Saalax;772050 wrote: The birth of a SSC movement that is pro TFG will unite Somalilanders even more for their common goal. What is your (Somalilanders) common goal?

A_Khadar;769974 wrote: Who recorded it? One of the pilots? Mogadishu isn't that bad even after 20 years of war.. yeah, sidaa ayay u egtahay, qofka record-gareeyay wuxuu fadhiyaa shirka diyaaradda..

Jacaylbaro;769913 wrote: ^ ^ He has never been there dee ,,, and have no knowledge of how Hajj is done Calankuun bay cadhadu ka haysaa ,,, :D Oh! Sorry my bad! i have never been there, so i don't know how to perform this "waving flags pilgrimage."

JB carrying a flag (Somaliland or British) while you performing Hajj necessarily contradicts the spirit of the Hajj which is a symbol of unity for Muslims around the world.. This means that the Muslim should put aside all racial, political, nationality and economic differences.

This guy is hero to some, but he may even not know that his Hajj is impaired.. it lacks Niyyah which is an intent one evokes in his heart to do an act of worship for the sake of Allah..

Is this defensible or justifiable? bear in mind the place, the occasion and the manner.

This from wikipedia: Somalia is considered to be the most powerful economy on earth, possessing a GDP double that of the United States, it is also noted as having the worlds most powerful military, with over 400 aircraft carriers and 188,887,765 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets and 6 Billion active soldiers. Somalia is also a global leader in political stability and was awarded the highest Quality of Life ratings ever recorded. OMG! LOOOOOOOL:D:D I thought wikipedia is reliable source..

Sierra Leone?? :D or you meant Burundi?

Dr_Osman;767296 wrote: I feel sorry for the mogadishu boys they want to say something bad about puntland but they cant cause their leader is not Ditoore, I feel sorry for you too, a step towards Somalinimo and you're busy making comments about us.. this agreement was great and is welcomed by every sane Somali so don't differentiate us, anyway we are the sons of Samaale!

the FINAL is-jiid jiid waxay sheekadu kusoo afmeerantay in 4.5 la qaato: Madaxdii ka qeybgaleeysay shirkii wadatashiga ee ka socday Garowe ayaa isku afgartay qodbkii la isku maandhaafsanaa kadib dhex dhexaadin uu sameeyay Ra’iisul wasaaraha Somalia, Mudane C/wali Gaas. Iyadoo hore la isugu afgartay inta badan qodobadii shirkaasi looga hadlayay ayaa hadana waxa la isku mari la’aa qodob ku saabsan sida lagu soo xulayo baarlamanka. Waxaana ugu dambayntii uu Ra’iisul wasaaraha Somalia ku qanciyay dhinacyadii Shirka ka qayb galayay in Baarlamaanka badalaya kan hadda jira ay soo xulaan Odayaasha Dhaqanka ansixinta ugu dambaysana ay yeeshaan TFG, Maamul Gobaleedyadda iyo Ahlu Sunna Waljameeca. Waxaa sidoo kale lagu heshiiyay in Baarlamaanka soo socda uu noqdo kii ugu dambeeyay ee Habka Qabaa’ilka lagu xukumo, wixii ka dambeeyay loo gudbo in Xildhibaanadda ay dadku soo doortaan. Sidoo kale madaxda shirka ayaa haatan ku howlan diyaarinta war murtiyeedka shirkaasi mar hadii go’aan laga gaaray qodobkii la isku mari la’aa waxaana la filayaa in goor dhow lagu dhawaaqo qodobada ka soo baxay shirkaasi. Source

Dr_Osman;765839 wrote: I hope the somaliland folks learn that your battle is with mogadishu and dahir calasow What's that supposed to mean?! Horn Cable Journalist Slain In Morguedishu Is that remark an insult to our Capital city?

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An abandoned house in a city district with squatters all around it I arrived in Somalia’s capital city in late November 2011. My first view of the city as the plane approached the airport was that of the city’s crystal clear turquoise beaches devoid of human habitation. Upon landing, I saw the remnants of a Russian cargo plane brought down recently by Al Shabaab that sits near the runway like a museum piece. The Amisom camp is near the airport, but I was not headed there. I was booked at the Safari Hotel in the K5 district, which was once a thriving commercial area in pre-war Mogadishu. The gate to the hotel was guarded by armed men. Groups of men sat chatting in the hotel’s relatively sage courtyard while sipping coffee. Occasionally, I heard gunshots from outside my hotel window, but people told me that I needn’t be afraid – they were probably coming from the weapons market nearby where customers routinely test guns before purchasing them. Mogadishu is now safe, they assured me, since Ugandan and Burundian soldiers from the African Mission in Somalia (Amisom) succeeded in forcing the dreaded Al Shabaab from the city three months earlier. I was not so sure. There seemed to be too many young men driving and walking around with guns. Some even carried their bullet cases around their necks like long necklaces. Mogadishu has suffered the worst of the two decade long civil war. Everywhere, there were shells of once magnificent buildings that used to house government offices, museums, cinemas, theatres, mosques, cathedrals and libraries. But there were signs of hope even among the ruins. Small shops – many run by women – had sprung up among the rubble, and in some parts of the city business was booming. Mobile connectivity is widespread in Mogadishu. In fact, it is estimated that Somalis are among the most mobile phone connected people in Eastern Africa. But other services were clearly lacking. Mohamoud Nur, the Mayor of Mogadishu and Governor of Somalia’s Benadir region, who has been described as “the man with the most dangerous job in the world,” told me that when he was appointed by Transitional Federal Government as mayor in June 2010, the city had no public services, no garbage collection, no street lighting, no functioning sewage system, no firefighting truck, no ambulance and no clean water. People were digging wells to get water, which carried the risk of contamination. There was not a single broom in the municipality to clean the streets with, and no wheelbarrow or equipment. Services were being provided by private companies to people who could afford them. The city is still largely in this condition but since he became mayor, Nur has successfully lit up many streets in Mogadishu and removed the many piles of garbage around the city. Share This Story Share “I still have a long way to go but I realise that change is not just physical but psychological as well,” Nur told me when I went to visit him at his heavily-guarded home in Mogadishu. “I need to change the mentality of the people. Before, people were self-defeating; they believed that life will never change. I am fighting a battle of minds.” The mayor is on a mission to restore faith among the city’s desperate inhabitants. “People tell me that the residents of Mogadishu are like people locked in a dark box with no windows, doors or toilets who hear horrible sounds outside the box. They stay in the box waiting for someone to release them. They hold on to their dignity for as long as they can but eventually give up. So their environment becomes filthy and ugly. Psychologically, they begin to accept this as normal. They need to know that they can break the box – they need hope.” Mogadishu, or Moga, as the locals call it, literally means “The Seat of the Shah.” The city has a long history that dates back to the 10th century when Arab and Persian traders began settling there. Historical documents indicate that the city was an important hub for trade with communities along the Indian Ocean coastline. When the famous Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta arrived in Mogadishu in 1331, he described it as “an exceedingly large city” where prosperous merchants sold the finest cloth and other luxury items. Later, in the early 20th century and after the First World War, the city was under the control of Italy until Somalia gained independence in 1960. Mogadishu’s fortunes began to wane with the start of the civil war in 1991, which saw various clans and factions fighting for control of the city. For the next two decades, bloody battles were fought on Mogadishu’s wide boulevards and in its historical buildings. Wars destroy cities, and Mogadishu is no exception. Abdullahi Mohamud Ahmed, a Somali businessman resident in the United States who was on a short visit to the city, told me that when he was growing up in Mogadishu in the 1960s and ‘70s, the city was a vibrant, multicultural, hospitable place that had a strong sense of solidarity and good neighbourliness. “Today, Mogadishu is naked,” he said, “stripped of all its good qualities.” Shamis Elmi, the mayor’s wife who recently relocated to Mogadishu from London to join her husband, talked nostalgically of the Italian coffee shops and restaurants which she frequented as young girl. The waterfront where she and her classmates went to hang out is now a sad and desolate place devoid of girly chatter. Nostalgia for pre-war Somalia is evident not just among Somalis who live in the diaspora, but even among those come as visitors. Abdi Latif Dahir, a Kenyan Somali who lived in Mogadishu at the height of the civil war in 1997, recalled going to school in one of Mogadishu’s bloodiest neighbourhoods where clan fighting and incessant killing was the order of the day. “We were shot at almost daily for the first four years in the school bus and muttered prayers every time a bullet went off,” he told me over a cup of cappuccino at a Nairobi coffee house. Abdi remembers spending a lot of time at home reading because he couldn’t go out. But despite the horrors that he witnessed, he still misses Mogadishu. What is this crazy love for this city among its old residents? Those who lived there in the 1970s and ‘80s said they loved it for its sophisticated, cosmopolitan urban culture. One old-time resident showed me the lawns of the once-famous Juba Hotel where the mayor and his wife used to go for New Year’s Eve celebrations. The hotel is now gutted and squatters are living in its spacious lawns. Returning Somalis mourn the “villagisation” of Mogadishu by internally displaced rural people and pastoralists, who now squat – with their animals – in the remnants of once beautiful homes and buildings. Many old-time residents believe that the rural folk and pastoralists have little appreciation of city life, and will never truly become urbanized. Most will not return to their villages either, even when peace returns. As I passed a group of children sitting on a bullet-ridden porch I wondered what it must be like to have known nothing but war all your life. How would these children adapt when – or if – the city returns to normal? What, if anything, would they miss about the city where they grow up? Which memories would they want to hold on to, and which ones would they want to forget? Nur believes that the struggle for Mogadishu will eventually be led by the city’s women. Women, he said, hold society together; when men go to war, they become the breadwinners. “Women have always supported the cause of Somalia,” he told me while sipping a glass of camel milk (which he kindly offered to me but which I politely declined). “Unfortunately, women are highly under-represented in the current government. I personally believe that the next president of Somalia should be a woman.” By RASNA WARAH

For the first time in two decades, a recognized government has a measure of control of about 90 per cent of the Somalia capital, giving some hope for the future, David Blair reports A Somali National Army soldier stands guard in Torfiq market in Mogadishu, where African Union forces have reclaimed much of the city in street battles against militants and fighters from al-Shabaab, the self-proclaimed followers of al-Qaeda in Somalia, since 2007. A gunshot echoed across the jagged shells of homes pulverized by battle. Obeying orders to "watch and shoot," a soldier had taken aim with his machine gun down a road bleached white by the sun, spotted a target and fired a round. Fighters from al-Shabaab, the selfproclaimed followers of al-Qaeda in Somalia, were dug in opposite the green sandbags of this front line position in the country's shattered capital, Mogadishu. This time, however, they fired no answering fusillade across the deserted street that served as "no man's land," sparing the Ugandan soldiers deployed against them. Incidents of this kind are played out every day in Mogadishu, where ordinary Somalis, wearied by years of war, ignore the crack of gunfire. And yet something fundamental has changed in a city that became notorious as the most dangerous capital in the world, and the setting for America's "Black Hawk Down" debacle. For the first time in two decades, a recognized government has a measure of control of about 90 per cent of Mogadishu, including all of its strategic points, notably the airport, seaport and biggest market. Al-Shabaab, which ran most of the city as recently as last year, has been forced out of all but a few pockets. Once, no senior official, let alone a world leader or wealthy businessman, would have risked visiting Mogadishu. In the past four months, the city has hosted Recep Tayyip Erodgan, the Turkish prime minister, Prince Waleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire, and Ban KiMoon, who became the first United Nations secretary general to visit for 18 years on Dec 9. Somalia's 25-year civil war is not about to end and the country remains divided between al-Shabaab, the official government, various warlords and the enclaves of Somaliland and Puntland, which have seized de facto independence. Yet the return of some security in Mogadishu, combined with the recognized administration's new control over most of the capital, amounted to a genuine turning point, said Abdiweli Mohammed Ali, the prime minister. "Somalia for the last 20 years became a danger to itself, to its neighbours, to the region and to the entire world," he said. "Now we are getting out of that. We are moving to a different era." Al-Shabaab has proclaimed its loyalty to Osama bin Laden's heirs and launched attacks in Kenya and Uganda. Officials fear that it could send trained bombers as far away as Britain, home to perhaps 300,000 Somalis. Yet the extremists suffered a crucial setback when they were expelled from most of Mogadishu in August, said the prime minister. "Between then and now is the difference between day and night," added Ali. "There was a huge improvement in the area of security." If so, the gains were made by the toil and sacrifice of a new form of military intervention. Bitter memories of "Black Hawk Down" in 1993, when 18 American soldiers died in one battle - with some bodies being dragged through the streets - have kept western armies and UN peacekeepers away from Mogadishu. Instead, the African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has deployed its own force of 9,500 soldiers, drawn from the armies of Uganda and Burundi. Street by street, they have reclaimed most of the city. At another front-line position on the Dayniile road, Burundian troops have pushed al-Shabaab out of the capital altogether. The African troops are fighting bin Laden's heirs without the backup that Western soldiers take for granted, yet this force, known as the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), has achieved more than America's intervention of 1992-93, with less than a third of the troops. But the price has been severe. While AMISOM refuses to disclose its losses, an informed estimate suggests that about 1,000 troops have been killed since the first deployment in 2007. But the street markets are full and some Somalis voice guarded optimism. "There is still fighting and bombings," said Abdul Rahman, a 21-yearold trader at Fagah junction market. "But I can make money in Mogadishu and the situation is better than before." Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Mogadishu+dares+dream/5875083/story.html#ixzz1gs524Ins

This picture taken in Xamar last August (date not sure)..

hey! this happened in Malaysia.. all local TV broadcast this scene.

Che -Guevara;764426 wrote: A Government without land and land with out Government-how ironic. WRONG! Somalia Gov. control 3/5 of it's land (except Somaliland).. Palestine Gov. don't control all their land because of Israel occupation. or you mean vise versa.. which is not TRUE.

without bullet proof: ;)

Somalia;764229 wrote: Excellent news Gaacuur it will signalize that UN agencies should move away from the so-called “Nairobi syndrome”, and relocate to Mogadishu ASAP..

Ban Ki Mon iyo wafdi uu hoggaaminayo oo Muqdisho soo gaaray Wafdi ballaan oo uu hoggaaminayo xog-hayaha guud ee qaramada Midoobay ayaa goor dhow ka soo degay garoonka Diyaaradaha ee magaalada Muqdisho. Wafdiga uu hoggaaminayo Man Ki Mon ayaa waxa agaroonka diyaaradaha ku soo dhaweeyay masuuliyiin uu ka mid yahay Ra’iisul wasaare C/weli Maxamed Cali iyo xubno ka tirsan gollaha wasiirrada. Wafdiga ayaa la filyaa in goor dhow ay soo gaaraan xarunta madaxtooyada qaranka si halkaasi uu kullamo kulla qaado madaxda dowladda oo uu ugu horeeyo madaxweyne Shariif. Xigasho: www.radiomuqdisho.net

Wararka naga soo gaaraya magaalada Muqdisho ayaa sheegaya in goor dhow uu halkaasi gaaray wafdi uu hoggaaminayo xoghayaha guud ee Qaramada Midoobay Ban Ki-Moon, iyadoo saaka magaalada ay ka socdeen qabanqaabo lagu soo dhaweynayo xoghayaha. Ban Ki-moon waxaa socdaalkiisa ku wehliya wakiilka gaarka ah ee Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan arrimaha Soomaaliya, Augustine Mahiga. Wararka ayaa intaasi waxa ay ku darayaan in ammaamka magaalada si aad ah loo adkeeyey, iyadoo waddooyinka oo dhan la soo dhoobay ciidamada booliska iyo kuwa militeriga. Waddooyina caasimadda Muqdisho ayaa saaka gabi ahaan xiran, mana jirtaan wax gaadiid ah oo halkaasi maraya. Wixii warar ah ee ku soo kordha kala soco Bar-kulan.

TFG da ninkaan baad ka taageertaa, Shabaab na Godane... marka XX soo lama oran karo inaad QARAABADA jeceshahay!