Doesn't dantayada mean my aim?

Chimera;934183 wrote: Exactly, I need to experience it. I also need to scout locations for potential films and tv-shows, and we both know good pictures of the country are hard to come by. All of this is still just speculation, nothing set in stone, only the desire is there. Someone should set up a production company and make a drama on the lives of Cilmi Boodhari and Caraweelo one day. I'd much rather watch that than dreary Eastenders.

Tis true I've never been on paltalk. But I somehow think that's a good thing

"Tolka is being punished for simply trying to organise and claim what is legitimately their in Jubbooyinka." That's it in a nutshell. It's interesting to note that all the captured nabaddiid are all from a certain clan...

AUN.

Gsa is inhabited by the awliyahan, abudwaaq and abdalla. The first two are the majority. The 12 that didn't show up are from the Abudwaaq coz there still pissed off that Nadif won and not Bunow Qorane and also because the awliyahan have a majority in the assembly which means they were going to win the speaker anyway. The Abudwaaq say it's unfair that the awliyahan are taking all the top jobs and are not sharing which is a fair argument IMHO. In the middle of all this, us "settlers" (me included ) have to hope and pray the Big Boys sort out their ish and bring the much needed development the county needs. The problem in Gsa is not the land, dhulka waa qani but it is the Big Boys (Abudwaq and Awliyahan). The Abudwaq severely dislike change and are not open to new ideas, the Awliyahan are the complete opposite and will sell every inch of their land for a quick buck. So you can see why we all have high hopes for Nadiif. We're hoping he'll finally break from the old and bring a new approach to the local politics.

lol well do you want to join as well SP or are you just going to criticize?

SomaliPhilosopher;934204 wrote: ^^^^ are you alpha's lackie bud? You poor sod. You just don't understand. I refuse to go on their with an ex-convict and a sarkhaan without there being someone else j/k

Nin-Yaaban;934120 wrote: AB, adigu nin yahow goormaad PALTALK imaan? Waxaa la sheekeesanayey Oba, oo iga qosliyey......adiga iyo, sxbadaa Apophis, Haatu, iyo Wadani waad inaad imaaadan mar. I'll do it if Alpha agrees.

That's a heck of a find. Thanks Apophis.

Safferz;934082 wrote: So... Kenyan, not Habesha. I don't know if the Boran are one of the recognised ethnicities/tribes of Kenya.

Wadani, dalkeena danteena is another way of saying it (which is what we use).

Bluelicious;933999 wrote: Haatu only God knows and I was wrong to lol so were you with your mean harsh words. Since when did you grow a soft spot for the Snake?

They're Boran=Oromo.

I'm hearing the rains have been good this year Alhamdulilah. What's your take Al?

KENYA: After decades of perceived neglect from successive governments – largely blamed for its negative development – North Eastern Kenya residents are now optimistic due to the devolved system of governance. The region is likely to get attention after its potential for growth remained stifled since independence. Residents feel their needs were not properly addressed, citing no sustained or deliberate political commitment to address their problems. Under the new dispensation and a pro-active development agenda, high returns can be achieved from untapped wealth and investment in roads, electricity, education and robust poverty reduction measures the marginal, rain-fed region. The electorate in Garissa, Wajir and Garissa counties chose technocrats they believe could positively determine their destiny. Similarly, their neighbours, who face the same challenges and lifestyle in Turkana, Samburu, Marsabit, Isiolo and Tana River counties are also optimistic since the majority of those elected are professionals. The region’s livestock and domestic trade, tourism and strategic position provide an opportunity for county leaders to focus on positively tapping this great potential. Commercial deposits of oil and natural gas are likely to be found in the arid and semi-arid Lands plus sand and gravel for construction, minerals, soda ash, gum resin and medicinal plants that abound in the region. The region’s geographical location and its social and cultural attributes also position it well to benefit from surplus capital in the developed Gulf. It is the bridgehead to a regional economy of over 100 million people. Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia need outlets for their products, imports of manufactured goods and in South Sudan and Somalia’s case, reconstruction materials. Greater demand for Kenyan products will be generated with the opening up of the north and growing movement of capital to and from north Nairobi. As populations increase, urbanise and become richer, demand for meat and other livestock products will rise. In terms of per capita consumption, Kenya is a meat-deficit country. One study suggests 400,000 jobs could be created if 50 per cent of that deficit is met through increased livestock production in NEP. The hidden wealth in livestock trade is further illustrated by the former Samburu Council’s revenue collection rising ten-fold after starting a partnership with the Livestock Marketing Association to run a sales yard on a revenue-sharing basis. Right incentives Pastoralism, conservation and bio-diversity are linked. With the right incentives, wildlife numbers and diversity can be higher in areas adjacent to national parks than within the parks. The leaders must acquaint themselves with national development to supplement reinvigorated county government programmes. This requires investing in public goods and services, infrastructure, energy, human capital development, environmental management and the promotion of a socially just and inclusive society. Lack of transport, energy, water, and ICTs has undermined investment and reinforced the separation of the region from the rest of Kenya. The transport network is thin, disjointed, and in places non-existent. For instance, an area covering nearly 400,000sqkm has less than 1,000km of tarmac. Routes linking Kenya to markets in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Somalia are poorly maintained and prone to closure. The proposal to build a new road and rail corridor linking the Coast at Lamu with land-locked areas of South Sudan and Ethiopia can open up growth. In Mandera County, the challenges for the newly elected leaders under Governor Ali Ibrahim Roba are numerous; from poor schools and medical facilities to insecurity brought about by evil axis of the local clannism and the Al-Shabaab remnants from war-torn Somalia and occasionally Ethiopian militia. A local professional-cum politician, Hassan Issak Hache, says the rise of religious extremism and militia groups in Somalia has led to the collapse of small-stock trade – the second main major source of livelihood in the county after livestock. In Garissa County, Governor-elect Nathif Jama Adam, an experienced manager is expected to turn around the county’s economy. Nathif has the network and skills to lobby outside Kenya for investment into the county to overcome many challenges faced by residents who have embraced farming. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000080031&pageNo=2&story_title=Kenya-Politics:%20Why%20NEP%20residents%20are%20upbeat%20over%20new%20county%20units

Nomadic communities of rural northeastern Kenya consider people with disabilities to be bad omens and leave them behind during daily work and routine moves. Nearly 4 percent of Kenyans are disabled, but this number may be higher in nomadic communities. Disabled people from some nomadic communities have launched organizations to educate the community and to distribute wheelchairs and tricycles. GARISSA, KENYA – Harun Hassan grew up herding goats in Kutulo, a village in Garissa County, a dry region of northeastern Kenya with little infrastructure. He lived in a Somali community of nomadic pastoralists, moving frequently in search of available water and pasture. It never crossed his mind how disabled people would fare in his roaming community – until he became paralyzed in a car accident in March 2007. Hassan was then a newly married provincial administration officer working for the government in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. While traveling from Nairobi to Garissa, he got into a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He spent a year in the hospital in Nairobi. Although he later regained use of his arms, doctors told him he would never walk again. When he was discharged in March 2008, he had lost all hope in life, he says. “I went back to Kutulo to die,” he says. “I knew the place had no roads, no health facilities and no means of survival for disabled people. But I insisted on going there because I thought my life was over.” His paralysis prevented him from participating in his community’s nomadic lifestyle. His family members herded animals in distant fields, leaving him at home alone. Then people with disabilities began to visit him. Like Hassan, they were the only ones left in the village when the rest of the community was at work. This was the first time he noticed them, he says. “It had never occurred to me that they were there,” Hassan says. “I wondered how they lived in a nomadic community, where people are always on the move in search of pastures for their livestock.” His visitors restored his hope in life. He abandoned his resignation to dying and began to focus on helping people with disabilities in the Somali community. “My focus started shifting from my predicament to other people,” he says. “I realized I could do something to help.” With the help of five friends, Hassan founded the Northern Nomadic Disabled Persons’ Organisation in 2010 to empower community members excluded by society. In rural Kenya’s nomadic communities, disabled members cite exclusion as their limited mobility prevents their participation in traditional life and families consider them bad omens. In response, NONDO and other organizations provide equipment to disabled people and educate parents and local leaders to promote inclusion in pastoral societies. There are more than 1.3 million people living with disabilities in Kenya, or about 3.5 percent of the population, according to Kenya's 2009 Population and Housing Census. In a nomadic community, there may be more people living with disabilities than in other populations, Hassan says. Poor infrastructure and a lack of access to health care means that nomadic people are more likely to suffer from diseases such as polio or measles, which can cause physical disability such as blindness, he says. Hussein Borle, a resident of Garissa town, understands how inadequate medical care affects the community’s disabled members. Borle suffered a spinal injury in 1973 at age 12 when livestock thieves raided his village and speared him in the back. “There were no rehabilitation facilities at the hospital,” Borle says. “They treated the wounds on the surface and told me to go home.” Paralyzed from the waist down, Borle began using a wheelchair. There was suddenly little he could do to contribute to his community’s lifestyle. “Living in the bush as a disabled boy was difficult,” Borle says. “I would be left outside the house like a piece of luggage as my family went to graze our animals. Even children were more useful than I, as they would go to herd goats and fetch firewood.” His family’s movement depends on the availability of water and pastures, he says. When they exhaust the resources in one location, they move to another place, sometimes traveling day and night for as far as 100 kilometers (60 miles). “When time came for the family to move to another place, they would carry me on the back of camels,” he says. “Sometimes we would travel for several weeks, settle in a place for two weeks, then start moving again.” When nomadic families have too much to carry, they leave their disabled family members behind in homesteads, Hassan says. They stock the homes with food and fence them in to ward off wild animals. After settling into their new homes, they return for the disabled members left behind. Hassan says that Somali culture considers children born with disabilities to be bad omens. Men sometimes divorce wives who give birth to disabled children. Most families hide their disabled members and do not allow them to go to school or to the hospital when they are sick. “The Somali community tends to associate things they do not understand with evil,” Borle says. Borle says his life improved when he left the community. After seeking treatment for bedsores at a hospital in Garissa, hospital administrators sent him to an education center run by a Catholic mission rather than back to the bush. Borle went on to gain a university education and now works for the Northern Water Services Board, a government agency based in Garissa town. He also serves as chairman of NONDO’s board of directors. Hassan says that when he first met with the disabled people in his community who inspired him to found NONDO, he noticed that most of them did not have wheelchairs. When they came to visit, they crawled on the ground. “The first thing we did was to remove physical barriers the people were facing,” he says. “Well-wishers gave funds that we used to buy wheelchairs and crutches.” Abdihakim Mohammed, an electrician in Garissa town, lost mobility in his legs after a childhood bout of polio. It was difficult for his family to care for him because of their nomadic lifestyle, so they moved him to the town to live with a distant relative. NONDO equipped Mohammed with a tricycle last year. Mohammed says it’s easier than using a wheelchair. “I can now move with ease around the town,” he says, “and I’m able to attend to many clients.” NONDO collaborates with the Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya and government agencies in northern Kenya on its initiatives. Jemima Bamai, a project coordinator with APDK, says that the association partners with organizations such as NONDO and Kenya Red Cross Society to identify and to assist disabled people, especially during crises such as droughts and floods. The association also works closely with Kenya’s Ministry of Health by providing services to disabled people at provincial and district hospitals. After NONDO or the Red Cross has identified a disabled person in need, APDK sends health personnel to assess the type of equipment they require, Bamai says. APDK then dispatches the equipment. "It is, however, difficult to assist disabled people in the bush because even if they get a wheelchair, it doesn't help much,” she says. “We do not also want to remove them from their community, as they are part of it. It is really tricky.” The organizations then complement equipment distribution with community education about people with disabilities. “We encourage the community not to see them as a burden," Bamai says. NONDO joins APDK in educating the community to challenge the stigma attached to disability. “I recently had a lengthy call with a mother who has a disabled child with spinal injury,” Hassan says. “I had to convince her not to keep her locked up in the house. I usually engage parents to bring out their children and let them be like all the other children.” Hassan says that NONDO trains parents of children with disabilities on how to approach community members who have not accepted their children. The organization also works with the government to educate officials on the importance of involving disabled people in governance and development projects. Rebecca Kemunto, a community development officer for the Ministry of Special Programmes in Garissa town, participated in one of NONDO’s workshops. Before the workshop, she did not engage people with disabilities in her work, she says. “They always want things done their way,” she says, “and they are very moody, so I feel that they will drag my project.” But the workshop amended her attitude, she says. Kemunto is now willing to involve people with disabilities in her community development projects. Hassan also aims to improve attitudes among disabled people by motivating them to participate in social and political life. In Kenya’s March elections, one of the disabled members of the community contested for a county representative position, Hassan says. “I think people in our community are yet to acknowledge that a disabled person can serve in a public office,” Hassan says. “But that was just a start. I’m sure we’ll win in future as the society learns that we are not disabled per se but able to do things differently.” http://www.globalpressinstitute.org/africa/kenya/disabled-fight-inclusion-kenyas-nomadic-communities/page/0/2

Prices for cattle, goat, and camel have risen between 10 and 35 per cent in the last one week, due to the onset of long rains and high demand in external markets. “Prices of live beef has gone up by 67 per cent for the last one month. A whole cow, which a few weeks ago cost between Sh30, 000 and Sh32,000, is currently retailing for more than Sh50, 000,” said David Kamuyu, who operates butchery at Kangemi area. He warns that the arrival of long rains has led to price realignment warning that the upward trend is likely to remain until June and July. Consumers are now buying one kilogramme of beef at between Sh380 and Sh400, compared to between Sh300 and Sh320 a few weeks ago. Dr Hussein Mahmoud a senior lecture at Pwani University says rising demand for camel meat in Arab countries has also pushed prices up of the animal in North Eastern and Nairobi markets. “Consumers in Arab countries prefer camel meat from the horn of Africa, which they say is sweet compared to meat they source from other vast global market segments such as Europe, Australia, and USA,” he added. Hussein said consumers in Nairobi are buying a kg of camel meat for Sh500, up from Sh450 a month ago in Nairobi, while those in Garissa are paying Sh400 for the meat, up from Sh350 last month. Camels are being sold at between Sh70,000 and Sh80,000 in Garissa, between Sh90,000 and Sh100,000 in Moyale, and Sh80,000 in Nairobi. “Demand of camel meat in Arab region mainly in Saudi Arabia is high attracting importers to source for camel from horn of Africa through Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Northern Somalia. Traders in these markets are sourcing for camel from northern Kenya,” he added. Director of Livestock Julius Kiptarus added price of goats across the country has also increased by 33.3 per cent for the last weeks. “Consumers are buying a goat at Sh8, 000, an increase from Sh6, 000 two weeks ago. But during the Easter festive season demand for goat meat was high,” he added. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000080697&story_title=Kenya-Business:%20Meat%20prices%20head%20north%20as%20long%20rains%20begin

Renovation of Garissa County Hall is ongoing ahead of the local county assembly opening tomorrow. Engineers from Ministry workers were on last minute rush to spruce up the near obsolete County hall. The hall, is being refurbished to accommodate the newly elected county representative members who will be sworn in on Friday before undertaking their first assignment of electing the County Assembly speaker. The lobbying for the election of the county assembly speaker has intensified with the three major clans of Samawathal, Auliyahan and Abdiwak showing interest. More than twenty candidates have been cleared by the IEBC to contest for the position. Auliyahan clan has 14 County assembly members on their side which can give them majority number needed to elect the speaker. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-113138/engineers-spruce-new-garissa-assembly

The heavy rains caused flooding in the area forcing them to seek shelter elsewhere in Garissa town. The unexpected rains started pounding the area in the middle of the night catching many residents unawares Residents are now pointing an accusing finger at a local sewer company for allegedly diverting a sewer line in the town. The residents accused the company of interfering with rain water that had its path drain in the nearby Tana River. They are now calling on the sewer company to compensate them for the losses they incurred from damages. By Kevin Muthama http://citizennews.co.ke/news/2012/local/item/8825-heavy-rains-destroy-garissa-town-sewer-line

Garissa governor Nadhif Jama has promised to speed up development in the county. Speaking during his swearing in ceremony, Jama asked the residents to put their political differences for the good of the county. “I am calling upon everyone, including my opponents, to join me in moving our county forward. There is no need of harbouring ill feelings toward each other because in every competition there must be winners and losers,” he said. But Ali Korane, who came in second in the elections, has gone to court to challenge the results. A group of county representatives have also challenged the election of the County Assembly speaker. They accused the governor of unduly influencing the speaker's election in favour of a member from his Aulian clan.Jama promised to create the necessary environment for development saying he will work with other government officials to restore security in the town. He promised to prioritise water infrastructure and healthcare services. Jama pledged to enforce free primary education County commissioner Maalim Mohamed promised to work closely with the governor. The swearing in was presided over by High Court Judge Stella Mutuku. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-114294/governor-jama-boost-garissa-development

Confusion hits Garissa assembly Three days after the swearing in of Garissa county assembly members and election of the speaker, a group of county assembly representatives-elect that absconded the exercise have said that they will be moving to court to challenge the exercise. The exercise was marred with confusion after a section of the elected members opted to stay away over disagreement of the election. Out of the 30 elected members only 18 were present to take the oath of affirmation to their new office. Twelve of the members who absconded the exercise and who were all from one clan were protesting over the decision by two of the clans which have got the governor and county women representative in the last general election to again take the speaker’s seat. The leaders while addressing the press in Garissa at the weekend claimed that it was unfair and against the interests of the county for the Auliyahan clan, which has governor Nadhif Jama and County women representative Shukran Hussein Gure to again take the speaker’s position. “How will one clan out of the three major clans in the county be allowed to take all crucial county positions. That is unfair and against the required checks and balances in the running of the county. Garissa needs an all inclusive leadership based on fair representation not stealing type leadership, we therefore condemn this elections in the strongest terms possible,” said Nasir Mohamed of Nanigi ward. The county representatives-elects while terming the whole exercise as “illegal, unconstitutional and a thing of the past” said that they were consulting with their lawyers with a view of seeking redress in court. Garissa High Court Judge Stella Mutuku proceeded with the swearing in of the leaders elected despite a section of the members staying away from the crucial ceremony. Mohamed Abey Mohamed from the Aulian clan was elected as the speaker. he garnered all the eighteen votes that were casted beating a field seventeen other aspirants to the speaker position. The deputy speaker position went to Abubakar Mohamed Shide from the Abdalla clan and he was voted in unopposed. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-113681/confusion-hits-garissa-assembly

Yeah yeah

There's no tol in Europe sxb. The man knows about the diin and has made his own choice. Taas danteyda maaha.

These tol land disputes are nasty. We had one back home. My grandad and uncles were camping on the land nomad style with tooreys to send a message to the scumbags.