Very informative source.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_people

Mario, Do you agree with them that Somalia automatically means Somaliwayn?

This map is more credible than the informational National Geographic map that the secessionists have posted on this site. It shows the Xadeed haud, and Somalia regions..

Why do the secessionists associate Somalia with the concept of Somaliwayn?

Wadani, You speak against the malaise of clan loyalty, yet you espouse of the "SL's" ideological position - "We are peaceful and the south is a mess, thus we are entitled to dismember the country by fair means or foul"..That's what I call raw hypocricy and it's common theme for the "somalilanders'" political discourse.

"The food we share between six people is not even enough for two," she said. "They sell our food to people to feed animals." Another site, Wadajir, sits less than 200 yards (meters) from the airport base where WFP's international staff stay, and bustles with hundreds of people during official WFP visits. But when the AP visited the site run by Jumbo Peace and Development Organization last month, it was nearly deserted. Somali aid workers there appeared caught off guard. Two workers contradicted each other about how many people were being fed there, claimed a metal pot that could only hold about one bag of food held three bags, and that people usually came at 5 p.m. to be fed. The site had closed at 1:30 p.m. on the previous day. An AP translator overheard a worker named Sharif on a frantic phone call to his superior. "Have they taken pictures?" the manager asked. "No, no, we stopped them," said the worker, glancing over nervously as a journalist snapped photos of the almost empty site. Keep the journalists outside and stop them from taking photos, the manager yelled; he was coming right over. :D ReadMore

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A large amount of food sent by the U.N. to the Somali capital during last year's famine never reached the starving people it was intended for, an Associated Press investigation has found. Some of the World Food Program supplies went to the black market, some to feed livestock. One warehouse full of rations was looted in its entirety by a Somali government official. And across the city, feeding sites handed out far less food than records indicate they should have. The British government estimates between 50,000 and 100,000 people died in Somalia's famine, and the U.N. has requested $1.5 billion for Somalia this year, partly to prevent a return of famine. The World Food Program provides much of Somalia's food aid, and the U.N. says donations of food and cash saved half a million lives in the second half of last year. In the chaos of a civil war, with the aid effort's own personnel at mortal risk merely for being associated with the West, orderly, corruption-free food distribution could never be guaranteed. But AP's three-month investigation into sites providing hot meals to families in government-controlled Mogadishu reveals various shortcomings, some of which WFP says it is already addressing by changing procedures. A critical problem was keeping track of supplies: WFP knew how much food was being shipped to the capital, but not how much was being cooked or how many people were showing up to eat it. Barey Muse, a mother of three, illustrated the frustrations. "My children are hungry but when I go here for food I must return empty-handed," she said last month, holding two large bowls outside a feeding site called Hodan. The WFP had to design a flexible program so that families could use the nearest hot-meal center as they moved between neighborhoods to avoid fighting. The price of flexibility was less control over theft, officials acknowledge. The AP, along with a network of seven Somali observers who for their safety cannot be identified, conducted more than 60 visits to 13 of the 21 sites where hot meals are prepared. From those visits, interviews with aid recipients and internal reports, it emerges that: -- Somali aid groups would cook and distribute at least 30 percent more food when expecting visits by journalists or WFP officials. -- Some food was trucked directly from an aid agency warehouse to the market to be sold for profit. -- WFP's independent monitors repeatedly sounded the alarm, saying relatives of Somali aid workers would receive large handouts while others went without. One of their reports spoke of supplies being fed to livestock. -- A Somali government official stole 74 metric tons of food, according to an internal WFP report obtained by AP

Very Nice pics. Qaw aka Bandar Ziyaada is a historic place.

I see a lot of Ak-47s. Helps the small arms merchants.

Galgala, Karin, Xamur, Balikhadar, have small subsistance farmers. They are growers of various types of food crops and they are quite successful in eking out a decent standard of living for themselves without any outside help. Nice pics.

Very sad video..

I suggest you free the captive areas and help them become independent. These figures sure help the corrupt UN agencies in Nairobi apply for more funds for these hapless communities from donors. That's more important than anagaa idinka badan argument.

Somalina, those figures are extremely inaccurate. PL's population is over 2.5 million according to government figures.

English idioms overused and abused. Yaab badanaa...

Still trying hard to relive and conquer the past. The secessionists never give up. What about warlord Siilaanyo?

Jacphar, The Bearers of Good News aka the sleeping giant have woken up from their slumber.

I stand corrected, king of kings.

Oil in Puntland brings Somalis together.

Boosaaso has over half a million population, according to the latest UN figures.

Valenteenah.;804731 wrote: But it's environmentally imposing and naturally blessed. Development isn't simply over-filling the space with hideously designed and multi-coloured villas, you know. It will develop in its own time and by its own people, Insha'Allah. Wax u sheeg the al-shabaab Che. Beautiful Hadaaftimo.

Naxar Nugaaleed;805043 wrote: they should not have changed the name, am pretty sure there was a reason meesha loo bixiyey Ceel-dhoofar. Qeed-la-rifey is also near by lol I was told that Mansuur will be a completely separate city from El Daahir town. They are not the same , in other words.

Wadani;805041 wrote: or else? For your own good.

That's how you help Somalis recover from the ruins of the civil war. Tika teaches Western agencies that helping Somalis with projects that provide sustainable livelihoods builds peace and economic independence.

I can't wait to visit my hotel