Somais love to be contrarians. Somalia is approaching escape velocity and you still find some people trying to slow things down.

Please enlighten us Suldaanka, is it missing something?

I've never been to Hadaaftimo, but my family is from there.

The foreign aid structure is conducive to corruption. When you give a truck load of money to amateur statesmen and expect them to distribute it to needy people, it is inevitable that they will look out for themselves and their family,.

Oil in Puntland is a harbinger of good things for all Somalia. South Somalia will have great reservoirs of oil in the Somali basin, and Somaliland shows great promise as an oil producing region.

The president will come from the south. Southern Somalia is still unstable and infested with Al shabab, a president from hopefully will give them incentives to shape up and secure their region.

The-freeman;851583 wrote: Maybe for the caadan with a bag of maize for the locals but not for other Somalis I forgot the "not". I'm actually not worried about religious diversity, I'm worried of religious fanaticism imported from Saudi Arabia. Al Shabab and Al Qaeda are a cancer that will destroy any civilization that we could possibly have in this country, they will keep the girls locked up and uneducated and censor any new ideas from our education system.

If I was a Somali christian I'd have ran out of there in a New York minute. Somalia is "NOT" a welcoming place for religious diversity.

Good for you, but I don't see the content. I really wish moderators delete empty threads like this one or the what you drive nonsense.

They should retract that part where they made those allegations, but the rest of the report is far more damaging. This confirm the general opinion that most TFG politicians are a bunch of thieves and Somalia will remain at the bottom of corruption rankings for a long time.

I don't see the "politics" in this.

Haad adds that the elders are particularly concerned about a draft constitution, written in consultation with the United Nations. In a previous VOA interview he said that elders take issue with sections granting women the right to run for high office and that the draft does not specify a capital city. Unfortunately a lot of people believe in this. I lived in the middle east most of my life and I've a feeling women in Somalia will have it worse than their sisters in Saudi Arabia.

Somalia;850533 wrote: All of those things will change when the constitution is ratified. It'd be great if someone posts something in this forum about this ever changing constitution.

He seems like an extremely qualified person. lets hope they vote on qualifications rather than tribes and special interests.

This is a worthless thread but I would like to congratulate Somaliland for having taxis. There is nothing more indicative of civilization than having other people drive you (i.e. Faroole). It's really a shame that we have a guy who worked for a living and used his money to go to school as a president of Puntland.

And people wonder why Somalilanders want a separate country (not that I condone it).

The laziness and corruption in the Somali government is holding this country hostage. The squabble over trivialities like the capital or borders will result in mini states like Somaliland and Puntland and many others to form their own countries. This line "well-armed men some linked to the TFG’s forces are now gang raping women and children on a full time basis" is a reminder that this country has devolved into such a state that it will require generations to remove this barbarity.

It's really ironic that a Somali is concerned about citizenship and naturalization in Somalia.

How can people be worried about borders for a failed country? There are more grave matters to be concerned about. Maybe if the country succeeds in 10 or 20 years the people of those Somali provinces will have the initiative to rejoin ( though that would destabilize the region).

I'm cautiously optimistic. This our last chance for a united country, if this fails I can see other regions vying for independence.

faarah22;848679 wrote: i support al shabaab, how do you say am atheist? If you support Al Shabaab then you should go and fight with them. I really hate people who advocate for war while they are away in some foreign country.

Somails have the worst reputation these days, living in Alberta it seemed like a Somali kid was getting killed every other week.