big deal...............

that is true i really think this whole hunger issue is a tool used by the west to continue holding a grip on africa, the biggest problem in africa is many countries are not self -relient, they need farming, all sorts of stuff to produce food, instead of wasting thousands and millions on giving money direct to corrupted politicians who will just use that money and food to sabotage the people, they should bring equipments instead like farming equipments, iyo waxayalaha oo dhaan it would have been better if they teached people in africa to be more - self -relient.

War i didn't say it was funny, since you responded with so what ( you also seemed careless) about Djbouti neighbours. hunger must be a curse to africa still.

Hanjuf^^ i don't think that is a good thing. wax fiicnaan lahayd if haadi muslimka kula jiraan instead.

they need some french aid, President Sarkozy should be concerned.

NAIROBI (IRIN) - The main rainy season in Djibouti has been poor, prompting fears that some pastoralist households could face serious food shortages in the coming months. "Consecutive seasons of poor rainfall, a possible failure of the current Heys/Dada rains, high staple food prices and a significant reduction in emergency food aid distribution are pushing households towards extreme food insecurity," the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net) said. The Heys/Dada rains last from October to February and are the main source of water, especially in the coastal grazing belt. "In most areas, no significant rains were observed in November, normally the period of peak rainfall, suggesting that the season may be a complete failure," FEWS Net said in an 11 January alert. "Earlier rains in 2009 were also below normal." The situation comes at a time when the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has reduced general emergency food aid distributions in most pastoral areas by nearly 74 percent, compared with last year. The reduction followed a May 2009 assessment that had shown a significant improvement in water and pasture conditions, especially in the coastal belt. Food and energy prices were also stabilizing. "WFP is following the current situation in Djibouti closely together with the government and other partners and is concerned by the poor performance of the rains in some parts of the country," Marcus Prior, WFP spokesman in Nairobi, said. "Up to October 2009, WFP was providing general food rations to 80,000 vulnerable people in Djibouti," Prior told IRIN on 13 January. Following the assessment, that number was reduced to 25,000. The poor rains have already led to livestock deaths, FEWS Net said, particularly in the northwest and southeast pastoral zones. Some households are failing to meet basic food and water needs. "The rural population in need of emergency assistance, both food and non-food, is expected to increase in the coming months to 80,000 to 100,000 persons," it noted. "Current emergency food aid distribution is inadequate and should expand to meet the expected caseload." In central pastoral zones, people had already started selling their remaining livestock, taking children out of school, reducing dietary intake, and migrating to cities in search of casual labour. Prior said WFP, with regional authorities, was planning to roll out food-for-work activities for the moderately food insecure. These would include building or rehabilitating access roads, and agricultural and water supply infrastructure. "It is expected that up to 21,500 additional people will benefit from these projects," he added. "WFP's nutrition programme in Djibouti, targeting over 3,200 of the most vulnerable mothers and their children, continues." Two-thirds of Djibouti's estimated 800,000 people live below the poverty line, 10 percent in extreme poverty, according to Djibouti health ministry statistics. At least 85 percent of the population lives in urban areas, but 60 percent are unemployed. Djibouti, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, is also fundamentally dependant on imported cereals. Food prices are approximately 30 percent above the market average. According to the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, an estimated 30,000 children were acutely malnourished last year. In an update for December 2009-February 2010, UNICEF said global acute malnutrition (GAM) prevalence among children under five was at a critical level of 28.8 percent nationally.

good on kenya.

looool@ wtf since did J.erti became part of Habasha, i though they were from Yemen.

Cowke, there is no Habash in eritrea i think you mean Tigrinaya and Afar peoples of Eritrea. the habesha primarily inhabit the west parts of Ethiopia they do not inhabit eritrea they are cut down by the tigre region of ethiopia and the afar region of ethiopia.

Horta what happened to the SSC thing?

Originally posted by Mr. Red Sea: Yeah Sool, Somaliland.

lol that is like asking Europe to merge with Africa get out of here son.

Obama says no plans for US troops in Yemen, Somalia Monday, January 11, 2010 Washington (dpa) - The United States does not plan to send its troops to either Yemen or Somalia amid growing concern about terrorism threats from those countries, President Barack Obama said in an interview. "I never rule out any possibility in a world that is this complex," Obama said in the interview with People magazine, excerpts of which were released Sunday. "In countries like Yemen, in countries like Somalia, I think working with international partners is most effective at this point." "We have known throughout this year that al-Qaeda in Yemen has become a more serious problem," Obama said in the interview, the full version of which is to be published Friday. He also acknowledged that "the same is true in Somalia, another country where there are large chunks that are not fully under government control and al-Qaeda is trying to take advantage of them." But the president said he had "no intention of sending US boots on the ground in those regions," according to The New York Times. "One of the things that we have to understand is that unlike a traditional war, the threats that we face and our allies face are not always going to be centred or localized in a particular geographic area but are rather networks that are connecting over cyberspace," Obama said. "And how we project ourselves to the world, the message we send to Muslim communities around the world, the overwhelming majority of which reject al-Qaeda but where a handful of individuals may be moved by a jihadist ideology, what countermessaging we have to them - all those things - continue to be extraordinarily important." The al-Qaeda terrorist group's affiliate in Yemen is believed to have been behind the failed attempt to blow up a Christmas Day flight over Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, is accused of trying to ignite explosives as the Delta/Northwest Airlines flight was to land. Abdulmutallab on Friday entered a not-guilty plea during a brief arraignment hearing in a federal court in Detroit. He faces up to life in prison if convicted. An initial inquiry commissioned by Obama found last week that the intelligence community had "sufficient information" to stop the attack. Obama has sharply criticized his intelligence community for the "systemic failure" and outlined a series of measures to strengthen intelligence gathering and analysis.

Sool. :cool:

lets see the outcome of his visits to washington.

SOMALILAND: Foundation stone laid for new livestock quarantine station [/url] BERBERA (Somalilandpress) — Suleiman Al-Jabiri, a Saudi tycoon and livestock investor, is constructing a second livestock quarantine facility in the Somaliland port town of Berbera worth millions, Berberanews reports. Somaliland’s livestock minister, Idiris Ibrahim Abdi and Mr Suleiman laid the first foundation stone on Saturday for the new facility which is expected to house more than 1.5 million heads. “The plant will have international standards and will equally be shared by all Somali livestock traders in the region,” Mr Idiris told local media. The facility is expected to boost Somaliland’s livestock exports that’s disease-free to neighbouring countries and the Middle East, which accounts for over 90 per cent of its trade. The ceremony was attended by Somaliland ministers, regional Sahil authorities, local traders and Hassan Al-Hussein, the chairman of Gulf International, the company that will construct the facility. Early last year, Al-Jabiri completed a $5-million livestock quarantine station and has since exported thousands of live animals to the Arabian peninsula. Saudi Arabia relaxed a eleven-year ban on Somaliland livestock last October and Somaliland animals have been steadily on high demand in the Saudi Kingdom ever since. Livestock market is estimated to be worth $250-million annually in Somaliland.

Originally posted by GAAROODI: boooo.hooooo. Las canod is under occupation. looool, give me break. If you have an army and want to take it from me, then come and take it from me. If not keep crying on the internet. I will turn it into a garrison, i will demolish it if i choose, i will turn into las vegas if i want. You are lucky you have bosaso and garowe left. Before we take these little villages you should keep quiet. looool, i will do with las canod as a please. looooool "i will turn into las vegas if i want."

Also Haradheere is a major town in Galmudug.

The Biggest reason somalia is keep failing is nobody is honest for somalia not even their own people, they are to blame themselfs.

Somaliland In Focus: 2010 and the economy In my previous article I have discussed about the current political issues in the country. However today, I would like to give you an overview about Somaliland’s limited economy, our expectations in 2010 and areas we have to improve to achieve economic growth – this is my view. Clearly every year has its ups and downs and 2010 is no exception. It is our economy that we need to reshape and regulate the most more than any other sector from what I have observed as an undergraduate in economics. We need to make use of the little we have, which I think would have taken us so far if we plan carefully. Though at the same time we had many challenges that hindered our economic development for the last decade or so. The worst challenge was Saudi Arabia’s sanction on our livestock. Fortunately, that is over now as the sanction is lifted after 11-years. Thus we need to be cautious about our economy’s backbone market and try to avoid them getting any excuse to ban our livestock again. This includes inspecting all ships that are to carry out livestock to the Arabian Kingdom, because it is possible someone could sabotage us by loading sick animals on the ship prior to it’s arrival then mixing it with our animals. This will create cross-contamination, we need to clearly mark all our animals, keep proper data, before loading them on the ship, send all data including the weight of all animals to Saudi Arabia, so this way if someone tamped with our animals, we can just look back at the data on certain animal in question including it’s weight. If the data is wrong then we know it came from else where. We need to do every thing to protect our market, there are a lot of people who would be more than happy to see the sanction being imposed on Somaliland. We have to be vigilant. The second greatest source of our economy is the remittance money from our kind and helpful Somalilanders in abroad. According to last year’s statistics, from Money transfer agencies, this money has reduced as a result of the global economic crises which has hardly hit the western countries where most of it used to flow from. So it is time for us to change our mind and think of more reliable and sustainable sources of income. You will feel uncomfortable when you see more than 70% of our families are dependent on abroad for survival. I would like to argue the Diaspora to think again. What if they help the family start a small business for living? This will not only relief the Diaspora, but also help the family members to be self-employed. Imagine a 35 year old person who has never done any work! Of course, waiting for others to feed. A Chinese proverb says “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a can to fish, feed him for a lifetime”. To put it more simply I think that we will learn from experience and plan for tomorrow, not only for today. Another sector where we are very much behind is the agriculture, we have fertile soil, water can be found but we never consider mass producing our own food, except very few individuals. We need to become food self-sufficient. We need to call on people to utilise the available resources to achieve the common objective in agriculture because we have seen how badly we have been knocked by the global food crises in the last two years. To go bit far, for the last few years we have witnessed impressive development in the private sector economy in our country. However, the only problem one can point is that it is unregulated, unplanned and unbalanced growth. You will see overcrowding in some sectors (i.e. telecommunication), while more profitable and urgently needed sectors are ignored. We should not also forget to remind ourselves that we have to encourage our small industries to grow. How? Individuals should buy the local products; the government should restrict imports on domestically produced goods and materials. Recently, I was comparing the locally produced soft drinks with that from international major firms. During my observation I have discovered that they are similar in price, the public consumes more of the foreign drinks, though the domestic one might be better of quality! So we need to be more realistic, the locally produced products should be cheaper. Here comes again another touching phenomenon. Hey Somalilanders! in the second decade of the 21st century we need not to be the most corrupted country in the world and yet wait to develop and recognition. Putting it more simply there has to be transparency and accountability, in every activity we are doing, be it government and public. Opportunities to do so should be sought out and taken advantage of wherever and whenever possible. To conclude, economically we need to be creative, make use of opportunities and plan ahead. Otherwise “if we fail to plan we plan to fail”. We have to prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. Our budget should be more of a development-centred. You only have to check our 45 million budget for last year, just to see that there is no single percent for development! I hope that in 2010, we will be able to improve these and many other areas where I didn’t mention here either for my short-sightedness or otherwise. Jama Ismail Noor,

Most of his points were failed about the part "Hosting fair elections" well we can't hide the truth nobody can't in the past year there was many corruptions in koomiishaanka dooraashada i only wished he also mentioned the problems somaliland has been through the past year relating with the elections and a honest front.

Originally posted by Abwaan: Waa arrin aad u wanaagsan oo horumar horseedi karta. Anigu intaan ka warqabo xoolaha Burco la iskugu keeno waxay ka imaan jireen gobollo badan oo Soomaaliya ka mid ah xilligii dowladdii kacaanka. Weli ma sidiibaa? Mise hadda lama dhihi karo oo waa in S-Land shaabad ah keliya lagu dhejiyaa oo lama rabo in la qiro in xoolaha nuskood amaba badankood ay goobo kale ka yimaadan? Indeed wa ariin aad uu wanaagsan praise to Allah.

Written by Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi Jan 09, 2010 at 03:36 PM The Somaliland people, political parties and government progressed in many areas including state building, democracy and hosting free and fair elections across the country. Although, Somaliland foreign diplomacy was not successful to bring the long-waited international diplomatic recognition however its performance was acceptable. The Somaliland security department confronted the infiltrating terrorists from neighboring lawless and vicious Somalia. More than 40 people were injured or killed in bombing in Hargiesa, Capital of Somaliland. Terrorist targeted sensitive areas like presidential palace, Ethiopian embassy - the only foreign diplomatic office in Hargiesa - and UN Headquarter. Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group in Mogadishu, Somalia, claimed the responsibility on bombing Hargiesa. FBI announced that one of the suicide bombers was Somali-US citizen from Minnesota called Shirwa Ahmed. US Government recognizes Al-Shabab as an international terror group that has links with Al-Qaeda. Al-Shabab threatens the stability of Somaliland and Puntland, a semiautonomous region in Somalia. They are trying to relocate to eastern sanaag, due to its mountainous landscape. Reliable sources highlighted that Al-Shabab sent observers to these areas including the famous Shimbirale, which has excellent hideouts including deep caves. Al-Shabab are gaining power in Somalia and recruiting young and brainwashed Somalis from outside mainly US and Europe. Al-Shabab lost battle at Dhuuso Mareeb of central Somalia to Sufi religious fighters called "Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaca". This is sign of Al-Shabab's continuous attempts to expend to other parts of former Somalia including Puntland. The international community should support regional authorities against the expanding terrorism. Particularly, the preemptive cooperation against the terrorism must start between Somaliland, Djibouti and Puntland. These authorities, together, can defeat Al-Shabab, and theory of foreign forces on Somali soil can be avoided. Al-Qaeda uses the fight against foreign forces on Muslim soil as "postcard" to recruit fighters. First, Somaliland should be accepted as sovereign partner in the War on Terror. Unlike Kenya and Ethiopia, Djibouti is lucky to have democratic and stable Somaliland at its next door. Al-Qaeda got huge Sleeper Cells in East Africa. Somaliland and Djibouti cooperate against piracy, along with international forces at the Gulf of Aden. The regional water between Somaliland and Djibouti is the only pirate-free area. Somaliland foreign diplomacy has strong and friendly ties with all regional countries. The landlocked Ethiopia uses Berbera Seaport of Somaliland as a gateway to the world sea trade. There are millionaire businessmen in both Djibouti and Ethiopia with Somaliland origin. Both Ethiopia and Djibouti has peaceful border with Somaliland and trade is flourishing between them. Always, the people of Somaliland and Djibouti find ground of mutual interests that ensures the peace, stability and prosperity of the region. It is flimsy to believe that language, culture and religion unites people. The unity in Somalia on 1960 failed because it was based on language, culture and religion. The Somaliland defense department secured its eastern border after defeating the militia loyal to Puntland administration, and promptly dispatched the aid of basic needs to the people of Sool and Eastern Sanaag. The schools reopened and clean drinking water restored. The police demined the streets of Lasaanood City from the explosive left by Puntland gunmen. The government services restored including Municipality. Somaliland Election EU Representative InterPeace sponsored biometric voter registration system in Somaliland to ensure free and fair elections. However, the system (Server) is facing difficulties due to weak hardware. The configuration of the system is not enough to store the database of 3.5 million people including indexing and sorting options. The server failed to stop duplications after voters registered more than once. Somaliland Election Commission (SEC) completed the registration of the citizens as scheduled, but after registration the weakness of the server showed and finally it failed. This was disappointment to Somaliland voters, government and democracy. Currently, Interpeace is trying to fix the problem with help of IT Specialists. This bad project planning of InterPeace delayed the presidential election three times. The international new agencies and channels printed the pictures of Somalilanders in long queues during the voter registration process. The achievements in Somaliland are countless and cannot be summarized in one article. However, we hope the New Year brings prosperity to the hardworking and peace loving people of Somaliland particularly the long-waited diplomatic recognition. By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi

his looking for his next home.

may allah bring the rains which everybody can enjoy ameen.