Inaa lilaahi wa inaa Ilayhi raajicuun Madaxweyne dheh

"An excuse for Ethios to move into new Somali terrotories" I agree Mr. Che-Guevara 100% waayo history is rebeating it self qofkii garanayaa garanaya.

waa geed bixitaankiisu uu aad u degdegbadanyahay. aad u cagaaran deegaanka soomlidana waa geed ku cusub. Geed jirid weyn leh maahan sida geed Hindiga ama raqayga ama beedaanka, waxuu u egyahay geedha ka baxa wabiga jiinkiis ama kanaalada biyuhu maraan sida Fagooye oo kale. Maleeshiyaadka Ehiobiyaanka iyo kuwa dowlad ku sheega ayaa ka baqanaya in loogu dhuunto/gabdo mafa'y nin ku doona ku waa... Qaranimo doonku ha noolaado..

"When there is a storm any port.... Xabeeb Dubai

"When there is a storm any port....

"Apparently our Soomaali name is dragged into a conflict with people and nation we have never had a word of disagreement with, let alone a fight." sxb U malaynmaayo ku biirid Somalia ku biirto urur aay leeyihiin wadamo daris la ah,dano aad u badani kala dhexeeyaan aay macanaheedu tahay in Somalia cadow u tahay Ereteria. Mana ka ratibmayso in aan ereteria cadow u nahay bal waxaaba suurtagal ah in aan dhexdhexaadino wadamada dhibaatadu ka dhaxeeyso oo si Regional ah aan u xalino , maadaama aan Umadaha ama waddamada kale uga xog-ogaalsanahay arimaha gobolka iyo waxyaabha laysku hayo. AVV Xabeeb, UAE Dubai

sxb kulanka Madaxweynaha iyo Godoomiyaha baarlamaanka waa waji cusub oo u muuqda in uu sii xoojindoono dadaalkii STFG ugu jirtay soo celinta kaladambaynta iyo nabada dalaka hooyo.Bravo Sharif Hassan. AVV Xabeeb . UAE Dubai

ASalaama calaykum wa raxmah Qallac Saxaafadeed, Mise Dan Bulsho: Bal Adba? Dhibaatada haysata DG puntland iyo qaybaha kale ee deegaanada soomaalidu degto, ee uu tooshka Af-soomaliga falkasan uu ku iftiinshay qalinmaalkanu, dhamaan mayso ilaa dadweynuhu gaaro heer uu la xisaabtamo dadka ay u xilsaarteen maamulwadaaga, kana gudbaan HEBEL IYO REER HEBEL. Garyaqaan Xabeeb , Dubai

What ever name we give Necessity is mother of inventions we need hell lot of invetions.. i think the most urgent one is "political will"

AS warhmah all mem FARAX HATERS Club ! wonderfull club, i wonder how it works! any idea ?

Innaa Lillaahi wa innaa ilayhu raajicuun Allaha u naxriisto marxuumadda ehelada iyo asxaabtana samir iyo iimaan ka siiyo.

My time has come, I was born a small village called Wisil sixty Km away from Hobyo,an old city near Indian ocean, about age 8 or 9 I come to Mogadishu where I was raised and did my schooling, then Kenya about six to seven months, then Pakistan where I did my Bachelor and master degree, Islamabad, then I have been to Afghanistan-don't tell CIA ok, Egypt, Oman and now I am In Dubai UAE for the last one year, trying to win a good bread + caseer.

Walaalayaal xijaabku waa mid ka mid ah calaamadaha lay nooga garto ama lay noo ka sooco ummadaha kale ee aan Islaamka ahayn, waana farad Allaah ku farad yeelay gabdha muslimada ah, xikmada Rabaani ahan ku fadhiya. Waxaana u dooray Alaah, Doorasho, qasab iyo xarago midna maahan ee waxaa ku farad yeelay oo ku xukumay Allihii abuuray gabadha muslimada ah.

Rscals, Rogues , Mischiefs, Scandreals, Killers..and many more you can call them any name other then leaders and representitives of Somali people

AS wr wb Salaan all brothers and sisters EID MUBAARK all of you sanadka sanadkiisa kale khayr iyo wanaagsan ku gaara.

AS wr wb Salaan all brothers and sisters EID MUBAARK all of you sanadka sanadkiisa kale khayr iyo wanaagsan ku gaara.

AS WR WB Gaal dil gartiisana sii. Maxaa ka wanaagsan miisaan isku dheeli tiran. Oo aan dhana culayskiisu u badnayn.

AS WR WB Thanks brother Bilal xilligaan ama waqtigaan lagu jiro oo taariikhda Soomaalida gees kasta oo laga eego maqal, qoraal, argti ay noqatay waxyaabo qofkasta oo Soomaali ah dareen wanaagsana leh qalbi-jab iyo niyad xumo ku abuuraya specially the young generation ka cusub oo aan figrad iyo sawir buuxa ka haysan taariikhda runta ah ee Dalkooda iyo Dadkooda. Aad baa loogu baahan yahay kalmadah dhiiri galinta ah boorinta am niyad dhiska ah xiliyadaan oo kale in the era of warlordisam, tribelisam, ignorance, immigration to wonder-lands , disintegration, disownerisam, and so many more- qaar kale oo badana inay kugu daydaan ayaa loo baahan yahay.Waxwalba oo dhacy waan ka soo kaban karaa haddan si sax ah u isticmaalna saddexda shay ee qaranimada saldhiga u ah qaran xor ah DHUL/ LAND, SHACAB/ PEOPLE, MAAMUl SIYAASADEED/GOVERNMENT.

Asalaama Alaykum All of you. I was alweys and still- like most of you may country fellow bros and sis-traying to understand what went wrong in our people and our home land so please read this topic and add it in your general picture of African issues specialy Somali issue. Somalia, Kenya and the instability of some modern African nations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A question on Somalia It is a grave error for anarchists to fall into the trap of attributing the chaos and instability of some modern African nations as being due to the weakness of the state. In fact I would tend to see the exact opposite as being more true, the imposition of artificial states which coresponded to no conceivable 'nation' and which were based on no strong local bourgeois and no large middle class (the layer of workers ideologically aligned with the bourgeois) meant that these states could never have been stable bourgeois democracies. The rulers of Western states can't operate without the support of a significant proportion of these classes and this puts a considerable check on their ability to act and is one of the reasons whey we can't 'elect socialism'. In Africa these classes are small and weak. Most of the countries' surpluses are appropriated by the ruling classes of the imperialist countries, thus the remaining surplus is too small to allow the development of a strong local bourgeois or civil society. Most pre-colonial African societies were far from being absolutist. Power, although almost always being personified in a chief or king, was constrained by a multitude of checks and balances. Councils of 'kingmakers' who could 'destool' chiefs, age-grade groups, councils of elders and other institutions existed which limited the power of the ruler. These institutions corresponded to the balance of forces between the classes in the various societies. The modern nation states imposed by the departing colonial powers lacked any such means of balancing the ruler's power. Certainly, there were model constitutions with clearly divided executive, legislative and judicial powers. But thise balances existed only on paper, they had no relation to the class compositions of the societies and as we should know, this is the important thing. In effect, without a strong bourgeois, there is effectively no local control over the actions of the rulers of most modern African nations. They merely require the connivance of the imperialist power (UK, US or France) in whose sphere of influence they find themselves, and the support of the security services. The imperialist powers care about nothing other than the supply of cheap raw materials to their transnational corporations and will support any ruler no matter how despotic and brutal, as long as he ensures a regular supply. The 35 post-independance military interventions of France in Africa have shown this very clearly. They have saved such demons as Mobutu (several times), Bokassa and Eyadema and tried their best to save the genocidal regime in Rwanda until the end. The US for its part has provided military support for such infamous murderers as Jonas Savimbi in Angola. Since most of the ruling class of Africa (defined as those who appropriate the workers' surplus) are in effect the shareholders of transnational corporations residing in London, Paris and New York, there is very limited scope for locals to gain power and wealth. In fact in most modern African nations, control of state power is the only available route to power and wealth and since only a small fraction of the appropriated surplus remains in Africa, this power and wealth is available only to a small number of individuals at the heart of the regime. Thus the history of post-colonial Africa has seem tremendous battles between small cliques to gain control of this vital resource. Mercenary invasions, coups, ethnic rebellions and civil wars have raged across the continent as ambitious 'big men' have fought amongst themselves for the vital state power. Every ruler knows that as soon as the profit margin of the transnational giants starts to fall, an ambitious army officer or chief of some oppressed tribe will be found to replace them. Thus they are driven to ever greater excesses of brutatlity to ensure the constant supply of profits. Things get worse still when the imperial powers compete amongst themselves for control over state power. The bloody carnage which has raged across central Africa in the 1990´s, reaching its worst in Rwanda and Congo-Zaire, is portrayed by the media as another example of the collapse of weak states into savagery. This is an imperialist lie. The situation in central Africa owes much to the battle between US and French multinationals for control over the region's vast mineral wealth. Elf-Total to name but one of the villians, maintains private armies and secret services in its central african domain. Again the recent tumult in Cote D'Ivoire becomes much easier to understand when one realises that Ouattara, the Washington based ex-IMF official is supported by the US, while Gbagbo is Paris's man (as was Bedie and Houphouet-Boigny before him). In fact this is part of a process that is happening all over French Africa. The US is attempting to muscle in on France's terrain by promoting the graduates of the Washington based International Financial Institutions instead of the traditional elite trained in Paris's ENA and other top institutions. The long suffering people of Africa are the inevitable losers of this game of imperialists. Taking this analysis of class and imperialism into account, it becomes clear that the situation in Kenya, the 'chaos on the streets', is not a case of "the chaos of a weak state", rather it is really the "chaos of a despotic state, underwritten by imperialism". President Moi is a gangster, leading a government of thugs. The chaos on the streets of Nairobi, where there are frequent riots, is not caused by some sort of absence of state power. It is caused by an extremely present and vicious repressive state power which violently supresses all opposition. The people of Kenya are very angry and are increasingly determined to stand up to Moi'd corrupt and repressive regime. Every time they try to protest or demonstrate their opposition, they are violently attacked by the security services and the gangs of hired thugs in Moi's KANU party. For an anarchist to look at this situation and suggest that there may not be enough state power is criminal and hardly likely to support for our ideas among the radical Kenyan students, whose politics are apparently quite close to anarchism, and who are heroically refusing to be intimidated by this repression and continue to demonstrate despite it. In general much of what is presented by the Western media as examples of the senseless chaos of Africa, is anything but, rather it is carefully engineered events with the support of the Western powers. The phrase 'beacon of stability' means 'uninterrupted profits for transnationals'. If it was really a beacon of stability, then what about the rift-valley ethnic massacres of the 1990's? These were in fact engineered by government ministers to cement their hold on power. When an American priest, John Kaiser, recently made this accusation in public, he was promptly assasinated with a bullet in the head. This is the stability of despotism. In fact Kenya is actually a country where the government has some of the least impunity in Africa. This is due to the significant number of white commercial farmers and the small industrial base around Nairobi. It is a tiny and weak bourgeois by Western standards but it does mean that Moi can't go as far as some other African despots like Bokassa and Mobutu. Also I might as well mention that in my opinion Nairobi is one of the most orderly third world cities I have been in. In fact compared to most African and Asian cities, it appears like New York or London. I suspect when Mathew refers to the 'chaos of Nairobi' he in fact is just expressing culture shock at the poverty of the third world. Try Lagos or Bombay for chaos! Somalia Somalia is another case where it would appear that the people are suffering from the lack of a strong state. Yet I believe that the opposite is again the case. The chaos and armed conflict of Somalia in the 1990's is a direct consequence of the totalitarian state power wielded by the late dictator Siad Barre. His demise saw a violent conflict between a multitude of warlords all vying for the golden chalice of state power. Somalia is very unusual in Africa for being a linguistically and ethnically homogenous state, a real 'nation', if the nation state paradigm is to work anywhere in Africa it should be here. Somalian society was traditionally organised into clans who came together in big gatherings called 'shirs' to resolve problems and allow the various elements of society to have their say. These 'shirs' were required before clan chiefs could take any important decisions and provided a means by which their power was controlled by the people. Colonial administration subjugated these shirs to the power of the unitary state which allowed the emergence of despotic, totalitarian rulers like Barre who could never have existed before. The recent chaotic violence can better be understood as a battle between ambitious individuals for absolute state power using their clans as recruiting bases, rather than the continuation of perrenial clan warfare, as it is presented in the Western media. It is interesting to note that all of the foreign peace deals have focused on coming to an arrangement for power sharing between the various warlords. They have all failed miserably since these warlords are in no way representative of their clans or Somali society. In 1991, the Somali National movement of Northern Somalia who had fought for years against the Barre regime, decided that they couldn't wait for a resolution of the chaos in Moqadisu and decided to go it alone. They called a shir and effectively ditched the concept of the nation state and reverted to a traditional form of administration. This was the creation of what is known in the media as 'the self-declared republic of Somaliland'. In 1998 the neighbouring *****tine clans followed suit and set up an independant administration of 'Puntland'. These 'self declared' entities have been consistently opposed by all the foreign powers, despite the fact that Somaliland has been at peace since 1995 and has had a functionning administration since 1997. So why are these entities opposed, because they contradict the imperial powers' need for states in Africa, centralised institutions which locally police the imperialist capitalism. The 2000 peace conference in Djibouti was another attempt to impose a unitary state on Somalia, following on such disasters as the US invasion which killed thousands of innocent civilians. The 'government' which this latest conference elected includes not only warlords dripping with blood but many of the old figures of Barre's dictatorship. It was resolutely opposed by Somaliland and Puntland. It's first task upon entering Moqadisu? The recruitment of an army, hitherto its only act. Somalia looks like it will again see another round of bloodshed as a government attempts to impose its will. Somaliland and Puntland could be soon dragged back into the bloody carnage. The foreign powers will not be happy until one man sits on top of the heap, even if the heap consists of nothing but dead bodies. Conclusion To sum up, in general what the media presents as the consequence of 'weak government' and irrational violence is anything but. The building of regular bourgeois democracies in Africa as 'an improvement on the present carnage' is impossible for the simple reason that most of Africa's bourgeois live in the imperialist nations. In Africa a normal bourgeois democracy would be impossible to achieve without overturning the global capitalist imperialist system. When that happens we'll have anarchism and capitalism of any form will be a thing of the past. That's why, as the comrades of the Awareness League point out so well, for Africa anarchism is the only hope. Yours for Anarchy Chekov Feeney Originally an emails sent to anarchy_africa, the discussion it generated can be viewed in the archive

SAlaan gays you are touching deeb down in my heart, i am totaly half Pakistani i took a very good years in Pakistan specialy in Islamabad. Good luck to these ladies and good lucky to all Somali-paks specialy the Islamabadies. I am very lucky to have freinds over here. International Islamic Unaversity/faisal Mosque All bay jaaaan and baa jeee gays

Salaam Hot_chocolata thanks for your kind advice i will try that.

Salaam all waxaan jeclaystay in aad ila akhrisaan topicgaan- oo aan ka soo xigtay/min guuriyay Gulf News/UAE Dubai 20/10/2003-it resembles the malady which we have in our home country and not ending in kasta oo ku weena wanaaga jecel iyo well wishares-kuba ka daaleen waanadeena. A tiny sniffle kept irritating me. It began from somewhere deep in my nose and no amount of twigging the nostrils helped. I knew a cold was on its way to make my life miserable for the next few days. Common cold - if it is so common how come no cure has been found as yet? After a few minutes the sniffle expanded into a sneeze. It was time to keep a box of tissues near at hand because sneezing accidents can be very messy. As the saying goes, 'when it rains, it pours.' A cough crept up on me, slowly but surely. It is bad enough feeling miserable, but there is always a cherry on the cake - a red nose. I was well into my box of tissues, an unsoundly symphony of sneeze and cough reverberated all over the room. That's when the do-gooders stepped in. Each one had his or her remedy for my ills and they were willing to bet their gratuities that they had the ultimate cure. Ginger tea is what you need. The trick is in mashing the ginger, don't pound too hard else you'd end up with paste, you just tap it and the juices will be trapped and it won't be of any use. I was never any good at physics so I just used the knife handle with the force I thought was perfect. The ginger looked like bubble gum dried in the sun. I tentatively inserted it into my black tea (not too strong they said, else you lose the ginger flavour). After a couple of cups I began to wonder if I could make iced ginger tea. But cold is not good for the cold, that's what I have been told, so I refrained. Others swore by the inhalation process. Inhale for half an hour said one, another said 15 minutes should do the trick. I asked does the face steaming come for free? It's difficult to smile after half an hour of breathing water vapour. Along with clearing my sinuses, I also had a face that felt like parchment and was afraid to smile lest my cheeks cracked apart! Lots of juices said another, down them like there is no tomorrow. You need the vitamins. I always drink fresh juice when I am well, and if that didn't help keep this misery away, how would it help when illness strikes. I don't have a clue. After having tried all the remedies, in different strengths and combinations, I felt a little better. That was after five days. I remember my grandmother telling me that if you have a cold, five days later it will trickle off. Yes the leaky nose has finally decided to dry up and I don't have to keep rushing for tissues. All my do-good friends said, 'See, I told you it works.' I was too weak to argue. I smiled back, glad that I was feeling better and in no mood to hurt anybody's feelings. Then a colleague said that I should have tried the cold shower, ice cream and iced water cure. It would have worked quicker. Well, I am not sure. If there happened to be a direct flight to the North Pole I would have bought him a one-way ticket.

Have we become hypocrits? Runtii cidda aad tahay hadaad ka carartid cid aadan ahyn noqon maysid,waxaa muhiim ah in waalidku, awlaada ka hor asagu qudhiisu ku qanacsanyahay, yaqaanana who he is and what he is, markaa ka dib ayuu yaryarka uu dhalay u sheegi karaa kuna qancin karaa.Waxwaliban waa is kaashi waana in la hellaa rolle of community ayna qaataan dowrkooda kaga aadan bulshda iyo noolaynta iyo xoojinta dareenka Diineed iyo dhaqan ee aynu leenahay oo soo jireenka ah. "FAR KALIYA FOOL MA DHAQDO"

(It’s ugly they way Somali language conveys certain messages) Itaanan ka jawaabin su'aashaada this is the second time i saw unfounded atack on Somali language, an Arabic broveb goes in this way " The person is enemay of what he does't know or ignorant of them" i don't know when English n other Languages become more expressive and clearar n more conveance then worldly aknowledged great Somali language, go n read what is written about Somali language and its wonderfull letrature, so plz letts know is it Us or the Language where the short coming is before taking the go'aan. Waa sax qof walbaa ra'iyigiisa waa dhiiban karaa topiguu doonana wuu ka hadli karaa, lakin in afsoomaliga in la weeraro maahan. Single mather dee ruux walba dooqiisa ma cidbaa la qasbayaa, hadaan kani doonayn mid kaloo doonaya waayi mayso.

waxaa la rabay, markay aragtay salesmank, oooooh you were here today i am very happy i farted for your health!!