Why did you intentionally choose an image from a video when it doesn't fully show the Soomaali flag? Well, here it is, hide it or hate it, it is here: Btw, that is not Somalia's flag. Somalia's flag is clearly not in the room - you can guess reasons. The flags are Khatumo flag & Somaliland flag. After the agreements are fully implemented, only the following flags will be legit in Somaliland.

You sure will be waiting for that failure for a long time. You can dissect anyway you like the words that are coming out of his mouth, but there is no going back. And I share all the points he is making here regarding the outcome of the Caynaba Agreement i.e. Power Sharing, justice, equitable sharing of resources and development and above all Somaliland who everyone has a stake in. The Prof. clearly has no illusions about Somalia (Proper). The only way forward for Khatumo folks is to embrace and fight for a fair, free and equitable Somaliland with like minded others.

Unsteady on the knees already, old fella. Awoowe, this is just the beginning.

I think they meant "Squad" not scot. Anyway, I like the imagination of the Somali mind. Hadii qofka Somaliga ahi haysto < 1% chance of getting away with something, the will take that < 1% at a heart beat. Qofka Somaliga ah ilaa K.O out aad ka dhigtay oo itaalkiisa dadkoo dhan arkaan, indhahoodu cirka ma arkaan caqligu ma u shaqeeyo.

Jaaliyadda Khaatumo ee Minnesota oo so dhaweeyay Prof. Cali Khaliif Galaydh

Mr. Keating the default Empror of Mogadishu thinks he has any leverage over Somaliland, time for reality check I guess. We will even send a postcard with a big finger, just in case he didn't get it verbally.

I can understand why Ministers from Hargeisa or Mogadishu were there but what the one from Garoowe is a just an odd.

The game is at "gabo-gabo" stage and you are stuck at debating whose is who won the "tossing the coin". Nin Irmaanleh oo, Afaraay warmoleh isku aadsaday Nin il-dheera oo, God kalena sii arkooday Ogna inay Shaxdani, Jari oodantay Kolka halkaa ciyaartu marayso geedka hoostiisa, ninka ragga ah jala ayu odhan jiray.

I have been around these forums for long, I have to give it to you Galbeedi. You are on another level when it comes making unfounded statements and believing it yourself. I am content with how things are going as far Somaliland is concerned. Yes, there are election related issues. But come on, how many times did Somaliland had elections and the same issues came to light? In fact, I reckon Somaliland will be stronger and wiser as it emerges from the current issues. That is what defines Somaliland. The issues that you see would not have come out into the open if the waters were static. Rather because the Somaliland is moving forward issues will come and they will be resolved as time goes. Moreover, with regards to your predictions, keep the following mile stones close - for they will be red flags for desperate Unionists like yourself. 1. The talks between Somaliland and Somalia which are going to begin within this year. 2. The so called preparation for general elections for Federal Gov't of Somalia. 3. The approval process of the Federal Gov't's constitution - i.e. the planned Referendum All of these issues will paint the Unionists in a very tight corner. Their desperate cries will only get loader and more desperate. And for the record, the fight between Somaliland and Unionist has already been won. You just have not realised yet.

A Kedin of Camels grazing in Masalaha suburb of Hargeisa.

SNM waa hooyadda Somaliland. SNM sumcad iyo wanaag ayay u tahay in jabhadii ugu horaysay ee xukunka shicibka ku wareejisa ka dib guulshi military ee lagu af gambiyay daaquudkii Afwayne.

The full program broadcasted on SLNTV

Magacii hore ee kaa gubtay Ducaalow no sheeg. Hadii lagu jawaabo sow hadana ordi maysid oo Faarax so qaadan maysid?

Ciidanka Qaranku waa 24jir maanta. Malaa waa dabaaldega sanadguuradda ayay Maamulka Puntland u qaatay wax kale.

In the old days, Galbeedi used to hide his true self under the pseudo "My insider sources told me" and write as a 3rd Person. Nowadays, he is the first person fortune teller. Hadii sidan ku sii socdo, we have Salaax number 2 on the forums.

Kenya arrests lawyer, keeps TV stations shut after Odinga 'inauguration' NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya on Friday arrested an opposition lawyer and defied a court order to lift a ban on three private television stations that had covered the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga. Miguna Miguna has declared himself the “general” of Odinga’s National Resistance Movement, which was declared a “criminal group” because of its stated intent to establish a parallel government after last year’s disputed election. The lawyer was detained in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home. Miguna had stood beside Odinga at Tuesday’s symbolic “swearing in”, a blatant challenge to the authority of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Alongside its tweet about Miguna’s arrest, Odinga’s NASA coalition posted video online that showed shattered glass strewn across the front entrance of his house. Police spokesman Charles Owino did not answer his phone when called for comment. Police did not try to break up the symbolic inauguration, attended by thousands of Odinga supporters, but the government condemned it as an “illegal act” and took three private television stations off-air for covering the event. The broadcasters remained shut on Friday, despite a court order telling the government to lift its block. It was not clear if the government planned to appeal the order; government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said he had no immediate comment. After last August’s presidential election was annulled, Odinga boycotted the re-run, saying the process was still rigged. As a result, Kenyatta won a massive victory, but one that Odinga’s camp says is illegitimate. This week’s arrests and broadcast bans have marked a step up in the tensions that followed an already tumultuous election season, and are a shock to Kenyans who have grown used to the free-wheeling media and irreverent political culture that have taken root since the end of decades of autocratic rule in 2002. The government’s failure to adhere to a court edict ordering it to lift its suspension of the broadcasters also raises questions about the rule of law in East Africa’s most vibrant and important economy. “ABUSE OF POWER” Okiya Omtatah, an activist who secured the ruling, said the court order had not been served on Thursday afternoon because of a delay at the court registrar’s office. Omtatah later told Reuters that the courier he had sent to deliver the papers to Kenya’s communications authority had been detained by men in dark suits who said they were police but refused to provide identification. “They released him at 10 with a stern warning not to come back to serve the orders, so I have come here myself, but I am being been denied access,” he said by phone from outside the authority’s office. The court order was also published in Friday’s edition of the Standard newspaper, one of Kenya’s largest dailies. “I am insisting on delivering this order,” Omtatah said. “It’s an abuse of power. The laws are clear. That’s why the court ruled as they did.” The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said it was concerned at the government’s “attempts to interfere with the rights to freedom of expression”. “We urge the Government and the opposition in Kenya to work towards resolving the current situation through dialogue, with full respect for the rule of law and the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly and political participation,” spokesman Rupert Colville said. Elisha Otieno, a 50-year-old businessman in downtown Nairobi, said the stations should be allowed to reopen: “The government is not upholding its own laws. It’s a dictatorial style of leadership.” But 28-year-old construction worker Edward Chege said some of the broadcasters were partisan. “The government has got its own reasons for shutting down these media houses for their own security.” On Thursday, opposition lawmaker Tom Kajwang, who administered Odinga’s “oath”, was freed on bail a day after being arrested. Source:

A New State Is Emerging in Yemen https://warisboring.com/a-new-state-is-emerging-in-yemen/ A new country is beginning to form in the chaos and confusion of Yemen’s civil war. A coup in Aden in late January 2018 has hastened the process. The new Yemen has its roots in the period 1990 to 1994, when the Saudi-supported North Yemen and the Cuban/Soviet-supported South were forcibly united. The united Yemen was dominated by a clique surrounding North Yemen president Abdullah Saleh. Although he eventually appointed a southerner – Soviet-trained Maj. Gen. Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi as his vice president, Saleh ruled the country like a family enterprise. He appointed his son, nephews and other members of his family and tribe to all important positions of the military and the state. All the power, and most of development, were concentrated in Sana’a, and the Saleh clique had the final word in every single state affair. Saleh and his clique tended to disparage the southerners as “Eritreans” and “Indians,” because Aden was predominantly populated by people who came the region as laborers during the British colonial period. Saleh and his clique likewise discriminated against many northerners, describing those of Zaidi origin as “backward.” Saleh’s rule was supported by Saudi Arabia, but only to a certain degree. Keen to convert the Yemenis to their state religion – Wahabism – and also to have a plan B in the event they lost control over Saleh, the Saudis financed the movements of Yemeni Salafists. These includes the Islah Party, often described as the “Muslim Brotherhood of Yemen.” Saleh initially cooperated with Salafists and appointed some of them to various positions of secondary importance. Before long, their growing influence became a matter of major concern for him. In the mid-2000s, Saleh provoked a war with a movement of Zaidi youth, which became known as the Houthis. To fight the Houthis, the Yemeni military mostly deployed units affiliated with the Islah Party. For a while, the resulting war worked in Saleh’s favor, especially as both sides suffered extensive losses. When that conflict embroiled Saudi Arabia in 2009, Saleh’s intelligence services several times attempted to have his major competitor, Islah-affiliated Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen Al Ahmar, assassinated by way of Saudi air strikes. There were deep rifts within the Yemeni military. These became obvious when Saleh was forced to step down in 2011. As the new president, Hadi introduced sweeping reforms of the military and the state, all designed to purge both of Saleh’s clique. His reforms backfired. By 2014, nearly all of the military had mutinied against his rule. Other units, including much of the Yemeni air force, were still commanded by Saleh’s relatives. During the same year, Saudi Arabia declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Correspondingly, it stopped all support for the power-block centered on the Islah Party. The Houthis seized on the chaos and made an unopposed advance into the Yemeni capital in September 2014. As opportunistic as ever, Saleh quickly sided with the Houthis, forming a coalition that attracted up to 60 percent of the Yemeni military. The rest of the military – and thus the entire country – followed in fashion. Al Ahmar’s units openly sided with the Islah block. Only a few units sided with Hadi, who never enjoyed popular support. Furthermore, when the Houthi-Saleh coalition launched its advance into southern Yemen in March 2015, many local military units sided with various local alliances, all dominated by South Yemen separatists. This was the situation at the time Saudi Arabia created an alliance of Arab states and launched its military intervention in Yemen. The Saudi-led operation proved highly successful. Following three months of intensive air strikes, Saudi, Emirati and allied forces landed in Aden and then steam-rolled Houthi forces toward the north. By September 2015, they had recovered all of former South Yemen and much of central Yemen on behalf of Hadi’s government. However, the forces deployed by the Saudi-led coalition numbered no more than 40,000 … and faced up to 200,000 combatants from the Houthi-Saleh coalition. There was no Yemeni police and no military to secure the areas behind the advancing forces of he Saudi coalition. This resulted in a situation where diverse groups – including Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsular and southern separatists brought sizeable parts of southern Yemen under their control. Obviously, this was in nobody’s interest. Correspondingly, the Saudi-led alliance was forced to stop its advance and begin work creating a new Yemeni state. Ever since, Saudi and Emirati politics in Yemen have gotten in each other’s way. Realizing that Hadi still enjoyed no political support, the Saudis reversed their decision on the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, Al Ahmar was appointed the minister of defense in Hadi’s government, thus nominally putting all Islah-affiliated military units and tribes on the side of the presidency. On the contrary, the Emiratis intensified their cooperation with the southerners, foremost the separatists and the Hadramawt Confederation. Emirati and allied forces spent most of 2016 and 2017 fighting AQAP in southern Yemen and strengthening their grip over this part of the country through the creation of the Southern Transitional Council – a de-facto new government of southern Yemen. Unsurprisingly considering their different aims, the two emerging power blocks were at odds before long. Their mutual differences were what led to the latest coup against Hadi’s government in Aden in late January 2018. Because of their persistent insistence on Hadi as the legitimate president of Yemen, neither the Saudis nor the Emiratis are in a position to drop the official government. Therefore, and despite the success of the Emirati-supported forces, we can expect the situation to soon return to what it was before the coup. The only difference will be that Hadi loyalists will have no effective power in Aden any longer. The net result could be the creation of a statelet comparable to Somaliland — an independent, Emirati-supported South Yemen, indirectly allied with the United States, but not recognized by any outside powers.

Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State

http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/germany-pulls-military-trainers-out-of-somalia-after-eight-years_620447.html Germany pulls military trainers out of Somalia after eight years Berlin (dpa) - Germany‘s military pulled the plug Thursday on an eight-year-old training programme for Somali troops, citing problems with local institutions and supplies for the trainees. "Despite the efforts of the EUTM [European Union Training Mission] Somalia, building up the Somalian national army is only progressing slowly," according to a German Defence Ministry statement. Germany cited problems including "deficits in political and institutional structures, as well as the poor quality of equipment distributed to Somalian trainee soldiers." Thus, the 20-strong German team, which has been working in the war-torn nation since 2010, will pull out its squad by the end of March. The German team‘s work was part of a broader effort to train Somali forces to fight off the al-Shabaab militant group, which controls large parts of Somalia and wants an Islamist state in the country. The larger EU mission is made up of 155 trainers from 12 countries. Despite its withdrawal, Germany said Thursday it hoped to find ways to support the Somalian effort politically.