Oromos are Somali neighbors and speak afro Asiatic language but that doesn't mean we share the same ancestry its like saying the germanic tribes and Slavic tribes of eastern Europe share the same ancestors because some of them have the same words. Language and ancestry are two different things afaan oromo and the Somali language have some similar words. But its not the same language.

Where is Dr Osman to give us the latest on the oil project in Puntland?

Horn Petroleum’s Somali wells come up dry Mon, Aug 27 2012 * First exploration in conflicted country in more than two decades * Horn Petroleum and partners to drill more wells in Somalia NAIROBI, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Canadian oil and gas exploration company Horn Petroleum said on Monday it had encountered only water in a well it drilled in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region earlier this year, the first to be sunk in the country since civil war erupted two decades ago. The well, Shabeel North-1, reached a total depth of 3,945 metres and is now being plugged, Horn said. Because there were no shows of oil and gas, Horn Petroleum determined a second well it drilled earlier in the year, Shabeel-1, also was dry and said the company would not test it further for hydrocarbon potential. “While we were disappointed that we were not able to flow oil from the first two exploration wells in our Puntland (Somalia) drilling campaign, we remain highly encouraged that all of the critical elements exist for oil accumulations, namely a working petroleum system,” Horn’s chairman Keith Hill said in a statement. While there has been speculation about finding oil in the anarchic Horn of Africa country for decades, it has no proven hydrocarbon reserves. The prospect of oil beneath Dharoor’s sandy, arid plains has elicited excitement among officials of the impoverished region. The companies estimated there could be as much as 300 million barrels of recoverable oil in the northern part of Somalia. Somalia, mired in conflict since warlords in the early 1990s and then Islamist militants reduced the government to impotence, represents one of the final frontiers in Africa to be explored. Source Reuters

oba hiloowlow;850394 wrote: oromo is bahalo caqli badan laheyn, Afar waa rageedi Afars were conquered by the Ethiopians they are insignificant in Ethiopia Eritrea and Djibouti the're marginalized in all 3 countries even though oromos are pretty much useless because oromo is a dysfunctional ethnic group to big for its own good. But atleast the oromos had one Ethiopian Emperor who converted to islam some where in the early 20th century Iyasu V. And there were several other Oromo Emperors who worked them selves up all the way up to the Ethiopian throne. These oromos were most of the time oromos related to Amhaaras on their maternal side. But with Modern Ethiopia this is not the case any more.

Oromo is a dysfunctional Ethnic group thus it needs to dismantled the northern Oromo like the tulama oromo should just be Amhaaras and identify them selves with Amhaaras. And the Ala oromos and dagaa oromos and others should be their own ethnic group.

Degmada Laas-qoray oo si weyn loogu soo dhaweeyay Masuuliyiinta cusub ee degmadaasi August 31st, 2012 Hargeysa (Somaliland.Org)- Waxa magaalada xeebeedda degmada Laas-qoray iyo deegamada hoos yimaadaba si balaan loogu soo dhoweeyay masuuliyiinta maamulka cusub ee dhowaan loo soo magacaabay degmadaasi. Mauuliyiintani oo ka koobnaa gudomiyaha cusub ee degmada laas-qoray Maxamed Hayaan Cashare iyo xog-hayihiisa Maxamed Axmed (Caano-boodhe) ayaa markii ay gaadheen duleedka magaalada laas-qoray waxa halkaasi kaga hor-yimi oo si diiran ugu qaabilay waayeelka iyo waxgaradka deegaankasi ee degmada laas-qoray oo watay gaadid aad u tiro badan uu ka babanayo calanka Somaliland, sida uu ku soo waramay Weriye Maxamuud Maxamed Xasan (Saraaf). Masuliyintaasi waxay kaantaroolka degmada laas-qoray salaan sharaf ku siiyay koox ka mid ah ciidanka qaranka Somaliland ee fadhisinkoodu yahay magaalada laas-qoray intaa kadibna waxa weftiga Gudoomiyha cusub halkaasi looga sii gelbiyay dhinaca gudaha degmada laas-qoray. Waxanay masuuliyyintan cusub ee degmada laas-qoray fagaaraha degmadasi kala hadleen dadwaynaha ku dhaqan gudaha degmadaasi oo si weyn isugu soo baxay Waxaana ugu horayn-ba halkaasi ka hadlay gudoomiyaha cusub ee degmadaasi laas-qoray Maxamed Hayaan Cashara oo ka mahad celIyay sida diiran ee bulshada reer laas-qoray aanay ugu kala hadhin soo dhowaynta maamulkooda cusub. Guddoomiyuhu wuxuu sheegay in xukuumadda Somaliland ay diyaar u tahay inay wax ka qabtaan baahiyaha aasaasiga ah ee degmadaasi. Waxaanu intaasi ku daray in laga fulin doono mashaariic badan oo horumarineed. Waxana gudoomiyaha cusubi balan qaaday inuu maamulkoodu xooga saari doonan sidii degmadoodu ula tartami lahay degmooyinka kale ee dhigooda ah waxaanu intaasi raaciyay in mudnaanta siin doono wax ka qabshada dhinacyada adeegyada bulshada sida caafimaadka waxbarshada, biyaha iyo ka faaiidaysiga khayraadka badda. Waxa isagu halkaasi ka hadlay xoghayaha cusub ee degmadaasi Maxamed Maxamed (Caano-boodhe) oo isna dhiniciisa ku nuuxnuuxsaday sida xukuumadda ay uga go’an tahay wax u qabashada dhamaanba bulshada bariga Sanaag. Sidoo kale waxa iyaguna halkaasi ka hadlay xubno aad u tiro badan oo isagu jiray cuqaal, waayeel, waxgarad, iyo haweenka degmadaasi oo dhamaantoodba shaaca ka qaaday siday ugu faraxsan yihiin mamulkan cusub ee xukuumada Somaliland ay xiligan u soo magacawday iyo siday ay diyaarka ugu yihiin inay la shaqeeyaan. Intaa kadibna waxa Gudoomiyaha iyo xoghayuhuba booqdeen xeryaha ciidamada ee Booliska, Ciidanka qaranka iyo ciidanka xeebaha. Talyaha ciidanka qaranka ee fadhiisinkoodu yahay degmada laas-qoray Maxamed Salaax Tusbaxle oo isna halkaaasi warbixin ku siiyay masuuliyiinta cusub ee maamulka degmada ayaa shaaca ka qaaday sida ciidankoodu diyaarka ugu yihiin difaacida dalkooda iyo la shaqaynta maamulkoodan cusuba. Waxa kale oo masuuliyiintani cusubi kormeer ku soo mareen dekada degmada laas-qoray iyo dhismahii hore wershada kaluunka laas-qoray oo ay si mug leh ugu kuur galeen baahiyaha iyo duruufaha ku gadaaman. . masuliyiinta cusub ee maamulka degmada laas-qoray intii aanay gaadhin magaalada laas-qoray waxay ay sii mareen tuulooyinka u dhexeeya degmoyinka Badhan iyo Laas-qoray ee buurta cal madow sida. Tuulada Xabaasha, iyo mash xareed oo ay kula kulmeen dadka deegaamadaasi ku dhaqan. Waxa kale oo maamulkan cusub ee degmada laas-qoray intii ay ku sii jeedeen dhinaca laas-qoray si weyn loogu soo dhoweeyay magaaloyinka Badhan iyo Hadaaftimo oo ay ku sugnaayeen dadwaynihii kasoo xagaa baxay xiligan kulaylaha degmada laas-qoray iyagoona halkaasi mid mid ugu gacan qaaday dadkii soo dhoweeyay.

^^ I hope you're joking.

Moore's central message is that if all political figures experience the same level of injustice and calamity as the average American citizen, these figures would be more sensitive to the feelings of the latter. This, he argues, would make them better leaders. In the last week of August 2012, the attractive and hugely talented Somali singer Nimco Dareen was attacked while performing on stage in Nairobi. It was a shameful attack on freedom of speech and thinking. Supporters of the singer quickly pointed an accusatory finger at ONLF followers. Whoever did it, it was distasteful, because it violated Nimco’s rights. The disgust compounds when it is considered that the victim is a female. There are cultural barricades that should never have been breached. But to present the other dimension of the story is neither to endorse the attack nor to justify it. It is to contextualize the whole matter. Nimco Dareen is not an ordinary singer. She is not only singing about love and lust, she is also singing about politics. She is wearing the war costumes of the Liyu Police. She is right now drafting the list of her ‘attackers’ and handing over to the Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi, not to the Kenyan authorities who are the host country and who should provide protection to her. Her flights are being paid for by the Ethiopian authorities. She is dining with Ethiopian Intelligence. She is ingratiating herself with Ethiopian intelligence by insulting the ONLF. This is not a cheap propaganda, this is a fact that readers interested in truth can go and find out for themselves. Can she then be described as an ordinary singer? Yet, regardless of her compromised standing as a professional singer, she is not physically attacking anyone and therefore she should not be attacked. If people find her taunts unbearable, they can reciprocate in kind, but physical violence is unacceptable. SURVIVOR: Ridwan Hassan Sahid shows the scars on her body inflicted on her by Ethiopian troops who attacked her village Perhaps Nimco should wake up as Ridwan Hassan Sahid, the survivor of the 2007 Qorille massacre, one night. Only then would she understand the enormity of the crime she is committing against her fellow sisters in the region, who were and continue to be victimized by Ethiopia and its local agents. A better Nimco who is more empathetic to the suffering of others would have emerged from such surreal transformation. She would not have rushed to cash on her looks and talent at the expense of forsaking and condemning her compatriots. Unless, of course, she is a feminine Falstaff - the vain Falstaff, who outlived Shakespeare’s honour-worshippers, Hotspur and Glendower, by hiding from the battlefront, prosaically querying “who hath it (honour)? He that dies a-Wednesday! Does he feel it? Does he hear it? Does he eat it? No! What good is it then?!” Is she saying “what good is justice if you can eat from injustice?” Maybe fame came too soon, well before the mind was composed. Young artists are in race with time. They want to enjoy prime-time of youth-hood without the distraction of “struggle” and noble idealism. We understand their rush but they should not discount the virtues of fighting for justice and aspiring for freedom. They should reserve judgment on weighty matters. After all, they are experts of choruses and lyrics not politics. If Jigjiga, Degahbour and Fiiq are so serene and free, it is time Nimco and other artists who sing about the prosperity and peace in the Somali region relocate there. Isn’t it unfair people who enjoy the liberal freedom in London, Minnesota, Perth and Copenhagen preach to those who are unlucky to escape the oppression in the region to live happily with injustice and absence of freedom at home? Why don’t they leave the cold continents and settle in the Somali region so that we, the irrational “war-mongers”, understand that all is well in the region? Or are the people in the region sub-humans who should accept autocracy, while Nimco and the ‘comfortables’ enjoy free press, free speech, free association, free thinking in democratic distant lands? Fairness, please!

The man who thought London is Qorraxay Abdi Mohamed Tarrax, the former commissioner of Somalia Refugee Commission, arrived in freezing London in late 1970s flanked by a close relative. The Commissioner probably was on a private mission, but I am not privy to the exact details of the visit. The details need not detain us, they are inessential. What matters is what transpired in the first hours of this eventful visit. Tarrax, the story goes, was accompanied by a man from his home-village of Xudurayle - a small nomadic settlement about 30 Kms to South East of Qabridahare. As Tarrax gleaned through some of the British newspapers, his relative got a glimpse of some “degrading” cartoons that ridiculed the Queen and the then Prime Minister. We do not know if it is Tarrax who told the relative about the theme of the cartoons, but the story is that he understood the spite in the pictures. “War nimanka sidan madaxdii dalka u ceebaystay xageey joogaan?” (Where do these men who insulted the leaders of the land live? The man asked, irritated and staggered. “They are here, in London.” Tarrax replied. “Oo nimanka maa la figeeyo!!” (Why aren’t the hands of these men tied behind their backs?) It was not a question. It was a burst full of dejection and regret over British indecisiveness. The Xudurayle man, who passed through Mogadishu before he made the trip to London, could not comprehend how men and women who speak against Her Majesty and the rulers of the land can safely sleep in their homes. It was an utter shock to him, having imagined what the fate of these men would have been if they were to do the same thing in Mogadishu or in his dusty hamlet in Ethiopia. President Abdi Ilay of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia visibly distressed by the death of Zenawi A woman holds a picture of Meles Zenawi as she awaits the arrival of his remains in Addis Ababa. His was a genuine rage that encapsulated the colossal contrast in thinking between his world and the world he just landed on. It was the retort of a man whose understanding of “government” and its “functions” is fastened to the modus operandi of Imperial Ethiopia and militaristic Somalia. These parochial experiences determine his verities, sets a stifling tether to his thought-scape. He cannot be blamed. The blame rests on the shoulders of the man who took the villager to another world without briefing him on the different thought regimes that exist there. This hilarious encounter sets the stage for the issues I wish to discuss in this installment. Visibly distressed by the death of Meles Zenawi, the President of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia Abdi Mohamed Omer (Iley), was offended by the “unsympathetic” comments of the Deputy Speaker of Kenyan Parliament, Honorable Farah Mo'allin, on the legacy of the deceased Prime Minister of Ethiopia. As usual, President Iley spoke out with vulgar indignation. In President Iley’s mind, Kenya must figeeys (tie-up) Farah, because that is the fate of those who speak their mind in Ethiopia. If the Xudurayle man was disgusted by the “softness” of the rulers of Britain, President Iley cannot understand why everybody does not cry for his late political godfather – Zenawi. In his logic, Farah and all other politicians in the region must laud Meles’s achievements. They must walk to Addis Ababa in tears and attend the funeral of Zenawi. This blinkered outlook defines the confines of morality in his world. They say the best defense against logic is ignorance, and this is one such case. He is not at fault. It is the fault of the barefaced Tigrayan rulers who install ignorant native tyrants on the people of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Farah Mo'allin, Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan Parliament Racism on Universal TV But what was really shocking is Universal TV airing the racist comments of President Iley. Iley scorned Farah Mo’allin as an “adoon” (slave). Forget about the fact that a servant of an autocratic Ethiopian regime, who cannot utter one word without the authorization of the masters in Addis Ababa, is calling a free-man who can say whatever he wishes, a slave. Forget about the racist undertones that illustrate the depth of Iley’s obsoleteness in thinking and ignorance of current realities. Never mind the most powerful man in the world today, President Barack Obama of the USA, is an “adoon” according to Iley’s stereotyping. Disregard the fact that in terms of facial features Iley is likely be identified as a “Bantu” more than Farah. Forget the sickening contempt for our own Bantu Somalis in the banks of Wabi-Shabelle and other major rivers – people for whom Iley is supposed to be their “president”. Because natural ********* cannot be undone by artificial intelligence acquired from advisers, these types of insults are expected from a man of deficient personality. The biggest shock is that Universal TV airs this invective with no regard to the feelings of those who would be offended by these remarks. Where is media ethics? Where is social responsibility? Farah’s reply was quick and biting: “We are busy looking after over 20,000 refugees displaced from their homes by President Iley.” The Honorable speaker should remind Iley that in Kenya when the President talks, his audience often talk back freely or ask questions that are unpleasant to the ears of the President. Listeners of Presidential speeches do not stare blindly and clap at some intervals, looking terrified! Iley’s angry rants only make sense when consumed by politically servile cadres, who do not ask questions but cheer cheap denunciations. It happens in North Korea. There, they also practice Iley’s beloved “figeeys” (torture). Iley should know Kenya is a neighbor to Ethiopia in geographic terms, it is on a different planet when it comes to governance, respect for the rights of citizens and freedom of speech. Nimco Dareen Can Nimco be a Ridwan for a moment? In “A prayer to Afflict the Comfortable”, a chapter in Michael Moore’s book “Stupid White-men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation”, Moore asks God to “create circumstances in which (mostly unnamed) powerful figures in the American establishment are given problems or situations which affect ‘ordinary’ Americans”. The requests include that “every member of the House of Representatives to contract cancer; all senators to become addicted to drugs; the children of senators to become gay (really gay); all white political leaders ‘who believe black people have it good these days’ to become black-skinned overnight; bishops in the Roman Catholic Church (who are by tradition always male) develop unplanned pregnancies”.

Kursi is very important for some candidates and they will do everything.

The Ethiopians might have already picked a candidate they will not make it public but they will pick some one who they think they can work with. But do not underestimate the Turks since 2011 they are very much involved remember the Istanbul conference that was a real breakthrough for the turks and their involvement in Somalia they are now on the ground in Somalia building roads hospitals giving scholarships etc. The state department for some odd reason i think they prefer sh sharif since they can work with him if they wanted him out they would've got rid of him long time ago they extended his mandate twice. Nor do they want to interrupt the peace reconciliation process in Somalia. The Zack no one in particular but i know President geele of Djibouti supports sharif. But the Somaliland government doesn't support any one in particular to lead Somalia.

Very sad she was attacked after all she is just a woman she doesn't control anything she has no power she is just an artist. She cant change anything even if she sings for Ethiopia or Kenya or what ever. I hope she recovers very fast.

Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar;862831 wrote: Weirder is that he would want us in the same token to pay the processing visa fee and have baasaboor if we land in Hargeysa because he is a Soomaali 'splitist' as Shiineeska are fond to say. And what is wrong with that its not to much to ask

True but if we have to acknowledge the support sh sharif is getting from the Turks who are very much involved in Somalia the same with Yoweri museveni with all his troops in Somalia. I believe these two countries are much more influential than Kenya when it comes to Somalia. The Ethiopians are still busy organizing the burial of their dead leader. We still have to wait Hailemariam Desalegn the Ethiopian prime minister to endorse one of the candidates he will do it after the burial of zanawi.

Its true the Kenyans support abdiweli for President because Sh sharif was against the buffer zone in the juba regions and the Kenyan involvement. And Sharif sakin wants to return in the government as a influential minister there are some sources also saying sharif sakin wants to create a mamuul goboleed for the bay and bakool regions.

Yes but she deserved it i wished her a painful death to.

Dawasho wacan.

Its all good but i don't know whether to be happy or to be angry it took us so long to get this radio station i mean its a radio station a simple radio transmitter. I wonder when there will be large scale development in the country.

Ala Maxa baq baqdan iyo hanjabadan iyo baalo xofteyntan ku xigi doona tallow

koley gaala dishay aun

Taleexi;862692 wrote: Reer SL laf bay toobin ku hayaan. Jamaal would have a good future in Somali politics but he is being misguided and brainwashed by the secessionist elites. I shall pray for he regains his sanity. He is 43 years old man he is mature enough to make his own decisions

So no one knows the date of the Presidential elections.

Gold coast nothing withholds them from aiming for the top seat they just need alliances with the other clans. They still have ministers in the governments of Somalia and MPS till the day of today.

Dont you just love woman in red