Aabayo Somalina Sheick Shariif term is ending in August this year. Sheick Shariif has done a good job and deserves to slow down and give more attention to his family. Therefor, I probose you as the First Somali Female President. Nobody here on SOL is more cougages, more consistent and more committed to the wider Somali cause and treat all of them the same and slap them with facts, figures and pictures. You karbaash the qowdhans, the maryooley, Shababist lapdancers, the budhcad badeed's, all equaly. Cidna uma joojisid marke khalad galaan, ama wadada dhex istaagaan ama nac nac isla soo taagaan. No wo(man) more for fitted for the job the you. Tell us abaayo, how would your ideal clan balanced SOL cabinet look like. Who would you appoint on which post? Some recommendations? -My uncle Xaaji Xunjuf should definetly get the Chairmenship of the Guurti. No SOL'er can better explain complication issue's in pundits and knows Somali clan linages, history and villages and deegaans. He can create conflict and settle them as no other. Our Ideal most senior Somali traditional elder. -General Duke and fellow Mudugian should definetly get the Ministry for Information. Through Somalia no better men to inform, disinform the masses then the General. From Waqoiye, to Bari, to Mudug all the way to Jubba's. No man can better rally, campaign and translate politics to the common men then Duke. -Abtigiis defintly Min of Culture. Keep him away from weapons, foreigners(Ethiopians), youth, women, for he then can become. Lethal to your goverment and himself. Leave him with actors, singers, authors. Keep him enternaied and let him entertain crowds in theaters. -Xiinfaniin,Would definetly be a good Prime Minister. And he is not a danger to your goverment either,not to ambitous and is not a clannist. And if is he half the loyal and hard working for your goverment as he has done for Puntland. Then he will definetly be the central, balanced figure who can head your cabinet. Very traditional, respectfull towards women, will never Dare to oppose you in public and neither will turn against a women. You dont need to feara coupe d'etats with Xiin, no harmfull figure. -Miskiin, Macruuf and Akhyaar. Minister for Social Development. Good attena for social development and society related issue. Hart on the right place and compassion for all. -Chimera, Min of Urban Planning and Infrastructure, wiill turn Somalia in to an Indian Ocean/Red Sea paradise with the best of east and west, oriental and africa, holiday country and same time urban thriving cities. -Qandalawi: Minister of Fisheries and Sea's.knows fish very well. -Fiqiyare: Min of Oil and Resource. -Oodweyneh, Ambassador to the Commenwealth and the UK. Definetly he should be close to the Queen and Mi6. No better poker player against those British ninies. Even impresses the House of Lords and charms and seduces every old Baronesses when needed for the country. -Ngonge, Ambassador to Arab League. As ciyaal arab knws the arab the best. And with the arab spring no better attena and strategist to have between these arabs then Ngong e. He can apply his clan is everything divide and rule tactics on these Arabs. His Arab Predicaments can come very usefull when getting investments from arab rulers. -Juxa, Chair of Parliament. Honoust, balanced, multi tasker, authority, wise chair who is acceptable for all the blocks and opposition as well. Nice to talk to during and jit jit during breaks in Parliament debates. She can discuss kids kiapers, int law and the new movie from Denzel in same conversation. -Jaceylbaro, Definetly not include in your cabinet. Prefers to lead the oppositoion formed by the secessionist blocks. But with all the Bacaaaccc's from JB on your policies, your goverment is safe for re-election coming decad e. -Opposition includes: Shababist boys like Che, Maddeey, jiilow. And secessionist like Abokkor Omar, The Hermet. Other block:Somalia, rudy dirie, -Somaliland State President, VP and Cabinet. Consist of Saalax(President), Liibaan(VP), Akash(FM), A_Khadar(Parlimant chair), Naasir(Guurti), Aaliyah(Min of Religional Affairs), Taleexi(Min for Myi and regional issue). -Puntland provincial Governor(Dr.Osman). -Azania Governor, Zack,Gaabal(vice Governor). -Banadir Governor, Cambuulo iyo Bun. -Central Governor, Faarax Brown. -Southern Somalia Governor, STOIC Puntlanders should be awarded extra cabinet seats and chairmen ships, to tone down their Presidential ambitions and regional dominance. Somalilanders should get the most Ambssadors, keep their talks and sheeko far away from Muqdisho and Hargeisa. And so they can explain tthemseleves why Somaliland should and cant secessede from Somalia. So far my recmmendations. Please add and tell us how you would fill those positions to make Somalia the best country in Africa by 2025.

Somalina;778767 wrote: Haddaad saas u sheegtid calankii ciraaqiga ayuu jeebka ku qarsanaa ileen xabada gaariga makareysee, wuu is hubaa camal. You're welcome. Looool@calanka ciraqi. Abaayo calanka ha igu shambaneed nooh. Ani waa is dhiibay, waxaa ka mid ahay southern wing of the family Tree not to be confused with northern Qowdhan and Qurac part of the larger family tree's. My hearts beats faster,my pols increases and my eyes become all teary when I see our Blue flag with white Star of Unity.

Juxa, you are right. Me and Blue have much in common. She likes manly man, I am the most manly they come in. We both love in Amsterdam. We both have interest in the eastern philosophy of gymnastic for mind and body, she is fast and I am xuuf. We have so much in common, but clearly cant see and maybe has been tricked by SSC Sixirooleh KoW.

Beer Gaal, shouldnt it be Beerr Geel? Blue, hunno af somali lee ku sheegay Kamasutra.

Dp

Wariis walee wa bariiis. Its ok for now. We have not been embarrased for now. But as soon as other TV's come up with an english bulleting. They should establish a private production combany with each TV havinf shares, that produced these bulletins, programs and shows we couild show the world. Like nomad looking for wife(geeljire raba hal) Battles of the Clans(clans battling eachother in games) Who has the longest(Laandheer), quiz about clan history. And idea's on Somali shows we can show the world?

Abaayo cambuulo,cidaan waqooyi xiga wax badan aa si ka ah. Macaa kooda sharabeeya uma naxaan ee youtube ee so galiyaan. Eebooow umadaan hadal lee lasoo taagan, maxaase la laga yeela.

Juxa, ma aragtaa gabartaan side ee dicaaf iyo weerar ugu jirto. tan oo kale lama shukaansado, yada ayaa wax shukaansata. waxa la mooda Xena princes warrior. P.S. Blue, Chimera is clearly a boy. Someone with so much fantasy, creativity and imagination has to be a teenage boy . Hardly the manly man you so clearly fancy.

Dr_Osman;774243 wrote: The horses should be removed from the emblem now that horse riding folks from SSC have left Puntland. Replace them with Fish or the indian ocean of red see on both sides.

What does Beer Gaal mean? the liver of a white male?

Xaaji, you must be mistaken. Puntland never ducked a meeting.

Naxar, Hermet and many other Somali's are just following the logic of the (Siyadist)regime and example of governance they have seen. For they dont know better. lets try to create new history and not fall in to the same cycle of futility and self-destruction mode.

Abtigiis;778912 wrote: Common sense dictates that there would be too many things to object to in Somalia in the last two decades. It would be helpful to give examples of things the Professors objected to and to judge them on a case by case basis rather than resorting to generalizations. I personally think they have been nearly always correct on all of issues including objecting to Khaatumo and Awdal State. I also think the feeling that old somali sentiment is dead is too simplistic. I think diaspora people like peasant actually gauge things by the polarization they see where they live. I see the communities in Somalia from time to time and I have no doubt that it is not difficult to revive a new wave of somali nationalism. It just needs a bit of belief and work. Agree. The proffesor so far objected to: -Ethiopian invasion in Moqadishu. failed. -TFG construct from the beginning.failed -Somaliland secession and int recongnitionso far failed -Clan based states all failed. (Puntland become a regional administration(Bari, Nugaal and half of Mudug) rather then the clan based State it was as the original intention was in 1998. ) -Al Shabaab failed -Khaatumo, Awdal State, ? -

Salvation for the world’s most utterly failed state depends more on private enterprise than international aidOct 15th 2011 | BERBERA AND BOSSASO | from the print edition WHERE there are beasts, there is life, goes a saying in Somalia. Half of its people depend on livestock for their survival. This year they will export record numbers of animals. That seems improbable given that a famine is raging in south Somalia, which has seen over a million animals die of hunger and thirst. But the grazing in other parts of Somalia, especially the north, has been excellent and demand for livestock from abroad has never been higher. After banning Somali sheep and goats for many years, for allegedly being diseased, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has once again declared them welcome. For the first time since the collapse of Somalia as a unitary state in 1991, Saudi and Lebanese traders have ventured into the local livestock markets. Goats are mainly exported to Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that $250m-worth of animals will leave the port of Berbera and its more ramshackle rival, Bossaso, in the seven weeks before the haj in early November. In the livestock market in Hargeisa, capital of the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, sweaty goatherds press in on Adan Ahmed Deria, a trader. Hundreds of camels are being loaded onto lorries. Mr Deria nods to show that the price is fixed. “God willing,” he says, “I will buy 800,000 goats and sheep this year.” That is $52m of business, in cash, in a country where the economy has apparently collapsed. Trade is set to grow further. Saudi Arabia wants to double its livestock imports from Somalia by 2013. The herders face fierce competition from Georgia, China and Paraguay, but halal butchers value the quality of Somali animals, which are raised by nomadic Muslims. Somalis have hardly begun to tap the value of their animals. With about $50m in international help they could invest in watering stations, encourage communities to cure animal skins, make soap from bone marrow and fashion buttons from camel bone. They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen. Though the region suffers from rampant piracy, it mainly affects international shipping rather than locals. Last month pirates captured a livestock ship in the waters off Bossaso; they were killed within hours by irate traders and herders. Meanwhile, hijacked foreign freighters litter the coastline undisturbed. As parts of the economy grow, Somalis increasingly look to the diaspora for loans. Its members are prominent in gold and metal markets across Africa. Many excel at moving goods and money around. The once thriving fishing industry would be helped by investment in refrigerators, as would frankincense cultivation, which employs 10% of the workers in Puntland, a breakaway region in the north. None of this is to deny that the situation in south Somalia—the country’s breadbasket—is anything other than dire. UN figures yet to be published suggest that 80,000 people may already have died as a result of the famine. More are certain to follow them to the grave. According to Somali aid workers from the hungriest areas, the situation is bad but improving. Forecasts for the coming rains are promising. Showers have already arrived in some places. Recovery will be a struggle, but apocalypse looks less likely now. An American celebrity campaign, entitled “F--- famine”, emphasises that famines are man-made. That is unhelpfully vague but not necessarily wrong. In Somalia famine results from the strictures imposed by the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia, which controls large parts of the south. A drought has strained the entire region. But Kenya and Ethiopia have dealt with it much better than the ignorant and petty Shabab. They have been kicked out of Mogadishu, Somalia’s ruined seaside capital, by African Union (AU) troops paid by America and the European Union. The Shabab are not yet defeated, but they have lost a lot of ground and support. The story of a 23-year-old farmer, Ahmed Mohammed, is typical. He fled his village of Bulamerer on the Shabelle river along with his heavily pregnant wife and one of their children. They left two other children behind in the village with Mr Mohammed’s mother and his teenage brothers and sisters. The family’s goats died of hunger. He fears his children might suffer the same fate. Still, he says he will not return home until the Shabab have gone. The fighters take a third of the harvest as taxation, ban singing, whip the men to prayers, force the women to cover their faces, and violently break up any gathering of four or more people. The village school is run by the Shabab, but only those loyal to their cause are allowed to attend. Echoing the suggestion that the famine is at least in part man-made, Mr Mohammed claims he and others were denied access to river water for their crops. Now on the defensive, the Shabab have taken actions as desperate as they are deadly. On October 4th they arranged a suicide bombing in Mogadishu which killed over 100 people. Most were students queuing up for scholarships to Turkey. The bomber, a teenager, recorded an interview before the attack in which he said of the victims, “They never think about the hereafter and about harassed Muslims.” The target of the bombing was education—hope itself—but also the Transitional Federal Government. It is supported by the AU troops in the capital. The prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, wants to finish off the Shabab and has said “this is the time to intervene” and that the “cowards” should not be allowed to regroup. An offensive led by the AU and transitional government troops this week hammered Shabab positions on the edge of Mogadishu. Publicly, donor countries say the government is the best bet to run the country. Privately, they lambast it. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the lacklustre president, has extended his mandate by delaying elections to next year, to nobody’s satisfaction. Venal and inept, his government surely needs to be replaced. But with what? The International Crisis Group, a research and lobby group, argues that a “European style centralised state, based on Mogadishu, is almost certain to fail”. Somali elders talk of free-spirited nomads “vomiting up” orders made far away. Devolving power to towns and clans—the linchpin of Somali society—would be better. But that too is risky. South Somalia has several separatist groups and Puntland has at least three separatist insurgencies which result in almost daily assassinations of officials and an indefinite delay in potentially lucrative oil exploration. Somaliland in the far north is different again. Despite a dependency on qat, a mild stimulant imported from Ethiopia, which accounts for a third of imports, or $160m a year, it has a maturing government and four successful elections behind it. Many Western diplomats now think it deserves full independence. Ethiopia might agree. It needs a stable Somaliland to pipe gas from a newly found field in the east to the coast. The non-Shabab parts of Somalia have every chance of seeing strong economic growth. The diaspora remits $1 billion or so a year. That could finance badly needed investments. Yet often the money comes with strings attached. Some benefactors engage in what is known as “PlayStation politics” in which they attempt, as in video games, to control affairs in their homeland remotely. Or pillage it: “Where there is money, there is funny,” says Abdiwahid Hersi, the director of Puntland fisheries. Take the spiny lobster. Puntland used to catch 2,000 tonnes of these each year. But predatory fishing practices have destroyed stocks. Last year, the catch was only 167 tonnes. Next year, the spiny lobster may be gone forever. With it goes another chance for a better life in coastal communities tempted by piracy.Further economic growth in northern Somalia is dependant on law enforcement—an unlikely prospect. A group of mercenaries is suspected of having landed a shipment of arms and equipment at Bossaso this month. Could they be paid to clear out pirate dens and save the spiny lobster? Somalis laugh at the thought. But with north Somalia recovering somewhat, while the south is mired in famine, one conclusion is inescapable. The Somalia of the past is gone. The southern breadbasket has fallen too far behind. Even though it may slowly be freed from extremist control, Mogadishu will only ever be the capital in name. The country’s economic centre of gravity has shifted to the Arab-facing north. Bossaso has grown from 50,000 to 1m people since 1991. Hargeisa has expanded even faster. The best hope for the south is that some of the dynamism spreads.

Ethiopian troops are hurting extremists in Somalia but stability is still far away Jan 7th 2012 | ADDIS ABABA AND NAIROBI | from the print edition HOW many countries does it take to chase away a ragtag band of al-Qaeda fighters? In Somalia, the answer is a hatful. The country has a “transitional” government that has for years failed to put up a serious challenge to the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia. Backing the government are soldiers from Burundi, Djibouti and Uganda who are fighting the Shabab under an African Union mandate. In October Kenya invaded Somalia from the south with the aim of pushing the Shabab into the sea. France and the United States have intelligence agents and special forces on the ground; the Americans have drones in the sky. And neighbouring Ethiopia has re-entered Somalia to clear the Shabab out of the town of Beledweyne. Many independent Somalia-watchers think this could once again end in tears. Somalis and Ethiopians have been fighting each other on and off for centuries, with Somali zealots, inspired by Islam, periodically launching raids on predominantly Christian Ethiopia—or so the Ethiopians have long complained. Many Somalis resent Ethiopia’s sovereignty over the ethnic-Somali region of ******. An attack on it in 1977 by Somalia ended disastrously; an Ethiopian counter-offensive backed by Cuban troops wrecked Somalia’s army and led to the collapse in 1991 of the last Somali regime to control the whole country. It was 15 years later that Ethiopia invaded Somalia with American support to unseat an Islamist government in Mogadishu, the seaside capital that has long been a wreck. Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister, withdrew his troops in 2009, saying the jihadist threat had receded. But the Shabab consolidated its hold on southern and much of central Somalia, forming a Taliban-style administration. It thrived until last year’s famine exposed its incompetence and cruelty. Suicide-bombings that have killed young Somali students have cost the movement much support, as was shown by the unusually warm welcome the Ethiopians got in Beledweyne, similar to the one the Kenyans got in some towns in the south. For the first time in years the Shabab is on the defensive outside Mogadishu, most of which it has lost in the past six months. Kenyan and Ethiopian forces, with some fumbling, are slowly but methodically going after them. Thousands of Shabab fighters, many of them boys, are marching long distances through the bush to get away. Their artillery pieces are useless and they feel insecure even in their old strongholds. The Somali people, less afraid of reprisals, are turning hostile. In Beledweyne locals mingle with Ethiopians in cafés, suggesting they believe the Shabab will not be back. Somalia may now have its best chance of peace and security since 1991. If the government can consolidate its hold on Mogadishu, it will be a big step forward. The capital’s port is busy, its markets bustling. More suicide-bombings and assassinations will occur; a respected local journalist was killed last month. But this year most residents will, with luck, seek to remake their livelihoods rather than worry about fending off jihad. Yet as anarchy recedes, old territorial questions will re-emerge. Somaliland, in the north, wants independence. Puntland, in the north-east, wants a lot of autonomy. Ethiopia is all for such goals. Mr Meles has good relations with these autonomous parts, hoping to divide and rule. He would like a corridor through Somaliland to export gas and likes using the port of Berbera. But Ethiopia itself is a brittle political construct. A local court last month sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in jail for crossing without permission from Somalia into the ******. Mr Meles has had to subdue separatists from the ****** National Liberation Front. The Oromo people in southern Ethiopia occasionally display separatist tendencies. The Shabab is far from the only threat to stability in the Horn of Africa.

Indeed, Dr.Inajaad is well read in the ancient ways of farsamo fooraris.

:D

Samater's have always opposed secession and belief Somaliland should seek unity with Somalia Its a grave lie to state the biggest opponents of secession, actually support it. Hiilqaran opposes clan state or based maamuls and Federalism for Somalia. And belief in unity and Centralized State. That is why Puntland folks and other clan state supporters here oppose Hiilqaran. Strage that even someone who says he wants a centralized State opposes Hiilqaran.(Xiinfaniin) And its quite cheap that Hiilqaran is only associated with one of the dozens founders. Even Abdirizaaq Xaaji Xussen, Not a warlord like AY is one of the founding fathers of Hiilqaran. Shame on those that deny his history and Legacy of 1960-1964.

Lool@clan is everything even in Al Shabaab. Shame on Ngonge, for undressing us but naked.

Abokor Omar;778597 wrote: What Xinn is kindly trying to say is that; He would regard the implosion and total destruction of Somaliland is a political success. It's his goal. We in turn most ensure the likes of Xinn - those who share his ideology regardless of their qabil- are destroyed. This can be in the streets of Burco, las anood, Borama, or any other city in Somaliland. Somaliland is past qabil, it's about ideology, and those who agree and share my fundamental right to separate are my brothers in arms and countryman.. That is were I disagree with 'Uniont' as Abtigiis and Xiin. One does not need to have 3 clan based maamul's in one city like Galkacyo, to proof to the Somali people we need for strong national instutions. What both Abtigiis and Xiin, dont take it to account is that there are northern and southern political dimension's and therefor need to be adressed in northern and southern platforms, in order to prefent the mistakes of 1960. The Burco, Erigavo, Borama and Taleex meetings are proof of those northern forms of politics. Seemaal and Khalshaale are northern form of conflicts. Where Southern has its own political characteristics. Any intellectual SSC'er will tell you they would have Somaliland form of governance over the Southern form of governance, where it not for the secession part. While else would Burco and Borama be the most inclusice and most succesfull meetings in Somalia! Because they were indiginous. Shame on Xiin for hinding and turning.

Xiiny, you and I both know clan state's never function. Puntland is state based on clan, Khaatuma, Rascaseyr, West Punt State, Maakhir all outcomes of the clan based maamul's on the ground. Somaliland never schrinked in size as your beloved Puntland has, no need to wish for the same to Somaliland. If Khaatumo works, then it will work as well as Puntland has, and fall apart in 10mini clan States. SSC opposition to Somaliland has mainly to do with the 'secession' part not with bad governance.

Xiin, that is not true. For Somalia's unity one doesnt need disunity in Somaliland. The two State's can perfectly unite in a Confederate model. If you want to create a country paralyzed by Somaliland's disunity, then propagandate disunity in Somaliland. Dont forget that the Union of 1960 failed not only because of southern incompetence but also because of northern disunity.

Duke, you are wrong Hiil Qaran was founded by Abdirizaq X Xusseen, Cismaan Kaluun, Sifir, Jangali, General Qalib and many others. Funny how you only lable the brothers.

A_Khadar, it seems that Somaliland will engage further in dialogue with TFG's Somalia. Wouldnt that be reason to revise Khaatumo's strategy. As "secession" might be off the table?

http://www.raxanreeb.com/?p=128945 We knew that the TFG would politize and try to gain scores if Somaliland attentended any meeting with them. Lets not overreact on this little political rabbit bunches, its for the greater good. I call upon Duke and his likes to refrain from scoring cheap shots against Somaliland. Otherwise for sure it will be returned one day, when Puntland shrinks to have its political size.