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Barbra, Somaliland) While no government recognizes Somaliland, the business stamp of approval is proving less elusive. Coca-Cola has issued a second license within Somalia, which will cover Somaliland and neighboring, semi-autonomous Puntland, a tacit recognition of Somaliland’s functioning economy. The company’s other franchise, which is based in Mogadishu, is no longer able to function because of violence in the Somali capital. Coca-Cola’s vote of confidence – long withheld – may do more to propel investor interest and confidence than any political move. Only two other Coca-Cola franchises remain to be given out in the world: Cuba and North Korea. Ahmed Guelleh, a Somaliland businessman and owner of Somaliland Beverage Industries, had the franchise to Somaliland – then a region of Somalia – 26 years ago, before war broke out and he lost everything. He won the license back in late 2010 and production is due to start this year. Mr Guelleh’s band of five brothers is a typical, if highly successful, example of a strong trading family. Their $5m-a-year import-export operation brings in everything from porridge oats to tyres while sending out animal skins and frankincense, as well as serving as agents for a shipping company and DHL. The Coca-Cola bottling factory, among the first manufacturing investments in Somaliland, with brand new machinery from Austria and Italy, has cost $10m and is expected to generate an annual $3.2m profit, bottling 11,000 an hour and employing 130. Its establishment has required a tailored approach. SBI found and secured its water supply after drilling for six months in 200 sites. It will sell plastic, rather than glass, bottles because glass takes too much water to wash and can take months to return from the hard-to-reach and insecure east. Instead the company will pay locals to collect empty plastic bottles and ship them to a recycling company in India that will pay for the refuse in a break-even deal. The company says it will undercut the current Yemen-imported Coke price by about 40 per cent, saying Somaliland is the most price-sensitive market in the world. “Recognition is the problem, not the place,” says Gavin Dehning, managing director of SBI. A South African who left his job of 14 years to come and set up the factory, he has had to overcome the damaging impact of piracy and the issue of Somaliland’s lack of diplomatic recognition. When SBI ran out of bitumen to paint a septic tank, it took three weeks to replace it, as pirate-nervous ships dock rarely. Twelve Indian steelworkers critical to putting up the factory were prevented from travelling because the Indian authorities equated Somaliland with its anarchic neighbour — for which it has an advisory forbidding travel. But Mr Dehning also says Somaliland port authorities are the most speedy and accommodating of any African country in which he has worked, offering none of the red tape or bribery with which he is familiar, and that the company has done everything to make sure it exceeds the requirements of the franchise. “Coke is not going to destroy its brand because of one small little country,” he said. Source: The Financial Times

Somaliland is unstoppable this Plane wa dhaqaajisay wanay kacday cirka wa gashay daruuraha wa dhaaftay Universka wa gaadhay sabaca samawaad ba laga aqoosnaday:D

The Zack berigaad ahaydeen idinku Taliyasha Asluubta Xammar baad is mooday Thanks kulaha

I've been to xammar many times berigey xammar xammar ahayd

Aware would be great

I hope they can influence their cousins in tanzania and Kenya and uganda and their other cousins in sub saharan africa

Awoow waan iska kaftamaya Somali oo dhan wa tolkay waan jeclahay:D Laakin is still think Walalaheen Bay iyo bakool wa inu darajdoodu kor u kaco oo barlamaanka dhafaaan oo mar uun madaxweyne ii dhaha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9gNShTMp0Q&feature=player_embedded

Somalina;720240 wrote: Siilaanyo wuu diidey, Geele-na wuu diidey, sidaasi awgeedna wey is diideen. Maya maya. LOOOOLL

oo meesha maxay u faruqinayan awoow ma mar ba qaar dhama imanayaan Awoow ka dhama eeh meesha imanaya Wa mala faroole Iyo odaygi Koofiyada madooba eeh caalin,,, Somalina Koonfurta na sadex reer ba dega kuwa quulaha ku mirqaama Ilma Azania Iyo Sheikh dalxiis iyo Tolkis Intuna wa is yaqanin awoow waxa kale waxa ino sheegey Sheikh dalabay naf ma le bu yidhi loolz.

Awoow sasi xaq daro weye Sakiin iyo Mansuur waba labada siyaasi eeh reerkuba leeyahay walahi Siyasiyad weyn baad tahay mar hadad excludgereysey labadi Geesi eeh reerka u so baxay wa Sheikh sharif Meesha ha sii haysto ku fahmay;)

Good stuff wasiir kuxigeenka iyo wasiirka iyo xildhibaano ka so jeeda gobolka sanaag oo xaflada 18 kala qeyb galaya Dadweynaha reer sanaag.

Somalina;720216 wrote: Mujahidka afkaada ka leexi awoowe. I don't know waxa looga murmaayo iskuulkan magaca la siiyey. Cidii ay quseyso ayuunbaa ka hadli kara. Loool@ Mujahidka Sharifku wu dadalay , laakin awoow kursigu Yaanu Dhaafin Tolka Sharifka Baydhabo iyo meel aynanu garaynayn vila Somalia ka ilaali. Sax awoow Xaqa aad sheegtiid baan kugu jeclahay Schoolku wuxu Khuseyaa Reer Somaliland gaar ahaan Reer Togdheer marka iyaga Doortay Xaaji musa Farax igare alayaraxmo

bilan;720208 wrote: he did not fight Italian , XX you need to hire another tutor, please make sure this time your tutor is not from tolka, so atleast you might get unbiased history. I actually read allot Wether it's English books or even written by Somalis or Ethiopians Sheekada dhinac kasta waan ka eega The Mullah raided the British no doubt he even Fought Ethiopia once but i haven't read any where he Fought the Italians. Mise tallow Boqor cismaan ba talyaani noqday

Somalilanders love their country the security is very tight

Somalina;720202 wrote: ROFL! Xagey joogaan iminka awoowe? Sheikh sharif weydi awoow wu ku sheegi halkay joogaan

Somalina;720196 wrote: :D . Adiga ayaa soo geliyey Xamar sheekada, markii ay kugu xumaateyna dee waa sidii aan sheegey. As for Sayidka. http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/23871-Biography-of-Darwish-Ismail-Mire-Part-I Somalina Maya anigu waxan oo kaliya diiday eeh reer nfd inay Somalia ku soo biiraan tasan idhi ,,lolz Awoow iska ilaali Sayidka iyo kuwas wa alshabaab weye wa kuwa madaxa so duubtaa Umala Dooxta oo kale weye.

bilan;720192 wrote: Sayid was born near Buuhoodle, and he started his liberation movement there, that's where he was from. duulku caqli yraa, kilika shanaad kuye, learn history first, he was fighting both British and Italian, that's why i say Sayid Maxamed 1000 sano buu idinka horeeyaa. He never Fought italian where do you get that nonsense From and there was one raid in the 1900s in jigjiga and the dervishes were defeated that's the only Time Dervishes and Ethiopia clashed the Battle of Jigjiga

Saalax;720189 wrote: Xeefow because they can . Igare's legacy of helping the people of those regions arming them against the tribalistic deranged dervish movement will be something to cherish. He deserves to be named after whole towns, schools, neighbourhoods. Waxaan xasuusta ninki yidhi anaga danbaaabna oo dadka xaqooda duudsiya anaga dilna oo daruuraha soo dumina anaga Dalbana oo duniida ba dayrinay

Somalina;720183 wrote: Waad tiri sidaa, waa runtaa, laakiin waa su'aalee, goormaad ti dh i? Markii SL laga hadley sooma ahan? yaanan isku dheel dheelin, waan isgaraneynaa awoowe. Topica awoow hada maskaxdayda wuu ka sii masaxmaya laakin waan idhi dee waxan is yidhi sheekada yaan Somaliweyn laga dhigin nfd ba la marayey marki danbe Somalia iyo xammar ba la so gaadhay hada Somaliland la so gaadho wa Somaliweyn adeerkeen IOG uun ba inaga maqan lol

The Zack;720182 wrote: Xeef, read my previous post sxb, the dude was working for the British, he started his work as a shoe polisher and then ended up getting the title major in the British army in Somalia. He was well known by the nick shoe shiner, gabayadii daraawiish baad ku arkeysaa naaneystaas. Bilan, xaaal waan bixinayaa, that was bad comparison from my part. Based on what a report on newsweek come with a better source lolz

Abokor Omar;720178 wrote: The Darwish were a bunch of renegade criminals using the Diin as cover to justify these actions. Its leader was a camel thief at heart and his mission was to grab land as well as camels. In his time as liberate of Somalia as some refer to him he killed more Somalis than whitemen and when he was defeated it was clear his mission of fighting the whiteman was a lie. The British left Somalia as they had found not as an anglican put post in the horn. What amazes me is whilst this so called freedom was fighting the British his people were being occupied by the Ethiopians, why was he wasting time and energy on British Somaliland, a group of people who did not need saving. Till today 100's later his people are occupied by brute force and Somalilanders are free. The moral of the story is charity starts at home; if you to be a freedom fight, free your people first not a group that's not interested in being free.. You don't understand,, his Folks in Ethiopia tried to murder him they organized a Dhaanto Ritual dance with fire and sticks and everything for the Mullah and the plan was to murder him at night The Dhagaxbuur Folks hated him Because according to them he was not as Noble as them and did not deserve the Title Sayid that's why he raided them and took their camels and burned down their villages.

Somalina;720179 wrote: Maxaad Muqdishu pics iyo afaaraheeda ugu soo dhejineysey thread-kii ku saabsanaa gabadha Amina from NFD ? Waxaad isla jeceshahay la jeclow dadka kale ok awoowe. Thank you wa runta that topic was not about Mogadisho laakin hadaad awoow sii akhriyi lahayd waxan aha qofki yidhi aynu TOPICI NFD aynu dib ugu noqono in that same thread page

Somaliland duushay oo samada tagtay