I dedicate mine to the words of Xudeedi. We had the freedom and we haven’t got how to do it and I hope if we succeed the good leader, may be one of them is good, if we go in the way we will be like the rest of governments. You know the history of Switzerland’s civil war and now it is one of the best in the world. I hope we will be like [that]. I hope we are going forward. We have gone to the end. Now we must come back. Dagaalka sokeeyaha In uu dabayaaqa yeesho Dalkeyga maxaa u diidey, dalkeyga maxa u diidey Dardaar werintii abwaanka Baroortii laga digaaye Miyey duqeydeydu yeedhey When I see the rest of the states, I get jealous. I want mine to be the same or more better. Unfortunately, I haven’t got it yet. These words are talking about this: why we don’t be like the rest of the humans? If we don’t believe each other, if we don’t trust, we can’t be a human. We don’t use our brain, our dignity. My tune was talking about this, very sad song and it will be remembered always. Even if we get better, it will be one of the traditional sad songs. Xudeedi.

Duke, I hope everything be resolved before it furthers. Here is a procession of vehicles accompanying the president on his way to Galkacyo from Bossaso. He is now passing Galgala.

^lol@ Temujin.

Wlc Kamulidin. I hope you contribute well to this site saxib.

Mistaken.

Guys, What Puntland is doing is justified to protect itself from being submerged by a refashioned USC with improved political portfolio. You need a buffer zone and preemptive strike before you find youself fighting in the middle of your territory, that is the strategy of war and having Cabdi as an ally is strategically important. I do understand Maakhir's natural distaste for Qabydiid and Paragon's position for a new change different from what had previously been debated over, but mind you, the courts are no solution to Somalia's mess, instead it is exploiting the mess. It is a new Al-Itihaad under the translucent cloth of Qabiil. And they are more than less determined to proceed to parts of Puntland regions and even Somaliland.

People have the power to choose their destiny. If Reer Puntland choose this path, they should not be suppressed. Good News

Adopt villages, not pet children BY Bashir Goth Nov 09, 2006 THE current celebrity craze for child adoption took me down memory lane. I happened to be in hospital in Hargeisa, today’s Somaliland , at a very young age for injuries I sustained after an air raid on our border village. Being very young, around seven and due to the lack of a vacant bed in the male wards, I was admitted to the female ward. One day, an American woman, a Peace Corps teacher, visited me. She was walking outside and she saw me from the window. She stopped and looked at me for a while. Then she entered the ward and asked permission from the staff nurse to talk to me. She sat next to me on the bed, held my right hand in both her hands and looked at me with eyes full of kindness, motherhood and inquisitiveness. As I couldn’t speak English at the time, we communicated through natural ways; touches, looks and feelings. I somehow felt that this strange white woman sitting next to me and holding my hand was not a stranger at all. I felt as if I knew her forever. I felt completely comfortable in her presence and I was gripped by a strange sense of not only familiarity but love of motherhood. After more than forty years, I can still envision her face. I can see a woman in her late twenties, a little plump, with an angelic face, a shy look and a held back smile. She said few words to me and when I couldn’t respond, she called the staff nurse, Sakin Jirde, to translate for us. Sakin told me that the American lady whose name I never learned wanted to visit me everyday and teach me English. I accepted it immediately. Then she left me but not without a motherly stroke to my head. As soon as she left me I felt loneliness. I looked at her as she departed and she glanced at me several times. For the next six months she was coming to me almost every evening and teaching me English. She brought me a book called Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, which is still in my possession. When the time of her departure became closer, she showed her interest to adopt me. She loved me so much she said and wanted to make me her son. I had also developed such great affection for her. A word was sent to my father and his answer came back with a simple no. The American woman did not want to give up and she asked the hospital staff to convince my father that I would be given good medical treatment and good education in America and that she would bring me to visit my family once every couple of years. But still my father’s answer was in the negative. I loved my father, my mother, my siblings and my village Dilla but if I was given the choice that day I might have accepted to go with the American woman because we had a genuine feeling of mother-son relationship for each other and I had such a burning desire to learn English and speak as she did. We departed each other with broken hearts. When I was discharged from hospital and returned to our home, I couldn’t stop crying for a whole week. Retrospectively looking at the event, I cannot but admire my father’s wisdom in following his parental inclination of no other love or material comfort ever equalling that of a father looking at his own child growing before his eyes and passing down to him his people’s culture and history. I wonder if my culture and my village would have a home in my heart if I were raised abroad. I have related this story to show that there was a time when child adoption was a case of a strong and genuine feeling of motherhood that a stranger child had evoked in a woman’s heart. A feeling that grew bigger with time until it became impossible to deny. This is contrary to what we see today with American celebrities who go on a spree of child shopping to Africa and other poor countries. It just hits them like that to get a toy brother or a toy sister for their pampered children and all it takes is to make a media-hyped trip to the open African market to view poor naked children and select the best toy that money could buy to satisfy their fantasy, just like they would hit the nearest boutique to satisfy their craving for the latest fashion accessory. Just as the Europeans justified the scramble for Africa in the19th century and the slave trade before it that it was the white man’s burden to civilise the “Half-devil and half-child,” the celebrities of today justify their child poaching for being in the name of philanthropy and altruism, saving poor children from the heart of darkness and bringing them to the world of light. Anyone who thinks my argument to be unfair or hostile, may convince me how could a person go to an orphanage in a foreign poor country, ask the children to be paraded for them, pick up “a lucky” one, pay cash and get away with their prey. Adoption by itself is a genuine human need and a noble action that gives a child to a childless person and a good home, comfort and a future to an orphan or poverty stricken child. Needy children however are everywhere; they are in America as they are in Africa and Asia . But why do the celebrities not adopt American children instead of going overseas to adopt African or Asian children. The answer is that there are no children for sale in America . Anyone who wants to adopt goes through years of gruelling procedure to qualify for child adoption. Over there, children are human beings and cannot be bought as toys, playmates or pets for celebrities’ children. But in Africa people are still sold in exchange for beads, tobacco and petty cash. And as a Malawian journalist said: “We are showing to the world that our poverty has extended to the brain.” One may ask, however, what if these celebrities are really honest about their feelings to help poor African and Asian children? No doubt that sometimes the most honest feelings could be misrepresented by the means it is fulfilled and changing child adoption into child shopping is a grotesque representation of a noble gesture. But with such big hearts and philanthropic feeling to save the children of the world, the celebrities can do a better job and save more children from poverty if they adopt whole villages in Africa and Asia instead of only one or two children. By providing whole villages with schools, clinics and water wells, we will have thousands of young Zahara’s and David Banda’s owing their welfare and future to celebrities’ charity and Africa would reap large revenues as curious visitors throng to see and learn from the Angelina Jolie and Madonna villages that would make drastic change in the way we do charities and foreign aid and embody the epitome of western altruism and philanthropy. The Colombian singer Shakira is already leading the way in this trend and it is a trend that is worth emulating. Bashir Goth bsogoth@yahoo.com Source: Wardheernews.com

Laag, a small town of walking distance to Bossaso, aprox 5km.

Originally posted by Jimcaale: Caamirrow, this world is full of contradiction. Ain’t it? Jimcale, Suleyman uma jeedin. E waxan ka wadaa Sheikh Indhacade iyo Sheikh Dhuxuloow

I need to see an aerial view of Buuhoodle.

I agree with Socod Badane

Libax, there is no oil in the region. Ever since the last emperor of Ethiopia, oil firms have been exploring this region. Where is the oil? The deal itself expects the time of exploration to be 4 years with $ 1.25 million. A single Somali person has this much money

^Red Sea, you simply demonstrate the unconscious feeling that "your enemy's enemy is your friend" Don't you think that people who frequent this site are mature and educated. Why do you have to act a simpleton? You can't be both "secessionist" and "unionist". The Islamic courts are unionist in that their main goal is to unite Somalia including the Somali region in Ethiopia. So make up your mind and relinquish the secessionist camp if you are espousing the political ambitions of the Islamic courts.

Originally posted by Suleyman: Salamu Calaykum Quite odd that it required the endorsement of Sheikh Dahir Aweys (xafidhullah) to accept the mere truth that Col. Barre Hiiraale is an honourable and a true Somali patriotic leader whilst one could easily have reached that conclusion by some brief independent research. I will patiently await the humorous responses of the anti-Barre squad. Which flimsly argument will they conjure up in response to this? And I find it odd that Kornel Aweis is the new Sheikh whom people would respect his position and words. Waxan maqli jirey Sheeikh Hebel baa Islaamo iyo dad masaakina ka dhacay 40 kun oo dollar.

"People of Baydhabo are now regretting of welcoming Yeey and his clique to Baydhabo and are re-thinking the mistakes done by their warlords such as Shaatigaduud who is an SRRC member and Meles stooge." Saxib, Rer Baidabo support their government Let me repost this old article--------------------------. I agree with Sophist. Truculent Abdiqasim and his Warlords in Somalia By Ahmed Hersi Al-Jazeerah, March 27 ,2005 I was surfing the net when I came across an article, titled, “Somalia must pay arrears to win new loans,” on March 25, which was addressed to the newly-established Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG). It demands the payment of an outstanding $430 million that was given to the former transitional government (TNG) in the form of assistance. Thus, in order to win a new loan, the new government must pay it as a condition for another loan. Suddenly, a wave of shock interrupted my thought process from its natural course, a normal course of recycling previous information that my brain had recorded and used for a period of five years. Initially, I was impressed by the said integrity of Abdiqasim as authority figure and democratically elected president, but I was proven entirely wrong of these pre-recorded conceptions. In fact, my country was never forgotten in terms of humanitarian and financial aid despite the ceaseless blight of Somalia. The TNG of Abdiqasim did not fail because of deficient trust and support from nationwide but deceptive schemes that betrayed its promises and which had led to the treacherous renegades. In this regard, Abdiqasim and his former interim government stand responsible for the onerous task that was left unfulfilled, along with the subsequent corruption and embezzlement, which sprang up after the government began to function in Somalia. Dr. Ali Khalif's defection, for instance, with an alleged sum of national funds was a noteworthy lead of the TNG's collapse and succeeding activities that eroded its resources. Faced with uncertainties, Abdiqasim underestimated the effective reshuffling of his cabinet to rescue it from further duplicity and duress. The twilight of fascist culture ringed in his mind and it was an opportune time for him to change his political philosophy. He thought of himself as the aggressed and not the aggressor of the burdensome task. As Sam Izu once said, “it is a tragic world but a world without guilt for its tragic flow is not a flow of human nature.” Abdiqasim was guilty of absolving himself of any guilt for the tragic flow of his actions . The myriad evidences of internal conflicts and the indifference to it, constitute glaring prima facie case for the bygone money. Besides, this change of him per se was blunderingly moral trajectory for a president widely perceived as trustworthy and religious pundit. The article has stressed and demanded of where that $430M had gone. “Impoverished Somalia must clear $430 million of debt arrears to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund before the bank can start lending to the new government, a bank official said on Thursday,” it said. The press release from World Bank came in response to TFG's appeal to donors for $77.3 Million for its relocation and reconstruction budget. Abdiqasim was indeed very silent and fastidious in his personal plots. In it, he receded to the practice of fascism kindly similar to that of former president Siad Barre, using nepotism, blandishments, intimidation, oppression, arbitrary killings, embezzlements, etc. In two years, Abdiqasim had built multitude militia factions loyal to his cause and transitional government, who mostly identified with his clan (Ceyr). The creation of Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) and powerful Islamic organizations ensued as part of ongoing secret deals with different interests and faces. Like the “manifest destiny doctrine of 19th century,” He sought land expansion by aggressively investing in his tribesmen and allies with abundance of money that afforded them the purchase of modern munitions mounted on hundreds of pick-up trucks. They easily conquered the coastal and riverine localities south of Mogadishu. How much misery and horror his militias factions have inflicted on the local people of these areas stay limitless. Until now, these multitude militia factions hold hostages of the defenseless urban and agricultural societies that live in areas starting from Mogadishu south to Kismayu. They operate under the commanders of a previously unheard number of warlords, who in their daily pillaging, killing, raping, and extorting the locals, have carved out notorious names such as Indha Cade, Galaal, and etc. They have even begun to arrogate proprietary rights to their clans about the territories in which they have forcefully occupied and ruled under martial law. Abdiqasim did not stop there. He confides to his so called strongmen to continue their systematic land expansion and indiscriminate eradication of local resistance so that they can continue milking the cow. It is a series of odd monstrous activity that turned the whole southern Somalia into complex intricate web of fiefdoms. With the soaring statistics of poverty and extreme mortality rate, these infamous activities will continue unless they are stopped by forceful measures and stern actions from IGAD. The Warlords have reiterated so many times that they will never give up or compromise for their illegal occupations and the current status quo with or without the agreement they had entered and signed in Kenya. At times, they contrive excuses of wanton exclusion of some IGAD countries from frontline states particularly Ethiopia, accusing them of having ulterior motives. This position is plainly devoid of persuasive weight in terms of international law standards. Basically, the sovereignty of a nation is safeguarded from enemy invasion by International law. The U.N can wage a just war against the aggressor under the just causes of war doctrine that uphold one of the principles of U.N charter that if a country is invaded illegally, it should receive the protection of world wide support militarily and economically. Hence, the right of intention of Ethiopia's involvement in Somalia is blocked from violation of territorial integrity except enhancement of security and safety for the TFG. Somalia needs military intervention at this circumstantial stage. Warlords can not seek a way out of this marriage contract they lastly vowed to uphold its pillars and to be liable for its proviso. Nor can they stipulate a condition for which the government should take alternatively. I believe the cause of what is generating this mayhem and wanton intentions is the initial recommendations given by the gullible International Crisis Group that Somali parliamentarians should always consider consensus and compromise over their pressing issues. Rationally, consensus cast insoluble riddles on practical solutions. It also empowers the cunning plots of these warlords to sabotage the two-year long peace process. Therefore, this plaintive yearning for solution by ICG is unworkable and dispensable. The government should pursue general vote for every pressing agendas, which I think it is pursuing them effectively and efficiently, a just aim that would accomplish militia disarmament, tranquility, enforcement, and legitimate institutions for this exiled government. This step could also be a golden chance to improve itself from the ruthless remnants of Abdiqaasim's former TNG.

David, it conveys the message that people are building their own territories. Nice pictures of Buuhoodle.

It is only the religious pundits of Dhahar district that urged all Somalis to support the phantom revolution. Again, it is all urging, not adopting the system. They are probably motivated by the conflicts of Majihaan. I don't think seeking out political solace from Mogadisho will have a positive effect on your region. It will only create a conflict of leadership, which may have dire consequence on the peace and brotherhood of these regions in Puntland.

I second to Temujin.

Originally posted by Jimcaale: Banana in Badhan? Did not know that. So many SUVs, gas not that expensive I guess. Sanaag is a fertile region. There are natural water falls that form streams. The people of this region has neglected it ,but this is a big time fertile region.

Bossaso is our commercial center and I am hoping to invest in that city. Once the Jetty Las Qorey is built, the first of its kind, the whole region will be shinning, esp many Rer Sanaag merchants in Bossaso would probably open branches or divisions in Badhan as there are now deficient of that undertaking.

School kids little nice house outskirts of Badhan

More Pictures on Sanaag, this time, Badhan, the present capital of Sanaag

Wlc to Somaliaonline, Xaruuri

I like all Somalia towns. I don't just affiliate to special town. In fact, the city I like so much is Merka, my birth city that is where our family property can be located. Jidale, Carmale, and Shimbirale are very close to Erigavo, 30 km roughly.