Originally posted by Suldaanka: The whole point of going to HolHol of all places was to have a meeting without the presence of Somaliland or Puntland. With Somaliland officials there now, it defeats the purpose. So why not just go back to Garoowe and hold it under the Faroole administration that has refused to help them. Suldaanka check your sources again.. This meeting is free from both so called admins. Locals who work for either p/l or s/l can come to the city but no involvement what so over. Your wishes and short false celeberation is over. The meeting is going to be held as planned.

Originally posted by Suldaanka: The whole point of going to HolHol of all places was to have a meeting without the presence of Somaliland or Puntland. With Somaliland officials there now, it defeats the purpose. So why not just go back to Garoowe and hold it under the Faroole administration that has refused to help them. Suldaanka check your sources again.. This meeting is free from both so called admins. Locals who work for either p/l or s/l can come to the city but no involvement what so over. Your wishes and short false celeberation is over. The meeting is going to be held as planned.

Originally posted by Xaji_Xunjuf: The mayor of lascanood went there and some of the army chiefs of somaliland gobolka sool. I don’t think the somaliland army will harass salaadinta iyo cuqaashe they will just keep an eye on them. Lol@ xaaji Xunjuf I see a change of heart from you.. Now when Somaliland realized they can't do nothing about this meeting, and your source of news turned to be false, your excuse is you don't think Somaliland army will harass salaadiin's meeting. You are very hilarious oday...

Originally posted by Xaji_Xunjuf: The mayor of lascanood went there and some of the army chiefs of somaliland gobolka sool. I don’t think the somaliland army will harass salaadinta iyo cuqaashe they will just keep an eye on them. Lol@ xaaji Xunjuf I see a change of heart from you.. Now when Somaliland realized they can't do nothing about this meeting, and your source of news turned to be false, your excuse is you don't think Somaliland army will harass salaadiin's meeting. You are very hilarious oday...

Originally posted by Xaji_Xunjuf: The mayor of lascanood went there and some of the army chiefs of somaliland gobolka sool. I don’t think the somaliland army will harass salaadinta iyo cuqaashe they will just keep an eye on them. Lol@ xaaji Xunjuf I see a change of heart from you.. Now when Somaliland realized they can't do nothing about this meeting, and your source of news turned to be false, your excuse is you don't think Somaliland army will harass salaadiin's meeting. You are very hilarious oday...

lol @source togaherer!! those who laugh at jidbaale as source shouldn't bring this one in public..dual standard.... This news is not accurate at all and the conference is going to be held as planned...

^^^ Dadka qaar baa aad u indho adag.. You lool@jidbaale so how about the clan cheer sites of SL, haatuf, hadhwanaag and likes who you cite in here every day... I guess to your own mentality they are credible sources.. What a hypocrisy!

^ Istaqfurulaah!

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Daniel Wallis and Robin Pomeroy + Mohamed Faroole accept Las Anod as a Somaliland city Only few news outlets said Las Anod, Somaliland so where is the rest of the World. They are busy with quake in Haiti.. My world is (city, region/state, country) Las Anod, Somaliland, Somalia!! Originally posted by Ducaysane_87: Hanjuf^^ i don't think that is a good thing. wax fiicnaan lahayd if haadi muslimka kula jiraan instead. ^ Yeah Ducaysane tell XX to come to his sense and lessen listening mad Faysal's hateful barbs.

^^ No doubt that Waraabe shot his own foot many times by his inability to shut his mouth up whether he did it on purpose so he can be a relevant to the SL political scene or his madness/foolishness. However, as NGONGE said, Odayga ha la daayo. Originally posted by Aw-Muuse IsmaciilPL: Alien I believe Xaji Xunjuf is also a supporter of ina Cali Waraabe . Remember the thread whereby Faisal Cali supposedly said that he will be sending out 'special forces' according to Xaji Xunjuf in order to stop the airport strip being build in Buuhoodle. Aw-Muusow, Xaji Xunjuf is the only person I found in SOL that has many commonlities with Waraabe so no surprise if he is his fan.

Originally posted by NGONGE: There is an election on the way (some time in the future - distant or near ). This is election talk and it's as reasonable as any in the whole entire world. Mr Waraabe did a good job of belittling his opponents and selling himself and party (politically speaking). He wont win it of course. But that's by the by. As you conceded he won't it because of ?? He opens his mouth every where and says anything he dreams and comes to his mind without blinking. That killed his credibility and even crazy people laugh at him..

XF iska daa oday Waraabe he is enough touble to himself.

I wonder if any Waraabe's supporters in sol. - Clowns are every where pl, sl, TFG but Waraabe is the worst. He can't zipp his mouth up. Every time he opens his big mouth, he humiliates more himself...

Great song!

THE VISIT BY DEPUTY SPEAK-er Farah Maalim to the northern breakaway region, which calls itself Somaliland was totally unwise. This is an entity dominated by one clan among the area’s five main clans, and masquerading as a State based on the boundaries of former British Somaliland, a territory which irrevocably united with the rest of Somalia in July 1960. It is an enclave where the aspirations of the pro-secession clan are deemed to be paramount and non-negotiable, whereas those of the other four unionist clans count for nothing. This is the backdrop to the area to which the Deputy Speaker has paid an ‘‘official’’ visit, during which, he went over the top in his praise of the enclave and its policies and actions. He has, to all intents and purposes, recognised Somaliland without saying it in so many words. No one can, therefore, blame his audience if they concluded that Mr Maalim was representing his government and speaking on its behalf. UNTIL NOW, MR MAALIM HAS BEEN a man held in high regard among almost all Somalis who have come to know him or heard of him in Kenya and Somalia. Before his election to Parliament in December 2007, he was a regular participant in the BBC Somali Service programmes, where he would frequently call for peace, denounce foreign interference in Somalia and strongly defend the country’s territorial integrity. He rightly saw a peaceful, united country, not only in the interest of Somalia, but also its neighbours, including Kenya. Which is all the more shocking then that Mr Maalim would betray all these valued positions by ingratiating himself with Somaliland — a secessionist entity. Somaliland has been assiduously soliciting recognition from both Ethiopia and Kenya, and has been ready in both cases, but more so in the case of Ethiopia, to pay any price to win their recognition. Mr Maalim’s visit has been a tremendous propaganda boost for Somaliland at a time when little else is going right for them. Long despairing of recognition, the visit will be presented as presaging imminent recognition and will be exploited to the full by the ruling party and its authoritarian leader in the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. Supporting the current Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has been the mantra of both the Ethiopian and Kenyan governments. And while Kenya has been, on the whole, faithful to its pledges in the past, Ethiopia has never missed an opportunity to undermine Somalia or treat it as non-existent. In the meantime, all the available information suggests that Mr Maalim’s visit to Somaliland was initiated without the knowledge or concurrence of the TFG. It is, therefore, difficult to see the Kenya government endorsing such a visit over the head of the internationally recognised Somali government when it has nothing to gain from it. Mr Maalim’s Somaliland escapade was received by the locals and their administration like a ‘‘state visit’’. He was taken to most parts of the region so that the despairing separatists would see for themselves the new friend and supporter Somaliland has at last gained. Clearly, this was a public relations exercise. The most outrageous part of his visit was his trip to the three northern unionist regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC), invaded and occupied by Somaliland in October 2007 on the ground that they were once part of former British Somaliland and because they refused to join the secession. ITS ACTION HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY the misguided belief that control of a territory by force will somehow beget recognition. The Deputy Speaker’s pronouncement at the end of his visit that the three SSC regions should forgo their membership of Somalia and instead accept Somaliland’s tutelage is a denial of the rights of the SSC people who oppose the secession. Aiding and abetting the break-up of Somalia is like playing with fire, and it is not difficult to contemplate its consequences. For one thing, it could stoke up the conflict between the secessionists and the rest of unionist Somalia. That would give rise to new outflow of refugees and Kenya, already hosting nearly half a million Somali refugees, will be their preferred destination. Source

Combination of true, critics and humour..Interesting piece.

Peaceful, what if you are forced to wear Qamiis?

Dabcan, unemployement is high and even higher in Somali community...thanks CL for sharing it..

Garodi, XX and JB are behind that explosion...waa wararka gambada which added the their motives is all three are against the release of innocent people from LA jail.

JB Someone is wishing LA to be another Muqdisho ,,,,, not happening. Ironically that is your wish indeed.. Otherwise you wouldn’t support and dance for the invasion of a peaceful city for the sake of recognition. Save your mantra, your motives are obvious.

Good for Garisans.

Dajiye Sool is already somalia so the dream here Sool, Somaliland..

^ Then take Riyaale to justice.

Ooops JB already posted.. DP..

The Horn of Africa’s unsought status as one of the most volatile regions in the world is underlined by the deep-rooted conflict in Somalia and the endemic tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea. This makes even more impressive and welcome the progress of the self-declared independent state of Somaliland in creating a stable, rules-based government. However, an electoral crisis now threatens to derail this achievement. Somaliland’s political leadership has the main responsibility in solving it, but constructive support by the international community will be vital in ensuring that the territory continues to defy the trend of conflict that has damaged its neighbours. Somaliland, a former British protectorate, declared its independence from the rest of the Republic of Somalia in May 1991, following the collapse of the military regime in Mogadishu. It remains unrecognised by any country in the world. Yet Somaliland has followed a very different trajectory from much of the rest of the “failed state” of Somalia. A process of political, social and economic reconstruction has brought security and relative stability. Somaliland’s incipient democracy has drafted and approved a new permanent constitution; smoothly handed power from one president to another; and held three peaceful elections. Yet the democratic transformation is far from complete, and recent developments could see Somaliland slip back towards the kind of instability and lawlessness experienced in the rest of Somalia. The immediate crisis stems from the failure to hold elections even with the expiry of President Dahir Rayale’s term in May 2008. The latest in a series of postponements came in September 2009, when the two opposition parties threatened a boycott over reported fraud that they charged made the official voter-registration list unusable. An escalation of the dispute was averted only by an agreement to delay the vote, revamp the discredited electoral commission and refine the list. Behind these problems lies a persistent winner-takes-all political culture, in which wide-ranging attempts to manipulate the political process have corrupted governing institutions and undermined the rule of law. A failure to protect democratic institutions now could open the door to the remobilisation of militias and a violent conflict. This would be a tragedy for a polity that has done so much to avoid being drawn into the Horn of Africa’s maelstrom of war and destruction. There is a double challenge here for Somaliland’s political actors: in the short term to resolve the electoral crisis, and in the long term to improve the political culture. It will require Somaliland’s political parties to democratise, and open up political space for other organisations to contest local elections; and its electoral institutions to be professionalised and depoliticised. A regional example The international community should lend encouragement to the Somaliland government as these processes take place. The British government in particular should make close monitoring of Somaliland a regular part of its policy towards the Horn of Africa. There are also three immediate steps that European Union member-states can take to support Somaliland’s democratic process and help it find a way out of its electoral crisis. First, Somaliland’s international supporters should provide technical assistance, financial support and political cover to the new national electoral commission (NEC) – which, though crucial to the process, lacks experience. This would be invaluable in enabling the NEC to do its work effectively and resist political manipulation. Second, the international community should dispatch international election monitors and help train additional local observers who can work in insecure rural areas, to ensure that the entire electoral process is free and fair. Third, there is a profound lack of voter education and civic awareness, which highlights the importance of instilling democratic values in Somaliland’s younger generation. Here, international supporters can assist in the preparation of materials on democratic practices and election laws for schools and local communities. In a violent region that has been the source of so much bad news Somaliland remains a place of exemplary if incomplete stability. It still has the potential to be a model for state reconstruction, and can play an important and progressive role in the fight against piracy and extremist Islamism. Somaliland must be given the help it needs to succeed.