Bsc. Nursing Services Management, Clayton University, USA . Family Planning Practitioner, Margaret Sanger Center, USA . State Certified Midwife (SCM), UK . Central Midwives Board Certificate (CMB), UK . State Registered Nurse (SRN), UK INTERNATIONAL CAREER - UNIFEM Consultant Facilitator for Gender Workshop in Nairobi for UN Heads of Mission assigned to Somalia, December, 1998 - UN/HQ, Consultant on Social Services in Developing Countries, New York, October, 1998 - WHO Representative, Republic of Djibouti, March 1991 to October 1997, also President of UN AIDs Theme Group from January 1996 to October 1997, and ‘Doyenne’ of UN Staff in Djibouti - WHO/EMRO Regional Technical Officer for Maternal/Child Health and Family Planning, January 1987 to March 1991. During that time, I was also the focal point for Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children ( FGM), for safe Motherhood Initiatives, and for training of Midwives and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in the 22 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO. - WHO/EMRO Regional Nursing Adviser, May 1986 to December 1986. - Founding Member and Vice-President of Inter-African Committee for Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, 1983 to 1986. - WHO/EMRO Short-Term Consultant, Human Resources Development, Republic of Djibouti, February 1982 to September 1982. - WHO/EMRO Temporary Adviser, Nigeria, November 1980; Sudan, February, 1979; and UNICEF Temporary Adviser, Zambia, December, 1979. - WHO/EMRO Member of Panel of Experts on Human Resources Development for Health, 1977 to 1986. - WHO Staff Member, Nurse/Midwife Educator, Tripoli, Libya, October 1965 to December 1967. NATIONAL CAREER - Current President, Somali Studies International Association - Currently constructing the second “ Edan Adan Maternity Hospital” which is being built in Hargeysa, Somaliland. The facility is a Non-Profit-Making Charity and a Midwifery Teaching Hospital . Started the training of 32 student nurses in our hospital as well as the training of 15 Assistant Laboratory Technicians. - President of the Organization for Victims of Torture, Somaliland. Council Member; Hargeysa University; Member of the Regional Health Board of the Ministry of Health, Somaliland; Board Member of various other Charitable Organizations in Somaliland including the Institute for Practical Research. - Supervising project and construction of first privately owned hospital in Mogadisho, Somalia, (EDNA MATERNITY HOSPITAL), February 1984 to May 1986. ( After my family fled Somalia because of the civil war there, my property has been forcefully occupied by warlords to the present time). - While late husband was Somali Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, from November 1978 and January 1984, continued with Diplomatic obligations as well as with national and international assignments as required. - First female to be promoted to position of Director in Somalia. Became Director of the Department of Human Resources Development, Ministry of Health and Labour, Somalia, April 1977 to November 1978. - Midwife Superintendent, Medina Hospital, Mogadisho, Somalia, January 1972 to January 1977. - Owned and Managed a private Pharmacy, Mogadisho, Somalia, July 1970 to January 1972. - Following the Marxist Coup of October 1969, was a Political Prisoner under House Arrest for six months. - While husband was Prime Minister of Somalia, August 1967 to October 1969, undertook numerous State, Social and Charitable responsibilities both in Somalia and abroad. Accompanied husband on State visits to USA, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy. - Secretary General and Founding Member of Somali Red Crescent Society, Mogadisho, 1963 to1965. - Senior National Nurse/Midwife Educator, Health Personnel Training School, Mogadisho, Somalia, August 1963 to October 1965. - Sister-in-Charge of female Section of Hargeysa Group Hospital, Somalia. During that period, also started the first training courses for nurses and midwives in Hargeysa. - Following completion of studies in the U.K. returned to Somalia as first qualified Somali Nurse Midwife in August 1961. Became first female to be appointed to a senior post in the Civil Service of Somalia. - (Also became first Somali female to obtain a driving license ! ) DECORATIONS AND AWARDS • Decorated by the Government of the Republic of Djibouti, October 1997, in recognition of the services rendered to the Health Services of Djibouti while WHO Representative. Awarded the Medal and Title of “ Commandeur de l’Ordre National du 27 Juin” • Awarded UNDP Manager of the Year Certificate, October 1997. PUBLICATIONS - Manual for the Training of Traditional Birth Attendants in the Somali language. WHO/UNFPA, 1988. - Mental and Physical Complications of Female Circumcision, WHO Technical Publication, 1979. - Numerous speeches and presentations during national and international conferences, seminars and workshops, mainly on the subject of Female Genital Mutilation, Gender, Human Rights, and Maternal and Child Health Care. LANGUAGES Somali : Mother Tongue English : As good as Mother Tongue French : Speak very well, read very well, write fairly well Italian : Fairly well Arabic : Some knowledge also....................She has been called “The Muslim Mother Teresa” by The Huffington Post ---- SPooow (to be filled in by the aforementioned forumer)

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> I don't have to like or support someone just because they're female, Alpha. It's good to be critical of everyone (but fair... I did say I respect her work). you needn't educate me with your placebo BS.

<cite> @Nin-Yaaban said:</cite> Alpha Blondy, sxb, what do you about all this change? I am still trying to get used to this whole change, and it would probably take me some time to feel comfortable with it. Its not as it use to be, thats for damn sure. hi Ninyaaban, happy new year to you and yours, marka hore. one of the things i often grapple with is........this costumer trend of buying the latest I-phones and Samsungs and what-have-yous. it's not necessary that you buy 2 smart phones in a year, ruunti. the smart phone serves a function and nothing else, dee. we shouldn't deify products. lakinse, be that as it may, i find it rather tragic that ''uber cool technofreaks'' can splash huge amounts of dosh on these gadgets while millions of folks in the world go without clean water and food. it's exactly this sort of mindset that breeds tahrib and other social ills. balse, we ought to refrain from accusatory remarks. human by their very nature are greedy and are afflicted by the fikir that the ''grass is always greener on the other side''. sometimes, it's greener and sometimes it's not so green. balse, without beating around the bush, as it were...... these changes weren't necessary. SOL was fine. it worked. it wasn't broke and didnt need fixing. the ADMIN, sadly, is one of those savvy uber cool sort of fiends who constantly have to experiment with and unnecessarily fiddling around with something that works, as although afflicted by an insatiable OCD of sorts. in his hasty eagerness to improve SOL, he's ruined it. whilst he was right to inform folks of such changes beforehand, the hype and fanfare haven't produced what he'd hoped. instead it's disappointed gravely and ruined the bloody site. si kastaba ha ahaatee change is the only constant markasta iyo meelkasta. Al, Hargeisa Somaliland

<cite> @SomaliPhilosopher said:</cite> ^^ Hmm interesting and pleasant. I just watched one of her talks in brussels. She was like "don't push us towards terrorist, the pirates, al-qaeida..." and "billions of dollars of tax-payer money are being wasted on Somalia... but do you realize its not going to work because the people of SomaliaAAAAAAA [great emphasis on the aaaa} do not want it to work. you cannot match the industry of terrorism that they have. you have been beaten my terrorist" and lastly "recognize your failures, because it hasn't worked [in reference to international community's attempt of stabilizing Somalia... our system works" -- a short snippet of her speech ohhh and the way she takes great pride in the British colonial history and how the the great ol' monarch recognized Somaliland is cringeworthy. you can see the glow in her eyes when she talks about the brits this woman you insult is probably the same age as your own mother......and yet you take it upon yourself to insult her without limit on the internet. that is indicative of the way you were raised. we know you're a staunch Somalilandiid lakinse take your insults elsewhere because to be quite frankly with you it's disgusting.

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> She's not a doctor, she was never the "Somalian first lady," and if I remember correctly, she left Egal while he was in prison. I respect her work but she is an expert at self-promotion and quite unlikable. this is heinous. you can't stand other woman being at the helm. that is disgusting.

<cite> @N.O.R.F said:</cite> She left the faith then goes on to marry a Jew?

Johnny, abti, you ought to make considerations for those of us who are coerced, maha?

watching the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

It’s fascinating looking at representations of Africans in Chinese CCP propaganda from the 60s and early 70s. During this time period, China saw itself standing in solidarity in a class struggle with POC in Africa, Asia and Latin America against white-led American and European imperialism. The CCP also saw itself as having led a revolution which could be modeled by the peoples of these nations. Representations of Africa in the propaganda of this era therefore show tremendous camaraderie and brotherhood, presenting a united front against Western imperialism and colonization. At the same time, though, these images are also steeped in a deep sense of racialized paternalism, which the last image, “Saviour” speaks tremendously to as well. This was due in part to the fact that the CCP’s revolution came earlier and was therefore the model revolution which they were “teaching” to Africans, but it also played directly upon antiblack stereotypes of African people as explicitly primitive (see the poster in which the “silver needle of friendship” is passed) and requiring the stewardship of the Chinese CCP in their march toward freedom in their own countries. The paternalism evident in the “friendship” is clear and plays into these racist, demeaning tropes, raising up a Chinese (rather than white) savior for African peoples in the face of Mao ZeDong. These images are therefore interesting in the ways they evoke a sense of global POC solidarity against white-led imperialist forces from America and Europe, portray African leaders in a positive and noble light, generally work to show brotherhood between Chinese and African peoples, but then also plays to racist tropes like the “noble savage” trope and positions Africans and other POC in the developing world in solidarity but ultimately under Chinese CCP stewardship with a Chinese savior (Mao ZeDong) who “gets” their struggle, rather than a white one— but still a demeaning, paternalistic savior nonetheless. --- http://black-in-asia.com/post/71398835866/its-fascinating-looking-at-representations-of ---

classic!

thanks Admin. it wasn't broken so i don't know why you had to fix, ruunti.

i just got up now. so disappointed with myself. i decided to take the day off lakinse i feel terrible. shameful. i might get a haircut to make amends. i'll have to do something.

a 5 step guide for a xalimo to be become successful in gaal societies. 1. declare yourself an atheist. 2. get a hysterectomy because of a traumatising pre-teen attack by a close uncle. 3. complain you're misunderstood (and sometimes disowned) by your community. 4. use terms like ''liberal'' very loosely and stretch such foggy terms to their limits . 5. use every opportunity to scream and shout about your self-induced ''victim mentality'' pathetic sad state of affairs.

<cite> @spartacus said:</cite> AUN isaga iyo inanta ku dhimatay afghanistan, I remember him he was reporting from madiba grandson once. ninyahow, what is this reporter you speak off? .

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> I was sad to hear about this too. Off to the airport now, back to Boston inabti, greetings to you marka hore. deepfelt condolences to you, ta labad. it's a shame your cousin died in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. maad u maleyn inay tahay the first ex-pat Somali to die in a coordinated suicide bomb. what was the nature of her business in Kabul? i guess it's business as usual for you? same time tonight on the trolls thread? Al.

<cite> @N.O.R.F said:</cite> You watch too bbc africa aka colonial coverage ma is tidhi? aar bal kan yar ee beesha haradaan ah eega? abti, i ONLY watch Press TV. nothing else. this is because i'm a radical, dee.

because of xeer-hooseed, dhaq-dhaqaaqa Somaaliyeed waa a zero sum game, abtiyaal. what i'm proposing here, in my capacity as a conscious political leader, is to unite against those who habour hatred for us and who are making designs on our resources right now. waana iga talo. wa bilaha towfiq. Al. Glossary 1. xeer-hooseed - petty squabbles and focusing on internal matters...i.e - qabyaalad. 2. dhaq-dhaqaaqa - direction in one way or other for a better tomorrow. 3. a zero sum game - a situation in which one participant's gains result only from another participant's equivalent losses. the net change in total wealth among participants is zero

Ghanaian broadcaster Komla Dumor died last night! R.I.P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8wqmh3KybI this is an excellent song.

<cite> @Maqane said:</cite> I've finally got an invitation from Jake Sully aka Taruk Makto. I'll be joining with the Na'vi in Pandora and will never come back to this planet Earth because i've also had enough with sky people. In the meantime i'm studying their culture and the language. Wish me good luck folks. This is Maqane signing off it's sad to see you go, abti. good luck and see you there soon.

you needn't bother, abti. you were useless anyways.

Silaanyo appoints a Morality TASK FORCE HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The Government of Somaliland is concerned by increasing incidences of moral decadence in the country. President Ahmed Mahmud Silanyo has established a six member committee charged with the mandate to decisively tackle immorality in the country. A press statement released by the presidential spokesperson Ahmed Suleiman Duhul which revealed the new committee informed that in constituting the Anti- Immorality Committee composed of senior members of the administration was guided by section 5 of the constitution, ministry of religious affairs report and similar from intelligence services. Quote-" The office of the president in pursuit of fulfilling administrative obligations pertaining to proper moral conduct in the country hereby informs the below mentioned that they have been co-opted as a committee with the mandate to tackle increasing incidences of moral decadences in the country' read the statement Committee Members 1. Minister of Religious Affairs- Chair 2. Minister of Internal Affairs -Member 3. Minister of Labour and social Services -Member 4. Minister of Youth, Sports and Tourism -Member 5. National Police Commissioner -Member 6. Director of National Intelligence Service -Member "Having appointed you to this committee of national importance I expect diligent and conclusive action towards arresting the decaying cultural values of our nation in a timely and impartial manner" Unquote Of late various quarters of society especially in the capital city Hargeisa have raised a hue and cry over increasing incidences hitherto taboo in the country like gang rapes, muggings, violent robbery and other moral issues discernibly of an anti religious and cultural nature. --- http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/politics/government/4780-somaliland-state-constitutes-committee-to-tackle-immorality --- this is madness.