Xaaji, where are those pictures from Mogadishu

Congratulation to the people of Somaliland.

Lafalte labeegte ka roon.

Abdi Ileey is a high level official of the Ethiopian goverment. We warn the Ethiopian goverment should stay out of Somalias affairs.

Lets hope the two sides dont clash and come to an common understanding.

The Somali goverment's objective is to safeguard the stability in the region. Regional states should be established through an inclusive, democratic and transparant proces. This didnt happen in Kismayo. It's the goverments responsibility to prevent any clashes between the two sides.

Mogadishu — Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation is working to re-open embassies and diplomatic missions that have been closed since 1991, in an effort to align foreign relations with the new Somali federal government. The ministry's Permanent Secretary Mohamed Sharif Mohamud said Somalia has plans to soon re-open embassies around the world, namely the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Algeria and Iraq. With the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in September 2012 and improving security conditions in Somalia, countries have started re-opening their embassies in Mogadishu as well, including the United Kingdom, Egypt, Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Most other countries with diplomatic relations with Somalia have missions based in Nairobi. The ministry will also replace some ambassadors with appointments that are better aligned with the government's economic and human development policies, Mohamud said. President Mohamud's administration began implementing changes in March, when the Somali embassy re-opened in Brussels, offering services for Somalis in the European Union. On April 18th, the Somali government appointed Abdullahi Mohamed Ali as its diplomatic envoy to London; he is expected to formally present his credentials to British government soon. Diplomatic shuffle Mohamed Osman Mohamed, political adviser at the Somali embassy in Juba, South Sudan, said about 15 ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions in Arab, African and European countries will be re-called. He cautioned, however, that the process of replacing these officials would require a good deal of tact to avoid upsetting the outgoing diplomats. Political analyst Hamdi Khalif Bashir said that in January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation began the process of re-calling ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions whose terms had come to an end. "[President Mohamed Siad Barre's] military government opened 40 embassies and five general consulates including embassies in Tunisia, Nigeria, Senegal, Serbia, Sweden and several other countries," she told Sabahi. "The current federal government, however, has appointed new ambassadors and consuls to activate its new foreign policy," Bashir said, adding that the ministry is looking for employees with at least two years of experience who can speak multiple languages. She encouraged outgoing diplomats to end their terms gracefully. "I call on all Somali diplomats to be fair and distance themselves from pessimism and despair," she said. "They should work to preserve peace and follow the path to success so they can deliver a message of freedom, justice and love." Foreign Affairs Minister Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Aadan will recommend new ambassadors, submitting their names to the cabinet for a vote. According to the constitution, the president has the final authority for official appointments.

When the Somali federal government announced Monday that it was preparing to take control of its airspace by the end of the year, it was largely hailed as a positive move indicative of Somalia's continued progress in security and stability. A plane carrying members of the Somali Police Force takes off from the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu January 17th for a three-month training course in Djibouti. [stuart Price/AU-UN IST/AFP] Passengers disembark from Jubba Airways, the first plane to make a commercial flight to Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport on July 30, 2006, after 11 years of closure. [stringer/AFP] Somaliland bans United Nations flights from its airports Somali leaders agree on protocols to end transitional period Somali government welcomes United Nations office in Mogadishu Somalia prepares for first presidential elections in Mogadishu Soon after the announcement, however, the Somaliland administration took issue with how the federal government and the United Nations came to the agreement and in retaliation banned all UN flights to and from its airport beginning Wednesday (May 15th). The United Nations took over responsibility for managing Somalia's airspace 19 years ago following the collapse of the central government, and in 1996 the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation jointly established the Nairobi-based Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority of Somalia (CACAS) to collect over-flight revenues for Somalia. The CACAS has collected millions of dollars on behalf of Somalia, said Abdirahman Said Aden, former director of the administration department in Somalia's Ministry of Transport. "Unfortunately those funds were not used for infrastructure development and repair of the country's airports, or the implementation of a training programme for the national staff at the Somali Aviation Authority. Instead, the Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority of Somalia was using those funds," Aden told Sabahi. Previous transitional governments tried to regain control of the country's airspace, but the CACAS was reluctant to transfer authority to Somalia, he said. In 2010, former Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke sent a formal request to the United Nations seeking to regain control of Somalia's airspace for the first time in 15 years, Aden said. Former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who replaced Sharmarke, also sought control of the country's airspace in April 2011. Both requests were not successful, however, because previous transitional governments did not have the international recognition and support that the current government has. Somalia's Minister of Information, Posts and Telecommunications Abdullahi Ilmoge Hirsi announced the government's successful negotiations after meeting with UNDP and CACAS officials on Monday. More than 100 airspace management staff will be relocated from Nairobi to Mogadishu in preparation for the transition, and in-country staff will be trained during the remainder of the year. "The Somali Civil Aviation Meteorology Authority (SCAMA) will prepare and choose competent people needed to do this task that is important to both the state and its sovereignty," general manager of SCAMA Ali Mohamoud Ibrahim told Sabahi. "The Somali government will receive control of the airspace within seven months as the conversion process smoothly begins from the Jomo Kenyatta [international Airport] in Nairobi to Mogadishu's [Aden Adde] International Airport at the beginning of June to be complete by the end of this year," Ibrahim said. Move may hinder talks between Somalia, Somaliland region Somalia's move to assume full control of its airspace is a historic achievement for the country, said Mogadishu-based political analyst Masood Ahmed Guled. However, he cautioned the federal government about upsetting the Somaliland and Puntland regional administrations. "There is a need to convince the regional administrations such as Somaliland and Puntland because they are essential partners in the process of airspace management in the country," Guled told to Sabahi. "Otherwise the process will lead to fuelling conflict between the Somali parties, and subject the fragile gains made on the negotiations [between Somalia and the Somaliland region] to collapse." The Somaliland administration on Tuesday responded to the Somali government's move by banning UN flights from landing at or taking off from its airports. "This step harms the ongoing talks between Somaliland and Somalia," said Minister of Civil Aviation and Air Transport for the Somaliland region Mahmoud Hashi Abdi. "Somaliland is an independent state, and therefore cannot accept that the federal government controls Somaliland airspace. Mogadishu does not govern us nor does it represent us." Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from Somalia in 1991, but has not achieved recognition by Somalia and the international community. During a press conference held at the Hargeisa International Airport, Abdi condemned UNDP for its alleged non-neutrality and siding with Somalia, and also accused the CACAS of violating an earlier agreement between Somalia, UNDP and the Somaliland administration. "The plan was for the ministries of aviation of Somaliland and Somalia to meet with the United Nations in Nairobi in June to discuss who will be responsible for air control," Director General of the Somaliland Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air Transport Ahmed Dalal Farah told Sabahi. "Unfortunately, UNDP did not consult us on this new decision because the agreement was to consult on what is jointly owned." Ibrahim, the general Manager of the Somali Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority, declined to comment on Somaliland's position. "I do not want to comment on political attitudes, but I would like everyone to know that the airspace belongs to the Somali people. As this issue is not a political issue, it is a service, and its benefit will come back to all Somalis," he said.

His Excellency Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon and Interior Minister H. E. Cabdikarin Hussein Gulled today welcome the new Somali Police Chief Commissioner transfer to Brigadier General Abdihakim Dahir Said well-known as Gen. Saacid . Prime Minister speaking at the transfer ceremony pointed out that the appointment of the new police and intelligence top leaders is part of the government’s effort to improve security. The council of ministers this week appointed top country security officers to Brigadier General Abdihakim Dahir Said as the new Police Chief Commissioner and Major General Bashir Mohamed Jama as the new Director of National Intelligence and Security Agency. “We have to grantee the safety and security of all of our residents and visitors. That great responsibility falls upon you – the Somali Police Force. So I am calling on you to redouble your efforts to stabilise Somalia,” Prime Minister said speaking at the police chief transfer ceremony at General Kahiye Police Academy Mogadishu. His Excellency Abdikarim Hussein Gulled, the Interior Minister, welcomed the transfer. He praised the outgoing Police Chief Major General Shareif Sheikhuna Maye for the exceptional work did on rebuilding the police force. He also welcomes the new Chief Gen. Abdihakim and wishes him success on this new job. Gen. Abdihakim is the 10th Police Commissioner since the Somali Police Force was established in 1943. That is 17 years before the independence of the Somali nation in 1960. He stated his commitment to reform the police force in order to quickly respond the security and human rights issues in Somalia. “The Somali Police Force should soon be prepared organization dedicated to provide safe environment and professional police services. We are committed upholding the constitutional rights of everyone in Somalia, and earning the public trust by holding ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism,” General Abdihakim said.

Xaaji, its not funny. This is the result of Kenyan meddling in Somalia. The local community would have reached concencus among themselves if foreign elements stayed out of the process. They would have reached understanding, just like Khatumo, Puntland and Somaliland communities did.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 MOGADISHU (AFP) — A warlord in southern Somalia's Jubaland has declared himself "president" of the region, clan leaders said Thursday, shortly after the election of another militia commander to the post. With tensions already high, the move raised the risk of clashes between rival factions in the southern port city of Kismayo, a former stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab, where Kenyan troops in an African Union force are now based. The city was quiet Thursday, but residents have reported clan militia reinforcing their positions across Kismayo. On Wednesday, former Islamist warlord Ahmed Madobe was elected Jubaland's "president" by a conference of some 500 elders and local leaders. Neither the title nor the region itself is recognised by the weak central government in Mogadishu. His supporters -- including the powerful Ras Kamboni militia -- fired heavy machine guns into the sky to celebrate his appointment, residents said. "They were firing guns late into the night...the situation is calm now but the city is tense, there are fears of clashes between militia," Kismayo resident Hassan Mohamud told AFP. Madobe is a key ally of Kenya, and his appointment risks opening a rift between Nairobi and Mogadishu. But shortly afterwards, former Somali defence minister and warlord Barre Hirale, who comes from a rival clan, declared himself also president after a separate conference. "I was nominated president of Jubaland by the elders...I call on the people to support my presidency to assist me in bringing peace," Hirale told reporters. "The conference where I was nominated was organised and belonged to the people... while the other conference was organised and pushed by Kenya," he added, calling on people "to lay down their arms and help rebuild the region." Hirale, a veteran militia commander from the ******* clan, has in recent years been backed by Ethiopia to battle Shebab insurgents. Both elections are understood to be opposed by the central government in the capital Mogadishu, which is keen to stamp its authority on the lawless and war-ravaged nation, not to see further regional splits. There was no immediate reaction to developments from Mogadishu. "If fighting breaks out in Kismayo, it will be the Somali government that will take responsibility for the bloodshed, because they are creating instability between brotherly clans," Madobe told reporters. Residents in Kismayo said they now had two leaders. "Today we have two presidents, and one of them is aided by Kenya's army...the city is quiet but people are not moving in the streets as they are worried," Kismayo resident Ahmed Ali said Thursday. "Clan militia supporting either side are reinforcing their positions across the town," he told AFP by telephone. Jubaland lies in the far south of Somalia and borders both Kenya and Ethiopia, and control is split between multiple forces including clan militia, the Shebab, Kenyan and Ethiopian soldiers. Jubaland joins other semi-autonomous regions of the fractured Horn of Africa nation, including Puntland in the northeast -- which wants autonomy within a federation of states -- and Somaliland in the northwest, which fiercely defends its self-declared independence. Invading Kenyan troops -- now part of the AU force mandated to support the government in Mogadishu -- captured Kismayo alongside Madobe's troops in October 2012. Madobe, from Somalia's ******i clan, was once governor of Kismayo and a key member of the Islamic Courts Union -- whose armed wing was the Shebab -- that was toppled by Ethiopia's 2006 US-backed invasion of Somalia. During the invasion he was wounded in a bombing raid in southern Somalia, and was captured and taken to Ethiopia, spending at least two years in jail. After his release, in late 2011 he switched allegiance to battle his former Islamist comrades by fighting alongside Kenyan troops. Source: AFP

Good move by the Prime-Minister, the committee should start its work immediately and prevent a civil war between the Kismayo warlords.

xiinfaniin;950504 wrote: Baashi, The election took place and Madoobe won. Gaandi dropped out and canceled his candidacy (that is what the election commission said). Two other candidates also withdrew their candidacy endorsed Madoobe . A vice president was also elected from Gedo. I am not sure if others contended for that post. But there is no contraversy so far about the election , read online portals Hiiraan Online included as to how things unfolded. It was rather orderly. Xiin, election is supposed to be a race between diffrent candidates. There were no other candidates.

ICAO airport management was banned for nearly 2 years from SL. Till ICAO gave in on demands. I am sure they can ban UNHAS and ECHO flights from Somaliland. This would actually benefit the Somali owned airlines. Not a bad move. However I disagree with the reasoning, it is better to manage the Somali Airspace from Mogadishu then from Nairobi.

Tallaabo;949666 wrote: It is very easy to obtain the equipment to jam the radio communication which is so vital to air safety. Without radio communications no airliner will enter our airspace. waryaa, dont give people bad ideas.

The UNHAS and ECHO flights destort the local airlines markets. Local airlines can transport NGO staff and NGO cargo. They should have been banned long time ago.

Chimera;949332 wrote: So the nationalist Prime-Minister who in the past was demonised and degraded as a lackey has now become a misunderstood champion of the J-project and a potential martyr in the eyes of the same critics? LOL, I give up, Somali politics is shady as hell. Something is rotten.

Che -Guevara;949067 wrote: Your support or lack of it has no weight , it means nothing! For the rest Solers, you really can't do anything about anything, this is needless argument.

Xaaji Xunjuf;948928 wrote: Axmed cabdi xaabsade is in hargeysa why? Djibouti president picks the cabinet of saacid this is crazy Shaw meeshu waba meel walaan Malistar, adeer, sidii USC ayaa xabada dhinac kasta iyo meel kasta u ridisaa. War dagaalka siyasada sidaas laguma badiyo.

Jacpher, Buuba is considered as a traitor by SL admin. Do you consider the Members of Parliament and Minister as traitors.

The article says the delegation consisted of politicians and elders kasoo jeeda 'Jubbada Hoose'. It doesnt mention HAG.

If ***** ***** *****, somali bantus, etc, would participate, it would have slight chance. Laakinse wexe ka dhigeen riwaayad reer ku ciyaariyo tambuug Kenyati dhexdii.

Maxaa naga galay UK iyo lacagtooda. 300 oo sano ayee aduunka boob iyo dhac ku hayeen.

Title should be changed in to: the real reer Mogadishu.