The list is OK as long as the primitive illiterate warlords are kept out of it. What is worrying is our Sheikh president is advocating for the warlords to be added into the list so as they can elect him president. Sh Sharif is becoming every strange nowdays, may be all these campaigning is getting into him.

lol people are in campaign mood. come down lads, its most certain you will have no say so don't raise your temperatiures for nothing. Just relax and watch as it unfolds in front of your eyes.

All you present are claims and hearsays. Yaa kugu yiri Somali federalism ma rabto ma adaa survey gareeyay. Tan kale kuwiina dhahayaa cidaasaa badan bal census ha la qaado cidii cid ka badata ha la arkee.

Xaglatosiye deserves credit for bringing about peace that eluded this region in the last few years and stopped more Somali blood shed. Every one should welcome this as we would deplore if he embarked on the opposite.

Wallaahi waa la isku dambaabay ilaahay ceeb ha asturo

Aparently Sh Umal agrees with the Fatwa that hyena meat is Halaal. He says both Imaam Shafici and Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal permit that hyenas are halal creatures. Also there's Hadith from the prophet SAW that permits the hyena meat. listen here: http://www.voasomali.com/audio/Audio/200944.html

somalee;856854 wrote: Just one of Sharif's ridiculous tactics to send yet another sub-clan member to Europe. Worked out so well. I didn't know Sh Sharif was from Burtinle!! No need for them to claim asylum there are other ways they could stay and train in the West without preventing the other aspiring Somali athletes the chance to take part international tournaments. The somali Governing body's credibilty will be fractured if they claim asylum and visa issues will be difficult in the future.

Kuwaan Keydmedia Ladhaho ninkaan dhintay sheegsheegiisa ma barakaysanayaan maxay u wad wadaan, mise taariikhda badala bay isleeyihiin. waxaan dambi ahayn sooma kordhinayaan ee dadoow ha is dambaajinina

lol waxa Sh Xasan uu suuqa ka gadanayo ma shahaadooyinka xildhibaanada cusub baa ? Allahu Akbar waxaas baa madax lagaa dhahaa!! Ilaah baa Soomali u maqan

Congrats to Mohamedou. He made Somalis proud Britons

Ilaahay ha na xariisto, Ameen. its sad that Alshabab are resorting to weak targets now.

Abdiqaybdiid is bad choice for the region especially any hope of uniting Galmudug with Ximan & Xeeb and the rest of the Galgadud region. Galmudug needed young pragmatic leader who could forge an understanding between different communities through dialogue and compromise based on mutual trust. I dont think the former warlord can deliver on that. On the other hand Puntland could at last find a partner against the war on Alshabab, Pirates and freelance miltia that roam Galkio. He's believed to command strong subclan miltia that may succeed to tame the freelance miltia that Caalin could not do anything about. He could also be a source of conflict with Puntland over resources and land disputes that has never been resolved.

Haatu;854383 wrote: This is why I don't support clan federalism? And how does one prove he is a 'Puntlander'? Abtirsi? What about the other Somalis who live there? Is it not their country too? Would they not be allowed to vote in their own country? This is nithing to do with tribalism. Even if they were not from same tribe they would be debating about the same matter. Your attempt to use this to criticize federalism is very weak. They can not just hold elections and grant a right to vote for every Dick and Harry. There must known rules of who is entitled to vote and that's what are they are debating about. The term 'Puntlander' is not synamamous with a clan name, is it?

ciyaari waa galin dambe qosolka badan iska yareeya

Dr Badiyow Mohamed Sheikh Hassan baaba ka macquulsan laakin meesha Sh Shariif bay u salaxantahay waxba yuusan Abwaan iswaalwaalin

The somali website Shabelle is holding a poll. currently is being led by Farmaajo followed by Sheikh Shariif and Prof. Ahmed Ismail Samatar. You can vote here: http://shabelle.net/index.php?archive=1. Let's see who is eventual winner. Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed 22.7% (820 votes) Shariif Xasan Sheekh Aadan 4.65% (168 votes) Prof Axmed Ismaaciil Samatar 18.68% (675 votes) DR Mohamed Yaasin 2.66% (96 votes) Cabdiwali gaas 6.14% (222 votes) Prof Saciid ciise lugoole 2.08% (75 votes) Abdirihman abdi shakur 15.22% (550 votes) Maxamed Cabdullahi Farmajo 27.87% (1,007 votes) Total Votes: 3,613

Full Peter Bridges memoirs below: http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_7/bridges1.html

The answer to this is an independent investigation and national enquiry of what has gone on. Until then all the individuals involved should be barred from running for presidency. As it is they don't have an incentive to call for an investigation or even an attempt to clear their names.

The allegation against Farmaajo was first made by AFP News. Check this out: AP Exclusive: More than $70 million missing in Somalia; politicians accept briefcases of cash July 21, 2012 3:26 pm GMT - Written by PP - Edited by PP Print Print NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)— Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million of it is missing instead of being used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger. The large cash payments encourage politicians to hang onto power while paying little attention to crucial needs in a country devastated by two decades of war. A lack of attention to constituents’ needs may also be fueling an al-Qaida-linked insurgency, officials say. “Politicians want to keep the status quo. They’re profiting from it,” said Abdirazak Fartaag, the head of the Public Finance Management Unit, a Somali government body charged with overseeing the country’s financial management. “We have to hold these big shots accountable.” Somalia’s prime minister told AP the government is trying to be more transparent by working from a budget and making records public. In a 22-page report due to be released Wednesday and obtained exclusively by AP, Fartaag documented cash payments that came from Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and other donors in 2009 and 2010 totaling more than $75 million. Only $2.8 million was accounted for by the government. He based his report, which was written for the Somali government, on interviews with politicians who witnessed the payments or received money in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. Fartaag said in his report that the Somali government is missing more than $300 million once internal revenues from the port, airport, khat trade and telecommunications are added to the Arab millions that have vanished. A separate AP investigation established that cash payments from Arab nations continue amid a lack of transparency over how much money politicians accept and what happens with it. Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed told AP in an interview in Mogadishu in April that his government received one payment of $5 million dollars from a Middle Eastern country this year that he “believed” to be the United Arab Emirates. But Finance Minister Hussein Halane told AP in April that he accompanied the prime minister twice to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, this year and had seen Mohamed personally receive $5 million in cash each time. After more than 50 phone calls and e-mails from AP over six weeks, the government produced documentation showing that only one payment of $5 million was deposited into the country’s Central Bank. The other payment remains unaccounted for. Politicians in position to receive such payments have little incentive to reach out to armed groups to end conflict because then they’d have to share the money, Fartaag said in an interview in Nairobi on Tuesday. The weak U.N.-backed Somali government is fighting the al-Shabab Islamist insurgency that has control of much of central and southern Somalia. Al-Shabab kidnaps children to use as soldiers, carries out public stonings and amputations and claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 76 people in Uganda last July. The government is constantly appealing for more cash to fight the insurgents, even as it fails to account for money already received. Both Western and Arab nations pour aid into Somalia to try to combat piracy and terrorism and provide social services. The government gets very little cash directly from the West. Most goes to aid agencies. The U.S. and Italy even insist on paying wages directly to Somali soldiers after it turned out that commanders were stealing soldiers’ salaries. Oil-rich nations like Sudan and the United Arab Emirates have a tradition of cash diplomacy in which visiting officials are handed stacks of $100 bills to take home. The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates told AP he had no specific details at hand about funding for the Mogadishu government. “I really cannot recall what the financial aid that’s been given to the Somali government (is) from the UAE,” said Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “We are just, frankly speaking, trying to solve … the Somali conflict.” Somalia’s prime minister and the finance minister say the government deposits these donations in Somalia’s Central Bank, a newly renovated building in downtown Mogadishu whose fresh coats of paint stand out from the smashed gray concrete rubble around it.“We are trying to be more transparent. We have a budget. We have public records of our finances,” Mohamed said. Halane said that not all cash was necessarily deposited in the government’s account because some was spent on “legitimate and documented” expenses by officials before being deposited. The AP was not able to get details of these expenses. Officials did not respond to repeated requests for further documentation. The sums are a fortune, especially in impoverished, war-ravaged Somalia.The cratered streets of the capital are filled with rail-thin Somalis, rifles slung across their backs, wandering past thorn bushes and roofless homes pocked with bullet holes. Families fleeing the violence camp in domes of cloth tied over bent twigs. Most people in camps scrape by on less than $1 a day. “There’s no government here,” said 31-year-old Hassan Ahmed as skinny, ragged children played around him in the sand under the watchful eyes of women in long, drab robes. “There’s nothing to eat. There’s nothing to drink.” The government says it uses the money to win over citizens like Ahmed by providing services and security. Some small progress has been made since the current Cabinet took power in November. Revenues from the port and airport have increased, a budget was created, civil servants paid, streetlights erected in one neighborhood and along the main road of Maka al-Mukarama. Some roads have been repaired and garbage collected. It’s not clear how much is paid for by donors and how much by the government, which raises revenue from the port, airport, and other sources. There are no public records.The government’s term expires in August and it wants to extend for another year. It also wants more cash, but Western nations appear reluctant to give for now. “Transparency and accountability are critical,” said Cheryl Sim, counselor for Somalia affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. “Donors have a right to know their taxpayers’ contributions are being used as intended. Constituents have the right to know how their government is spending the aid it receives. Unaccounted-for assistance funds are troubling, especially in Somalia.” Associated Press writer Adam Schreck in Abu Dhabi contributed to this report.

Ramadan Kariim to all

Shariif's biggest asset is his personality, he does not offend people and he is not driven by clan sentiments and that's evident from his inner circle. He had bad advisers in his early days at the helm but now he seems to have passed that stage. Good luck to him.

Abwaan;851454 wrote: Samafal....What does could not be reached means? Samafal caddaaladda ayaad ka fogtahay, haddii aan meeli ku xanuuneyn Farmaajo maxaad ugu doodi weydey? Farmaajo soo C/Weli ma ahan ninka ku marqaati furay? Sideed ku hubtaa inuu wax xaday haddaan ku dhaho camal miyey soconaysaa? Nin isagii dembi loo hayso ayaa dad ku marqaati furaya, haddii aan ku iraa lama rumaysan karo soo xaq uma lihi, illeen eedeysane kasta ma samayn buu la soo boodaa oo dad kaluu weligiisba u saariyaa....sheekooyinka hallaasiga ah ee aad maalin walba meelaha la taagan tihiin adiga iyo Somalia oo qabyaaladda ku dhisan adiga miyaa Ilaahay la hortegaya? Sumcadda aad sheegeysid haddii uu leeyahay cid ka qaadaysa maleh, C/llaahi Yusuf baa lacag shakhsiyan xaday maxaa loo dhihi waayey haddii dad la iska eedeynayo? Prof. Dalxa maxaa loo eedeyn waayey oo ah ku xigeenka Baarlamaanka? Jengeli maxaa loo eedeyn waayey? Samafal wixii la rabo yaan la isku sheegin...Cabdiweli dembi uusan gelin cid saari karta ma leh mid uu galayna cid ka qaadi karta maleh! lol wax intaas wax kayar kaama filayn. Could not be raeched? waa iray ay isticmaalaan saxaafada marka qofkii ay rabeen inay la hadlaan ay waayaan, marna macnaheedu ma aha waa laga waayay aad noogu fasiraysid. Doodaada oo dhan waxay ku salaysan tahay qabyaalad baa qof ku taageeraysaa iyo eedayn eed looga xaq dayayo. Aaway jawaabtii su,aalahayga aan kuwaydiiyay? Ogoow qabyaald waa wixii aad Caydiid dhiigu kuugu karay hadana dadka aad daba taagan tahay cuqdad qabiil baad udaba taagan tahay bal na tus qof cidiina adoo wax ka sheegaya. Nin yahoow marwalba waxaan is iraahdaa kan mar dambe ha la doodin. Waxa kasta oo cadayn laguu waydiiyo waxaad kusoo gabagabaysaa Qabyaalad iyo meel baa ku xanuunaysa iyo wax maa laa yacni ah. aniga horta inaad waligaa iskuul tagatay shaki baa iiga jira maxaa yeelay sida hogaamiya kooxeedkii baad u dhaqmaysaa. Doodahaaga oo dhan dib ugu noqo waxaa ka maqan nidaamka dood wanaaga iyo inay kaa tahay 'lack of logical and anylitical skills' ma ogi Aniga Abdiwali difaac iigama baahna, Farmaajana waa taan Somalia Ka difaacayay dib ugu noqo threadka. Aniga waxaan ku leeyahay waxaan waa bani aadam gaf waa ka dhici karaa laakiin si mustaqbalka qof kasta loo dhicin wax buu xaday oo wax cadayn ahna aan la keenin marka dambe waxay noqonaysaa in ay inta tuugada ahi kaliya isa soo sharaxdo oo qofkasta oo damiir lahi uu yiraah sumcadayda baa iga wasakhoobaysa. Adiga hadaad cadaalad raadinaysid, waxaad ku doodaa in si cadaalad ah loo baaro waxaan oo dhan inta ka horaysana afkaaga qof inaad ku dhibaataysid oo aadan hubin ka ilaali. Teeda kale aniga hadii aad haysid aniga qabyaalad cid wax ugu dhimay soo bandhig hadii kale doodaada hagaaji ninyahoow. Somaliana aniga la ima dhaho umana hadlo isku mana is naqaan. Maalin dhawayd waxaad la hayd ha la i cafiyo hadana adaa personal attacka bilaa baysid, ma is galaan?

Allah ha naxariisto. Waxaan maqlay nin fiican oo wanaagsan buu ahaa oo waliba caalim ah.

Ilaahoow Khayr ka dhig.

Abwaan;851323 wrote: It is true Abdiweli accused him but according to some reliable sources lacagtu waa jirtaa? Horta dadkaan aniga lacagtaan igama qaadan singaar ah ee Soomaali bay ka maqan tahay. ABwaan is a massenger who posted the report, Hiiraan's review with the link. Instead of saying adeerkeey maxaa lagu haystaa go and research and get more information as concerned citizens. For Abdiweli it is true inuu wax wala others like Farmaajo iyo central bank u saariyey, balse taasi ka saari mayso isaga UN keliya ma ahani IRS xitaa waa sugeysaa...wax walba the Central Bank bay aadeen ku lehe, where is this central Bank? Maxaa loo waayey? God qolkiisa hurdada ku dhexyaal miyaa? Anigu ma lihi keligood baa wax laqay, intaan iyo ka baan inay qarsan tahayna waa laga yaabaa....sida la soo sheegay dadka aan Soomaalida ahayn ee hay'adaha u shaqeeyana qaarkood musuqmaasuq kama marna balse "mijo dhooqo, midbamar baa la saaraa". lol Maxaa loo wayey.. oo ma adaa Central bangiga udoonay oo ka waayay mise Monitoring Groupka ka waayey. Haye xagee bay ku sheegayn inay ka waayeen. Bal su,aalahaa ka jawaab, ha na la iman adeerkaa waaye iyo kidha waaye..Qof baad sumacadiisa ku ciyaaraysaa wax aadan adigu aadan cadayn u hayn, marka ma adaa ilaahay hortiisa la tagaya ku og inuu wax xaday.Qofka muslimka ah waa innocent until proven guilty. anigu ilaa iyo hada wax ma xadin ma oran mana oran karo laakiin with the evidence presented by UN monitoring Group nothing implicates him for any wrong doing by himself. cidii dano kalo leh iyaga iyo Ilaahood baa is og.