Fine story although I heard similar stories but more different versions. Nice refreshing anyway! -----

That's very interesting!

This is possible to be true so lets stop the uncertainty ppl! Somalis tend to over do everything especially if it's a new stuff to them. Maybe the effect of the civil war syndrome is behind all these factors. Besides this is one of the main reasons the U.S. goverment brought you here, by atleast being part of society or worst. Now it seems their plans are on the right track! If anyone feels that they can't take it anymore, The only option they have is going back to their origin place! Plain & Simple! Otherwise enjoy the ride.....

If a women wants to sleep with a guy for example, she will, Not all the time! To the topic: If you deserve respect, you will get it without demanding it!

People! people! people! Stop arguing wether abortion is illegal or not and get back to the real issue. It's very clear what abortion is despite the fact that many singles and married Somalis still use it or Birth control bills for different reasons just like other people do. And also to those of you questioning the fact of this topic, com'on....Somalis aren't bunch of angels, they're capable of everything indeed they are the front runners of every major problems lately, eg. domestic fights, violence, drug-trafficking, crimes, illegal documents and etc While most of them arrived very recently. this ain't surprise to me! Going back to Abortion! The main reason for the use of abortion for Somalis is When a Somali-girl is pregnant by a Somali boy, the family from the girl usually run after the other family and most cases force him to marry her. Therefore, it's very likely these girls who used abortion were pregnant by foreigners out of wedlock or there's no one individual suspect. Killing a child won't solve any problems but it will make difference when it's about half-bread and father-less fetus. how ever the situation might be, the most important thing is let your azz think before these things happen!

WaaaaaW That's very touching thread! Congrat goes to those who helped that young boy.

My first advice to you is don't run away the same way your old sister did because you will end up a devastating and disaster life. You're too young and you could end up more worst than you expected! The second thing is: There's a way you can make both yourself, your father, and the dude happy and that is to inform both of them that no matter how long it takes you would like to know him better before marrying him. If you somehow start to like him, then it's up to you to make the final decision. If you don't like him whatso ever, then you have a real case and its reasonings to present to your father and him explaining why you don't him. I believe your father will accept your decision without feeling being liar or shameful! The third thing is: Since you're 15 years old, tell your father that you're not ready enough to become a wife and you need more time to grow up. If the dude is over 30, that's no no but if he's very young like you, he needs to grow up too and find a girl for himself. P.S. you should have mentioned the dude's age because it's very important to your dilemma!

There're many other factors to marry multiple wives other than financially. The ratio of women to men is 7-3 and it's understandable a man who decides and is able to marry multiple wives. Also, another reason is Some men have higher sex drive than others and sometimes one wife is not enough for them. Although females over populated men generally plus the civil war in Somalia where losted majority were men, you will see a higher number of single mothers/divorced women in Somali community because there is a shortage of men and many females are really unable to find potential single men. Since Polygamy is allowed, the most important thing is satisfactory, and fare-equally for all ya wives. If you can handle all of the responsibilities, then go ahead and don't hold yourself back! For the young ladies, It's very necessary every girl to marry young in the prime of her beauty and have children. If you can't find suitable single man to marry, then you should marry a married man before it's too late!

Naayaa is a word that can be used to call females if you're unable to come up their real names at that moment. Everything can be turned negative but I don't really see any differences between Nayaa and Waryaa other than their role of genes. Most men don't mind to be called waryaa but Only the word Nayaa is labelled as an offensive and it explains how the females don't like their feminine-belonging because of the Cultural influence. The bottom line is There's nothing wrong about the word NAYAA. More hints: Just look at how many females allow other females to use it and not their counterparts. Pathetic!! I said!

My favour chocolates resemble the color of "Brown"!

I don't hate anyone except those who start hating others for no reason. Don't start it!

Speech of the President of Somalia At the Summit of the Heads of State and Government -Maputo, Republic of Mozambique, 4-12 July 2003- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Excellency, Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with immense joy that I address today this July gathering of the most distinguished leaders of our continent and extend to Your Excellencies the sincere and warmest greetings of the people of Somalia, a nation that is striving to overcome the nightmare of a decade of civil strife which caused a massive loss of human lives and the complete destruction of all what it has achieved since independence in 1960. Mr. Chairman, Allow me to extend, on behalf of my delegation and on my own behalf, our sincere and profound gratitude to Your Excellency and through you to the brotherly people of Mozambique for the kind hospitality accorded to us since our arrivel in your wonderful capital of Maputo. I would like to express our best wishes for Your Excellency's wellbeing and for the progress, prosperity and happiness of your country and people. Excellency, Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Three years ago a Transitional National Authority has been established at a Peace and Reconciliation Process held in Arta, Djibouti and sponsored by the President of Djibouti, H.E. Mr. Ismail Omar Guelleh after a ten years civil war following the collapse of the military regime in Somalia in 1991, with the high hope of bringing the country back to a normal and peaceful situation. If the Transitional National Government could not deliver the required result, it is not because it lacked the goodwill or the human resources. It had both in abundance. But what it lacked was the support of the International Community, particularly the African governments which failed to assist to solidify the gains of the Arta Peace Process which established the Transitional National Authorities. After suffering so much as a result of the civil war, the people of Somalia rightly deserved an improvement in the standard of living and the security situation; two factors that would help the citizens to come out of the abyss of despair. But I must admit that, in the three years of its existence, the Transitional National Government could not satisfy the needs of the masses, as the TNG was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem that needed to be tackled i.e. the flow of arms and ammunition into the country from across the de facto border with Ethiopia, in flagrant violation of the UN Resolution 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 on arms embargo on Somalia; encouraging and strengthening the hand of the factions to carry on the holding the country hostage at gun point; the lack of support from the International Community, UN or AU, for the disarmament of the these factions and their militias and so on. The Government had to face the anti-establishment elements that were represented by the factions and a foreign power, namely Ethiopia, which provided them with the arms and ammunition to oppose the government's policy to bring back peace and stability. With the help and support of the foreign power, these warlords in Somalia terrorized and indiscriminately killed innocent people, including children and elderly and constantly violating the human rights. The Charter of the African Union calls upon member states to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and to respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries. In most of the internal political crisis in Africa there is external interference that adds fuel to the already burning flames, either through direct involvement or by proxy. In our case, our neighbor, Ethiopia, interferes in our internal affairs, directly by attacking Somali border towns and indirectly supplying arms to the factions to destabilize the country. This is in flagrant violation of the Charter of the African Union. Africa must condemn such an act of aggression against a sovereign state. It is such an external interference in the internal affairs of other counties that undermines the stability and the good governance. For nearly ten years before the establishment of the Transitional National Government and three years since the existence of the new Government, Somalia was denied by Ethiopia both internal stability as well as a good governance. Ethiopia is also actively involved in the dismemberment of the Somali Republic. It is supplying arms and finance and rendering political support to the secessionist group in the Northern Region. All what Ethiopia is doing is contrary to the Charters of the African Union and the United Nations. In fact, now, in this moment at the Peace and Reconciliation in Nairobi, Addis Ababa regime, led by Meles Zenawi, is using all its influence in the IGAD Technical Committee to keep the Northern Region out the conference, with aim of the making the secession of the Northern Region as a fait accompli. When the whole world welcomed the new government in Somalia, Ethiopia alone was the government in Africa that categorically refused to accept, claiming that the process at Arta, Djibouti, which elected the government was not complete and inclusive. And now it is Ethiopia, in contradiction to its own policy, which does mind if a whole Region is absent from the conference. Yesteryear, the absence of some parts, made the conference of Arta, what our neighbours called "incomplete" and this year the absence is just "normal" because it suits its foreign policy of dividing Somalia into cantonments. Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Delegates, The Organisation of African Unity was established to unite Africa, and the African Union too is for the unity of Africa and both the Charters the old and new advocate the unity and territorial integrity of African countries and not the division or dismemberment of the continent or its countries. It is most unfortunate that the country whose capital is the Headquarter of the African Union is actually engaged in dismembering and destabilizing a neighbouring country. Ethiopia would have denied it and some of you would not have believed it if it was Somalia or me to reveal the sinister activities and the involvement of the so-called "the custodian" of the African Union Charter in the internal affairs of an independent, fellow African and a member state of the same organization. We are not crying wolf. These are only few examples of interference of this giant neighbour of ours and the physical and armed interference in the affairs of Somalia by Ethiopia has vividly been recorded by the Panel of Experts established by the UN Security Council pursuant to the Resolution 751 (1992), "to generate independent information on violations of the arms embargo on Somalia and to provide recommendations on possible practical steps and measures for implementing it." On Page 7 of its report to the Security Council, dated 24 February 2003, the Panel of Experts said: "Ethiopia has played an overt military role in Somalia. Not only has Ethiopia been a major source of weapons for a number of Somali groups, Ethiopia has also invaded and occupied parts of Somalia. Ostensibly, and perhaps justifiably, the first direct military involvement of Ethiopia in Somalia, in 1996 and 1997, was in response to the activities of al-Ittihad al-Islami, including terrorist attacks (see paras. 94-96) in Ethiopia. Ethiopia's incursions crushed al-Ittihad's military capacity. Since then, however, the Government has used the threat of al-Ittihad as an excuse for Ethiopian involvement in Somali internal affairs." Reporting a statement made by Meles Zenawi, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, when he was in Rome for the World Food Conference, the Arabic newspaper "Al'Khaleej" on Thursday, June 13, 2002, said: "The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, said that the interference in Somalia of his country will continue until a government which controls the whole country is established." Earlier, the Representative of Ethiopia at the United Nations was quoted by the Reuters New Agency on February 21, 2002, as saying: "If the Somalis don't solve their problems then we will do it for them…We wont wait forever." "If we find a majority of players do not want to play the game, we will change the rules of the game." It is my conviction that until the evil practice of interfering in the internal affairs of member states is firmly dealt with by our organization, Africa will never succeed preventing internal conflicts in the continent. In fact Somalia's crisis could have been solved long ago, if only Ethiopia would stop interfering in our affairs. The African Union cannot expect its members to implement the policy of good governance, as required by the Nepad (New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development) if it ignores or closes its eyes; shuts its mouth and taps its ears from outside interference in the internal affairs of other countries. Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, We are nearly at the end of the 10th Month now, since a Somali Reconciliation and Peace Conference sponsored by the regional organization IGAD started in Nairobi, Kenya, a conference which is meant to complete the Process which was successfully concluded at Arta, Djibouti, in 2000 and to reconcile between the TNG and the opposition groups. However, due to interference from one of the members of the Frontline States entrusted by IGAD to play the role of peace-brokers, embarked on advancing its own political agenda aimed at creating discord rather than accord among the participants of the conference. I am referring to Ethiopia which, instead of playing the role of an honest-peace-broker, has become part of the problem. As it is known, a Declaration on the Cessation of Hostilities has been signed at Eldoret, Kenya, on 27th October 2002, but before the ink with which it has been signed, dried up, the same Declaration has been violated by the Ethiopian supported factions with arms and ammunition supplied by the Addis Ababa regime. The same groups sabotaged the agreements of 2 and 4 December 2002 regarding the re-opening of the sea-port and airport of Mogadishu. The Government tried several times to open the sea-port and the airport of Mogadishu, but the efforts were sabotaged by the armed factions because of the fear that if the Government opened the national facilities they would lose the financial benefit they get from the open harbours and air strips they paved in some parts of the capital. For these factions to have a government capable of controlling the country see as a threat to their interest. It is not just by coincidence that each time the Somalis came closer to reach an accord, the Ethiopian Delegate at the Technical Committee for the Peace and Reconciliation Conference, worked by all means to abort such an accord. It is the policy of Ethiopia that Somalis should never enjoy peace and stability and as a consequence there must never be a government of their own choice. As this is the highest organ of our continent, on behalf of the Somali people and on my own behalf, I fervently appeal to Your Excellencies to call upon Ethiopia to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of Somalia and to fuelling new internal armed conflict as the people has already seen enough bloodshed. I wish to appeal to appoint a team investigate the activities of the ongoing conference in Nairobi which Ethiopia is using to rekindle the flames of discord among the participants with the aim of aborting the conference. We ask this August Summit to call upon the Ethiopian regime to respect the provisions of the Charter of the African Union and to respect the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of others, respect of our independence, territorial integrity, unity and sovereignty. Excellencies, One year has already passed since the inauguration in Durban, South Africa, of the African Union, and the transition from the OAU to AU, which we hope that it will advance and accelerate the progress of achieving what the founding fathers of our organization, dreamed of: The Union of our Continent. Besides few of us here, the majority of our countries have achieved their independence in the 1960s and after four decades we should ask ourselves whether we have made the dreams of our citizens true and delivered the fruits of the freedom. It is high time to show to our peoples in Africa that we can bring prosperity and democracy through prevention of internal conflicts. The Nepad can only work if we respect each others independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. As long as we tolerate interference in each others internal affairs, conflict will continue and our peoples will continue to suffer. Let's dedicate ourselves to peace and stability in the continent and embark on helping each other instead of fighting each other and engage ourselves in the economic and social development so that we can provide enough food for our starving masses and medicine for our sick people who are suffering or dying because of lack adequate treatment or even sometimes lack of attention. Mr.Chairman, Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for your kind attention. ______________________________________ Copyright@2003 Aayamaha press

This reminds me a girl whom I know, she told me that she always got turn on when a guy physicaly hit and beat her azz!. God created people's test differently. I believe It has nothing to do whether you act good or bad. Simply, You shouldn't act that way in order to get someone's approval. There's always another person behind the fence who is really compatible with you true-nature ****** !ty even if you're the worst and the dumbest creature. If you're a great and decent one, vice versa. Just stay and be real!

I don't get it!

These kind of allegations always happen but Kobi was known of straight forward and family oriented kind of guy and that's why this is all over the news headlines. This drama will definately effect him to certain extend but it won't be a big deal unless he makes another mistake. Then he will join the Bad-boys gang already filled by Dennis Rodman, Iverson, Isiah Rider, and many others!

I didn't watch the Confederation Cup but I heard there was a cameroon player named Foe who died for a heart attack. Did Anyone watch that game ??

Somalis usually had great number of individual-skillful players but the problem always laid the way the national team were conducted and selected. World Cup 2002 First round qualifyings, somalia played against one of the best teams of Africa Cameroon and the score ended 3-0 and 3-0. Both games were played in Yaounde, Cameroon because the opponent couldn't dare making the trip to Mogadishu LOL. Those domestic based players who represent the team do their best but that isn't enough. If they allow foreign based young players to be part of the national team, they would make huge difference.

looooool@no pass to different qabiil.. This Somali-girl in my neighborhood plays basketball with us, and trust me she got game. Every gender should atleast do some work out for their body and pyhysical strenght.

Females should stick to their female tournment wether it's a golf or any other sports.

looooooool@og moti.. You seem to be nice to animals unlike me but how could you go back and start eating chickens after few months. Your condolence supposed to be longer than that.

inaa lilaahi waa inaa ileyhi rajicuun! Alla yaa arxama!

I was nominated for the best female performer..LOOOL..I have no other choice but to boycott attending this ceremony unless I'm going to be awarded for Special Lifetime Apology award.

I think we had enough topics about Somali-Men being lazy, insecure, and skinny..and Somali-Women being fat, talk-active, and Smart.. Can you folks come up with something new..??? Creativity is needed ?????

kings fans....We lost our best player Chris Webber for the rest of the playoffs so does our chance of winning the championship. other than that, I think the best final matchup is going to be New Jersey Nets versus San Antonia Spurs or Lakers..The rest should bag for vacationing...

I guess she came up the exact answer I got.. The boy from your mom is either you or ur brother. Don't complicate the answer..it's very easy as I thought.. Baashi...Although I didn't give more details but the answer remained the same...