Ya salaam. Odeygii walee wuu duulay.

Good move.

The auther at allsanaag.com is not normal. Qof waalan oo xiskiisu dhamayn ayaa websiteka iska leh.

LOOL @ Wey dhaqaaqday Casayr land.

What a turn around. The Arabs providing the red carpet treatment to Somaliland. Siilaanyo looks good and confident.

Boocame 1, Boocame 2, Boocame 3, Buuro Wadal 1, Xeys Dheer 1, Buuhoodle 1, Buuhoodle 2, Nairobi 1, London 1.... another one planned. Wooow... they are fast approaching Somalia's Peace Conference record.

Thankful, Unlike Mr. Riyaale, Siilaanyo is actually a local kid when he goes to Sool or Sanaag. Iska daa wax kale, xitaa dhagaxa ayaa salaan u taagaya. Nimankaa Burco ilaa dacalada Taleex inta u dhaxaysa cidhiidhiga u dagay waa tolkii. Just in case you didn't know.

Cali Khaliif waa siyaasi... he knows he can have another shot at Somaliland leadership just like he once did in 1990s.

Horta Abdirizaq siduu uga soo qaxay Kismaayo 1991kii, ma ku noqday dalkii??

Bilan and Taleexi, Unless you guys are turning the usual blind eye to the facts, you all understand that Somaliland is not based on clan borders. On the contrary, it claims the borders of the internationally recognised but short lived British Somaliland Protectorate. That is what makes it different. In Puntland's case, it claims the clan borders of all H*rti subclans... you can't define a clan border - clan border shifts with the rainy season and most of the time over laps one another. That is the delima of basing your politics on clan states.

This is what happens when you base your politics on clan borders... it will never end... imika jufo jufo ayay taagantee waxa dhicidoonta mar ay Laf-laf iyo jilib jilib calano loo samaysandoono. Puntland's chickens is coming home to roost.

I would also ask you to try to stay on the realistic side of the Somali politikking and cease attempting to bring Somaliland into the picture in order to legitimize your (what seems like) anti-Mogadishu basis of rationalization. Somaliland is for Somalia to sit down with. There is no chance it will risk its self-announced independent position by being seen as another Somali faction part of the Somali southern conundrum. I am sure you already know that though. Horn, It is Xiin's way of bringing Dictoore Oodweine back into the forum. Anyway, another peace conference, another paper government, another puppet president and namesake ministers and parliament.... it is a deja vu all over again. Some people film hindiga kama xiiso dhacaan malaa (tongue in cheek).

Excellent. Siilaanyo seems to be cool, calm and in control.

Subxaanalahh. Maantana ma masaajidkii ilaahay iyo qubuurahii ayaa la isku dhex laayay.

Source The Black Dollar Scam And now we come to the reason some 419 scam victims are asked to travel to countries in Africa - or London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, New York, and especially Spain - to help retrieve the funds. This is usually the last step in the scam and involves the infamous Black Dollar Exchange Scam. It also means meeting the swindlers face to face - a very dangerous proposition. In this part of the deal, the victim is shown some of the alleged money. It is then explained that the currency was damaged in storage, or that it stolen money stained by the U.S. Treasury to identify it as currency for recycling, or some such folderol. The only way to "clean" the currency to make it usable is by applying a special chemical to it. The swindlers have unfortunately run out of the chemical and it is very expensive, however they will provide a demonstration of how well the chemical works, so that the victim is convinced the chemical will work. The demonstration involves showing the victim real U.S. currency that is black and completely useless, i.e. Black Dollars. The currency is then washed by the swindlers. During the washing process, genuine clean currency is switched for the Black Dollars. Having impressed the victim with the efficiency of the chemical, the swindlers sell him a supply and give him boxes of Black Dollars to wash. Unfortunately, when the victim opens the delivered cartons they are full of newsprint and the swindlers are long gone. There are several variation to this theme, but they always come down to the same thing - the victim has to shell out more money. A fortunate victim will only end up a bit poorer for this last experience. The unlucky ones are beaten, mugged, robbed, shot and left for dead, or made to disappear. A bankrupt victim is only worth his watch, jewelry, credit cards, and identity papers, the latter being the reason victims are asked to travel to a foreign country.

They might not compete head to head with the local companies. But given their reach and network they can fill in where the local companies do not have presense - i.e. China, Tiawan etc where majority of imported goods come from. Now you don't need to worry about running out of money while shopping in Guangzhuo or Shenzhen.

After all, its Jidbaale.com.

Nice photos. Thanks X.X Do I read "Ha isoo Marin?" written on the black ganbadh??

The self confessed Habaar qabe on the run again. Addis Abeba meel u dhaanta ma jirto.

a junior diplomat on work experience

Is that new central prison for the Puntland pirates?

The African Union's Lamentations Speak Volumes (Part I) Tumultuous events currently tearing apart some countries on the continent have exposed the weaknesses of the continental body—African Union (AU)—and revealed why the international community would choose to do things with impunity on the continent. What makes other continental or regional blocs strong and assertive but not the AU? The European Union is a force to reckon with, just as other blocs in North/South America are. Why is the AU disrespected and sidelined? The reasons are not difficult to adduce. In every sense, the AU is a non-starter, serving as a mere talk-shop, not the vibrant force that it has been expected to be since the birth of the OAU in 1963. The African Union Commission Chair, Jean Ping, is reported to have said that the African Union feels completely ignored by world bodies in the quest to restore peace in conflict-ridden Libya. Ping said efforts by the AU to intervene in the early days of the Libyan crisis were curtailed by the UN Security Council and since then the regional body has been left out of peace talks on Libya. “All our programmes which I mentioned to you were stopped by the decision of the UN Security Council. We were supposed to go to Libya on the 18th in Tripoli and on the 19th to Benghazi. Then the decision of the Security Council came. We asked permission to go too, they say don't go. So we stopped going there,” he said. He said a meeting was scheduled in Paris with the AU but nothing has been heard ever since, even though ministers of western countries on their own have made attempts to resolve the crisis in Cairo. “Nobody talk to us; no body consult us” he lamented. Why should anybody talk to or listen to the AU, knowing very well what it is? The AU can't help the continent solve its problems and seems to have lost public confidence. No amount of lamentation will change matters for the better. In the first place, Africa is the only continent on earth that always has problems for the world to solve. If it is not poverty, disease, and civil war, then, it is corruption and political instability. From all corners of the continent, there is news of disaster. Since African countries gained independence from their colonial masters, they have been ravaged by all kinds of disasters—bloody civil wars, self-serving politics, military intervention in politics and consequent political instability, famine, genocide, ineradicable bribery and corruption, the brain-drain syndrome, and many other indescribable occurrences that threaten to revive the infamous calumny of the continent by the Europeans as the “Dark Continent.” Yes, Jean Ping may be complaining bitterly about this slight but he has to know that in the community of continents, Africa is still regarded as a toddler. Who will leave responsibilities for a toddler to handle? African countries look up to the international community to either supervise or monitor their internal political processes and general elections. If the AU were vibrant enough to perform its functions, it would have assisted in such efforts? After all, the AU's own charter has the following: “The 2000 Solemn Declaration on the Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation,” which established “the fundamental principles for the promotion of Democracy and Good Governance in the Continent.” The atrocities that occasioned the elections in Kenya come to mind. Then, the impasse in the Ivory Coast, which is tearing apart that country stand tall for attention. All over the continent, pockets of conflict exist. It appears Africans are more prone to creating problems than solving them. Clearly, no one even trusts any African country's internal political structures to conduct incident-free and credible elections. The AU hasn't ever been known to be pro-active. It lacks the capacity to detect potential conflict situations and can't even tackle them at their inchoate stage until they get out-of-hand. So, when the world bodies step in to help solve those problems, should the AU expect them to defer to it? They will not because they know that as presently designed and constituted, the AU can't be relied on to do what we assume are its responsibilities. The AU is a waste-pipe, serving as a burdensome job-for-the-boys bureaucratic structure. In all honesty, can the AU point to any single major achievement that should warrant its demand for respect and recognition by the world bodies? I shudder to say that nothing recommends the OAU/AU as such. And here are some reasons why: • The ideological conflict between the so-called conservatives (the Casablanca Group ) and the radicals (the so-called Monrovia Group) that undergirded the birth of the OAU seemed to have done much harm to the Union; and that harm still hurts it. The various organs of the AU are mere paper-tigers. They don't function to make their impact felt on the continent. Where they do, they seem to compound problems instead. • Lack of leadership—Who in the AU can be equated to leaders of countries in the West or elsewhere as a capable leader whose policies and actions provide the impetus for development? • Lack of credibility—the AU represents a continent that is still regarded by the white man as his “problem.” Long after decolonization, some African countries (especially the Francophone ones) still owe more allegiance to the colonial master (France) than to the AU, which impedes unity. • Under-development despite the availability of all the resources that should make the continent a heaven-on-earth for its citizens—cocoa, gold, diamond, uranium, bauxite, copper, timber, human resources, abundant water resources, rich tourism resources, arable land, etc. • Excruciating poverty, debilitating diseases, brain drain, civil wars, political instability, paralyzing corruption, etc. • Lack of vision—political office holders enter office only to enrich themselves at the expense of the system. Africa is riddled with human-created problems that don't make the continent credit-worthy. And the AU superintends over this sordid situation. No one will respect such an institution and allow it to spearhead efforts. Member-states of the AU and its predecessor (OAU) have never spoken with a single voice because they have never agreed on any common agenda to move the continent forward. No reliable structure exists to propel collective and concerted action. Politically, different systems exist; economically, there is no integration even though almost all the countries produce similar primary commodities; socio-culturally, the diversity seems to be problematic and generates tension all over the continent. The problems are ambient. Yet, the AU seems to have lost its bearings and has no sense of urgency in finding solutions. To be continued… By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor E-mail: mjbokor@yahoo.com

I like these kind of radio production... it somehow makes you like you are part of the journey. Excellent report.

In other regions they have to dig it for kilometres before they reach oil... but in our case, the oil is screaming to be let out of the ground.

They have been saying this for so long and it has not worked before and it will never work now. Being green with envy will not have any effect on Dahabshiil.