Places like these SHOULD BE BUILT/REBUILT -- They would bring in tourism:

I love the Swahili design - it feels East African -- with some hints of Arabian in there. [My Somali Supremacy fantasies includes that the most southern border of the Somali Empire is Mombasa, but now it seems Kismayo is their border city ] What we have today is people just wanting to build new buildings that do not reflect Somali history, basically like Bosaso and Hargeisa, cities that have no cultural buildings. They feel fake.

Saalax is fighting a war against Mogadishu and Garowe... I'm just waiting for the time he attacks us in Jigjiga lol.

Police will always be Muuryaan what kind of middle class person will leave his life to join some shitty army/police force? No They will always be from the poorer classes that can always be bribed! Controlled posts/roadblocks won't work - they've either got inside men/or they just kill everybody at the checkpoint. You also have to understand that a lot of countries are giving money to Somalia to defeat Shabab, if Shabab is gone a lot of this money will stop.

Let's not kid ourselves US/UN etc. have spent billions in Iraq and the Iraqi government is MUCH RICHER than the Somali government. Yet they've been plagued with suicide bombings and assassinations since 2003! I mean 800 people have been killed in AUGUST ALONE! http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/800-people-killed-iraq-august-20129397 Same goes for Taliban - what do you think will make the Somali government able to defeat them? Ill equipped soldiers? Bantu soldiers? I say peace agreements have to be made and try to contain them like Hezbollah in the South of Lebanon, they have military camps, schools, a lot of influence on the government but they are not a direct military threat to anyone.

It's now "old" it got published on the 29th of August - http://somalimemo.net/index.php/maqal/6469-daawo-sawirroal-shabaab-oo-boqolaal-askar-mujaahidiin-ah-tababarro-usoo-gabagabeysay And LOL at these paranoid people if you post news about Shabab that means you support them. These people want to ignore Shabab and the rape and attacks and focus on their fake bubble of somali airlines, hotels and niiko.

Mr. Hassan is too focused on Kismayo though

What's the point, everyone is using dollar anyways

I never insult a tribe, I do criticize groups like the HAG group and even OG groups.

Typical UN propaganda - will NEVER show Palestinian school kids that got sniped by Israeli snipers -- 30 Afghans from two families killed in a wedding, a day that was supposed to be happy etc. Nobody can take these neo-Colonizers serious except the Uncle Toms like Hobesian..

Countries that are coming back from destruction are always the most corrupt: Iraq, Afghanistan now Somalia, in the future it will by Syria as well.

I got a warning man, they're trying to ban me for Qabeelism. I have to prove them I'm not. lol.

"Well developed city"

I stopped reading after "His Excellency," If I need more HAG wet dreams I'll come back here.

So because they're more tribal they're more violent? That's nonsense. Bring facts saxib. Fact is Somaliland tribe as soon as they toppled the government worked together - created an army/police/government etc. the HAG started fighting one another like animals - destroying mosques/government/cultural buildings - hospitals - houses anything and everything like savages. Garowe got their shit together to. Saying the North is worse is like saying there's more freedom in North Korea than South Korea.

The land might be bad but the people are civilized. So you agree that it's to do with infrastructure/city or the lack of it.

Why was the capital never moved to the North? You have a civil war raging in the south, the north is relatively safe. Why not have the capital there, even if it's for a limited time. Is due to lack of infrastructure? The north up till now doesn't have anything compared to a DESTROYED Mogadishu let alone something that would be able to host foreign diplomats, embassies, airports, cultural institutions etc. Or is there some other reason?

Marksman;976290 wrote: The UN itself is a corrupt system. All those reports that come out also have the perfect timing in order to destabilize or discredit others. That's why it's best to have independent organizations to do researches like this. Interesting article. Exactly. This team might have been bribed by the mafia known as the somali government.

5 story building = not high rise.

Saxib if people type in Somalia online it will take them to Jubbaland/Somaliland/Puntland - stop with the hating. I DO HOPE that the Xamaris can protect the Chinese - imagine Shabab attacks them and they leave Somalia again1

Mogadishu or Hargeisa OR GAROWE. Don't try to escape it son. Plus Djibouti only has a strong army if you compare it to the bush militias we have in Somalia, in world standards or even African standards they are very weak. + Why do all Djiboutis speak French? I mean look at the comments, it seems anyone that knows how to master Youtube speaks French..

Nice if only Somali artists didn't steal from Indians, especially the Xamari ones.

Normal nations compete as a country to impress/brag to other countries - but we're locked in our little villages and brag to other little villages. I mean look at this forum people brag about Faroole others about Silaanyo while the whole world doesn't know these two and doesn't take them serious.

There's a difference between Kiramat and demons speaking through clouds and people hiding in people's eyes. These stories can be found on Youtube and their books, wallahi they'd give The Matrix a run for their money. Plus Sufis become gradually worse, there's a big difference between first gen. Sufis who believed that they should abstain from Dunya matters, so they would spend their times in the desert etc. and their followers who believed that their sheikhs walked on the moon.