What really oppressed Somali women is the Islamic religion.If you look at nomads you see they fiercely independent.

Mahiga is great,tried to help Somalis & succeeded.He should have a monument in Mogadishu.Don't blame the Somali jigsopuzzle on him.....it ain't fair.

Abtigiis;960839 wrote: Now, I concede the Tolka have lost that mantle of being "fierce nationalists". This Kenya ayaa na wadata thing has ruined it. The tolka are now only a part of the myriad conniving Somali clans who want to get what they regard as their share by hook or crook. Rest my case:D

you mean I won't be save inan layaal hadaan ahay:confused:

warya XX big foot daa, wallahi hablo qurux badan bay leeyiin.I'm in love with thm, on my way to jigjiga.

Cute,she need lose weight thou.

so you keep an eye & post?

love to see too,when is it coming up? 6 continents instead.

Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) Tanzania: Butterfly Business Spins Money By Orton Kiishwenko TANZANIA has embarked on enrolling more farmers to a butterfly breeding programme to increase export of the product to foreign markets. The locally bred butterflies are exported to the UK, US, Germany and France. This move has sparked an unprecedented interest by small scale farmers in parts of the country especially along Tanga coastal areas, Lushoto District, Kilimanjaro and Njombe regions. Officials say farmers are earning over 600,000/- per individual's harvest in an average of two months. "That is good money for farmers in such a period, we hope these can improve their income levels," the Chief Conservator of Kilimanjaro's Chome Natural Reserve, Mr Frank Mahenge, told the 'Daily News on Saturday.' Giving an example, the official noted that if 100 farmers in a particular village got involved, they were likely to collectively reap a total of 50m/- if nothing of the products was damaged during transportation to outside markets. He said farming butterflies was currently putting food on the table for hundreds of households in villages in three regions. "The butterfly business is booming, " he said, noting that a farmer needs only two butterflies to get a thousand pupae and that will be over 600,000/- because that is what a farmer can receive after every harvest in only two months and that is muchearn from the chicken or egg selling business." Mr Mahenge explained that people want to buy as many butterfly species as possible for their collections and to make nice decorations. "Butterflies are also bought for research," he said, adding that the insects are excellent indicators of the ecological condition of most terrestrial habitats. "Butterfly specimens here are very beautiful. Big hotels and tourists come to buy them. Rich businessmen are beginning to buy them too for beauty in the house at occasions like weddings and for education of their children," he said, noting that most of them were collected from farmers every harvest. A wildlife officer at Same District Council, Mr Thomas Katunzi said that the butterflies sold to Europe are kept for exhibits, research and decorations. Huseein Mwanyoka, a butterfly farmer told the 'Daily News on Saturday' that some designers from Europe use the butterflies to come up with pattern designs. "With this business you don't need a big farm; you don't need a big room. Anyone can take up this business because you only need a small container," he said. According to Mr Mahenge, the process involves construction of a small, netted enclosure with food plants for the target species of butterfly. A female butterfly is caught and placed in the breeding cage to lay her eggs on the leaves. The eggs are harvested and tended until they make the transformation from larva to pupa to butterfly - a process that takes about a month. He said that ideally , a farmer could be obliged to have a licence granted by Wildlife Services to trade butterfly pupae and other live insects in Kenya and the rest of Africa, but noted that they had put in place an agency ,Tanzania Forest Conservation Group, to collect butterflies from farmers after harvest for export. For months, villagers who live near Amani Natural Reserve and Chome Natural Reserve forest have found this unusual source of income, he said. Copyright © 2013 Tanzania Daily News. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).

Mad_Mullah;960537 wrote: You can't trust the westerners just like you can't trust the Africans. Look at Greece, if poverty hits the UK/Europe the first people they will blame are the immigrants. Groups like BNP will take over and start A) Killing every Muslim, Sikh and Black person B) Have more mercy and kick us out. I hope by the time I have kids, Somalia will have gone past the tribal state, with Xamar again being the capital. Right, we all agree home is best. @Qansax.....I'm Burcawi ,haven't Seen Jabuti except the Airport.

don't know better place than west; have no rights in the gulf once you have problem with natives,they can't even go to universities unless a citizen.Egypt is just too dangerous,kids might be stolen and all that's available in the west can be found here.With the xenophobia in S.Africa,won't trust Africans, infact there was article today on how Kenyan army raping & torturing refugees.Same in Ethiopia,you could end up in jail anytime & rot without even knowing the case even thou give 5 star for refuge tolerance.I have seen a friend who stayed in Tanzania for 20 yrs and even worse,he told me they remind you often that you came to rob them.There's no place like home.Either stay in the west or move to bigger cities like Mogadishu or Hargeisa......you find everything you wanted including good education,beautiful & cheaper homes.

What's the amount of water they lose?

We won't bow to Egyptian pressure over Nile dam: Ethiopia byReuters June 08, 2013 Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's construction of a dam on a tributary of the Nile is not open to negotiation, the Addis Ababa government said on Friday, as a confrontation with Egypt over the project escalated. The Cairo government said this week it would demand the project be halted, after its southern neighbour began diverting a stretch of the river to make way for the $4.7 billion dam that will become Africa's biggest hydropower plant. Ethiopia said it had summoned Egypt's ambassador to explain comments by politicians in Cairo advising Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi to take hostile action to halt the building of the dam. A spokesman for Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Cairo's position on the dam was unclear and its concerns were often not based on science. "In any case, demanding a halt is simply a non-starter. It's not subject to negotiation," spokesman Getachew Reda told Reuters. Countries that share the Nile have argued over the use of its waters for decades, repeatedly raising fears that the disputes could eventually boil over into war. Ethiopia has set out plans to invest more than $12 billion in harnessing the rivers that run through its rugged highlands and to become Africa's leading power exporter. Now 21 percent complete, the Grand Renaissance Dam will eventually have a 6000 megawatt (MW) capacity and is central to Ethiopia's plans to become Africa's leading exporter of power. Cairo argues that Ethiopia has not properly considered the dam's impact on the river, saying that a report put together by experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia is inadequate. The Cairo government suffered embarrassment on Monday when senior Egyptian politicians called in to discuss the crisis were apparently unaware their meeting was being broadcast live on television. One suggested spreading false rumours that Egypt was building up its air power. Another, Younis Makhyoun, leader of a Salafi Islamist party, was filmed saying Egypt should back rebels in Ethiopia or, as a last resort, destroy the dam. "Whether sabotage will be on menu, that remains to be seen," Getachew said, adding that past attempts by Egypt under former president Hosni Mubarak to destabilise Ethiopia through support to insurgents had failed. "Destabilising Ethiopia never worked even when we were at our weakest position in the past," Getachew said. "We are in a far better position to avoid any negative impacts that may come from Egypt or any another country." Even so, Getachew rejected the possibility of conflict and said he hoped Mursi would "be on the side of reason". Ethiopia says it won't bow to Egyptian pressure over Nile ... - Reuters www.reuters.com/.../us-ethiopia-egypt-nile-idUSBRE95616E20130607‎

Remember more than too often of Xiin, Abtigiis, working tirelessly for the formation of Somalia's FG,vowing not to succumb to regional squabbles and readying thmslvs the final blow against the arch enemy,Somaliland.What a missed opportunity:D:D:D Warya all the tricks coming to an end.The HAG is between puntland & jubaland...your sewing of spider's web mean nothing:D

XX that's the way its going & in the end be under Mogadishu.Kenyans have no otha choice.

Kenyan forces took control of the city,where will that lead, anyone's guess!!

Kalshaale... hahaaaaa that's what you tell each otha, no different than Kismayo is yours.Then how come Xagaltoosiye in Hargeisa & how come you demonstrating everywhere. YEEEE Siyaad is alive & well:D wallahi indha bir baa tiin!!!!

unless Uhuru tells you othawise:D

MoonLight1;959291 wrote: well yes we have problems in the south, its a vast country with multiple tribes, multiple languages, different ethnic groups, and many cultures so the problems are complex and it will take a while to sort it, contrary to your triangle ruled by one clan, all the heads of the 3 parties are one clan, the head of the parliament is from that clan, all the major ministerial portfolios e.g interior & foreign ministers are from that clan, its a one man show yaa xaaji. so please don't compare a nation to an enclave. that one clan is atleast 95% , am sure you go to great lengths to disprove that...come with M iyo madax madowbaa siman:D.....oooooh and when you planting Laskory,buhoodle,bosaaso ,godey, in Kismayo , maybe foreign forces will help you in Somaliland!! BTW reality on the ground

:Dthanks bro, tell Silanyo we both deserve big posts, me being the defence.

The "D" left this culture behind...nostalgia when they were eating people raw & stuffing billions in their pockets:D What goes around comes around.YOU should be the least to complain.

Garaad Bari;959163 wrote: What is yours opinion in regards to Prof Samatar's actions in this video clip? hope he is not pro Somaliland as that won't affect 4 million people in one way or another...just doesn't matter. Remember all the big fishes before him like Tuur,Buuba,Jama yare etc...where r they now?. Samater was in America & against when the SNM was in the bush.He couldn't stop their destiny & won't be able to do so now. OPPORTUNIST......heart broken by the the nomination of Fozia, D & H conflict in kismayo and had no chance of eva becoming big in Somalia. Am sure he looking for office & probably contest nxt presidential election.

Why Somalis just don't evacuate.