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Prince Abdi
is a talented young comic from south-London. His personality and energy makes everyone indulge to his character.
only 23 years of age Abdi has only been on the circuit for 6 months, but has already made his name heard performing in places such as Hackney Empire, Comedy cafe, Comedy Store to name but a few.
He challenges the stereo-types that is seen on Somalians and shows the humorous side of things.
His up-bringing traditional Somali family to his Indian, Jamaican, Nigerian and Cockney mates and local Chinese restaurant worker, he'll sure to suit all tastes.
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On Nov. 14, The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) will honor these three grassroots activists with its 14th annual California Peace Prize at a ceremony in Los Angeles. In recognition of their efforts to prevent violence and promote peace, the honorees will each receive a cash award of $25,000.
Sahra Abdi - one of three winners of the 2006 California Peace Prize
Abdi is program coordinator at the City Heights Wellness Center in San Diego, a partnership between Children's Hospital and Scripps Health. She oversees the Hooyo Health program, which provides education and support for Somali and East African mothers. In her previous position, at Social Advocates for Youth San Diego, Abdi was involved in parenting classes and youth groups that taught anger and stress management to parents and children.
A decade ago, when Abdi arrived in the United States, she realized that the Somali community needed help in adapting to their new environment. The immigrants and their children had left a country embroiled in civil war, where constant violence was the usual way of life.
“It is important to have different ethnic groups participating in the planning and implementation of new policies and programs,” Abdi said. “As advocates of positive change, we should always engage community members in solving problems that concern them.”
masha-allah i had to post this before i hit the bed
masha-allah
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Originally posted by General Duke:Bambo & David.no Bamba and David here
i'm my own man
you adress my points individually and stop the red herrings or you don't adress me at all
The clan courts need to vacate Bay, Bakool, Gedo, Juba's and Lower Shabbele and stay in their clan terriroties if they are fearing a clan takeover from others as you would have us belive.-TFG needs to kick out the Tigre's from Somali soil
-TFG needs to put pressure on Adiss Ababa regarding the disputed area and it's humanrights violation
if not they are not a Somali government doesn't matter how much you chearleaders jump up and down and claim otherwise
your stand as being a so-called champion of one group of our people is based on the simple fact that you can use them as a tool and not because of the suffering at hands of one thug that is part of a large entity
exposing this fact was the only reason why i even replied to your illogical post
not once have i seen you post anything about the conflict that's going in SomaliGalbeed done by the people invited by the TFG
your corrupt both morally and politicly
i got a busy day tommorow i don't have time for this garbage
continue your little hypocritical i'm the champion of the people charade
your fooling nobody with this act!
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Originally posted by Naxar Nugaaleed:Of course they would, from what I can tell, you are Dowladdiid.please leave your ad hominems comments to the ignorant ones who might fall for your pathetic bait
i gave you a prime example of a country who when it was not satisfied with it's government it toppled it there by i refuted your silly theory ''anyone that's against it's government and toppels it is insane'' cause like i said the Thai's look pretty sane to me
hyperbole kills an arguement,no
what you perceive as an exaggeration is the simply reality
you want me to recognise TFG as a ''government'' but you don't like me criticizing there flaws regarding their duties as a ''government''
that's a classic non sequitur
you know this is not true. In a federal system where regions are demanding autonomy, they must also accept some responsibility for what you accuse the government of nt addressing, which I believe it is too certian extent.and what has TFG accomplished in the only town it controlls?
please enlighten me
-healthcare?
-education?
or is TFG's main plan to let the Tigre occupy every Somali hospital in Somalia?
Somalia has risked life and limp for our brothers in ******ia and the rest of western Somalia.the Somalia your talking about just joined the ICU( veterans)
i wonder why?
please don't compare a Somali government that even when Somalia was a young Nation determinated it's relations with Brittian over NFD with a government that slept the last 2 years in a Kenyan hotel
please don't compare a Somali government who when it's citizens in Somaligalbeed were forced to pay tax it intervened with a government that invited Tigre's on Somali Soil
please don't!
Somalia is just not in a place to demand or fight for the liberation of these region.what happend to the strong strong mighty mighty invincible invincible powerfull powerfull TFG??
You can even argue that it was these attempts to liberate western Somalia that have brought us to where we are today.B.s
a great leader turned on it's people and became a coward
the dictator was toppled by greedy men and they destroyed our country
don't blame the people in SomaliGalbeed who fight and lose relatives everyday for the simple thing we have in the Mainland and that's freedom
Self defense is not only a sacred right but an obligation i Islam. You can attack a government and tell it how it will defend itself.exactly!! Masha-allah that these veterans and young ones answered the calls in their thousands against this Tigre aggression on Somali soil
masha-allah
It will use whatever means it has, be they Ethiopians or martions.Ugandan,Kenyan,American soldiers
funny how none of them are muslim
that's..
TFG->Ethiopia(gross human rights violations in SomaliGalbeed)
+ Kenya
+ Uganda
+ United States(last time massacred 1000 somalis)
against..
ICU->Eritrea( no massacres no human rights violations on our people)
hmmmmmm....
We need a responsible government and not one that ingages in futile wars with its neighbors.there was nothing wrong with the foreign policies of our past governments
it was a good foreign policy
and these neighbouring countries would think twice before they touched the citizens of the Somali Republic
that's the type government we need
one that has balls
one that protects and speaks out for it's citizens even when it's weak
not a government playing silly games with our independence
The very person you attack and is leading this government has spent more then you ever will in trying liberate Western Somalis but a wise man knows not to engage in war that he knows he will not win. Courage is not only picking up a gun, my friend, but also accpeting peace with your enemies.where is his support for the citizens of the somali republic in western Somalia?
where are his motivating speeches that will fuell the western somalis with nationalisme and love for the Somali Republic?
why isn't he putting pressure on Adiss Ababa who he seems to be good friends with?
the TFG is incompetent simple as that and needs to pack!
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Originally posted by Peaceful Mind:Masha'llah alla theseFaraaxare had worker inshallah I'll be CEO one day so my pic will be posted
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Originally posted by Sakhar:Il-Jeneraale, nimanka aad tilmaanaysid walaal waa niman mayl-adag oo extreemestiyaal ah!Some days ago a person, I think his/her name was Fabiana, was making an analysis about the current situation of Somalia in here SOL's political fora!One thing he/she mentioned was the calling for a general election! These men, who now control Mogadishu are against elections of anykind!who you trying to fool??
Put shariif against Yeey in a presidential election and let the people on somali soil( not some foreign country) vote for who they want as their leader
we both know who's going to be the winner
ICU itself would have a landslide victory in the South and Central Somalia in a general election and the Puntland and Somaliland wadaads who will join the ICU in the near future will have landslide victories in their birth regions
This guys are not joking, what the government needs to do and quickly that is, is to engage them in all out war!Some people seem to suffer from this delusional grandeur ever since xabashi's entered somali soil
they won't admit it but deep down that's the only reason why there all hyped about the so-called TFG forces
today 30 defected from TFG taking with them 5 tikniko's
1 tikniko is worth 20 000$
They're weak, lack communication, they're also underresourced and lack military hardware but they got one dangerous thing and that is, that they using religion as a false pretence,coming from a person who a few days ago started a degrading topic about his people in the South and how they didn't look somali :rolleyes:
*Yawn*
so that's why, they'll get enthusiastic young men fighting for them, who believe that they're waging jihaad against our arch-enemey, namely Ethiopia!Please do not paint these patriotic brothers that answered the calls against Tigre agression as sheep following a lost cause
Ethiopia has troops on our soil and they don't belong there
simple as that!
I believe, that they'll not venture to much out of Mogadishu, because, they don't want to loose all their 'technicals' outside Mogadishu e.g. Baidoa or even Buurhakaba because, that would leave Mogadishu exposed to the TFG unchallenged!They'll not fight outside Mogadishu and for that I'll give you my word Il-Generale, that's why the government needs to get its act quickly together but one thing has to be mentioned, that is, that the trasitional government of Somalia is accountable to the International community and hence need to weigh out the advantages and disadvantages of such a move because they can't afford to loose the diplomatic and montary supportso the prevention of innocent somali blood being spilled should only be based on not losing the International community and not based on ''simply preventing innocent somali blood from being spilled''?
handouts means more to you right?
but then again that topic you made makes much more sense now
after all
they are not somalis right?
they get from the international community, so what does it help, if the courts don't want to fight anywhere outside Mogadishu and you can't capture Mogadishu because the war there would be bloody and long!One other thing is the lifting of the arms embargo, if that was done quickly then I wouldn't hesistate to say, that Abdullahi Yusuf would move swiftly to go into battlebut now I cannot see the all-out war some in here have prophecised!looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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lifting of the arms Embargo
since when did anyone care about this so-called embargo?
nobody cared when Somalia was being bombarded with arms shipments in the last 16 years
nobody cared when Tigria violated our sovereignty
so let's not make silly excuses
There will be a no all out war inshallaah unless ofcourse circumstances on the ground change swiftly and we all know Somali politics, it's without principles and everything can happen in a second and one eye-flash!Insha-allah there won't be!
Originally posted by General Duke:^^^You know such a request without the clan courts disarming would not work.yet he has no problem visiting other entities who are not disarmed
it has no problems making it's headquarters in a place that had a armed clan
who's leader today is very very angry
Thus first put the wepons down,no first the tigre's out
return the airport and ports and then the TFG will return with its security forces to Mogadishu. Come and let me [Xasan Dahir] protect you is something the President declined to accept from the warlords before.he has no problems having foreigners as his protectors
do you know how illogical your comments are when your trying to defend the TFG
headline: Japan's president has send ''Japanese'' soldiers to protect the Chinese government from the chinese people
^^any person reading this would be confused as hell and think it's a joke
but this is the situation in Somalia and your trying really hard to hide it
Originally posted by Naxar Nugaaleed:Xog ogaalquote:
Why would anyone recognize this government when it hasn’t done anythingthink for one minute about what you say. Recognition of your government (As if that is an option)is not contingent upon what it does. once you elect them, you must let finish their term, like it or not, thats how sane people function.tell that to the Thai'sand they look sane people to me
TFG 2 years has done nothing
-education ---> nothing
-Healthcare --->nothing
-not helping the citizens of the Somali Republic in O-gade-n instead it ignores their pleas and invites the very people that are putting them under so much hardship
a government like that shouldn't even be allowed to continue
Originally posted by Naxar Nugaaleed:you impeach the president or in our case bring a motion of no confidence against his prime minister and cabinet in parliament but you don't say I don't regocnize my government or even worse commit by taaking arms against the state.A State who's so-called Government ignores it's citizens in
South Africa
O-gade-n
Yemen
A State who's so-called government ignored for two years it's citizens in the South instead it went on holiday trips
A State who's so-called government has no trackrecord of improving the lives of the ordinary citizens
-education ---> nothing-Healthcare --->nothingAlso, this is where electoral responsibility comes in, when you elect leaders, you better make sure you'll be happy with them but you can't let your stupidy couse the nation instability.no chinese would ever allow Japanese soldiers on their soil as protection for the Chinese government
that's logical considering their history
Granted we have not elected president (No Somali president was)because ours is not a a direct democracy (Aside from switzerland there are none, this is what we have coloctively as nation and have been doing sense our first government. basically put, we Somalis are too whimsical.or simply put we like our traditional pre-colonial system of govern
Also , the president is not paid by the UN, the Somali government is not a UN agency and does not need to show them anything.Without the funding from the UN,EU,US and the rest of the international community TFG would have be history
And considering the environment, is it really hard for you comprehend why the governments hand are tied concerning internal affairs?actually it's not really
just take a look at my China/Japan analogy and you will understand
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i always find it annoying when pictures are taken of a house without the rubble being cleared first
can't they just wait a few months and then flash?
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Originally posted by Abdillah:
Nurrudin Farah - One of Africa's best writers and our finest.DID YOU KNOW?The multilingual writer Nurudin Farah was named the 1998 Neustadt Laureate. He was the first African to receive this award, a literary prize which is considered to be secondary in prestige to the Nobel Prize for literature.Sorry about the photo.i put him and other artists and writers in the Somali Art and Entertainment topic
thanks!
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M.M thanks for your contribution appreciate it
salaam!
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Originally posted by Thierry.:Sophist I think this guy is certainly a big fish in the world of African banking.
Family Name: MohamedGiven Name: AdanGender: MaleCountry: KenyaPositionsPositions listed are those which are held currently or have been held in the past. Dates are given wherever possible. Where there are no dates, positions are ordered alphabetically.Managing Director - Barclays Bank Kenya (2002 - ?)Chairman - University Council - Jomo Kenyatta UniversityAchievementsWhere there are no dates, achievements are ordered alphabeticallyEast African Business Leader of the Future - The Guardian (2002)nice nice thanks!
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Originally posted by murefu:quote:What are we celebrating here? A handful of somalis amongst 7/8millions who went thru school? It would b truly sad if it wasn't so staggeringly WRONG!There are ALOT more somalis with great academic abd professional careersmay you post them(with their careers/background INFO) here 'You just explained the whole point of my topic thanks!i don't live in the US or Canada or the scandanavian klig klåg klig klåg countries lol
i was hoping i would spark a ''people knowing succesfull somalis from different countries post there info''topic
nobody will do it for us cause we don't have foreign embassies
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lol so stubborn
just find a new job walaalyaal it's futile
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thanks bob!
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Originally posted by murefu:quote:He is currently working in National University of Malaysia (UKM) HospitalI know all the professional successful somali men in malaysia...are you sure he is working there. UKM AND NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA ARE TWO DIFFERENT PLACES:)Source -
me nice pictures
thanks!
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man in malaysia i would appreciate it if you spied on our peeps in Japan lol and took some pictures of them
Me actually both!
the thing is a lot of chinese fled China because of political instability in China during Mao and before him and they started succesfull communities in the diaspora
there were allready chinese communities before but nothing compared to today
you have 60 million chinese in the diaspora who's GDP is estimated to be 1.5 trillion $
they know this because they kept track of all these chinatowns around the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown
and because of this CNN or BBC or whatever media outlet out there in the world can never paint a bad image of the chinese communities
the creation of a Somali merchant diaspora
Ethan Zuckerman has written a fascinating essay on expatriate Somalis who are investing in the country, either by returning home to start businesses or by opening Somali branches of foreign-based enterprises. The investment is apparently driven both by expanding economies in the Somaliland and Puntland enclaves and the perception that stability may be returning to southern Somalia. This favorable climate may or may not persist in the short term; for every positive sign of ports being reopened and piracy being suppressed, there are signals that the region may descend into another round of warfare. What this means over the longer term, however, is that the Somalis have become one of the world's newest merchant diasporas, and this could ultimately have a profound effect on the economy and politics of the homeland.
To be sure, the Somali diaspora is hardly a new phenomenon. The history of Somali migration extends more than a century and has its roots in precolonial nomadism. Nevertheless, it can be divided into three distinct periods, with the most recent period less than twenty years old. During colonial times, when Somalia was divided between British and Italian control, Somalis emigrated to the metropole either as students or as laborers. Beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the first two decades of independence, there was considerable Somali migration to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, with the immigrants initially arriving as oil workers and following the same path of social mobility as the south Asians. Most recently, beginning with the onset of civil war at the end of the 1980s, Somalis have left their country as refugees.
It is the last of these periods that has turned the Somali diaspora into one of the world's great transnational communities. Unlike the relatively small number of Somalis who participated in the first two periods of emigration, the war refugees number more than half a million. During the past twenty years, they have fanned out along three main migration routes: west to Europe and the United States, north to the Persian Gulf and southward to South Africa. The first two of these routes terminate in established Somali communities, with much of the migration going to the United Kingdom, Italy and the United Arab Emirates, but the third has opened up new frontiers for expatriate Somalis. Also, many emigrants never reach the end of the line; the vagaries of poverty, transportation and hostile immigration authorities cause many who take the western route to finish their journeys in Egypt and Libya, while those who take the northern route fetch up in Yemen and those who migrate south often settle in Kenya and elsewhere along the east African coast.
These refugee communities are far-flung, but they share certain characteristics, and one of the common threads is a growing presence in business. This trend is most pronounced in Dubai, where Somalis are the largest African community and where an established population has existed for two generations. Thanks to this well-settled community and a favorable business climate, Dubai has drawn many refugees who were businessmen in Somalia and who were able to get away with some of their money and business connections. The Somalis have established a significant presence in the retail, hotel and import-export sectors, and their economic success has in turn established Dubai as the center of global Somali commerce. The Somali Business Council is based in Dubai, as are a number of large companies with satellite businesses in Somalia itself.
The other Somali refugee populations haven't prospered to quite the same extent as those in the UAE, but they have also found niches in commerce, often starting businesses to supplement meager or nonexistent refugee allowances. Mulki al-Sharmani's study of Somali refugees in Egypt, for example, found that many Somalis had established small retail and service businesses, primarily aimed at a Somali immigrant market. In South Africa, which has a Somali population estimated at more than 7000, Somalis have settled in Western Cape province and become known for operating "tuckshops" or convenience stores. These represent two of the early stages in the development of merchant diasporas; like most such communities, first-generation Somali expatriates typically begin by selling to members of their own ethnic group and progress to small general-market businesses.
Commercial success, of course, has its own hazards. Merchant minorities, especially foreign ones, tend to be resented by the local population, and the newest and least-established merchant minorities are often the most vulnerable to stereotyping and violence. In South Africa, 26 Somali merchants have been murdered in the past month, and the local Somali business community believes that its members are being targeted for racial reasons. There have also been reports of "meetings held by business owners... to plan the removal of Somalis from their townships," and although many officials (and the ANC) have condemned the killings, others blame them on "the uncontrolled access that migrants from the rest of Africa have in South Africa." As the Somalis establish themselves, develop local political connections and progress to more lucrative areas of business, they will likely become more secure, but at present their concentration in marginal businesses in economically depressed neighborhoods renders them
However uneven the patterns of development, the fact remains that Somalis are becoming known throughout the world as businessmen, and their dispersion has enabled them to establish companies as nomadic as themselves. The Somali Telecom Group, for instance, was founded by expatriates in Rockville, Maryland, but has since moved its head office to Dubai. It initially organized most of its operations from abroad, but as it has become involved in creating a Somali telecommunications infrastructure, it has created satellite companies in Somaliland and Puntland (where there is functioning commercial law) and established ad hoc business networks in central Somalia. It's often hard to tell what makes certain cultural groups succeed in business, but in the Somalis' case, their traditional attitudes toward mobility may be part of the reason why they can establish themselves quickly in new countries and adapt to the anarchic conditions in their homeland.
What remains to be seen is how the growing Somali commercial diaspora will influence the future development of Somalia. Merchant diasporas don't always invest heavily in their homelands and even those that do, often stay out of local political life. Those that do involve themselves in homeland politics sometimes have a negative impact; in several countries, hard-line nationalist groups are reinforced with diaspora money and political support. Others avoid these pitfalls, though, and the Somali business community, which has become increasingly politically organized over the past three years, has a chance to make a positive impact. As members of a relatively new diaspora, the Somali expatriates retain strong ties to the homeland and might be more inclined to invest in it than second or third-generation emigrants would be. The Somali diaspora is also broadly representative of the country rather than being confined to particular ethnic or interest groups, and would hence play a less partisan role in national reconstruction. In many cases, the business community in Somalia itself has taken a leading role in mediating conflict, and if stability ever returns to the center and south of the country, the global Somali comerce created by the civil war may ironically play a part in the reconstruction.
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Originally posted by Valenteenah:^^Academically and professionally successful men. But what about all the successful businessmen? Don't leave them out.the problem is we don't have a government that can monitor
-how many businessmen we have in the diaspora
-how many doctors
-how many lawyers
etc etc
we would know this if we had foreign embassies
Iran has 80 business men in the diaspora and 6000 doctors
we might not have the same number but were definitly close or else we wouldn't have all these succesfull communities around the world
like i said we need to archive our people into one big list
in sport
in educational achievements
in business
and many more sectors
we need to do it ourselves
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Mohammed Yassin Olad, Daallo Airlines
Osman Abdi Hassan ,Owner Star African Airlines
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Dr Ahmed Awil Adam
MBBS, MS( General Surgery)
Dr Ahmed is a graduate of Rajshahi Medical College under Rajshahi University, Bangladesh in Sept 1999.
He completed his internship in the year 2000 from Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
He has 5 years experience in general surgery. He started his master of Surgery training in the year 2002 at the National University of Malaysia and just recently completed 4 years of residency training following which he obtained the master in surgery degree.
The 4 years of residency training comprised general surgery, neurosurgery,urology,paediatric surgery,cardiothoracic surgery,plastic surgery and intensive care unit. The general surgery training included all subspecialities namely, breast and endocrine, hepatobiliary and pancreas, upper gastrointestinal surgery, bariatric surgery, colorectal surgery and minimal access surgery.
He is currently working in National University of Malaysia (UKM) Hospital
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^^my bad
MOHAMED MUKHTAR
is Professor of African & Middle Eastern History at Savannah State University, Savannah Georgia, USA.
Mohamed H. Mukhtar received his Ph.D. from Al-Azhar University, Cairo.
From 1975-1983, Dr. Mukhtar was a Professor of History at the Jama’adda Ummadda Somaliyeed (Somali National University).
From 1986-1990 he taught at the UniversitY Kebangsaan Malaysia UKM (National University of Malaysia). Dr. Mukhtar Dr. Mukhtar is a two-time Fulbright-Hays Scholar
HASSAN ABDI KEYNAN
he served as a consultant at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo. He gained his Master of Arts in African Studies, and his Master of Education in Curriculum Development and the Study of Schooling from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Keynan has widely lectured and written on masculinity and violence, see for example "Male roles and the Making of the Somali Tragedy" (1997), as well as on Somalia, "Reconfiguring Somali political landscape - patterns of political mobilisation and rhetoric" (1999).
MUKTHAR MOHAMED
Mukhtar Mohamed earned a master's degree in Public Health as well as a master's degree in African Studies.
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