Zack, I doubt if there is any truth to that talk of giving up some of Somali territorial waters to Kenya. That's just the hearsay. Even Norway is distancing itself from this issue. Btw, Kenya and Somalia have agreed on the resettlement of Somali refugees back to Somalia. Maybe that's the stuff Fowzia signed yesterday!

Have these recommendations being endorsed?

This is the same report I saw last night. It's the report of the Confidence Building Mission to Mogadishu and Kismanyo.

If we go by the professor research, then Soomaali waa D- iyo reer Samaale

I think he mentioned that he wrote the novel Crooked Rib in about a month and half. Here is the interview (5 parts) at the in SF.

Oodka, dhib ma JIDHO boowe, ee odayo isku jawaabay micno badan ma lahee, buun buunista ka daaya

Waryaa Oba, sadaqada guriga ka bilow. Ina Xoosh may have gotten his wealth through shady deals and favoritism, but he wasnt alone.. So there is no need to single him out. The same favoritism you are accusing him off is happening in your neck of the wood, as we speak. Let the dude get some of his properties back, would you? Oday Suudi la hadal isagaa area hayste

Oba, how about Maxamed Sheikh Cismaan and all the other Siyad lackeys of the TOLKA? Should their properties be confiscated as well? Guess the "booli qaran" is applied to certain group only.

Reer waqooyi loo qaban maayo waxay Faroole or PL ka sheegaan. Cafis baad tihiin

Awoowe, both Faroole and Shareef were on power for about 6 months when this cable came out. The IC and particularly the US were trying to forge some sort of working relationship between the two admins, PL(farole) and the TFG(shareef) and the rest is just politicking. The whole of Somali politics is so clannish. So what is there to be surprised? As for Farole's dealings with the western powers, I think that's out in the open for all to see. Tell us something new.

Interview with their uncle: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danoshinsky/boston-bombing-suspects-uncle-they-do-not-deserve-to-exist-o

Looks good! Plant some trees and it will look even better.

All the pics appeared to have been taken in public. You wont need people's permission to post their pics!

^Carafaat has put on his Somaliland shirt back. You have no time to defend the forks from SSC,Makhir, or Awdal eh? Jubba on the other hand.........!!

Chimera, Somalia couldnt sell its case to their allies and hence why the support of then Soviet block shifted in favor of the Ethiopians. The rest is history. "FIDEL CASTRO'S ASSESSMENT OF MENGISTU HAILEMARIAM: "The next day I flew to Ethiopia…The day of my arrival there were rumors of a coup. It did not happen…In February, our study delegation, after inspecting the army divisions, had determined that of the hundreds of generals, all but two should be chased out…Mengistu strikes me as a quiet, serious, and sincere leader who is aware of the power of the masses. He is an intellectual personality who showed his wisdom on 3 February. The rightist wanted to do away with the leftists on 3 February. The prelude to this was an exuberant speech by the Ethiopian president in favor of nationalism. Mengistu preempted the coup. He called the meeting of the Revolutionary Council one hour early and had the rightist leaders arrested and shot. A very consequential decision was taken on 3 February." From that day on, the Soviet Bloc makes a critical decision to support Ethiopia and starve out Somalia. The rest is history....here are the highlights :" "· Ethiopia received a great deal of help. "Cuban military personnel took part in the military actions, while Soviet military advisors participated in working out the plan of military operations." Cuba sent "its own tank operators, artillery specialists, pilots, and also sub-units of mechanized infantry…During the Ethiopian counter-attack, CUBAN SOLDIERS WERE USED IN THE MAIN LINES OF ATTACK. The Soviet Union and Cuba are in constant contact aimed at coordination of their actions in support of the Ethiopian revolution." " Somali's appeal for help from the Soviet bloc received "decisive refusal" The Soviet Bloc "brough deliveries of combat material, weapons, and ammunition to Somalia to a halt." · Siad Barre asked for help from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and Egypt but he was "not successful in getting their agreement to send their forces to that region" · Yemen, Algeria and, "to an extent", Libya "provided support to Ethiopia. Yemen sent "weapons and military personnel to Ethiopia." · The West has, "for a variety of reasons…not set out to provide Somalia with direct military assistance. Primarily, they did not want to decisively push Ethiopia away from them, counting on reestablishing their positions here in the future."

If one reads the below extracts, it shows how stubborn and uncompromising man he was. Whether this is a unique trait in all nomadic Somalis or foolishness is to be judged. "In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Bloc was confronted with the issue of two allies in the Horn of Africa about to have border skirmishes. There was a great deal of hand-wringing about whether to support Somalia or Ethiopia. There were many attempts to mediate the conflict by using the 'good offices' of Yemen, Cuba, and the Soviet Union---all to no avail. The final decision to support Ethiopia was primarily due to Cuban Fidel Castro's assessment of Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam and Somalia's Siad Barre. On Sunday, April 3, 1977, Cuban President Fidel Castro, briefed a group of German officials, including Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany about his recent visit to Somalia and Ethiopia and the subsequent meeting in Aden, Yemen, by Mengistu, Barre, and Yemen's Rubayi Ali to resolve the border conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia: (1) FIDEL CASTRO'S ASSESSMENT OF SIAD BARRE: "Siad Barre was very arrogant and severe; maybe he wanted to intimidate us….I asked him whether he felt that there had been no real revolution in Ethiopia and that Mengistu was not a real leftist leader. He told me that there had been no revolution in Ethiopia. While in Mogadishu he had shown me a map of Greater Somalia in which half of Ethiopia had been annexed…I have made up my mind about Siad Barre, he is above all a chauvinist…Socialism is just an outer shell that is supposed to make him more attractive. "…Siad Barre really thinks that he is at the summit of wisdom. Until now everything has gone smoothly for him. The Italians and the British made him a general. The revolution was accomplished in a minute, with hardly a shot fired. He put on a socialist face and got economic aid and weapons from Soviet Union…Barre is very convinced of himself. His socialist rhetoric is unbearable. He is the greatest socialist; he cannot say ten words without mentioning socialism."

Xiin, Mogadishu maybe, but do keep in mind the majority of non Somali diaspora in the country are poor Oromos and perhaps Kenyan (skilled) workers. Unless you are counting those with the NGOs or the foreign spies! Anyway, I doubt if at the moment, Gaafow can enforce any immigration laws through out the country. That being said, I think the policy(work permit requirement for non Somalis) is a good idea.

Where or how will this be enforced?

Saalax, waa kan xayraansan. Waar is deji, dadka numbers ku waashay anaka maaha.

Saalax;937041 wrote: It is common sense, Hargeysa is the largest Somali city by population and by area after Mogadishu. Don't get angry pirates. It's your minister who's angry here. I am not sure why would he care about the population of other foreign lands, PL or Somalia in that matter if he's minister of a sovereignty nation(SL).

Illaaheey ha kala qaboojiyo. The land ownership issues are everywhere in the peninsula and admins need to be cautious when dealing with these sensitive issues.

Yeah they were counting empty houses Wasiirku muxu yiri, " 50 kun oo reer miyi ah" ayaa maqnaa!!

Waaryaa Oodka, haddaad waxaa uu Carafaad dhabqiayay aad igu yeertay " a rythmically-coiled poet," odayadii hawd maxay ka oran lahaayeen. Awoowe, dee naga daa

Kismaayo

This is just a phase the city is going through. I am sure when things settle down, so will the property bubble. I remember how crowded the city became back in 1991 when we fled to the city from Xamar. We couldn't get a cariish let alone a house for the first 3 or 4 days and were out in the open.