When will they drill a well in Somaliland?

The first pic is the port of Xamar, that's clear. The second picture I called out is Gobweyn, a small village a few miles north of Kismayo. Bob, I know because I have a brain. I feel bad for you if you don't know your own country. You could take a picture of sand in Somalia and I could tell you which village the sand came from.

Chimera;807159 wrote: Kismaayo 1980s , HQ of the Somali Navy, the southern most Urban center in Somalia. Neither of these are Kismayo. First picture is a dead give-away. Kismayo port looks nothing remotely like that, it sits on a landform that curves for almost a mile out into the sea, not right next to the city like in the pic. And the second picture shows an inhabited inlet, which Kismayo also lacks.

http://dissidentnation.com/somalias-infrastructure-petroleum-facilities-images/ who says somalia does not have a history with oil management when almost all of the big cities have storage or refinery?

uchi;806170 wrote: The key message there was uneducated/unqualified~ but we got plenty of educated & qualified individuals in the PL Admin, we are in good hands. So sit back & and smile for a bright future~ Great point! The PM of Somalia is a Harvard Economist for anyone who forgot that simple fact. At the helm of Somalia and its future oil is one of the most educated men on earth, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. People should quit their negativity because the reality strongly beats those notions.

Tell that to the Emiratis, Qataris, Kuwaitis, Omanis... They seem to be starving now that they found oil.......

It's an Arabic video, does anyone here speak Arabic? Otherwise this topic is a joke.

Ignore NASSIR, he is either a troll or a secessionist. The Minister and PL admin have done a great job thus far, and the people of Haylaan support their state.

When looking at the daunting task of bringing Somalia’s infrastructure, housing, and other physical building blocks up to speed with the modern world, how much money do you reckon it would cost, and more importantly, how long would the process take to complete? If the question is overwhelming, and even alien to you, don’t fret. While Somalia has been on sleep mode for the past twenty years, its neighbors and the wider African and global community have been propping up mega-cities out of the ashes and in no time at all. The mother of these projects on the African continent has been the Angolan capital city of Luanda. In one of the biggest examples of mass social construction in the continent’s history, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos launched a massive housing project aimed at the poor 234,000 residents of the Kilamba Kiaxi district. The project, now completed, serves all 234,000 denizens of Kilamba Kiaxi, boasts 710 apartment buildings with over 20,000 units, 246 shops, 24 kindergartens, 17 primary & middle schools, as well as power stations, water supply centers, sewage treatment plants, and all the necessary infrastructure to nurture a model society. Even though the project was handled by a Chinese firm, over 10,000 jobs were created for local Kilambans in the process. So, just how much did this grand project, fit to sustain 234,000 people, cost the public? A mere $3.5 Billion, a large portion of which went to local salaries and returned to the system. $3.5 Billion is only 4% of the Angolan GDP, and it will take a relative chunk to do the same in Somalia, which is a small price to pay for skipping the entire process of industrialism to create a highly-developed way of life for 200,000+ of your people at one time. But, the impatient nomads ask, how long did it all take? The project, announced in 2008, formally started in 2009, was completed in the Summer of 2011. That’s a grand total of just two years it took to house a population the size of Beletweyn, or Bosaso, or Galkayo, or Burao, or Kismayo–and not just house, but in conditions that parallel Western living. Just two years! This is something every Somali should hear. They should know that their entire nation can be made to look like Sweden in a mere half-decade! What took twenty-odd years to destroy can be rebuilt and made ten times better in half a decade. The time it takes to watch a small child learn to walk, talk, eat, and ‘potty’ on their own, is how long it will take to make Somalia look like Japan. That is, if we are to follow the juggernaut way of construction–which in the case of broken Somalia is a must–then Somalia can definitely be built to modern standards in five years if Kilamba Kiaxi-esque projects are launched simultaneously in every town and city. Before you question me, take a look for yourselves. I’ve pulled up two photos of Kilamba Kiaxi. The first photo is a satellite image of Kilamba Kiaxi from 1/13/2009, in which there is only the faintest sign that material preparation has begun, and the second picture is 6/24/2010, and you can see that the work is almost complete. If we are to assume that construction began in the middle of 2009, and ended in 2011–then there is your definitive proof that construction miracles do exist, and that Somalis won’t have to wait for salvation to be delivered. And if you don’t believe me on Kilamba Kiaxi, open up Google Earth if you have it (and it’s free here) and check for yourself. Of course, this entire reality hangs on the balance of oil and the rate at which financial incentives are rolled out (and for the record, loans are rumored to have already been dished out to both Puntland and the TFG). Hirsi Fiqi, Editor DissidentNation.com Kilamba Kiaxi 1/13/2009 Kilamba Kiaxi 6/24/2010 http://dissidentnation.com/how-long-will-it-take-to-rebuild-somalia-physically/

In today’s world, a comprehensive education policy is the difference between prosperity and deep-rooted poverty. While it is difficult to state or for that matter articulate a concise definition of what is a good educational policy due to various competing ideologies and schools of thought, however, it is possible to list some of the key components that a successful educational policy should contain. For example, like all good policies, the immediate impact of good educational policy should be either an overhaul of school system or amending existing school policies. Thus, the purpose of the policy becomes improving the school system. With that being said, for the past ten years the school system of Puntland, if we can call those loosely held-together schools a system, operated not only on an autonomous basis, but also taught curricula that was incompatible with traditional Somali methods (i.e., introducing Middle Eastern and North African school curriculum in Puntland). Our students were being taught a language that was not their own, a history that was alien to them, and even worse, most of the students could not spot their state or their country on a map. Thankfully, about three years ago, a man named Abdi Farrah, or more commonly known as ‘Juha’, introduced the first school system in Puntland, and as a result Puntland enjoys the only comprehensive school system in the country. During his brief three years in office, Mr. Juha, the Minister of Education for the federal state of Puntland in Somalia, implemented a comprehensive school policy whereby today the students of Puntland are able to enjoy a school system that enables them to attend 458 middle schools, 53 high schools, 28 vocational school, and have access to 4,000 highly trained teachers. More importantly, these schools for the first time in their existence share one curriculum that comes from the government of Puntland. The process of creating an educational policy for the Puntland state became plausible after much deliberation, as fought for per Juha. In order to improve the school system, we immediately decided to retrain our teachers as part of our commitment to provide better education that meets the need of our students. The result of training school teachers was the creation of the first school for teachers in the country after the last government collapsed over 20 years ago. Located in Garowe, the Teachers’ Education College trains and graduates over a dozen highly qualified teachers each year, and these teachers go on to teach in Puntland and other parts of the country. While the current educational policy of Puntland has matured, it still has a long way to go before we can judge whether it has either failed and consequently require a new policy or whether it has succeeded and our students get the benefit of a school system that provides them with education and the chance for a better future. At the current stage of the educational policy in Puntland, the minister and his team have accomplished an institution that at the moment is functioning and will yield for Puntland society a class of students that will usher in a highly skilled workforce, better living standards, and hopefully a society that is able to meet its human capital needs. Sugule Abdi, Contributor DissidentNation.com http://dissidentnation.com/the-state-of-education-in-puntland/

Things cannot be made more clear than this. Earlier today, IRIN, an independent news service of the United Nations, recorded interviews with the people of Puntland, ranging from high-ranking government ministers to diapora-based analysts and ordinary civilians in the region on the subject of a recent oil discovery in the region. Opinions varied from person to person, but remained relatively positive. Independent analyst Mohamed Abshir Waldo had this say on the subject. The discovery of a valuable natural resource anywhere in Somalia is welcome and it should benefit all the people of Somalia. The finding of adequate oil in Puntland would change the lives of the people of Somalia for the better provided it was managed properly and Somali authorities learned from the experiences of other African countries where oil was found. Oil has the potential of bringing corruption and curses to a country if not handled well. Farrah Ali Jama, the Puntland Minister of Finance stated the following when asked about how funds would be handled by his administration. I am 100% confident that this resource will improve people’s livelihoods. We will not fall into the mistakes made by others. The funds will not fall into the pockets of any individual or group. This is for all of the Somali people wherever they may be. We are working on a legal framework for the relationship between the Transitional Federal Government and the Puntland government on who will do what. The draft constitution will make it clear how resources will be divided. We will make sure that whatever money comes out of this will be handled transparently and every penny accounted for. Jama is a highly competent minister and is an integral member of Puntland president Faroole’s ‘technocratic’ cabinet. On a more telling note, the agency also spoke to Farrah Hassan Atosh, a traditional elder in the town of Armo, a mere 28 km from the Dharoor valley oil field. We are expecting great things. It will change our lives for the better. Insh’Allah, we will never depend on others to give us food again. You can see many more people arriving every day and it can only add to the development of the town. We not only support it, we will defend it from anyone who wants to stop it. They are employing many young men who would have been idle and easy prey for recruitment into militias. Atosh, as with many locals in the region, is extremely defensive of oil exploration and believes his community has a lot to gain, and nothing to lose. The former district commissioner of Atosh’s hometown, Awad Hussein Ali, had this to add. Businesses are starting in the area. We have a construction boom going, with hotels and big houses being built to accommodate the company employees and contractors. A few months ago we were exchanging US$1 for 32,000 Somali shillings. Today it is 23,000 Somali shillings. Who knows, our shilling may become like the Kuwaiti Dinar! They are already putting in roads and hopefully, schools and hospitals will follow soon. The optimism in the region is to be expected, because while oil itself has yet to bring in actual dollars for the local economy or the people directly, the exploration and energy surrounding the project has brought many tangible benefits to the region, especially the financial sector. Not long ago, it was renegade pirates bringing in cash injection to the region, but they have been replaced by a more proper financial steroid, and a hugely appreciated one at that. Hirsi Fiqi, Editor DissidentNation.com http://dissidentnation.com/puntland-locals-speak-on-recent-oil-discovery/

The Puntland Ministry of Finance announced this week that the federal state will begin distributing the new Somali Shilling to local markets. This comes on the heel of state demands that accounting only be done using the Somali Shilling, amidst the popularity of the American dollar in local markets. In the port city of Bosaso, the third-largest in Somalia and the commercial capital of Puntland, the Somali Shilling is at its greatest strength in a decade, exchanging now at 19,000 to the dollar. The aim of the Puntland administration is to foster the growing strength of the Somali Shilling by reintroducing it to local markets and keeping a steady supply of local currency for trade. At the moment, there is a near-absence of the Somali Shilling in Bosaso’s markets. The state-run Bank of Puntland is not tasked with managing currencies, its only role will be to produce and distribute the currency to the public in order to keep its activity afloat. The new currency, to be introduced soon, will replace the weak former currency that was minted by the current Speaker of Parliament Sharif Sheikh Hassan in 2009 in Sudan. The old currency fell and created opposition across the region. The new Somali Shilling is the product of the recently-reopened Central Bank of Somalia and was agreed upon by both Puntland and the Transitional Federal Government. It will be vastly different from the old currency and will come in bills of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, and 50,000, and is expected to bring about a historic change in local economies. Systems are being put in place to protect and develop this currency and avoid the mistakes of years previous. Hirsi Fiqi, Editor DissidentNation.com http://dissidentnation.com/puntland-to-start-distributing-new-currency/

Somalilanders and White people-----the saga continues

Somalia is about to regain its dignity

Amiin. A great day has come for Puntland, and Somalia as a whole.

If you stick a rig in Garowe, or even Eyl, you can pull up all the oil from the whole Nugaal basin. People do it all the time. So long as part of the Nugaal basin is on Puntland-controlled territory (which it obviously is) then the first man to get a well gets to drink it. First come, first served. Forget Khaatumo, even Somaliland oil in Caynabo will be pulled up by the rig planned for Garowe.

Che -Guevara;799249 wrote: I am gonna Ditoore Osman to confirm this:D Wait a day, he's still celebrating.

The list makes sense, it's natural for Puntland towns to dominate considering the economic conditions expected in the coming years. If people continue insisting on investing in their tribal towns they will just be broke. http://horseedmedia.net/2012/03/05/bishaaro-puntland-oo-shidaal-laga-helay/

Now the khat is hitting his brain and he doesn't even make sense anymore. Khatland and oil - tell me another joke.

What about Equatorial Guinea, where oil was not even discovered until 1995 yet was producing hundreds of thousands of barrels a day by just 1997? This is not 1935, this is 2012, and infrastructure takes a breeze to build. Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan just announced Africa's most expensive project and it will only take 5 years to complete - it includes pipelines, ports, refineries, railroads, and highways that stretch from northern South Sudan and northern Ethiopia all the way to Lamu Port. If that takes 5 years, it will take 5 months to build something to take oil from Dharoor to Bosaso.

The Hermet;798919 wrote: because again logic dictates that for oil to be taken out one must meet certain conditions, stability, political maturity, security, infrustructure etc...do you honoustly think that an oil company will invest billions into a region that has instability like alshabab roaming around its country side, were roads are bad, were the port is small not to mention the insurance rates to operate in Somalia the worlds most failed state without an adequate central government...... What an insane secessionist. Does he think Saudi Arabia or Qatar had pipelines and roads and ports before oil was discovered?

The news just gets better and better, now we're expecting info in just a few days http://dissidentnation.com/puntland-oil-find-to-be-announced-within-days/

A depth of 1,850 Meters has been reached at the Shabeel-1 well in the Dharoor valley in Somalia’s federal state of Puntland, where oil is expected to be extracted this month for the first time in Somalia’s history. Workers present at the site stated that until this point every target has been reached, with the expectations of the project met at every step. Workers say that the end of the current Shabeel-1 well project is coming to a close and that there is a great sense of excitement in the camp. The well is expected to end in the coming weeks and will reveal the first results of the hunt for petroleum in Puntland. http://dissidentnation.com/puntland-drilling-reaches-1850-meters/ Just a few more weeks until the promise land!

He's like the Sheikh Dalxiis of Sool.

Wing Wizard;798084 wrote: I'm Bossasian through and through, but I think Erigavo and Sheikh should be in the list, too. May be remove Sinujif and Karin as they will be absorbed by the expansion of Garowe and Bossaso in the near future, and put Sheikh and Erigavo there. Why Sheikh and Erigavo?