Garoodi for 22 years is that all you can show. Hargaysa and two buildings. Niyahow the amount of construction done in hamar for the past 2 years supercedes your whole 22 years. Your a joke. Puntland is building institutions, you lack any of them

Naxar 80% of the enclave is all high, this is the sad part

My Time with One of Somaliland’s Khat Kingpins By Mark Hay The author, sitting with the owner of the Gargaar company. At around 9 PM in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a man shuffles in through the side door of the Gargaar company headquarters carrying a lumpy burlap sack half his size. He upends his load in the center of the 300-square-foot room serving as a hybrid office-warehouse-salesroom—the totality of Gargaar HQ—and giant wads of twigs and waxy, pointed leaves falls onto the floor. The leafy greens are khat, the ubiquitous but culturally and physiologically ambiguous weak narcotic (like an amphetamine, but reputed to act like a downer for some and a psychotic for a select few) common in the Horn of Africa and South Arabia. This tiny bushel is the sole commodity in the warehouse and the sole focus of the half dozen employees in the room. They descend on the khat with an urgency and efficiency unusual in Hargeisa. Speed is everything in the Somaliland khat scene, since the leaves lose their potency within 48 hours (although Somalis leave the leaves on the stem, unlike in Yemen, in the hopes of prolonging the potency). That short shelf-life has become especially relevant since former Somali dictator Siad Barre’s destruction of local khat farms, which pushed sellers to depend on growers 160 miles away in Harar, Ethiopia. Hassan, the owner of six-month-old Gargaar who sits beside me on a flattened cardboard box, the only furniture in the room, sighs with relief—the latest shipment has come just as HQ’s vendor was running low on product during the after-dinner rush hour. The retail khat stand located in the Gargaar warehouse. I walk over to the front of the warehouse, where half of the plaster wall has been knocked out and a waist-high, one-man stall of wooden planks much like the stand-alone stalls all over Hargeisa, pokes out onto the street. The vendor, too busy passing wads of cash between customers and the money changer perched beside him, doesn’t even notice me as I peek over his shoulder at about 20 bunches of khat half covered by a sheet. Gargaar sells jebis, a midrange khat that goes for $5 per one-fourth kilo bunch (low grade retails for $1.2 and high grade for $10-plus per one-fourth kilo). It used to go for $7-plus when his former employer of 18 years, the Gafane company, held a monopoly. I lean beside the money changer and try to help keep track of the bunches going in and out of the stall and how many people take theirs on credit—mainly because no one has the time of day to stop and talk to me, unlike most other businesspeople in Somaliland—but I can’t keep up and eventually retreat to the back to grill Hassan about his burgeoning enterprise. Mmmmm, khat. Hassan’s young empire includes eight storefronts in four cities, five import vehicles making constant shipments, and 65 full-time employees. Hassan alone imports 300 kilos of khat daily. But Gargaar, Gafane, and all the other mass importers are just drops in a bucket—Hassan estimates that 10,000 kilos of mid-grade khat are imported daily, and perhaps 50,000-plus of all grades combined. The number of small, individual-run stalls in Hargeisa alone is beyond count. Khat fields. Khat is a longstanding part of Somali culture, and people familiar with the plant in Yemen and Ethiopia jump to defend it as a recreational social lubricant. But it’s not so benign in Somaliland anymore. Hassan’s business is so good because khat has filled the temporal and psychological void of mass unemployment. But there is a predatory angle to this as well: historically khat has been pushed on the Somalis, like in the 1960s Ethiopian War, to get them addicted, make them lazy, and break their wallets. Now Ethiopian growers flood the market, realizing they can make more money on khat than coffee, piggybacking (consciously or unconsciously) on Somaliland’s unemployment. This chronic unemployment and ready supply has broken down traditional limitations on khat use, which now pushes 60 to 80 percent usage among men (many are probably still limited and conscientious users, but there is a serious abuse epidemic in that soft number). The explosion in usage leads to public health crises, some as minor as tooth staining, but most major like liver damage, fiber blockages, involuntary ejaculations, and impotence. Major employers now deny jobs to khat users, leading to cycles of chronic abuse and unemployment. Ameena's khat stand. And then there’s the gender question. Khat’s good businesses, even for a stand-alone stall, so it attracts women with unemployed husbands or recent widows, like Ameena. A much more relaxed character than the Gargaar crew, Ameena sells just 15 kilos of khat a day, down from 25 in the past, and has just 12 regular customers, whose loyalty has been her only job security for 13 years. Over the night that I sit with her, I count just four customers, and she’s completely at peace just chatting with me about her kids rather than trying to flag down potential sales. But she still makes enough to support her family (she, like all other sellers, is cagey about the exact sums, but based on the taxes levied at the border and what the few local growers charge at their farms, she most likely earns $30 per day at least) and put all of her kids through college. Men, though, unsettled by self-assured women in positions of commerce and power, spread rumors that female vendors use sex to secure loyal customers and get khat at wholesale prices. A khat farmer shows off his wares. Whether for serious concerns about public health or more misogynistic fears, everyone is a bit worried about khat in Somaliland, and ashamed to be associated with it, refusing to be photographed while chewing but posing happily once the khat is gone. Even Hassan, proud to have his face associated with his product and empire, admits that his success stems from serious social and economic ills. He believes that if the country were economically functional, people would only chew on the weekend. And he’d be fine with that; it’d be better for the nation. But khat’s entrenched here, by national economics as much as personal addiction. If Ameena supports her family on 15 kilos a day, imagine the profits Hassan reaps. And the profits the government reaps as well—Hassan guesses that the government gets up to 40 percent of its tax revenues from khat tariffs, although scholarly estimates say it’s 30 percent max. The government takes a small tax out of every stall daily, too. So anyone who takes on the epidemic abuse of khat or its social and public health effects is essentially attacking Somaliland’s economy. Not even the decidedly antikhat sheikhs will touch it. A khat chewer relaxes at the Gargaar warehouse. As for the socially conscious and concerned Hassan, he’s just putting his money back into khat for now, hoping to double his business within the coming months. It seems contrary to his beliefs and concerns, but it is, in the end, one of the only good ways to generate wealth for the nation and the individual. It’s a job creator and an economic stimulator. Now it’d just be nice if there were jobs to create or an economy to stimulate that wasn’t anchored in khat. More khat and Somaliland:

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Thats where the doctor lineage is from, even though degaan ahan I am reer garowe beel ahan Qardho

Arintu cayaar ma aha, Puntland wants to be a leader in many different sectors. Can A Gaas Presidency achieves more then this? I think militaril he won't be very astute and he might even bend side-ways for mogadishu which will be his down-fall if he does. I doubt a Gas presidency will make Puntland great, I think his just too hamar centric.

Garowe: Ciidan loo soo xiray tababar 6 Aug 6, 2013 - 5:55:47 AM GAROWE ONLINE Xarunta Taliska Ciidanka Asluubta Puntland ayaa lagu soo gabogabeeyay tababar u socday 18 maalmood ciidanka ka shaqeyn doona xabsiga cusub ee magaalada Garowe. Xaquuqul insaanka, amarka taagan ee taliyaha, amniga firfircoon iyo kan joogtada ah, Gaadiidka iyo badbaadooda, Sharciga xabsiyada Puntland, is-dilka iyo dhawaac nafeedka maxaabiista, Isgaarsiinta wanaagsan, iyo gargaarka deg dega ah ayaa la baray ciidanka mudadi uu socday tababarku. Hayada UNODC oo Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan barnaamijka la-dagaalanka burcad badeeda ayaa tababarkan fulisay.waxana uu sheegay Mr. Roger inay khibrad u korortay ciidanka Asluubta Puntland ka dib tababarkan ay siiyeen. Taliyaha Ciidanka Asluubta Gen. Cali Nuur Cumar ayaa u mahadceliyay UNODC, isagoona ka soo sheekeeyay tababaradii horey loo siiyay ciidanka Asluubta Puntland, waxana uu sheegay in Imtixaan loo geli doono xabsiga Garowe. Dhismaha Xabsiga Garowe ee socda ayuu ka hadlay sidoo kale oo uu tilmaamay inuu marayo heer wanaagsan, dhowaana ku soo bixi doono mid ka mida kuwa ugu casrisan geeska Afrika.

Garowe: Madaxweynaha PL oo la kulmay Safiirka Britain 6 Aug 6, 2013 - 3:01:18 AM GAROWE ONLINE Madaxweynaha Puntland Dr.Cabdiraxman Shiikh Maxamed Farole ayaa maanta 06 Aug, 2013 xarunta madaxtoyada kula kulmay wafdi ka socday Britain uuna hogaaminayo safiirka u qaabilsan Somalia Ambassador Neil Wigan. Kulankan oo ahaa mid isbarasho guud ah iyo kala war qaadasho ayaa waxa wehelinayay safiirka xubno ka socday xafiiska horumarinta iyo saraakiisha wasaarada arrimaha dibedda Britain. Wasiirada Qorshaynta, caafimaadka, Maaliyada iyo amniga ayaa kala qaybgalay madaxweynaha kulanka Safiirka Britain. Qodobadda Miiska saaran ayaa waxa ka mid ah Amniga, dastuurka Somalia, xiriirka DF Somalia iyo Puntland, Maareynta deeqaha caalamiga, iyo taageerada ay Britain siiso Puntland. Ka dib markii uu soo dhamaaday ayay shir saxaafadeed ku qabteen madaxtoyada, waxana uu sheegay madaxweyne Farole in Britain kaalinta hore kaga jirto dalalka Somalia mucaawinada siiya. ''Dowladda Britain xiriir wanaagsan baa naga dhaxeeya, wax badan oo waxtar noo gaysteen mucaawino iyo mashaariic ka socota Puntland ayay maalgelisay'' ayuu yiri. Waxa uu sheegay Dr.Farole in booqashada wafdigani ku soo beegantay xili uu xumaaday xiriirkii u dhaxeeyay DF Somalia iyo Puntland, isagoo sheegay in go'aanka ay gaareen uusan ku iman ciyaar uuna dhab ka yahay. ''Go'aanka aan ka qaadanay DF waa mid sii socon doona oo aan ciyaar ahayn, waa go'aan dhab ah oo sababaysan'' ayuu raacshay. Safiirka Britain u qaabilsan Somalia Neil Wigan ayaa muujiyay farxadiisa ku aadan imaatinka Puntland oo uu ku tilmaamay mid kaalin muhiim ah ka ciyaartay horumarinta iyo nabada Somalia. Waxa la filayaa inta uu joogo inuu kulamo kala duwan la yeesho masuuliyiinta Puntland, isagoona booqan doona xarumo ay mashaariic ka fulisay Britain. AUDIO http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Wararka_19/Garowe_Safiirka_Britain_oo_la_kulmaya_Madaxweynaha_PL.shtml PICS

Thats just maseer talk baan uu aqana. These ppl dont even have modern prisons and lock people up in huts still. Adeer macaane you got a long way to go boys to catch up to Puntland's prison, education, health, and international profile.

Cabdiwahaab ''Shahaadada waxbarashada Sudan mooyee dalalka kale waa laga aqoonsan yahay'' Agaasimaha guud ee wasaarada waxbarashada Puntland Maxamad Cabdiwahaab oo maanta shir jaraa'id ku qabtay xafiiskiisa magalada Garowe ayaa waxa uu sheegay shihaadada waxbarashada Puntland inay tahay mid la aqoonsan yahay. Maxamad Cabdiwahaab ayaa beeniyay warar suuqyada la isla dhex marayo ee sheegaya in shihaadada Dugsiga sare laga mamnuucay dalal badan oo horay ardaydu waxbarashu ugu aadi jireen. ''Waxan u sheegayaa waalidiinta iyo ardayda Puntland in shihaadada dugsiga sare ay ku aadi karaan meel kasta oo waxbarasho awal loogu aadi jiray.waxa lagu tagaa shihaadadaasi ,Ruushka,Shiinaha,Indiya,Yemen.Maleesiya,Uganda,Itoobiya iyo Kenya marka meesha caqabada ay ka jirto oo shihaadada laga xanibay waa Suudaan oo kaliya''.Agaasimaha ayaa sheegay. Sidoo kale Maxamad Cabdiwahaab ayaa dhalinyarada sanadkaan ka qalin jabisay dugsiyada sare ugu baaqay inaysan ka niyad jabin waxbarashooda sare,isla markasna ay u diyaar garoobaan mustaqbal cusub. Hadalka Agaasimaha guud ee wasaarada waxbarashada Puntland ayaa waxa uu kusoo aadaya xili masuuliyiin ka tirsan madaxtooyada Somalia ay shihaadada Puntland ka xanibeen Dalka Suudaan,taasoo qayb ka ah dagaalka adag oo ay madaxda D.F. Somalia kula jirto dowlada Puntland. Dunidaonline.com Xafiiska Garowe

Magnificent Prison Complex Qardho. Looking Forward to Garowe

Carafaat its just all hot air

This just a copy on Puntland, shame on the rebel enclave

Yeah whatever Garoodi. Anyone can write up anything and claim it's from a historical book. But it shows the desperateness trying to look for dirt and can't find it so people create it.

cadnaan, why do the HAG people base themselves so heavily in Hargaysa? Puntlanders don't, I know of a few here and there like failed politicians and some respected odays who live there but it is no way like the HAG representation that is for certain

There may be some truth to this news.

Wasiir Suujino oo lagu arkay Somaliland(Rumeyso ama Ha Rumeysan) Written by Administrator Sunday, 04 August 2013 02:47 Warar isa soo taraya oo Shacabkamedia soo gaaraya ayaa sheegaya in Wasiirkii arimaha Gudaha ee Dawladda Federaalka Soomaaliyeed C/kariin Suujino uu ka soo dagay Garoonka Ber-Bera,isagoo loo galbiyay Magaaladda Hargeysa. Wasiirkan oo aan la aqoon sababta ka dambaysa inuu Somaliland dhuumasho ku yimaado aysan ka war-heyn Xildhibaandda Baarlamaanka ayaa u baahan in la is-weydiiiyo,inkastoo Kaameeradda Wareegta ee Shacabkamedia oo Suxufiyiin Paparazi ah oo Somaliland ku dhaqan ay ku guuldaresteen inay sawirro qarsoon ka soo qadaan Wasiirkan dhuumashadda ku jooga Somaliland. Hadal-heynta ugu badan Magaaladda Hargeysa ayaa noqotay in Wasiirkan uu si qarsoodi ah Madaxtooyadda Hargeysa ee Somaliland ku joogo,lamana yaqaan inuu la kulmayo Madaxweynaha Somaliland,balse arintaas waxaa looga shakisan-yahay inay daba-socoto heshiiskii Reer Muqdisho iyo Reer Hargeysa Magaaladda istanbul ku yeesheen,halkaas oo ay ku qeybsadeen in Dayuuraddaha Soomaaliya laga kala hago Hargeysa iyo Muqdisho,inkastoo arintan uu weli hortaagan yahay Wasiirka Warfaafinta iyo Isgaarsiinta C/laahi Ciilmooge. Shacabkamedia-Beyra-Puntland Runta Kama-Xıshoono Email:Shacabkamedia@live.com

Yoniz, it's funny you mention my name when I only participated once and it's usually against garoodi because he does it constantly. The issue isn't me, because I don't participate in that every-day like Garoodi. But it's clear you have a clan agenda and that is why named me. I am more concerned about Puntland then anything else. Besides I don't insult anyone personally. Talking about ones ancestor isn't an insult to a person so it's within the framework of no insults to nomads. Have you seen me personally attack someone? no you haven't. Have you seen talk about a region's people, politician, history, yes. Is that what constitutes as an insult to SOL, no it doesn't. But I do agree, participating in such debates is pointless and I only do it when the admins don't take down provocative topics, but they know how to zoom into my topics strange. But that's life. I always live by one rule my friend, if you are prepared to give it, expect to take it also. If you can't handle taking it, then don't start it. Thats where alot of SOL people fail, they think its ok to give it but not take it. For example where was your thread when garoodi was constantly bashing puntland and it's people, but when the doctor gives back you all of a sudden open up a topic. why is that? is it because you see your clan now on the recieving end. That in itself is childish of you and it's people like you why somalis will never have peace. U condemn only when arintu adigu ku taabto as farole once said about clan wars.

Somaliland land is bigger then Puntland. Your a joke, I think. Your whole land mass is 137,600 km2 and thats including ssc and awdal. Puntland 212,510 km. Our coast line more then half of Somalia 1600 km from a coastline of 3025 km. Our population will be confirmed with the UNFPA census taking into account our cities and nomads. Bosaso is way bigger then Hargaysa. Our houses are not sprawled, theyre is alot more density. Where-as hargaysa the houses are sprawled you can see the huge gap in between houses. Berbera come on man. That is even Qardho is bigger by a long shot. Burtlinle is bigger then Erigavo and Garowe is way larger then Borama. G-town is bigger then Burco. Then you got your little oodwayns, shaykhs, etc which are hafuns and iskushuban and carmo's can take out. Illahi ayaa landheere iga dhigay, dont hate me for it. Just my sub-clan is bigger then your triangle and awdal giving you support, I haven't pulled in the sool and sanaag and cayn in yet and I am already 5 times your size, Let alone the wider sahal family. Dembigas naga daa niyahow and pay your dues to the royals

I didn't see one post on there and I just checked it out and it is laughable. War the boqortoyo wasn't even mentioned in there and they could never dare to also. As for the darwish it is well known who they were and they were the SSC folks or else explain why talex was bombed and not hargaysa. You can dispute history that is even verified by gaalo, you just want to argue for the sake of arguing garoodi and trying to conceal the fact why you have no history. Your a minority and the UNFPA just confirmed for you. 2 million in somaliland. Half of that is sool-sanaag-awdal. Whats left is you. Maskiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

Garoodi, Puntland is two states? lol. Even after the UNFPA told you, that Puntland is more populous, your still referring to Puntland as a small clan. Your just being childish as usual and throwing a rant because you can't accept the truth. Puntland is 4.5 million people and Somaliland is 2 million, and you have the audacity to talk about population when your known by all somalis as the smallest. Let me tell you if Puntland is wasteland why is it we are now agriculturally no longer depedent on anywhere besides Puntland. Its your region who still exports from ethiopia. So who is the wasteland me or you adeer macaane

How can they take over Puntland who has jet fighters, armed helicopters, military aircrafts, f450s, tanks, bms, bullet proof technicals, military trucks, sophisticated soldier armoury, training that is unmatched at famed institutions such as base 54 military academy, carmo police academy, and bosaso marine academy. Stop being silly Garoodi, Puntland is a force to be wreckened with and will easily handle shabab, it did so with a lot less in 92 under they're former name al-itihaad, how can they not now?. You don't you see why they're hiding in the mountains, they know dhulka rag ba joggo who has defeated them in the past and will do so again. Why you think they resort to hit and run, conceal themselves in jalabiibs when in Puntland. They know full well niman aan kaftanaynin ayaa joggo meeshan Puntland la yirahdo and they have the best security set up in the nation and military capabilities that can defend them from threats from either land, sea, or air.

Tallaabo;972037 wrote: You need a psychiatric medication as soon as possible. Maanta xoolaha aad sheegayso adigaa ka caqli liita saaxiib. Garoodi did a number of hit and runs on Puntland and I tolerated it but this time Puntland bites back and your all of a sudden condemning me yaab badana. My advise to you is, calm your fellow pedofiles off Puntland, before you jump the gun and question me.

Typical garoodi doing a ku dayo on puntland but then posts a video from 6 years ago to distract people at the huge copying happening AGAIN. When will it end Garoodi, when will your pedofile region stopped the copying and do something that is unique on they're own. First it was the petroleum, then the golaha samatabixinta, then hargaysa all of a sudden deciding lets build a road right after Bosaso completed a few and now the sanad gurrads mimicking puntland to the T and even doing the puntland army war cry. When will your pedofile region end this facade and be themselves and not try comparing itself to whatever Puntland does. Garoodi, you need to stop copying Puntland and do something that is ingenious for yourself and your region. Puntland is going to be opening up soon a car manufacturing plant(rumours i am hearing in suuqyada), I hope your childish region doesn't do a ku dayo on it.