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Drought alert 2011: unimaginable hunger stalks the Somali's yet again...
Liqaye replied to General Duke's topic in General
Yes it is true this will be the worst drought in the past two decades.... -
Why did the chicken cross the road.....because somaliland Inspired it to.
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Like I keep saying there is no alternative but the ONLF.
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Africans Debate Wisdom of Expected Secession of Southern Sudan
Liqaye replied to Xaaji Xunjuf's topic in Politics
Peter Pham is adding two and two together and is coming up with a lady gaga video! -
I hope no one was expecting this parliament of rats to legislate it self out of existence!
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" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Were as kenyan kiswahili music is very graphic anyone who knows kiswahili would realise how obvious they are, oooh and the beats are always modern and lyrics are laced a with sheng a version of kiswahili that changes from year to year and indead from area of nairobi to another!
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LooL Alot of swahili songs especially of the coastal areas Mombasa or Dar-es-salaam have what can be loosely termed as murrti but mostly of the vulgar type for instance the previous song song is using the word bata which means duck as a metaphor for a woman. the man says he wants a woman with meat (duck) as opposed to skinny (samaki which means fish). he then talks about the best way to enjoy the duck (woman) is to eat it on your lap,and not backwards since its too oily etc. he also talks about how the duck is so juicy, once u start eating it....u will never throw anything away [bones] as u would to a fish. at the very end, he says he will only eat the meat (curvy woman) & leave the bones (skinny women) to other men.
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Lol horta mamuul somaliyeed 200 milliyan oo dollar soo marteey maba jiirto. iskadaa Shariif iyo shilimaadka uu doof ku dameeyey.
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Kenyan and Ugandan security officers say Albert Olando Mulanda, the Tanzanian who is suspected to have set off an explosive that killed two people and injured 40, was likely linked to the extremist Somali group, Al Shabaab. In July, terrorists hit two clubs in Kampala where fans were watching the World Cup. At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured. It was Uganda’s worst such attack. The radical Somali Islamist group, Al Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was punishment for Uganda for sending troops to Somalia as part of the African Union peace-keeping force (AMISOM). Al Shabaab also said it would strike Burundi, which is the only other country to have sent troops to serve with AMISOM. The Monday night attack came barely six hours after Uganda security sent a warning that it had information that Al Shabaab was planning a Christmas attacks. So far, Burundi has been not been attacked, but a few weeks ago, bombers were intercepted at the Rwanda-Burundi border. Kampala Coach also travels to Bujumbura via Kigali, and it is possible the destination of the grenades could have been any of these cities. Beyond the attack, it is more important to look at why Al Shabaab is carrying out these attacks. One little discussed fact is that while Al Shabaab has seen a spectacular rise in its fortunes inside Somali, there are signs that it is in decline. In many small towns, districts and regions, Somalis fed up with the violence and the deprivations brought about by the conflict, are organising and creating their own local “governments”, and pressing back against Al Shabaab. In Madina, one of Mogadishu’s district, a group of people frustrated by the lawlessness, organised the defence of their own area by bringing together local clans, business leaders and the local people. Secondly, it’s a well-known fact that the vast Somali Diaspora, many of whom are quite wealthy, and Somali business people in East Africa, have backed the warring factions in the long conflict there. Somali militants, therefore, were careful not to destabilise the rest of the region with terrorist attacks, because they feared governments could retaliate by dismantling their supply networks in East Africa. However, the rise of the Shabaab changed all that. It is not reliant on the regional Somali Diaspora cashbox, so it doesn’t care what happens to Somali-owned business in East Africa. Even if they are shut down, it won’t be crippled for its money from the Middle East will continue flowing in. Then, knowledgeable sources say that some of Shabaab’s Qiyadah (Somali commanders) favour talks, while the foreign ones don’t. Therefore, the more attacks the Shabaab can carry out in the region, the more it will advance its goals, especially of the more hardline foreign elements within. It is probably hoping that forcing governments to carry out a xenophobic crackdowns on Somalis would drive angry Somalis to its side. Also, such new recruits would be more willing to embrace the virulent anti-East African line of the foreign fighters. Finally, President Yoweri Museveni unwittingly stirred up the pot when he made a surprise visit to Mogadishu in November. He was the first Head of State to visit war-torn Mogadishu (if not Somalia) in 20 years. It was a diplomatic victory for the Transitional Federal government’s President Sheikh Ahmed, and a signal to the world that the situation is beginning to look up. The Shabaab warned then they would punish Museveni for “trespassing”. The Shabaab need to regain the initiative, and ensure that no other foreign leader entertains ideas about visiting Mogadishu. Fresh terrorist attacks would give them that. In that sense, then, we should expect more, not fewer, things to go boom in the dark.
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Respect for Ethiopia, they are not like the Arab b!tches.
Liqaye replied to MoonLight1's topic in Politics
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ONLF should not be sidetracked and this present barrage of propoganda that the TPLF beleives will legitimize the terror of their occupation will be shown to be hollow. P.S even someone only slightly informed about issues in K5 would burst out laughing at the mention of negotiating with the UWSLF a defucnt and non-existent entity. Zack keep up the flow of intreasting articles.
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Hahaha @ suldanka SOL is very predictable @Xaji Elias Barre Shill is a Kenyan politician who represented Laghdera Constituency in North Eastern Province for 10 years, he was beaten in the 2007 election by Farah Macalin the current Deputy speaker of the kenyan Parliament and his sworn political enemy. Intreasting side note Laghdera consituency contains Dadaab refudee camp. Other intreasting side note, he is married to what I think is the most beautiful and well kept Somali lady over 45 that I have ever seen, ex-burco but very charming non the less .
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Brothers this article is a tour de force. Clannishness is a camouflage; the motivation is always self intrest. This should be the stock response to Ngonge's "clan is everything" line,that particular bahraini has become too much . Xiinow you me and che had a disscusion a long time ago about somali reconciliation, the whys and wherefore's and my supposition was simple that Somalis can never reconciliate either litterally to solve age old hatereds and more recent atrocities or technically for the common good in the form a workable governance and justice commonality whilst the ethopians are in the picture! This article crystalisses what ever I might have been unable to articulate. Indeed all hopes for just reconciliation or even agreement to move apart which if it hastens reconciliation I am all for, will never occur with " Ethiopian spanners thrown on the road". His conclusion on the peace caravan Xiin you must admit is apt, I told you that when I met Sheikh Sharif I felt that I had been in the presence of a clean spirited but intellectually incapable individual, indeed I told you that the gut reaction I got from him was the feeling of being in the presence of a cow, to whit .... the best present and future summation of TFG 2.0 is "In 2009, Sheikh Sharif was elected president by a ridiculously bloated parliament. By misreading homilies as policy statements and pious grace as political charisma, Ould‐Abdalla, the UN envoy for Somalia at the time, and the sponsors of the ‘Peace Deal’ made the mistake Jonathan Swift warned against in the 18th century: “Expect no more from man than he is capable of”. The process produced a confused leader, overwhelmed by a task he is ill‐equipped to perform." The only actual shortcommings of the article is the slightly obvious comparisions that can be made with his solutions with Bolshevik mantra of " a strong few" spreading the message amongst the masses, indeed isnt this Plato's supermen idea?!? Lakiin the end formula of making the current negative ethiopian interference in somalia as costly as possible is a good place to start the debate! Although I have to admit the current TFG could not destablize a cheese cake if it was rammed down their throats.
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Dr.Pham while a supporter of somaliland independence [which is based on his own lucid point of view], his present article has been highly informative and his analysis of Farmajo's political positions vis a vis his M.A thesis very reasonable and logical. Emotional responses to this particular view point means nothing, we know he is a neocon, and those particular views are not the flavor of the month, but he is a logical individual and his deductions should be analysed on that basis! Finally apart from everything else his final statement about moving deck chairs on the titanic is one shared by all who is privy to this current TFG's machinations!
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The human traffickers are believed to be based in Minnesota t. Paul, state and federal authorities reportedly are investigating a Somali gang involved in a Minnesota-based human trafficking ring. The investigation includes a 15-year-old Twin Cities girl suspected of being forced into prostitution by the gang, according to a search warrant issued in the probe. The investigation involves St. Paul police, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement task force. A local ICE spokesman said Wednesday that the investigation was ongoing, and all three agencies referred inquiries to the U.S. attorney's office in Nashville, Tenn., where Assistant U.S. Attorney Van Vincent said he couldn't confirm or deny the investigation. Heather Caillier of the St. Paul-based nonprofit Breaking Free said she has heard for a couple of years about women and girls in the Twin Cities Somali community being forced into prostitution. She said the main concern of her organization is helping victims, but they've had difficulty reaching them because of cultural barriers. Based on information from the search warrant, Caillier said, the case "could have pretty serious implications, and it sounds like it's more of an organized-crime type of ring." "This opens up and sheds light on an issue we know is going on and nobody's really talking about," she said. "It's not just in the Somali community. It's all over the place." The warrant in the case was filed in Ramsey County District Court on Friday, and KSTP-TV obtained a copy of it Monday. The warrant has since been sealed and is no longer available. KSTP broke the story about the investigation Tuesday night and provided a copy of the warrant to the Pioneer Press on Wednesday. Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension special agent Ann Quinn, who applied for the warrant, wrote in her affidavit that St. Paul police Sgt. John Bandemer asked her in July to help find a 15-year-old girl needed as a material witness in federal court in Nashville as part of a human trafficking investigation. Bandemer, who heads the Gerald D. Vick Human Trafficking Task Force, said the girl "had a long history of being a runaway and was being victimized" by a group of Somali men who were "promoting her into prostitution." Quinn also spoke with St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, who had questioned the girl in July 2009 when she was arrested in connection with a Richfield robbery. At that time, the girl lied about her identity and about being involved in prostitution, according to the affidavit. Quinn wrote that Weyker later learned from other witnesses that the girl had been forced into prostitution by Somali gangs. With the cooperation of the girl's family, St. Paul police and the FBI detained her July 23 and took her to Tennessee for testimony July 28. She returned home, but she was reported to Minneapolis police as a runaway again on Aug. 2, the affidavit said. Since then, the girl has been implicated in assaults in Rochester, Minn., and was arrested as an adult — after lying about her identity — on suspicion of auto theft in Olmsted County, Quinn wrote. The girl was cited for tampering with an auto and taken to Ramsey County and then Hennepin County on outstanding warrants. She was in custody as of Sept. 13, the day Quinn applied for the warrant. The warrant was to search the girl's cell phone. Because the girl "does not have a permanent home and often stayed with various members of this prostitution gang," Quinn wrote that she believed the phone was the girl's main way of communicating with gang members and prostitution customers. Quinn wrote that she was also looking for photos on the phone that could reveal the identities of suspects, witnesses and additional victims. Records do not describe what investigators found on the phone. Regarding the warrant's availability, BCA spokeswoman Jill Oliveira said Wednesday: "My understanding is it was filed and they made the decision to seal, but before it was sealed it was accessed by some media." She said she didn't know if the warrant was supposed to be sealed from the beginning. In May 2009, Weyker applied for and received a warrant in an investigation into a juvenile prostitution ring run by Somali gang members. A girl, whose age wasn't noted, told an investigator that four males had sexually assaulted her in Brooklyn Park the month before, according to another search warrant affidavit. A police spokesman said at the time that St. Paul police were involved in the investigation because of the department's human trafficking efforts and that federal and local law enforcement agencies were also involved. At the time, police said no one had been arrested in the case. No state or federal charges appear to have been filed against one man named in that earlier affidavit, according to court records. Source: PioneerPress
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Authorities hope a girl's cell phone holds clues to what they think is a "large scale" prostitution ring. StarTribune.com By CHAO XIONG and ALLIE SHAH, Star Tribune Thursday, September 23, 2010 A multi-agency investigation that reaches as far as Tennessee is focusing on a "large scale" Somali gang-run prostitution ring in Minnesota, according to court documents. Details of the case came to a head when a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator applied in Ramsey County for a search warrant to get the cell phone records of a 15-year-old girl, who could hold the key to the case. The girl, known by the nickname Ayan Cherry, has a long history as a runaway, and was being promoted as a prostitute by "a group of Somalian males," according to the affidavit in Ramsey County. The girl was questioned in July 2009 by St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker in connection with a robbery in Richfield. She lied about her identity and involvement in prostitution, but Weyker "interviewed other witnesses of this Human Trafficking ring" and learned that the girl was "controlled by the Somalian gangs," the affidavit said. Authorities seized her phone to search for text messages, calls, contacts, pictures, videos and other information. According to the search warrant affidavit filed by special agent Ann Quinn, the phone is key because the victim, identified as A.A.A., "does not have a permanent home and often stays with various members of this prostitution gang, her cellular telephone is the main way of communication that the victim has with other members of this organization to include prostitution customers. "Your affiant believes that the recovery of the data to include photos in this telephone will assist in the investigation of this Somalian Human Trafficking Ring and may reveal the identity of suspects, witnesses and additional victims." According to the affidavit, Quinn spoke to members of the St. Paul Police Department, witnesses and A.A.A. "in connection with a large scale Somalian gang Human Trafficking ring based in Minnesota." The affidavit was filed Friday, and obtained by the Star Tribune. The girl referenced in the affidavit testified in federal court in Nashville on July 28 in connection with the trafficking investigation, the document shows. The BCA, St. Paul police and FBI cooperated in finding and escorting the girl to Tennessee. The girl's previous criminal record includes implications in assaults in Rochester and a tampering with an auto citation in Olmsted County. She had outstanding warrants in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, and is now in custody in Hennepin County. The BCA could not be reached for comment, and St. Paul police deferred comment to the U.S. attorney's office in Tennessee. "We can't confirm or deny that there's an investigation," said Van Vincent, assistant U.S. attorney in Tennessee. Related court documents had been filed openly in Hennepin County, and the affidavit in Ramsey County was briefly public until a television report Tuesday night led to it being sealed. The news surprised the Somali community in Minnesota. "I've seen some of the elders and they are shocked," said Dahir Jibreel, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. The ongoing FBI investigation into the young Somali-American men, who left Minneapolis to fight in Somali with the terrorist group Al-Shabab, is one of many difficult issues facing the community. Teen gangs and teen prostitution are known problems in the community, Jibreel said, but the human trafficking is a new phenomenon. Jibreel said he did not know who A.A.A. is, but said girls who have recently arrived in the country are especially vulnerable. The connection between Minnesota and Tennessee alleged in court documents surprised Jibreel, who said he is trying to contact Somali leaders there for more information. Staff writer Vince Tuss contributed to this report. cxiong@startribune.com • 612-270-4708 allie.shah@startribune.com • 612-673-4488
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Reconciliation Conference for Somalia in Somaliland ??
Liqaye replied to Jacaylbaro's topic in Politics
qudhac recognition means nothing for me it is irrelavant, it was the be all and end all of your aspirations but if you are revising your aspirations to something like peaceful local governance you are welcome, the road has already been shown by puntland. -
Reconciliation Conference for Somalia in Somaliland ??
Liqaye replied to Jacaylbaro's topic in Politics
qudhac kosovo is a recognized entity with a seat in the U.N. and diplomatic relations with 150 countries. Somaliland wa transdiestra not even an abkhazia, please not everyone on sol has shared the peyote and we don't see the parallels. -
Reconciliation Conference for Somalia in Somaliland ??
Liqaye replied to Jacaylbaro's topic in Politics
as for reffering to my bare cheeked chutzpah, dinner and dancing first for there is no love lost between us. -
Reconciliation Conference for Somalia in Somaliland ??
Liqaye replied to Jacaylbaro's topic in Politics
Loool oodweyne actually this is the first time you have reffered to the country which was going to set the ball rolling, west african did you say? Well ileen taylor has more to answer to in the hague than blood diamonds and doe eyed models . As for the rest of the post, as usuall you miss the point and insist on giving wordy evidence of it, my point was not reffering to politics of somaliland in the sense of which siyadist is in power at the moment but had everything to do with the ossified methods tactics and strategy that has been employed since time immemorial to gain recognition, mogadishu has so many excuses what are yours walaal beyond an incapacity to compute reality and change course accordingly? As for the USC neck of the woods, several chapters have been written since 2003, false dawns galore but dawns nonetheless, keep on waiting for godot apti, or should I say xamar