http://gallery.mailchimp.com/19679cf7708fe9b4e9f72c846/files/HIPS_Briefing_003_2013_ENGLISH.pdf Recommendations To the Somali Federal Government: Continue engaging Somaliland with the objective of political accommodation and eventual national reconciliation. Seek the counsel of a broad spectrum of society for the dialogue. Make the negotiating delegation more inclusive and include northern unionists. Entrust negotiations with Somaliland with prominent personalities, politicians, businessmen, and religious figures. Devise a comprehensive settlement plan that addresses historical injustices. Recognize the legitimate grievances of Somaliland and apologize for the abuses carried out in the name of the Somali government. Be prepared to discuss power sharing offers that may enable and entice Somaliland politicians to pursue the path of unity. Encourage international partners to continue supporting Somaliland on economic development and improving security Take confidence-building measures such as the establishment of a common economic zone, common sports leagues, and the exchange of cultural and educational links. To the Somaliland administration Continue dialogue with the Somali Federal Government. Play moderator role and resolve peacefully and amicably all inter-clan conflicts between communities in Sool, Sanaag, Awdal and other places. Engage Puntland to peacefully resolve the outstanding border issues. Rescind laws barring northern politicians visiting family and friends in Somaliland. Collaborate with the SFG on fighting terrorism and piracy. Take confidence-building measures such as the establishment of a common economic zone, common sports leagues, and the exchange of cultural and educational links. To the international community End parallel Somalia-Somaliland mediation efforts and back the efforts of a single international broker agreed to by both parties. Incentivize reconciliation through development ventures and assistance building on mutual benefits of cooperation in economic and social fields. Discourage spoiling of the Somalia-Somaliland rapprochement by national, regional and international actors.

EAEF Tuesday, April 30, 2013 The East African Energy Forum has announced today in Mogadishu that it will build Somalia's largest engineering and geoscience faculty producing over 100 engineers by 2017 in partnership with Benadir University. The group which is comprised of Somali experts in engineering and natural resources, announced the plan in front of over 250 students and faculty at the university's Mogadishu headquarters. "We have come here to announce our investment in our future and our young Somali students and to provide them with world class education rıght here in Somalia, this project will be complete by September 2017 God Willing" said Abdillahı Mohamud, the group's founder and director. Preparing For Somalia's Natural Resources Future The group's announcement comes at a time when the world's attention is squarely on Somalia's large untapped natural resources ranging from fisheries, petroleum and mining. Mr. Mohamud says the regulation of these foreign interests is something the group takes seriously. "We are adamant on making sure the African resource curse does not occur in Somalia, and by ınvesting in a nationalistic and well educated Somali beauracracy to oversee this vital sector, we are attempting to shut the door on corruption and mismanagement" Tabling Effective Legislation EAEF's Mogadishu trip also included lengthy and fruitful discussions with the Somali Parliament and relevant ministries on a plan to regulate and lay down effective and nationlistic laws that will see Somalia's natural resources used to benefit the entire country. Mohamud believes its time for all Somalis to look to themselves to change their country rather than relying solely on the government to do all the vital tasks needed by the country. "This country deserves a long term vision and though. Somalia's resources belong to its people, and as such our task is straight forward, we want the absolute best for the country and we will always support only that which is in Somalia's national interest."

uesday, April 30, 2013 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Nicholas Kay, a diplomat from the United Kingdom, as his new Special Representative for Somalia, it was announcedtoday. Mr. Kay succeeds Augustine Mahiga of Tanzania, who has served as Special Representative and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) for the last three years and will complete his assignment on 3 June 2013. In the announcement of the new appointment, the Secretary-General paid tribute to Mr. Mahiga’s “exemplary leadership” in helping to steer the conclusion of Somalia’s eight-year political transition in the summer of 2012. “The Secretary-General recalls with deep appreciation the fact that Mr. Mahiga’s contributions had laid the foundation on which the Federal Government of Somalia, with the help of the international community, can now further engage on peacebuilding and the consolidation of security and development initiatives in the country.” Mr. Kay is currently the Africa Director at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Prior to this, he served as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan from 2007 to 2010 and 2010 to 2012, respectively. He was also the UK’s Regional Coordinator for Southern Afghanistan and Head of the Provincial Reconstruction Team for Helmand Province from 2006 to 2007. His career also includes diplomatic stints in Spain and Cuba, as well as 14 years of work as an English teacher in a number of countries. As the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Somalia, Mr. Kay will be responsible for leading UN efforts to assist the country’s leaders and citizens to build peace, political stability and a hopeful future after decades of conflict. Source: UN

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This thing and the forces beind it are just foul walaal, it stinks to high heaven...

and one local one si ay iskaga damiso qiiqa ku kacsan. :)

oh am a hybrid, like a swan, can do a little bit of each while excelling in none, you should do a hargeisa version of this inboow

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Standard Sunday, April 28, 2013 Detectives in troubled Garissa town say a booming black market could be the main cause of the incessant violence. The illegal trade is on household products such as sugar, which is imported tax-free. Investigations into the recent wave of killings in Garissa town that have claimed dozens of Government workers including police, have established the victims may have differed with the trade barons before meeting their deaths.Barons involved in the underground economy may have irregularly acquired Kenyan citizenship and are suspected to be financiers of the Al Shabaab. A senior detective said the killers of two employees of the Kenya Revenue Authority ( KRA) in broad daylight late last month, were hit men hired by a sugar baron, but are thought to have fled after the ongoing crackdown was launched. “The killers are an execution squad hired by the dealers in contraband products in this town,” said the detective unearthing the killings. However, police have said the probe is not conclusive. Our source said police officers killed in different attacks had been directly involved either at the numerous road blocks erected on the entry points to the town, or were assigned to investigate cases of illegal imports. “All this violence revolves around the illegal imports where people opposed to it become targets for elimination,” said the detective in anonymity. Some suspected sponsors of the criminal gangs are thought to have moved into the town when the Somalia government collapsed in the 1990s, bringing with them immense wealth that has since multiplied from their business interests. Small arms and explosives are also smuggled into the country by the same barons in the same consignments with the household commodities. The information is part of findings that the intelligence officers are expected to hand over to President Uhuru Kenyatta, who demanded a thorough probe into the cause of violence in Garissa. President Uhuru is expected to make a decision on whether an audit to establish how the barons obtained their Kenyan citizenship, since an initial probe on the suspected crime lords had cast doubts on how they acquired identification cards. Quality of investigations Lack of residents cooperation, however, may have compromised the quality of investigations into the killings, opening wide the possibility that the sleuths may never catch the hired hit men, a frustration shared by Charlton Murithi, the Provincial Police Officer (PPO). “It is almost impossible to get any information on criminals from the people here, but we are starving the market fully of the sugar imports as a starting point,” said Mr Murithi in an interview at his Garissa town office. He said the violence in the town and nearby places had financiers, who were most probably involved in the irregular cross-border business. Without revealing names of the financiers, the PPO said the investigations had profiled them and a manhunt to track them down launched. The link between the violence and contraband products, mostly imported from the neighbouring Somalia, is so obvious in the town that wholesale dealers were the first target when the police started their operation to stem the spate of attacks. Major stores previously stocking the irregularly imported sugar have remained closed in recent weeks but as we established, some retailers could still access the cheap sugar that comes packed in yellow bags. The sugar is repackaged before it is sold in varying small quantities, according to a motorbike taxi operator in the town, who is often contracted to deliver the commodity. “You have to be trusted by the seller to buy the other sugar, it is not for everybody these days,” said the taxi operator.

this had me rolling on the ground bloody delightful and so true, the examples are just too much, oversize suit and plastic glasses, MBA married but available and the issue with the tatoos damn, oh and the shiisha conversation "aboowema reer mareykan baad aheyd".... got to call hamza up and tell him to quit with the qarxiis...

by Hamza Mohamed Friday, April 26, 2013 “London or Minneapolis?” a soft female voice asks. It comes from a few tables behind me at Village Restaurant – a popular hangout for Somali diasporans in Mogadishu – as I finish a call to my friend. “Eastleigh,” I respond, trying not to disclose my London background. Eastleigh is a district in Nairobi, inhabited mainly by Somalis. Clutching a shisha pipe in her right hand that is patterned with henna flowers, she blows thick white smoke that fills up the dimly lit corner of the restaurant. “You may dress like a local but you don’t sound like the Eastleigh type. You definitely don’t look like one.” Moving her chair to to my table, she introduces herself as Hamdi from Hamarweyne, a district in Mogadishu. In the dim lights her gold necklace and rings are hard to miss, and one can smell the incense smoke she perfumed her long, black, orange-highlighted hair with from a mile away. Her two female friends soon join us. They’ve come here in the hope of mingling with their preferred type of men – diasporan guys. With fragile peace holding up in Mogadishu, Somalis who have been living abroad are flocking back home for a visit. Most of them are single men – eligible bachelors. They are to Somali women what English Premier League footballers are to London women: the cream of the crop. Most local women think Somalis living abroad, especially in the West, have lots of money. It’s easy for diasporan men to seduce them with cash, the perceived chance of a better life abroad or love. There are unproven theories that diasporan men are more romantic than local men; that only a diasporan man will drive for miles to the one flower shop in town to buy his lady flowers; that, unlike local men, diasporan men listen to their ladies while romantically gazing into their eyes. I ask Hamdi how she knows I’m not a local. She smiles. “I can even tell what you do for a living.” She and her friends reckon there are three types of diasporan men in Mogadishu. Like spots on the skin of a leopard each group has unique features, they say. They dress and carry themselves differently. 1. The government workers This group is mainly made up of former taxi drivers from London, Minneapolis, Toronto and Sydney who have returned home to work in government. They wear oversized two-piece suits and walk around with briefcases whose contents are a mystery. To finish off the look, they sport dark glasses (plastic). This group, the girls say, don’t have the most amount of money. They’re very visible at the beginning of the month just after they’ve received their meagre pay cheques. Their strong point is that they have access to power, which means they can potentially help you land a job if you play your cards right. This group attracts unemployed female university graduates looking for work in government offices, Hamdi’s friend Fartun reveals. 2. The business types/MBA More often than not, these men are dressed in expensive sarongs and polyester shirts. They’re older than the government workers and tip the obese end of the scale, but they have deep pockets. What they lack in looks and charm, they compensate for in gifts. They usually have at least one wife outside Somalia and half a dozen children. These men are commonly referred to as MBA – Married But Available. They attract women who dream of shopping trips to Dubai and are okay with being the second, third or fourth wife. 3. The cool guys According to the ladies, this group has the most fun but the lightest pockets. They’re the new cool kids on the block, sent back to Somalia by their families because they’ve become too westernised in their adopted home countries. They depend on donations from relatives in the West and have the worst reputation among the locals. Young and fashionable, they sport the latest hairstyles like mohawks and some have tattoos hidden under their long sleeve shirts. If they don’t conceal them, they risk facing the wrath of conservative Muslim locals. You can find the cool guys chilling on Liido Beach or Hamarweyne, the most liberal district of Mogadishu. They know how to throw underground parties on a budget among the bullet-battered buildings of the city, and supply all kinds of illegal recreational stuff. To be seen with them is to play with fire but the girls who want to be “Hollywood cool” feel at home in their company. Fartun prefers the business types because they can afford the things she likes in life, like dining at the few nice restaurants in town. A decent meal for two at one of these spots can start at US $25. In Somaliculture men always pay for the meal, which means high-end restaurants are out of budget for many of the local men. With the summer holidays coming up, an influx of diasporan men are expected in Mogadishu in the next few months. Hamdi and her friends say they’re happy about this – the more fish in the sea, the better the chance of a good catch. Before leaving the restaurant, I again ask Hamdi what she thinks I do and what group of eligible bachelors she’s put me in. After inspecting me from head to toe, she says: “Judging by the sandals and the T-shirt you wearing, you look like they’ve deported you from London.” Hamza Mohamed is an independent British-Somali journalist.

Turkish-Somali construction factory in Waaberi District

Didnt this actually happen? I mean did he not go by boat from xamar with heavily armed men? Xiinow I mean siyasaad ka sokoow you are really preternaturally unlucky, I mean you saw an own goal for ridicule and turns out it actually happened.

Somalia : Somalia’s priority: national integration for economic recovery After years of overlooking the real needs of the Somali people, it is significant change longed-for that Somalia’s statebuiling featured in the strategic agenda of the key actors of the International Community (IC), namely the G8 powers in their ministerial meeting held in London on April 11, 2013, under the UK Chairmanship. The Ministerial decisions will be ratified by the 39th Summit of G8 heads of government planned for June 17-18, 2013 in Lough Erne, UK. This political commitment marks the definitive shift on the part of the IC from the exclusive regional and international security concerns to the broad goal of rebuilding Somalia. To not miss this special opportunity for their common future, Somalis must accelerate their national integration for sustainable economic recovery and development. The G8 foreign ministers expressed their determination to provide high level political support to the process of Somalia’s re-engagement with the International Financial Institutions (IFI) – the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and the African Development Bank (AfDB) – institutions created to promote macroeconomic cooperation, development and stability with sound fiscal, monetary and financial policies at national and international levels. Given the stringent policies and procedures of the IFI with regard to countries in default like Somalia, the ministers strongly urged the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to demonstrate particular political commitment to the public financial management by strengthening transparency and accountability as an essential condition for IFI re-engagement. Specifically on the issue of national integration, the G8 foreign ministers underscored the importance of a comprehensive political settlement in Somalia, including clarity on relations between central and regional authorities. This calls attention to the flawed and opposing working relationship between center and periphery. Regions must be integrated into the national macroeconomic framework, security and justice system. The UNDP’s operational division of Somalia into South Central, Puntland and Somaliland has to end. The G8 decisions are consistent with the new international vision and strategy outlined in the New Deal based on the concept of comprehensive approach centered on local ownership. The goal is to end the statelessness, fragmentation and fragility condition of the countries in conflicts by empowering the local citizens to shape their destiny peacefully, collectively, and democratically. The G8 actions complement the list of actions either already taken or under finalization by the IC. Those actions include the UN Mini Summit that re-defined the role of the IC in Somalia, the US diplomatic recognition of the FGS, the lifting of arms embargo, the review of AMISOM operation, the new UN Integrated mission for Somalia, the intense engagement of Somali political factions and entities for final political compromise, and the upcoming conferences in London, Brussels and Yokohama. On May 7, the British Government and the FGS will co-chair the first international conference on Somalia , which will endorse the immediate Somali priorities of rebuilding national institutions for security forces-army, police, and coastguard-, justice, public financial management and deepening political cohesion. Ninth century Muslim scholar, Imam Ibn Muhammad Al Qutaybah Ad-Dinawaree said on government, “There can be no government without an army, No army without money, No money without prosperity, And no prosperity without justice and good administration.” The statement mirrors the priorities expected from London Conference. One potential outcome could be the transformation of the six pillars of President Hassan Sh Mohamud into two years of IFI supported transitional program with benchmark tasks and price tag of one billion dollars. Somalia will be high on the agenda of the 5th Tokyo International Development Conference on Africa (TIDCA) to be held in Yokohama, Japan from 1 to 3 June 2013. UK as chair of G8 will present the case of Somalia to the conference for mobilizing political and diplomatic support for socio economic assistance with particular emphasis on the humanitarian dimension. Japan, the African Union, the WB, the UNDP and the UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa are co-organizers of the conference. In September, the EU and the FGS will co-chair another conference in Brussels, Belgium. That conference will endorse the medium term compact between Somalia and the IC as a blueprint for the reconstruction of Somalia. On April 3, 2013 the AfDB Board of Directors approved Somalia Country’s Brief 2013-2015. With this approval, Somalia will be able to benefit from fragile states facility (TSF), African Water Facility (AWF) and Special Relief Facility (SRF) administered by AfDB. Since 2010, Somalia received about 3.7 million dollars from AfDB. On April 12, 2013, IMF recognized the FGS, which paves the way for direct cooperation. WB has had an engagement program with Somalia since the preparation of the Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) in 2007 which produced Somalia Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) of five years period with the total outlay of 2.2 billion dollars. Somalia owes about 600 million dollars of arrears to the IMF and the WB out of the outstanding debt of US$ 3.656 billion. The US government intends to help Somalia for clearing the arrears. IFIs play a catalyst role for donors’ financial support, debt relief under highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), and foreign investment. Donors’ priority tends to be first political reform, technical assistance and control of domestic financial resources before significant financial aid. Therefore, the process of re-engagement with IFI and IC will be arduous and complex and requires dedication, perseverance and professional and political skills. FGS must be adequately prepared on mapping problems and policy priorities, on commitment and capability for the re-engagement with the IC and IFI. ( Somalia’s priority National integration for economic recovery) Mr. Mohamud M Uluso mohamuduluso@gmail.com

loool wakaas if you think the caravan succeeded dee halkee aan discussion ka ka biloowna? Federal system ka na aad hadal heeysiid is being put into practice today.... and that is where the rumber hits the road. P.s got to go it habeen where I am @ huunow-huunow reer xiin beeri ayaan usoo labaan doona I.A

Thank you yaa xiin, inoo waad sheekada daad ba maar maar ku rumeysta here on SOL.

I.A digfeer ayaad uu oyeyesa all this time...will do the needful yaa xiin!

Loool waax kasta iyo qof walba waa irellevant and yet the only place were reer puntland have a voice seems to be here on SOL, not in ankara, mogadishu or hargeisa? Even hon. jawaari is giving them activated charcoal pills in the parliament to control their farts in parliament. What is remaining except for SOL forums iyo buraanburka xiin and co.:confused:

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