Originally posted by Blessed.*: Oooh, a treasure map! *grabs a scissors* I could imagine feeling the breeze and less work being fantastic, Juxa. But I would get bored of looking the same all the time. p.s the lady in the second photo is very pretty. Both pics are unattractive and outright immoral, not only from religious perspective but from also cultural point of view. I advise sisters oftentimes not to be lured or be admired by such nerve-wrecking, immodest lifestyle.

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: Cowke You are next! You have get to give to the Tigray boys. They have managed to erect walls in the shape of these pseudo administrations and Somalis played to their hands. We are talking about Puntland's territorial integrity (as if Puntland is country independent of Somalia) and not bothered by their constant incursions into Hiiraan. I was actually surprised that Cawke would employ "territorial integrity" of Puntland. Lol. What we are all forgetting is that PL controls only half of the city, the other half being under the seperate admin of Galmudug. All in all, the Ethiopian secret service carry out their operations in Hargeisa and ocassionally in Nairobi. It has to do with the savage policies of this Christian Ethiopia, which is indeed creating a widespread atrocities in the whole of HOA region, including Eritrea. There's no way in hell a minority Christian regime would be able to divide, manipulate and outmaneouver the people it oppresses in its interior and the countries it greatly fears on its border, if it weren't the West's support and direct meddling. . Time to open our eyes that our survival and the many dimensions of human progress in our land hinges on our unity and solidarity.

Xaaji, transfering the capital from Mogadishu to Hargeisa until Mogadishu gets better will immensely help the North than the failed secessionist project. I'll be more happy to see that happen. Duke, lean cabinet as that proposed and implemented by the former premier, Nur Adde, is the way forward. 18 cabinet members.

His speech in Cairo was uplifting, insightful and revelatory. And his Quote of the blessed ayah, "O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other)." was truly an amazing moment. President Barack Obama is blessed with superior intellect and character and he will sure Change the way we see the world.

Hunguri, ninkani nin rag yaqaan ah maba ahan waxaa ka muuqata maangaabnimada lagu yiqiin iyo hablaha oo ay si xun ula dhaqmaan. I'll advise that you let it go.

Lol@ dadka kaluunka cuna. War heedhe kaluunka inuu yahey shey qaali ah soo maba dareensanid? Nin reer Maakhiri oo caan ahaa ayaa hadda ka hor tixdan oo aan ka soo amaahdey gabay uu tiriyey. Badda Saylac Saaxiyo Berbera tan iyo Seyhaaba Waxa sare iyo hoos ku jira waa sareedada'e Soomaali baan garan intey silic ku nooleyde Laakiin sheeka kalaa jirta aan doonayo inaan sawir kaa siiyo maxaa yeeley xoogaa waad ka caqli gaabisey hilibka geela oo ay aad u cunaan oo sheekadu aysan ku ekeen kaluun keliya ileen waa tii la yiri Awrkii Cirkay sahanshadeen goortii wixii geel Galbeed iyo Bari yaaley ay gacanta ku dhigeen kadibna dareersadeen. Bal tixdaan gabay kaga tusaaleyso. * Ma taraarihii faraska baan tooyo ku xabbaadhey * Togoxroor miyaa loogu qalay qaalin talalaysa * Intaan qaybsigii tegin miyaa lay tusmo hagaajey * Ma labaatan baa lay tirshoon hore u taataantay * Ma tigaadii gebi bay cuntoo gaawe laga tuujey * Ma turraa ku qooqoo hadduu goojo wada tiicey * Ma ahaatey taan doonayiyo tabalahaygiiye * Geel maalin baa lagu tabcaa tiginkii maw dhaabay * Nin tollaa badhaadhee maxaa toogo lay qumiyeyAfdhaal. Sheekada intaa kuma koobna ee dhacdooyin baddan oo ku saabsan mida hada idinku danbeysa iyo marxalado ay soo mareen reer tolkaa ee Sanaag iyo Bari baa jirta sida tixdan ay muujineyso. Ciddoo dhagax labaasood fadhida col uma dhuumeene. Dhalinyarada kaan dhiiri bido kama dhud siibeene. Sabay iyo dhugtire guurihii godol ma dhaafeene. Guban hoose uma dhaadhaceen dhamaca jiilaale. Hadba dhiraha uma sii korneen dhuley u soofsheene. *********** kama dhaariyeen dheelimada fiide. Xagaa dhacaya kama soo dhufteen dhalanka xeebeede. Waxa suunta laga dhaamiyaa dhaban madoobaha'e. Dhukublow dameer looma raro dhulaanu gaadhayne. Seexaari loogama dhergiyo cidaha kuu dhowe. Abid baannu Dhoorey niqiin geel si loo dhaca'e. Dhuurdhuurriskaa laguma helo Dheeho iyo Laane. Ama naga dhacsada waynagii dhaar isku ogeyne. Ama toga ka dheelmada xil waa lala dhuuyaalaaye. Afdhaal oo ahaa nin dagaal yahan godob baddana ka galey reero baddan oo deriska ah sida caadada u ah dhaqanka reer guuraaga ah, waxaa dhacdey in reer aan ku lug leheen arritan dhex martey Afdhaal iyo colkiisa wada socdo iyo qolodii uu duulaanka ku ahaa ay markaa saameyso: * Xisaab baa Afdhaal iyo u tiil xaajiguu dhacaye * Xilo iyo waxay kala hayeen xiito iyo laane * Waa tuu la xeeb marey horweyn oo xalaashadaye * Isagaa xiniinyiyo mudnaa inaad is xoogtaane * Waxa aniga laysoo xadaa waa xafiil Li'iye * Xinjiruhu intey nabad yihiin xaqa ha lay siiyo. ---- Markaa intaa waa iga yar iftiimis. Dooda adi iyo Hungurina meesha ka sii wada.

D/P

Liqaye, Yes to Somalia & Unity. Somalis of MN have well organized community centers, great charter schools of Primary and High accreditation, shopping malls and many professionals employed in the private and state sectors. Love the state...

Originally posted by MoonLight1: [QB the new world order says if two cuntries marry together on voluntery bases,e.g (South&North Somalia, South&North Yemen) then the only way they can seperate and get recognition is to devorce while mutually aggreed e.g (Ethiopia & Eretria, Check & Slovakia, Montinegro & Serbia), unless there are special cases such as East Timor, and Kosovo. These South Yemen guys are just dividing their people and leading them to a Cul-De-Sac.They shoul've learned from Somaliland, not copy it. [/QB] Mr. Moonlight, Eritrea was an autonomous state that was federated with Ethiopia. The case of Eritrea, Kosovo and East Timor has, therefore, no similar bearing on the forever union of the two regions of Somalia. I'll be cautious not to draw any comparision from these countries with Somalia. I know you are a unionist as every Somali should be. "Evaluating further on whether “Somaliland” had possessed the attributes of statehood based on the history of the legal merger of the two regions of Somalia, let us revisit the Covenant on the Civil and Political Rights (CCPR), and the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514(XV) of 1960, the latter was implemented through the Charter-based mechanism. Looking from dispassionate analytical framework, when both British and Italian Somaliland were granted independence and merged thereafter, one would come to know whether the break-away entity of Northwestern Somalia ever transpired into a state of its own. Under article 1 of the CCPR, the subjection of peoples to alien rule and exploitation violates the UN charter, so it can be said immediate steps were taken, in non-self-governing territories (Colonies), to transfer all powers once and for all. Article 6 of Resolution 1514(XV) also proclaims that, after the transfer of all powers in non-self-governing territories to the people concerned, disruption of the political and territorial integrity of a country formed subsequently is incompatible with the charter. As it is evident from the widespread protest demonstrated by our leaders in 1959, the Legislative Council in Hargeisa appointed a commission to represent their voted resolution passed on April 6, 1960 by the elected members of the Protectorate on their political desire and heartfelt aspiration for an independence and immediate union with Somalia(3). Britain was quick to acquiesce to such popular demands though it regretted the short interval of timing under which the responsibility of the protectorate were to be transferred to Somalia. Another important document states that widespread political protests arising from the secret liquidation of the Hawd Reserve to Imperial Ethiopia forced Britain to “accept the eventual unification of British Somaliland with Italian Somaliland,” (4). Whereas the newly formed state of Kosovo possessed the attributes of autonomy under federal Yugoslavia, Somaliland had possessed no such attributes of autonomous status. Kosovo had its own separate assembly, police, and bank until 1990 when Serbian rule was imposed on them that repressed the ethnic Albanians who are ethnically distinct from the Serbs. The existence of historical rivalry and animosity between the two also dates back to the Ottoman period. For instance, Muslim Albanians were in a better position than the Serbs. A further root cause of their conflict was when Albanians allied with Germany and Italy during WWII in their quest for pledged “Greater Albania” during which Muslim atrocities against the ethnic Serbs occurred." By Mohamed Elmi

Ngonge, I sense a deep manifestation of ire in abtigiis as he's bent on painting Makhiris in dark light but what he, in fact, knows not is that Sophist and Hunguri are of the same neighborhood. And if Sophist can relate to the pastoralist culture of Sanaag so do him. Not to mention, the region is where the epic battles, some of which preceded the Dervishes took place at a time abtigiis's "camel-herding boys" were in total oblivious of their surroundings. It's a place that has rich literature of all sorts, beautiful land of varying climate and characters, not only of the abundance of the sea.

Originally posted by Cawaale: quote:Originally posted by NASSIR: Btw, abtigiis, edit the title of this thread for once. Or let the Admin or Mod do the job. Don't you agree, Cawaale?

Originally posted by Kool_Kat: [QB Arac, I am old school yaaqoo...Waagaas waxaan ka dabeeyay jaceylaa ihaayo ani joodari dhul yaalo xataa waan kula seexanaa , maskiintoo baari ah aan ahaa ...Emphasis on *aan ahaa*... [/QB] Dirin mise joodari?

America though has a lot of opportunities relative to Europe, Canada and Australia, it's a country plagued by an ever increasing problems of race relations, gun violence, mortal health care system and scores of other issues compounded by special interest groups. I read, in France, their health system requires a down payment of health care needs, but the government refunds it later. In Canada, for non-emergence situations, everyone, rich or poor, goes to the waiting list. The waiting for doctor visitation or treatment may take long, but it's totally free.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World How Somalia's legendary 'Mad Mullah' prefigured the rise of Osama bin Laden—and the 'forever war' between Islam and the West. By Jeffrey Bartholet | NEWSWEEK Published Oct 1, 2009 At Dul Madoba, which means Black Hill in Somali, a jihadist known to his enemies as the Mad Mullah enjoyed a great victory in 1913. It is a place and a moment of legend in these parts, but the site remains as it was, a wilderness of thorn bushes and termite mounds. No heroic memorial marks the spot. No restored ruin, no sturdy plinth holding up a statue. The place is venerated in other ways. Every Somali with an education knows what happened here, back when the area was a protectorate ruled by British authorities. Some have memorized verses of a classic Somali poem written by the mullah. The gruesome ode is addressed to Richard Corfield, a British political officer who commanded troops on this dusty edge of the empire. The mullah instructs Corfield, who was slain in battle, on what he should tell God's helpers on his way to hell. "Say: 'In fury they fell upon us.'/Report how savagely their swords tore you." The mullah urges Corfield to explain how he pleaded for mercy, and how his eyes "stiffened" with horror as spear butts hit his mouth, silencing his "soft words." "Say: 'When pain racked me everywhere/Men lay sleepless at my shrieks.' " Hyenas eat Corfield's flesh, and crows pluck at his veins and tendons. The poem ends with a demand that Corfield tell God's servants that the mullah's militants "are like the advancing thunderbolts of a storm, rumbling and roaring." They rumbled and roared for two full decades. The British launched five military expeditions in the Horn of Africa to capture or kill Muhammad Abdille Hassan, and never succeeded (though they came close). British officers had superior firepower, including the first self-loading machine gun, the Maxim. But the charismatic mullah knew his people and knew the land: he hid in caves, and crossed deserts by drinking water from the bellies of dead camels. "I warn you of this," he wrote in one of many messages to his British foes. "I wish to fight with you. I like war, but you do not." The sentiment would be echoed almost a century later, in Osama bin Laden's 1996 declaration of war against the Americans: "These [Muslim] youths love death as you love life." History doesn't really repeat itself, but it can feed on itself, particularly in this part of the world. Sagas of past jihads become inspirations for new wars, new vengeance, until the continuum of violence can seem interminable. In the Malakand region of northwest Pakistan, where the Taliban today has been challenging state power, jihadists fought the British at the end of the 19th century. In Waziristan, a favored Qaeda hideout, the Faqir of Ipi waged jihad against the British in the 1930s and '40s. Among the first to take on the British in Africa was Muhammad Ahmad, the self-styled "Mahdi," or redeemer, whose forces killed and beheaded Gen. Charles George Gordon at Khartoum. But no tale more closely tracks today's headlines, and shows the uneven progress of the last century, than that of Muhammad Abdille Hassan. His story sheds light on what is now called the "forever war," the ongoing battle of wills and ideologies between governments of the West and Islamic extremists. There's no simple lesson here, no easy formula to bend history in a new direction. It's clear, even to many Somalis, that the mullah was brutal and despotic, and that his most searing legacy is a land of hunger and ruin. But he's also admired—for his audacity, his fierce eloquence, his stubborn defiance in the face of a superior power. Among Somalis, the mullah's sins are often forgiven because he was fighting an occupier, a foreign power that was in his land imposing foreign values. It is a sentiment that is shared today by those Muslims who give support to militants and terrorists, and one the West would do well to better understand. The Rise of the Mullah Muhammad Abdille Hassan was slightly over six feet tall, with broad shoulders and intense eyes. Somalis called him Sayyid, or "Master." (They still do.) He got much of his religious training in what is now Saudi Arabia, where he studied a fundamentalist brand of Islam related to the Wahhabi teachings that have inspired Al Qaeda. Stories abound about how he came to be called the Mad Mullah. According to one popular version, when he returned to the Somali port of Berbera in 1895, a British officer demanded customs duty. The Sayyid brusquely asked why he should be paying a foreigner to enter his own country. Other Somalis asked the Brit to pay the man no mind—he was just a crazy mullah. The name stuck. Many Somalis would come to think him mad in another sense—that he was touched by God. "He was very charismatic," says historian Aw Jama Omer Issa, who is 85 years old and interviewed many of the Sayyid's followers before they died off. "Whenever you came to him, he would overwhelm you. You would lose your senses…To whomever he hated, he was very cruel. To those he liked, he was very kind." His forces wore distinctive white turbans and called themselves Dervishes. The first British officer to hunt the mullah and attempt to crush his insurgency was Lt. Col. Eric Swayne, a dashing fellow who had previously been on safari to Somaliland, hunting for elephant and rhino, kudu and buffalo. He was dispatched from India, and brought with him an enterprising Somali who had once worked as a bootblack polishing British footwear. Musa Farah would serve one British overlord after another. He would gain power, wealth, and influence beyond anything he could have imagined, including a sword of honor from King Edward VII. Read More

I think this is the locus of A&T and Koora's first ever debate in which Koora gave the Newbie Abtigiis(at the time) some welcoming SOL lessons. Since then, Abtigiis suspected Koore of being Abdalla Hirad(May Allah rest him in Peace) due to probably some resemblances in their writing style. SomaliaOnline Btw, abtigiis, edit the title of this thread for once. Or let the Admin or Mod do the job.

No one could have imagined this is what would have become of Somalia, no one imagined having to flee their home in fear they would be massacred based on their tribe. What is more dangerous is to use tribalism as a means to govern for example the 4.5 system. It is a dangerous phenomenon that harbingers prolonged suffering and conflict because it is always going to be unequal system, one clan will feel they are more entitled and superior and must, therefore, govern those inferior to them. Even with legitimately formed government tribalism always comes into play, not who is most qualified for the job, but a means to placate some clans; this is why no stable government can be formed in the future. Wise moving words.... The article carries a powerful message indeed. The youth will be Somalia's future indeed.

Anwar, naagta Ethiopianka ay yiraahdaan wey ugu qurax badan tahey baa Iman oo retire gareysey ka qaadey booska. Marka reerkaan deriskeena ah ma laha dhererka iyo quruxda Somalida ee aduunka la cajabey. Not even Arabs has that natural Somali tallness, and beauty. It's self-evident.

ThePoint, as they say 'isolation is no longer a practical policy'. Angola has to open up and integrate with the world market. Who wants an idle resources? With government regulation safeguarding the interest of the nation and its resources, diverse talents can be tapped and investments encouraged. How about adopting the UAE model? Can you explain further on how Angola's economy is in the hands of a racial minority?

As a young man, our whole nuclear family moved to Brava for a 3 months excursion or Hawa Gedis. It was so beautiful. Descending from the a small mountain, you can see a superb vista of the whole city. It's teemed with mosques and it has beautiful beach. I remember encountering a group of young Brava kids. They were eating opuntia or cactus figs and spoke a language I couldn't fathom. I approached them and talked to them but they looked at me with a blank stare and then left without saying a word. Lol. A beautiful time it was.

Unbelievable story. The guy will indeed inspire the Diaspora. We can stop the brain drain through networks. This is a bottom-up approach to Somalia's problems. But how did he manage to stave off the al-Shabaab phenemenon; in other words, keeping al-shabaab from imposing its administration?

I came across this Success Story while @ starbucks. I like the Title. Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia October 3, 2009 ADADO, Somalia ABOVE the shimmering horizon, in the middle of a deserted highway, stands an oversize figure wearing a golf cap, huge sunglasses, baggy jeans, and an iPhone on his hip, not your typical outfit in war-torn Somalia. But then again, Mohamed Aden, the man waiting in the road, is not your typical Somali. The instant his guests arrive, he spreads his arms wide, ready for a bear hug. "Welcome to Adado," he says, beaming. "Now, let's bounce." Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king - a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government. Think of him as the accidental warlord. And a shard of hope. In less than a year, Mr. Aden, who was born in Somalia and emigrated to the United States at age 22, has essentially built a state within a state. With money channeled from fellow clansmen living in the United States and Europe, he has transformed Adado and its surroundings in central Somalia, which used to be haunted by bandits and warring Islamic factions, into an enclave of peace, with a functioning police force, scores of new businesses, new schools and new rules. Somalia is one of the most violent countries on the planet, and at times Mr. Aden has had to speak with the business end of a machine gun. His patch - which encompasses around 5,000 square miles and a few hundred thousand people, most of them desperately poor nomads and members of his own Saleban clan - is now one of the safest parts of this broken nation. Even outsiders are noticing. "When I landed here, I was taken aback, in a good way," said Denise Brown, a United Nations World Food Program official who visited Adado in March. "I didn't see what I usually see in Somalia: destitution, chaos, needy people." Mr. Aden does not get much help from the United Nations or the internationally supported transitional government of Somalia, which is led by moderate Islamists and preoccupied with beating back an intense insurgency in the capital, Mogadishu. Most of what Mr. Aden has accomplished he has accomplished on his own, in distinctly Somali fashion. His police officers carry rocket-propelled grenades. Parked in front of the police station are two enormous tanks. "My Cadillacs," Mr. Aden calls them. But however playful or flamboyant he may come across, Mr. Aden seems to have hit upon a deeper truth. People want government, he says, even in Somalia. "They're begging for it," he said. His experiment of building a small local government from the bottom up, relying on that one feature of Somali society that has bedeviled just about all national governance efforts to date - the clan - may have wider implications for the rest of the country, which seems to export trouble continuously, most recently in the form of pirates. Many pirates are actually from Mr. Aden's area, and one pirate whose nom de guerre is Son of a Liar is building a huge house in Adado - right behind the police station. "I'd take these guys on, but I can't right now because I don't have the resources," Mr. Aden said. "Besides, you can't just wipe out a whole line of work for thousands of young men. If you take something away, you must replace it with something else. Otherwise, more problems." WHAT drove him to give up a comfy life with his wife, Shamso, and their five boys in Burnsville, Minn., a Minneapolis suburb? How was he able to make the transition from running a small health care business to being "president," which is what his constituents in Adado call him? "When I first arrived, I was afraid," he recalled. "I didn't know how the people would react to me, if they would trust me. That first year I was focusing on muscle. Without muscle, you can't do anything." Of course, there's much about America he misses." Sports Center, Subway, AC, even winter," he says. But in a way he didn't have a choice. He came to Adado last year for what he thought would be a few weeks, to help out with a killer drought. He organized water trucking and emergency food deliveries and channeled tens of thousands of dollars from middle class Somalis in the United States to nomads dying of hunger and thirst. Afterward, Adado's elders, impressed by how fast he could work, turned to Mr. Aden and asked: want to be our leader? "We needed a man of peace and he is from a peaceful place, Minnesota," said one elder, Mohamed Ali Farah.It did not hurt that Mr. Aden had a pipeline to overseas cash and a college degree from Minnesota State in management information systems. With the elders firmly behind him, he was able to form a well-armed police force of several hundred fellow clansmen who are fiercely protective of him - essentially his own private army, which has made it difficult for the extremist Islamists wreaking havoc in other parts of Somalia to establish a beachhead here. People who have challenged his authority have paid the price. Last summer, his police officers shot to death four men who violently refused to vacate a piece of property that Mr. Aden's administration ruled belonged to someone else. "I knew there were outliers, people with their own rules," he said. "I knew I had to challenge them, sooner or later." Nowadays, from Adado's dusty town square, he hands down new laws, like a recent one saying that anyone who cuts down a live tree has to pay a fine of 100 camels. The orderly refuge he has carved out has become a magnet for displaced families fleeing the relentless bloodletting in Mogadishu, and at noon each day, the metal roofs of thousands of new homes sparkle like mirrors scattered across the desert. Mr. Aden grew up in Mogadishu, the son of a military mechanic, the firstborn of 10. He fled Somalia with an uncle in 1992, a year after the central government collapsed and his friends split into rival militias. "I didn't see myself in this war," he said. But the war saw him. He was shot in the ankle by a stray bullet. Soon he packed up for Kenya and then on to Miami, where he lived in a homeless shelter. He eventually took a Greyhound bus to Minneapolis, the promised land for Somali immigrants and home to the largest Somali community in the United States. There he put himself through college parking cars and working in a factory, always keeping abreast of politics back home, hoping to jump in one day. Yet when finally presented with the opportunity, he turned down the Adado elders twice before relenting. "It was hard for my wife and kids," he said. "But I'm doing something big here, and they know that." HE spends his days in a large house in the center of town, where he has rigged up a small command center with a laptop, his iPhone and an Internet connection. As chairman of Himan and Heeb Administration, the province where Adado is located, he often meets with elders on his living room carpet, and he has had to straddle a delicate religious line, respecting the conservative Muslim culture here without coming across as phony. This spring, central Somalia was hit again by a devastating drought, and the elders asked him to lead a rain prayer. "I ain't no imam," he grumbled at first, though he eventually agreed to do it. Mr. Aden seems to be a naturally upbeat person, but the one thing that drags him down is the drought. During a drive across the skinned landscape of his area a few months ago, he came upon a young man lying under a lean-to of sticks and blankets. The man was in bad shape, very thin, sweaty and empty-eyed. People said he had typhoid. And tuberculosis. And malaria. Mr. Aden looked down at him and said he would pray. "There's really nothing else I can do," he said. "There's no 911 out here." Source: The New York Times

Angola needs skilled workers at this stage of its development, i.e exchange of technology, resource extraction and management. When will rich Congo become like Angola?

Originally posted by Jalle Liqaye: The things you write about A&T are the shame of almost all Somali politico's, and a collective failing of the Somali people. Whether it is in regaling us with clan based bantustans or warlord politics, Somalis every where to some degree or other buy in whole heartedly into the version of Somalia the Ethiopians produce. Which is ultimately a greater crime and loss than listening to ethio music. p.s keep up the exposes. Agreed. I'm glad we're slowly and grudgingly coming to terms with our own failures. I predict a great revolution to sweep over Somalia and to free us one day.

Originally posted by UZTAAD: [QB] There is no doubt that Somaliland is an Ethiopian protectorate in fact the whole Idea of secessionism is engineered from Addis Ababa who wants to see Somalia week and divided. Somaliland politicians view Ethiopia as their saviors and godfather, the love & admiration for Ethiopia is enormous among these folks. Where they believe Somalia as their number one enemy, most of these Secessionists will be very happy if Ethiopia annex them instead of being part of Somali republic. Their worst nightmare is strong and united Somalia. They even don’t hide their happiness of the chaos in the sought because they see this suffering of their brethren will hasten their recognition but that is jus dilution. [/QB Well said.

This is bad news for the VOA-Somali as an alternative source to BBC, which has been the sole most dominant news-media in Somalia. They should have been circumspect about the reliability and verifiability of their reporting. For sure, interviewing a self-styled governor of Puntland with an Office in Garowe breeds confusion, terror and instability in the region. Sometimes, I wonder why the stated objectives of VOA and its journalistic ethics conflict? It even promotes the dismemberment of Somalia.