Originally posted by xiinfaniin: ^^Xalane. 1964. brother for three days i've been chasing this name and i found nuffing..

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon © talks to an unidentified man as Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud (L) talks with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf during the opening ceremony of the Arab summit in Riyadh March 28, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070328/ids_photos_wl/r3409911149.jpg

African immigrants set pace to get off welfare Immigrants from Somalia and other African nations are making strong strides in Minnesota toward weaning themselves off welfare,helping to lend some urgency to statewide efforts to make sure that other racial and ethnic groups perform as well. Research by state officials shows that, although African immigrants received more welfare assistance than U.S.-born blacks at the beginning of this decade, they now receive less. "The truth is a little bit counter to expectations," said Chuck Johnson, assistant commissioner for children and family services in the Minnesota Department of Human Services. "We've always been concerned about immigrant communities, but we really found out when digging into it that the much bigger problems are in the African-American and the American Indian communities." The state is asking counties to figure out why Somalis and other recent African immigrants are moving off welfare rolls faster -- which might lend clues to why other groups aren't. Suburban counties in particular are seeing increasing numbers of immigrants and minorities. "We're a rich suburban county with one of the lowest poverty rates in the country," Ruth Krueger, director of employment and economic assistance for Dakota County, told board members recently during a briefing. "We have not paid a lot of attention to minorities because the numbers have been so small." On the state's so-called "self-support index" -- based either on working at least 30 hours a week or departing from welfare altogether --Somalis in Dakota County are earning a rating of 80 percent vs. 72 percent for whites, she said. Statewide, the figures are 78 percent for whites, 75 percent for Somalis, 76 percent for other African immigrants and 58 percent for U.S.-born blacks and American Indians. Hispanics -- most native-born -- and Asians, including Hmong, have rates in the same range as whites and African immigrants. Over time, each immigrant group relies less on welfare as members learn English and how to navigate U.S. culture, and as government agencies find solutions to their needs, Johnson said. Welfare reform, with its five-year limit on benefits, has heightened the urgency for figuring out why some groups do better than others, he said. "We used to just send the check; now we need to figure out what's going on." And the shift of minorities to the suburbs adds another challenge. "Counties like Dakota, Washington, Anoka are realizing they're at the point where their caseload is really shifting, with a much bigger presence of racial and ethnic minorities, and they need to figure out how to work with those populations," Johnson said. Dakota County has met with clients of different ethnic and racial groups to ask what it could be doing better, including what sort of rapport they feel with the county's caseworkers. "Their experience with that is uneven," Krueger said. Most report some discrimination in hiring, she said. Still, she added, the issues minorities face -- such as transportation and training -- are similar enough to those of whites that the county's main focus "is on poverty, not race." http://www.startribune.com/462/story/899338.html dead link but the info will be usefull for me in the future *archiving it*

''Ugandan Children'' 66 of them gone who killed them?? Rebels?? Helll No!!! ''Ugandan Soldiers''!!!! you know the ones that claim to serve and protect?? look what that Bangladeshi qaxooti-cum-Puppet/President unleashed on our children Ugandan army 'kills 66 children' Uganda Karamajong The disarmament programme is targeting some 30,000 weapons. Sixty-six children were killed in eastern Uganda during an army operation against suspected cattle rustlers, UK charity Save the Children says. They were shot by soldiers, run over by armoured vehicles or crushed by stampeding animals last month. :eek: The aid group said it had not found physical evidence of the alleged deaths in Karamoja, but had consistent reports after interviewing some 200 people. The army denied the allegations, saying only adults were killed in the raids. The BBC's Sarah Grainger in Uganda says there has been an increase in violence in Karamoja since the army began its disarmament programme in May last year. 'Crushed' "I saw many children killed, including my own son," one woman in Kaputh village near Kothido town told the BBC. I ran away like many people and when I came back both of my young sons were missing Villager Surviving cattle wars "He was with the livestock, trying to untie them so they could escape the firing. But he got crushed by the animals as they tried to run away." Other villagers said the raid began at 0800 on 12 February. A village elder greeted the army forces thinking they were carrying out a disarmament exercise, but was shot dead. "I ran away like many people and when I came back both of my young sons were missing. Up till now I cannot find them so I think they were killed," another man said. Army spokesman in Karamoja Lieutenant Henry Obbo said a five-day disarmament exercise had begun in the area on 10 February. But when some warriors resisted the operation they opened fire on the army. He said 52 warriors and four soldiers were killed in the incident, but no children were involved. Save the Children has called for an independent investigation into the events at Kaputh. "Reports of children being killed in indiscriminate, illegal and inhumane ways is absolutely devastating. Such allegations must be fully investigated and those involved brought to account," Save the Children's Valter Tinderholt said, Reuters news agency reports. BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6509623.stm Xaasidnimo in it's purest form!!

Originally posted by Captain Xalane: quote:Originally posted by cynical lady: [qb] someone with a name like ures Xelane Correct,First lieutenant Xalane said it.U can now demand ur prize from the old man Centurion. Taliban,that ain't something u can argue about,proof me wrong or forever be silent sxb. who is he? and when did he say this? ( am i missing the pun that it was actually you? or were you quoting a real person?)

Originally posted by Cara: Never been to baadiye? Your loss Puuja. But the pictures are awesome. Dave is salivating I'm sure. He'll probably try to confiscate them on grounds that they are historic national documents Somali Headrest

Puuja please post, it would make a fine add Hangool Somalia in Word and Image, Katheryne S. Loughran, Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding, Washington, D.C. (1986), page 11 On my wedding day in Somalia, a friend came early to my house and presented me with a hangool, the nomadic tool for constructing corrals for livestock, forked on one end for uprooting thorn bushes and hooked on the other end for dragging them into place. "You cannot become a reer [household, lineage, clan] without a hangool" my friend explained. The hangool, he said, was a traditional wedding gift for a man in Somalia. This ostensibly simple and functional tool, then, is also employed as a phallic symbol for manhood, representing the aspiration of every Somali man to be named the mythical head of a lineage segment in the distant future, generations after his death. Hierakonpolis tomb 100 (about 3500 BC - Naqada II)

50s? nice! i like the one where the brother is sitting on the classic car, do you know what you should do? try scanning those images you took pictures off and see wether the images come out more clearer

I reject that claim brother, europeans slaughtered eachother in the tens of millions, the Chinese during their civil war slaughtered eachother in the millions we are nowhere near those freaky numbers so i do care...and this massacre is also well documented by Human rights orgs which have done free lance investigations in the areas where the incident took place forcing this corrupt goverment finally after a decade or so to admit it's barbaric behaviour but still no real investigation or trials Somalia will rise again wether in 10 or 20 years time and if it decides to rampage Kenya it has my blessing unconditionally destroy them i don't care there not my people

Nomadique my name was ''speedy'' and my sudanese brother's nick was Naji_Pizza

puuja what happened i liked the old school pics, they respectivly depicted a nice era Somalia went through

I read this a year ago caano but it is disgusting how much emphasis is put on this ''little'' incident to the point it sparked an investigation(probably because the ringleader was white oehh evil whitey again) but the Wagalla massacre which killed thousands of Boranas,Somalis and other groups living in NFD is completly denied by that corrupt government Somalia should have invaded them directly analysts say the Somali army even after the Soviet-cuban counter offensive was far superior to that pathetic Kenyan armed forces

Update about the brother BLISTERING FARAH REFUSES TO WILT By Dave Martin, PA Sport, Mombasa Mo Farah is adamant he can continue his emergence as a world-class runner on the track this summer - after the most satisfying cross-country performance of his career. Farah defied the intense 38-degree heat and 80% humidity to be the first European across the line in Saturday's IAAF World Cross Country 12 kilometres race in Mombasa, Kenya, finishing 10th overall. The 24-year-old Somalian-born athlete, who came to London 14 years ago, made the race his major winter target, rather than concentrating primarily on the European Indoor Championships. But Farah, backed by his astute coach, UK Athletics endurance director Alan Storey, will now focus on the rigours of taking on the world's best distance runners. Many people, including Ian Stewart, the last Briton to win the world cross-country crown 32 years ago, insisted winning an indoor 3000metres medal in Birmingham would be more beneficial. Farah did compete in Birmingham, but a fall in his qualifying race wrecked his hopes of success in the final. Now, after recovering from the calf injury collected there and a virus he picked up at the Norwich Union GB team's acclimatisation camp in Durban, he feels his decision fully justified. Last summer's European 5000m silver medallist, said: "After this I've got to believe the Africans are beatable and the only way I am going to go down that path, is like today by racing against them. "My plan has always been to build upon my second place in Gothenburg, particularly after several years of injury, and this race was very important to me looking towards the summer." Farah, like every other competitor at the venue, was hampered by the severe weather conditions - with many athletes rushed away to hospital. He admitted: "People think because of where I was born, I am used to hot weather, but seem to forget how long I have lived in England. "Yes, it was the toughest race I have run in." Farah added: "The fall in Birmingham made me even more determined to do better here. Even so, when I stood on the start line today, I wasn't sure where I would finish." The Teddington-based star now plans a short rest before starting preparations for the World Championships in August, where his modest target in Osaka will be making the 5000m final and "then seeing what happens". His build-up to Japan is likely to see him spend a few weeks warm-weather training in the United States during spring, where he also planning a couple of races and possibly debuting over 10,000m. Farah said: "Nothing's totally confirmed yet, I'm going to have a rest then sit down with Alan and finalise everything we have discussed." His inspirational display led the senior men to eighth place - top Europeans in a race dominated by the African nations. The women's squads produced even better displays with Hattie Dean 15th and Hayley Yelling a place behind, capturing an outstanding fifth position, which was matched by the juniors led home by 15-year-old Charlotte Purdue. Source

^ya homies landed yesterday in Nomadland they coming fo ya

Bambi Speechless what a cutie Image <--is it just me or does this image look like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie??

I remember this nutcase fighting me and my Sudanese brothers and a funny xabashi a year ago on her personal forum at AALBC with her multinicks hehe walahi those Sudanese brothers cracked me up hehe they banned us all and erased our topics Kola Boof- Somalia recognises me

Paragon bro I really don't know but it was nice to see the two sisters going home with alot of money

Show debuts: Dubai TV Dubai TV is airing two new shows this year starting this month. Take it or leave it is a new game show inspired from an international format of the same name. Two couples battle against each other and their own temptation to risk winnings for a possibly bigger prize or a total let down. The second show launched this month is the first Arabic adaptation of the hit international series ER. Lahazat Harijah follows the lives of the medical personnel and patients in the emergency room of a fictional general hospital, as each character tackles the demands of their personal lives and the chaos at work. The show is expected to attract high viewership across the GCC, Egypt and other parts of the Arab World. In related news sister company Dubai One is releasing Emirates News, which will bring locally produced news segments about current events in the Emirates. link

a few weeks back my family were as usuall chilling watching arab ''drama'' or ''game'' shows on Satellite, in one of those game shows called take it or leave it on Dubai tv you had two Somali girls winning alot of money anyone seen this?

^MMA Why aren't there any video's that recorded the funeral? networks like Somali-Univ-tv should digg into these type of historical moments they allready have collected alot of interesting documentaries about our country which they show daily on tv, this recording(if it exist i mean) would make a fine add to that collection About the historical houses and graves it's really sad Somalis need to importify the ''real'' important things that matter to their society as an identity, not glamourizing Warlords i bet if we all ignored those myopic fools they would crawl back to their neolithic caves and let us be in peace but we turned them into popstars civil wars happened many times in the past across the globe but the countries suffering from it always had their important national monuments protected by locals even when vandals outnumbered or outgunned them case in point Japanese soldiers and Chinese locals why did we have to destroy the Museum which had alot of interesting stuff in it?? why the Sayyid statue the thing that also iritates me is how there is no info on the excavations in the 80s at Ras hafun and Las Khorey where did these documents and material go?????????? or or or.... the ******, to whom are attributed most of the wells in the interior and the ruins of stone forts -Tramping through Africa - William John Waterman Roome - 1930 why didn't the last government fund any projects regarding the Gareen Empire why why why???????????????????????????? :mad: i get a headache sometimes walahi sorry for ma rant

Jaandheer- a Somali Culture Dance 00:58 Aroos ama xaflad soomaaliyeed oo lagu xuso hidaha iyo dhaqanka soomaaliyeed ayaa ah "trendy" waxyaabaha aadka loo xiiseeyo waqtigan sidaa daraateyd ciyaartan hido iyo dhaqan ee quruxda badan oo laga ciyaaro gobolka sanaag ayaa ka mid aheyd ciyaarihii lagu soo bandhigey aroos ka dhacey wadanka Holland..fadlan daawasho wacan noqona qof ciyaartan oo kale kusoo bandhiga xafladaha ama munaasabadaha uu sameysto mustaqbalka..waxaa mahad iska leh dadka ka ciyaaray, kuwa isku soo dubaridey ciyaarahan iyo weliba lady "relax" oo soo duubtay ciyaartan quruxda badan. Tags: somali culture songs Added: 9 months ago From: cheyyene Views: 5,159 ^^what happened to this video man it was one of my favourites but now i can't even watch it anymore, does anyone know the owner of this video??

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Somalia has become the camping-ground for every devil, and alien objects are attracted to it. Yaa Allah. I heard this thing is making loud noises and is causing quite a panic in that area. Allow sahal. Am i the only one who finds this story funny?? nearly choked reading it i always wondered Aliens + Somalis = reaction??? but this is funny

killing one camel damn why always the camel? Ilyas said in the daylight it glitters and but in the nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which can’t be understood by the villagers. must be af ingriis ''they here'' ''no they are there'' co-ordinates 1.25.56.B damn satelites floating in our Outer-space

,,,,,,A funeral attended by poets,artists,Suldaans,Garaads,Boqors and ordinary people originating from across the Somali territories in East Africa,,,,,would be nice,,,,,dont you agree?,,,,no?,,,,why?,,,huh?