Great News indeed. A Great leep forward by the TFG. Self Government is a new lesson that Somalian will learn from the TFG. Every region rule themselves and then come under the Federal Government. This will bring trust back and bring Somalia loser together.

^^^Why are you defending these killers are they related to you? They are cowards who can't fight!!!

The TFG hasn't been around for 16 years, So what are you talking about? ps:The wadaads and the War-lords were cousins. Both of them no longer rule a bit of Mogdishu nor anywhere else in Somalia. Somalia has been librated by the leader they eletected the 10th of october in 2004. And we are great-full.

UN announces $85m for under-funded emergencies Friday, February 09, 2007 NAIROBI, 9 Feb 2007 (IRIN) - A United Nations fund, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has allocated about US$85 million for under-funded emergencies in 15 countries in Africa and Asia. This funding is part of CERF's two-part annual allocation for life-saving programmes around the world, according to Margareta Wahlström, the acting UN Emergency Relief Coordinator. "While each of these allocations represents but a fraction of the overall requirements in the individual emergencies, as a whole they help us pursue principled humanitarian action in which those who require aid the most are identified, based strictly on need and assisted accordingly," Wahlström said. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to receive the highest amount of $36.6 million. The other beneficiaries are: Angola, $4.5 million; Bangladesh, $1 million; Burundi, $8.5 million; Central African Republic, $4.5 million; Cote d'Ivoire, $4.5 million; the Democratic Republic of Korea, $5 million; Eritrea, $2 million; Ethiopia, $6 million; Haiti, $2 million; Myanmar, $354,976; Namibia, $1 million; Somalia, $1 million; Sudan, $6 million, and Zimbabwe, $2 million. The CERF - funded by voluntary contributions - was officially launched on 9 March 2006 to improve emergency preparedness and response to the under-funded and sudden-onset crises. In its first year, CERF channelled at least $252 million to urgent humanitarian projects in 35 countries. OCHA said one-third of all CERF funds were earmarked for under-funded emergencies to help redress imbalances in global aid distribution, which had resulted in millions of people in neglected or forgotten crises remaining in need. The allocation to Somalia, which has been in conflict for more than a decade, goes to security, to facilitate the resumption of humanitarian activities. The $6 million for Sudan is for water and sanitation, education and health, aimed at ensuring adequate coverage of needs of the increasing number of vulnerable people, OCHA said. The Zimbabwe allocation will be used for shelter and water and sanitation projects. The latest allocations bring the total amount to $162 million since CERF's inception. The next round of under-funded allocations will be announced in mid-2007, OCHA said.

Those who are protesting are the people who benefited from the chaos and anarchy of the last16 years and would like to continue having their feasts every Friday at the expense of the rest of the country. Nothing personal, but 600 out of two million and you want to convince me that they are nothing but the remainants of the ICU!!!It is not an uprising but it has all the ear marks of those who kidnapped the country and kept it hostage for the Last 16 years. PS: I think TFG should have arrested these 600 protesters; actually they are the ones causing havoc in our capital.

-------------------------------------------------- MOGADISHU (AFP) - Hundreds of demonstrators have filed through Mogadishu to protest the presence of Ethiopian troops and a planned deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless nation. As they marched through the streets of southern Mogadishu Friday, some 600 demonstrators warned that Somalia, which has been ravaged by internecine violence for the past 16 years, would be a "graveyard" for the planned 8,000-strong peacekeeping force. "We are against any kind of foreign military intervention and we are ready to fight them," Mohamed Farah Nur, one of the organisers of the protest that began shortly after midday Friday prayers, said. "Somalia will be your graveyards," the crowd chanted in a rare non-violent demonstration seen in the Somali capital. Mogadishu has seen a rise in violence since the arrival of a joint Somali-Ethiopian force late December when they toppled a then powerful Islamist movement which has since vowed to wage a guerrilla-style insurgency. The protestors burned US, Ugandan and Ethiopian flags along the streets. So far, the AU has been able to secure troop pledges for an African force from Uganda and Nigeria, with Malawi, which earlier pledged it would deploy, saying a final decision is yet to be made. The Islamists, who abandoned several of their strongholds in central and southern Somalia, have disintegrated into clan militia, with many opposing the government, based in the backwater town of Baidoa, and its Ethiopian backers. President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has pledged a national reconciliation conference to heal rifts in the country torn apart by years of anarchic bloodletting. Somalia, home to 10 million people, has lacked an effective central authority since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre that plunged the country into chaos. Source: AFP, Feb 09, 2007

The Female looks hot is't a good image for Somaliweyn.

^^^Who cares about that loser!!! He is no longer welcome in Somalia him and his friends from ICU.

I like the lights they put up on the sides of the road and also on the Bridge.

WOW nice really nice. The Bridge really looks like a bridge. Way to Go my Northern brothers and sister. Becoming a role modle for the rest of Somalia including Puntland which is right behind you. AYOUB_SHEIKH Thanks for the pictures really injoyed looking at them. North Somalia looks nice.

^^^ Did you listen to BBC today? They talk about what happen at the AU meeeting. Nothing was postpond. The AU was told Somaliland doesn't exits as a country such as Puntland and they fall under Somalia. Only memeber states are allowed at AU meets. Somaliland isn't a member but Somalia is. Even if Somaliland was to be discussed it would be discussed under Somlaia name. And if Somalia doesn't want Somaliland to be discussed at the AU meets they will make sure it doesn't happen in a thousands years to come. Somliland needs to get ready to surrender to the TFG anytime soon.

^^^Lets start there first.

It is a good start and hope for the best especially during the process of reaching compromising results as such for the safety, security, and prosperity for Somalia. The Nation of Somalia can't wait any more they want a working Government that control all of Somalia. The cowards that dare try to destroy the only Government we have really need to think twise cause the days Somalians supported War-lords and Fake Clan Courts are over!!!

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid an escalating spate of guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation. In the latest assault, unknown assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port hours before Gedi began the week-long meeting with about 200 traditional leaders, plus peace and women's rights activists. The pre-dawn rocket attack, which came from a residential area of the coastal city, was the latest in a series of almost daily strikes targeting Somali government installations and the administration's Ethiopian allies. "Fortunately, the rockets plunged into the sea. No one was hurt and port operations are going on," Abdirahman Mohamed Warsame, in charge of security at the port, told Reuters. Officials blame remnants of a defeated Islamist movement, which ran most of south Somalia for six months until it was ousted by a government-Ethiopian offensive over the New Year. Some Islamist fighters have vowed a holy war. But many Mogadishu residents fear the violence in the capital may also be due to rivalry between warlords who ousted a dictator in 1991, carving Somalia into a patchwork of fiefdoms controlled by militias. Monday's attack came after a weekend visit by an African Union (AU) team assessing security prior to a planned deployment of peacekeepers in Somalia. The AU team was at the port on Sunday. Under Western and Ethiopian pressure to reach out to all parties in Somalia, including moderate Islamists and powerful clans, President Abdullahi Yusuf agreed last week to call a reconciliation conference. His pledge triggered the release of 15 million euros ($20 million) in European Union funding for AU peacekeepers to Somalia. Officials said the workshop in Mogadishu will pave the way for the bigger national reconciliation conference. "I call for peace," Prime Minister Gedi said. "If we work together we can pacify this city. The Somali people's dignity depends on the outcome of this meeting." In another development, Alamin Kimathi, chairperson of Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum, said Kenyan authorities were detaining two Americans among suspects accused of supporting Somali Islamists. He said one American was of Arab descent while the other was African-American and being held with his three children at a Nairobi police station. Kimathi said his group's investigations showed the children, two girls and a boy, were between six months and nine years old. "The situation is very worrying because children should not be in those places," Kimathi told Reuters, adding that representatives from his group had seen the children who looked "malnourished and obviously lacking in comfort." He said their mother died from malaria after they were arrested near the Kenyan border last month, where suspected Islamists have been intercepted while fleeing Ethiopian troops. Kenyan police declined comment. Human rights groups say Kenyan authorities have been making mistakes among the scores of Islamist suspects rounded up since the war, with some denied access to lawyers and medicines. The various foreign passport-holders arrested also include four Britons and a pregnant Tunisian woman, activists say. (Additional reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Nairobi) Source: Reuters, Feb 05, 2007

The TFG is targetting terrorist and Dowladiid which ever qabil they may be from!!!

^^^Dude the money would have been released on way or other.

This is what I like about this President he is willing to compromise even when he has the upper hand. A Reconcilation Conference in the Somali capital of Mogdishu we couldn't have done better. Lets move forward yaaa Somali...........

Back to the Topic. His Excellency Yusuf would have arrived in Seattle but there was more important events that was taking place in Puntland and in Somlaia in general at that time. So he couldn't make it. But as a Reer Seattle I and thousands of Puntlanders and Somalians in general were waiting for his arrival and were very disappointed he couldn't make it.

Abduallhi Yusuf believes in Somalinimo and Somaliweyn and he has fought for both. He fought the ethiopians back in the day. And now he is fighting dowladdiid like yourlselfs. The President is in Villa Somalia. He takes action we he needs to.

Disarmament Starts In Kismayu!!! Finally! It's great news indeed.

For those that want to make everything Abduallhi Yusuf this Government is more than him so stop gividng the guy so much credit! He is just the head of State.

I am going to be waiting for the video which I was told will come out within 24 hours. Plan to sell them in Seattle inshallah.

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A picture is worth a thousand words they say. The picture we have all seen tell us the policeman has ben dragged in the streets of Mogadishu. It's uncalled for these animals need to be stoped one way or another!!!

^^^Well Said.