AFRO ****** black american i've been observing you for the last few weeks and the only thing your trying to do is give my people bad feelings about themself fkk you n.gger go blame whitey for your shortcomings i love somalia and somalis because my forefathers protected their women from slave trade i love my people because they fought the british and italians so hard that they signed deals that no kafiir baby was alloud to be born on somali soil i love my people because they murked the portuguese in the 1500's making our ancestors the first africans who destroyed the invading europeans one of the reason why somalia was attacked by multiple european nations was because they studied the portuguese chronicles of vasco da gama somalis should read these two topics and you will understand why i love my people http://www.somaliaonline.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=006554 http://www.somaliaonline.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=006555 somalis don't get handouts from other countries they do everything on their own Somalia flourished precisely because of the "world community’s" neglect. In Somalia, "the very absence of a government may have helped nurture an African oddity — a lean and efficient business sector that does not feed at a public trough controlled by corrupt officials," wrote Peter Maas in the May 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Tele-communications, transportation, and shipping companies were organized up to provide services to the liberated private sector. Internet cafes have sprung up in Mogadishu. Private security firms helped businessmen protect their investments and property. A recent World Bank study grudgingly admitted: "Somalia boasts lower rates of extreme poverty and, in some cases, better infrastructure than richer countries in Africa." This is almost certainly because it is not cursed with a World Bank-subsidized central government to siphon away the nation’s wealth.

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the King of Adal marched out of his trenches to enter those of the Portuguese. Mohammed's forces entered the camp, and hit the Christians to the spear. The Portuguese General (Christopher) escaped the slaughter with ten men and retreated to a wood, where they were discovered... (and killed). ... Mohammed Gragne improved his victory by chasing the young Claudius (king of Ethiopia) over Abyssinia, where nothing opposed the progress of his arms. At last the few Portuguese survivors repaired to the Christian Emperor, who was persuaded to march an army against the King of Adel (Mohammed Gragne). Resolved to revenge their general, the harquebusiers demanded the post opposite Mohammed, and directed all their efforts against the part where the Moslem stood. His fellow religionists still relate that when Gragne fell in action, his wife Talwambara, the heroic daughter of Mohfuz, to prevent the destruction and dispersion of the host of al-Islam, buried the corpse privately, and caused a slave to personate the King, until a retreat to safe lands enabled her to discover the stratagem to the noble. thus after a 30 yr jihad the King of Adal perished Mohammed was succeeded on the throne of Adel by Amir Nur, son of Majid, and, according to some, brother to the 'left-handed'. He proposed marriage to Talwambara, who accepted him on condition that he should lay the head of the Emperor Claudius at her feet. In AD 1559, he (Amir Nur) sent a message of defiance to the Negush (Ethiopian Emperor Claudius) who, having saved Abyssinia almost by a miracle, was rebuilding on Debra Work, the 'Golden Mount', a celebrated structure which had been burned by the Muslims. Claudius despising the eclipses, evil prophecies, and portents which accompanied his enemy's progress, accepted the challenge. Claudius, supported by a handful of Portuguese, were soon slain around him, and he fell covered with wounds. Amir Nur cut off his head, and laid it at the feet of Talwambara, who, in observance of her pledge, became his wife. Talwambara suspended the trophy by its hair to the branch of a tree opposite her abode that her eyes might be gladdened by the sight; after hanging for two years, it was purchased by an American merchant, who interred it in the sepulcher of St. Claudius at Antioct. The untimely death of Mohammad Gragne was a very great blow to the Somalis. His wife and her new husband Amir Nur continued fighting for seven years with the Ethiopians, but they were in fact pushed from Addis Ababa to the border near river Haiwaish ('Awash') because of the Portuguese help to the Ethiopian Guerillas. After seven years of fighting. Amir Nur and his wife withdrew to their previous headquarter at Harar and again Harar became the principal Somali city. When she died, her son Amir Abdullahi succeeded. His dynasty ruled Harar till 1884, The Adal empire became a protectorate of the Ottoman empire in the 17th century ruled by local somali chiefs

The Adal empire had robust commercial and political relationship with the Ottoman empire the Ottoman Turks, themselves actively engaged in wars against European kingdoms, did not pay much attention to Ethiopia Things changed when the Portuguese paid a visit to the court of Emperor Lebne Dengel, in 1492 - However, the Emperor did not see much advantage in befriending the Portuguese or how he could form an alliance that would have benefited Ethiopia. The motive of the Portuguese was to 1) spread Catholicism and 2) form an alliance with this mysterious and powerful Christian empire, which they hoped would eventually enable them to fight the Turks. The visit of the Portuguese did not go unnoticed by the Turks, who were promptly informed by their spies in Denkaz. the Turks, who were in contact with Adal, found Gragn to be a formidable military person with a fanatic zeal for Islam. They made a deal with Gragn: he was to subjugate the Christian empire and convert it to Islam while they would thwart any possible alliance between Ethiopia and Europe, which would have dangerously out-flanked the Turks in the indian ocean. the Ottoman soldiers The Turks provided the Adal and Gragn 900 Bombardiers, or what would be considered in today's military terminology, artillery men. The war was, needless to say, a disaster to Ethiopia. Ethiopians were armed with only swords and spears while their enemies had guns and experienced Turkish troops under their command.

Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c.1507 - February 21, 1543) was a Somali Imam and General who defeated several Ethiopian emperors and wreaked much damage on that nation. He is also known as Ahmad Gragn (or Gurey), "Ahmed the left-handed". He was born near Zeila, a port city located in northwestern Somalia, and married Bati del Wambara, the daughter of governor Mahfuz of Zeila. When Mahfuz was killed returning from a campaign against the Ethiopian emperor Lebna Dengel in 1517, the Adal sultanate lapsed into anarchy for several years, until Imam Ahmad killed the last of the contenders for power and took control of Harar. In retaliation for an attack on Adal in 1527-8 by the Ethiopian general Degalhan, Imam Ahmad invaded Ethiopia in 1529. Although his troops were fearful of their opponents, and attempted to desert upon news that the Ethiopian army was approaching, Imam Ahmad relied on his elite company armed with matchlocks, and defeated emperor Lebne Dengel at Shimbra Kure that March.1 Imam Ahmad campaigned again in Ethiopia in 1531, breaking Emperor Lebna Dengel's ability to resist in the Battle of Amba Sel on October 28, then marched north to loot the island monastery of Lake Hayq and the stone churches of Lalibela. When the Imam entered the province of Tigray, he defeated an Ethiopian army that confronted him there, and on reaching Axum destroyed the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, in which the Ethiopian emperors had been coronated for centuries.

It was on the 13th century that came to the light, in Horn of Africa, one of the strongest Empire that existed in East Africa. Adal Empire had its origine in the city of Zeyla, situated until today in the northern region of the former Democratic Republic of Somalia. The father of that State was King Omar D. Ahmed (nicknamed Aw-Barkhadle). The king who had a long life, occupied the throne for many years. When he passed away, he left behind him many children, mainly males. Among them, the successors to the throne who inherited the kingdom. Later, Adal Empire became an Islamic Empire that expanded the religion of Islam with determination, into the entire Horn of Africa. Adal Empire was composed of seven (7) States. According to the size of their land and the military forces of each state, here is their names: Ifaad, Dawaaro, Araabiini, Hadaya, Sharqa, Baali and Daara, where each of them had its own government. The largest and strongest State Ifaad, known from Egypt and "Shaam" as Zeyla's land, became later the dominant and the central one with its capital city of Zeyla. Ifaad will lead the entire Empire and will face many challenges. According to the historians of that period, Ifaad was large as 20 days of walk from North to South and 15 days of walk from East to West. Its military force was composed of 15000 cavaliers and 20000 of infantries In a book titled "Masaalikal-Absaar"(this is in Somali spelling), the Egyptian author, Subhul Ahsha mentioned that Zeyla was the nucleus city of Adal Empire. Continuing into the description of this city, he added that Zeyla was "The City of Light", which had many Mosques and many schools, where all kind of subjects were taught. In fact, Mr. Ahsha described Zeylac as "The Place" where one can acquire any kind of knowledge that may be taught in that period of time. The author added in his description that the people were 100% Muslim. Mr. Ahsha said that they were gathering in large number into the Mosques of the city, as faithful believers to Islam. According to this writing, these Mosques could be compared to the municipal libraries that can be found today in big cities of our century. In addition of that, schools were places where people use to enjoy meeting, share knowledge, discuss about social issues and debate intellectually. As a matter of fact, Zeyla was known as the place where the knowledge was at the merci of everyone. Remarked by its faithful actions, other Islamic States in the world called Adal Empire "Diraasal-Islaam". The Walashma dynasty was a Muslim noble family who ruled parts of what is now eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, southern Eritrea and western Somalia. The earliest known member of this family was Umar ibn Dunya-huz (died 1275), whose son Ali ibn Wali Ashma conquered the Muslim kingdom of Shewa. List of rulers of the Walashma dynasty Haqq ad-Din I Sabr ad-Din I Jamal ad-Din I Ali ibn Sabr ad-Din Ahmad ibn Ali Haqq ad-Din II Sa'ad ad-Din II Sabr ad-Din II Mansur ad-Din Jamal ad-Din II Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din Muhammad ibn Badlay Shams ad-Din ibn Muhammad Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad Umar Din Ali ibn Umar Din Barakat ibn Umar Din Muslim-Christian relations soured during the reign of the aggressive Negus Yeshaq (ruled 1414-29). Forces of his rapidly expanding empire descended from the highlands to despoil Muslim settlements in the Valley East of the ancient city of Harer. Having branded the Muslims "enemies of the Lord," Yeshaq invaded the Muslim Kingdom of Ifat in 1415. He crushed the armies of Ifat and put to flight in the wastes along the Gulf of Tadjoura (in present-day Djibouti) Ifat's king Saad ad Din. Yeshaq followed Saad ad Din to the island off the coast of Saylac (which still bears his name), where the Muslim king was killed. Yeshaq compelled the Muslims to offer tribute, and also ordered his singers to compose a gloating hymn of thanksgiving for his victory. In the hymn's lyrics, the word Somali appears for the first time in written record. a century later the Muslims had recovered sufficiently to break through from the east into the central Ethiopian highlands. Led by the charismatic Imam Ahmad Guray (1506-43),

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new infrastructure of roads and schools hospitals and shopping centers are being build 252 SHOPS 5 RESTAURANT AMPLE PARKING UP TO 150 CARS

new bottling plant has opened in the Somali capital Mogadishu. It is the largest single investment in the country since central government collapsed 13 years ago, and is a sign of growing business confidence. More than 500 people attended the opening of the Coca-Cola plant, whose forerunner was destroyed in the early 90s. The absence of a central government and continuing lawlessness in Somalia has, until now, deterred investors. The old Coke plant was destroyed at the beginning of the country's civil war. But the relative calm of the last few years has encouraged Somalis living overseas to put more money back into the country. The man behind the Coca-Cola factory, AbdiRisak Isse, told the BBC that the opening was a big day, not just for him but for the whole of Somalia. "This is the beginning of a new era for Somalia," Mr Isse said, "This is the turning point. Somalia is normal and anybody can do business here. "We need to work for to make the security better, and we want to create investment confidence in this country, and we need so many people to come back to their home country and do business here."

Somali business community to create Chamber of Commerce and Industry – UNDP welcomes the declaration of intent by the Somali business community to create the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The pronouncement comes at the conclusion of a two-day follow up meeting to the high level Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) dialogue held in Djibouti where the business community pledged to support and participate in the peaceful and economic reconstruction of Somalia. “The private sector has sustained Somalia for the last fourteen years in the absence of a functional central government. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry will enhance that role, and support the new Somali government through a united voice and the action of business,†says Sharif Ahmed, current Chairman of the Somali Business Council. “In addition, the Chamber will foster networks within the region and globally, promoting investment.†To this end the business community has formed an interim advisory committee of eight members to oversee the initiation of the Chamber of Commerce within the next eight weeks. With the support of UNDP Somalia, the working group will institute a draft constitution, approve a technical expert to assist in the formation of the Chamber, bring together other Chamber members to approve the final constitution, and elect its executive board and chairperson. “For UNDP, this is a clear indication of the Somali business community’s resolve to be a part of the reconstruction effort in Somalia,†UNDP Resident Representative Maxwell Gaylard noted. “This is, and will continue to be a Herculean task and we encourage more Somali-led initiatives that can make a positive contribution to the development of the country.â€

NO AIDS By STEPHANIE NOLEN Monday, July 25, 2005 XUDDUR, SOMALIA -- They have posters. They have training manuals. They have wipe-off markers. The only thing that the earnest band of AIDS educators in this Somali town don't have is, well, any people with AIDS. At least none they know of. The breadth of the AIDS pandemic has led to the idea in the West that the entire continent is ravaged by the disease. But Somalia -- isolated for 14 years since the civil war began and populated by devout Muslims -- has an infection rate of perhaps only 1.5 or 2 per cent of the adult population. Its isolation has helped to keep the infection rate one of the lowest in Africa at a time when countries to the south are reporting infection rates of 40 per cent of the adult population http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...News/TPStory/L AC/20050725/SOMALIA25/TPInternational/Africa

Somalia flourished precisely because of the "world community’s" neglect. In Somalia, "the very absence of a government may have helped nurture an African oddity — a lean and efficient business sector that does not feed at a public trough controlled by corrupt officials," wrote Peter Maas in the May 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Tele-communications, transportation, and shipping companies were organized up to provide services to the liberated private sector. Internet cafes have sprung up in Mogadishu. Private security firms helped businessmen protect their investments and property. A recent World Bank study grudgingly admitted: "Somalia boasts lower rates of extreme poverty and, in some cases, better infrastructure than richer countries in Africa." This is almost certainly because it is not cursed with a World Bank-subsidized central government to siphon away the nation’s wealth. http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_996.sht ml ------------------------------------------------------------------- Somali Businesses Stunted by Too-Free Enterprise By Ian Fisher There are five competing airlines here; three phone companies, which have some of the cheapest rates in the world; at least two pasta factories; 45 private hospitals; 55 providers of electricity; 1,500 wholesalers for imported goods; and an infinite number of guys with donkeys who will deliver 55 gallons of clean water to your house for 25 cents. What Somalia does not have is a government, and in many ways, that makes it the world's purest laboratory for capitalism. No one collects taxes. Business is booming. Libertarians of the world, unite It is striking that Somalia, unlike many parts of Africa, has achieved this thriving business climate on its own, without the usual aid and advice from rich nations. They have all but disengaged from Somalia since the failure of the United Nations operation here in the early 1990's. Somalis have learned that they are pretty good at making money. It's entrepreneurism that's doing it," said Ahmed Abdisalam Adan, director of programs for Horn Afrik, Somalia's first independent radio and television station, established last year. "It's who has more creativity. It's who is willing to take risks. Before it was the government. The government could make you rich one day and poor the next ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Answer for Africa by Shafer Parker According to Andrew Cockburn in the July issue of National Geographic magazine, Somalia is rising, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the 1993 war and becoming an economic powerhouse in eastern Africa precisely because anarchy has reigned ever since. Consider Cockburn’s on-the-scene assessment of what has happened since the war. "Like plants sprouting after a forest fire, Somalis have managed to survive and build on their own, in some respects with more success than developing nations on the receiving end of international aid and advice." Significantly, the Somalis get it. They have learned through experience that less government is good, and that no government is better. Hear what telecommunications tycoon Abdirizak Ido told Mr. Cockburn: "We have been through some hard times, but the worst was when we had a government. Once there was no government, there was opportunity!" Small entrepreneurs are doing well. Better yet, they also understand they are doing good. "In the northwestern city of Hargeysa, in the congested Sheikh Nur community for returned refugees, the Ismail family invested their meager resources in a water tap to supply the entire neighborhood. Abdi Ismail not only garners a weekly profit of $20 but also points out: ‘We are contributing to rebuilding Somaliland.’" Needless to say, in a land where enterprise is truly free, the customer is king. Ten phone companies compete for business in the capital city of Mogadishu. Landline service is connected eight hours after it's ordered. And it only costs $10 a month. North Americans should be so well off. Cell phone connections are instantaneous. Local calls are free and international calls are only 60 cents to a dollar a minute. Amazingly, long distance is available even in remote villages, due to shortwave radio hookups. Somalis proudly point out that their phone service is far superior to anything found in neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia. All kinds of private enterprise is flourishing. Mogadishu now boasts a spaghetti factory, a plastics factory, a mineral-water plant, a bakery, and two fiercely competitive cable companies. And contra the protestors that have flocked to the G-8 summit to scream out their belief that economic fairness means the UN must be allowed to forcibly redistribute the world’s wealth, Somalia’s nouveau riche even give something back to the community. For instance, Abdirizak Osman, an entrepreneur in the desert town of Gaalkacyo who started with phones, then branched out to electrical generators, now provides street lights and free electricity to the local hospital. Incidentally, the local Muslim fundamentalists can't get a foothold, not since 1993, anyway. People have better things to do. And clan loyalties, now allowed to flourish, prevent the fundamentalists from controlling any significant power-base. Despite rumors and innuendos flowing from the US State Department, Somalia is no friend of al Qaeda terrorists either. When the US government reported that Osama Ben Laden might be heading for the Horn of Africa, Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah suggested he should stay away if he did not want to be cashed in for the $25-million reward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A certain Canadian conglomerate, the Horn of Africa Free Zone Authority, will be constructing a free port on the peninsula Hafun. On a map of Somalia, Hafun is that body of land which doesn't look like its apart of the land mass that is Somalia but is extending outwards from the Puntland area. The group is currently putting the concrete and the basic foundation of this future city. It is 200 square miles, enough for major hotels, beaches, or other buildings to be created. Seeing that Somalia will become a likely in let for business with the African continent, and as long as Mogadishu remains a closed port, Hafun seems like an unbeatable investment. HAFZA will be publically traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). I have no idea what they want to do about security, but seeing as they are building this city, the corporation, much like those government corporations in Dubai like Nakeel, will be the sole provider of security. http://www.hafza.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Business Attraction in Puntland, Somalia Bossaso city has become a magnet for foreigners who want to invest in Africa. This week alone, there are about half a dozen business people representing Chinese and South Korean corporations in the city. These representatives and others who frequent Puntland want to invest in the region and expand their business to this part of the world. Interested people include wealthy business men from the Middle East. Puntland (North Eastern Somalia) has not been touched by the country’s civil war and has remained stable after the fall of Somalia’s central government in 1991. It lies on the tip of East Africa and borders Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

The somali woman the most gracefull the most kind no women on earth can touch her beauty elegant and strong the somali woman has all the qualities a man desires she's the back bone of her society she gives hope to the hopeless without her the somali race would be just like the fircoons an extinct race only without the tombs the tempels and the piramides just simply extinct!! for millenia's our forefathers protected her from foreigners in times when african women acrossed the continent suffered at the hands of arab and european slave-traders our forefathers fought, killed, died for her freedom just so after centuries of fighting she could be betrayed and raped by her own somali brothers brothers that instead of loving, protecting and respecting her took away the thing that's most important to a somali woman...her right to choose!! these men are the biggest cowards the biggest kafirs they are without a doubt the biggest munafigs how can you rape someone's daughter someone sister and in the future someone mother!! even through all the destruction a somali woman goes through she is still the most beautifall of all!! i just wanted to say to my sister i love you and i respect you and one day when i'm older insha-allah i will marry you and cherish you and to my warrior brotherS remember heaven is under a somali woman's feet...HOYO!!!! muahahaha peace!

i wish those dervish-leaders would somehow comeback to live and unify the beautifal people of somalia i would join them!! i hurts me that there are still somali's killing somali's when they should be thinking of rebuilding somalia for the next generation dervish men were real somali's real nationalists 2 bad there dead salaam alaikum!

China has completed the following assistance projects in Somalia: the National Theatre, the Hargeisa water supply project, the Somalia Cigarette Manufactory, the Somalia Banadir Hospital, the Somalia Stadium, a road between Beled Weyne and Burao, Barrouen Farm, Fanole Farm, and a hydropower station. one day in the future insha-allah china will occupy the US and take them back as slaves haha

___________________________________________________ I have a comment on your picture in the sig........IT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!! Welcome though and good luck with your quest __________________________________________________ yeah i know it's disgusting just like those 800 or more somali women and kids who were killed that day :mad: but thanks!

________________________________________________ I would of have liked you better had you not just turned 19 but welcome anyway. _________________________________________________ why is that?? but thanks! _________________________________________________ I think buraanbur is both the "song" and the dance. I have several questions: Does "song" always have the same beat, words, style, etc or does it change? Is the dance of this song similar to C-walking in a dirac? Is there minimal movement of the upper body? It might help if you describe the dance ________________________________________________ yeah minimal movement of the upperbody but i'm not interested in the dance i want that song with that drum beat do you know where i can download it??

_________________________________________________ the reason you cant find a "song" would probably be because it isn't a song. you asked "song where women cover their heads" thing is; its not a song...its a type of dance/music but not a SONG. you get me? its like asking someone "whats the song where people grind up on one another?" and i answered "its called reggae" now if i were search for this "song" called reggae my chance of finding such a song would be slim..very slim; seeing how 'reggae' is a type of music and not a song. hope that helps...sorta _________________________________________________ nahhh man you got me wrong i asked does anyone know this song where the women cover their heads and i got a reply from takaale and he said he never heard of it he only new the name of the dance so i typed that name in and with no result i typed in reggae and i got 432 matches how is it possible that i've heard this song a million times on a aroos but nobody knows it?? *THE GREAT EMPEROR DERVISH*

ey bro i can't find it do you know a place where i can download it?? lol thats quite funny I liked it. You have got potentials I must say, can I be you bodyguard by then. if your willing to take a bullet for me your welcome hehe *THE GREAT EMPEROR DERVISH*

_________________________________________________ Sxb, Wlc horta, sit cool down and have a cut of tea. Song????????????? and ladies cover their head? Im lost there, do u mean Buraanbur as in Somali, ooh yeah if you looking for that it is called "Buraanbur". By the way Emperor, you sound more like the don of the ghetto. _________________________________________________ lol sxb thanks that's the one and no i'm no ghetto wannabe i'm THE FUTURE EMPEROR OF SOMALIA....that is after i finish my school SALAM ALAIKUM

where the women cover their heads and dance they always play it at aroos does any one know the name?? oh yeah i'm new peace to everybody *GREAT EMPEROR DERVISH*