I remembered reading this brother on Daily Nation paper a few months ago. ___________________ Abdi Ahmed Mohammed, the top boy in the 2008 KCPE exams in North Eastern Province with 434 points out of a possible 500. He is with his grandmother Khadija Omar Hassan, who encouraged his parents to take him to school. Reluctant pupil who topped national exam list 19-year-old Abdi Ahmed Mohammed joined primary school at the age of 12 years, dropped out twice, was in primary school for only four years instead of eight but beat all the odds to emerge top pupil in North Eastern Province in the 2008 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination. Mohammed had lived all his humble life in North Eastern Province. He had never set foot in Nairobi where he now has joined Starehe Boys Centre in Nairobi. Starehe, which was his first choice, gave him a four-year scholarship due to his good results. What he went through to emerge top student can only be described as extra-ordinary. Beat all odds After dropping out of school twice – Mohammed beat all odds and scored 434 points to emerge the top pupils in the hardship arid province that is known best for producing not images of success, but those of destitution due to hunger. The province is perennially hit by drought. This is no mean feat for a boy coming from a province which is struggling to shed an image of poor performance in national examinations. Like many other children in this region, whose inhabitants lead nomadic lifestyle, Mohammed, too, faced his own share of challenges. School and modern systems of learning remain unappreciated. Born in a family of 10 children, Mohammed was the child who had the opportunity to go to school. Thanks to the stubborn determination and intervention of his 70-year-old maternal grandmother Khadija Omar Hassan, she persuaded his parents to enrol him in Standard One. He was aged 12 years. And like many children from the region, the nomadic life did not allow him to go through the eight academic years of primary education. “I will always be indebted to my grandmother for being resolute in her quest to educate me,’’ Mohammed told the Nation in Garissa. Teachers at the Kulan Primary School near the Kenya-Somalia border were reluctant to enrol him in Standard One because of his advanced age and relatively bigger frame compared to other children. They decided to enrol him in Standard Three. And after just one term – Mohammed deserted school to go back to herding goats, which offered him a carefree and independent life in the expansive desert fields. “I was naughty then,” admits Mohammed “I could not cope with being instructed to do things and obey orders.” His grandmother Khadija Omar Hassan, who lives in Garissa agreed. “When I look back at his behaviour as a child, I never thought he could ever succeed in anything,” she says. But she did not relent or give up. She asked his parents to return him to school. But Mohammed was not for the idea. However, after wasting time, the old woman in 2004 invited her grandson to her Garissa town house where she counselled him on the virtues of education. The old woman took the boy around the town, showing him various investments by educated people. She introduced him to prominent people and role models from the area. Among them was the current Deputy Speaker of Parliament Farah Maalim. On hearing the boy’s story, he offered to take him to private school and pay his school fees. But Mohammed rejected the offer. His grandmother kept her cool but once again refused to take the boy’s No for an answer. Like a good sales woman, she finally managed to persuade a reluctant Mohammed to take the scholarship. Private school The boy was, taken to a private school where he was given a test to determine the class he was most suitable to enrol. He qualified to be in Standard Six. To compensate for the boy’s lost time Mr Maalim hired a teacher to coach him at home. It worked. Mohammed was soon top of his class and won the admiration of his teachers something, he says, motivated him to stay at school. Today, just four years after he first went to school, Mohammed, is now determined to focus on education. He says he will never let an opportunity to study slip through his fingers. He has big dreams, too; to be a civil engineer. He says his ambition is driven by the pathetic road network in his home province. Mohammed’s former headteacher at Garissa Mnara School, Mr Charlis Juma, said of his former pupil: “The boy coupled discipline with hard work. He was always focused and knew what he was doing. Those made me appoint him the school captain.”

"We had to take the body of a Syrian ship captain who had been killed by pirates to the airport," he said. "The government and African Union soldiers opened fire on the ambulance. We were later told they'd received information that the insurgency was planning on using an ambulance to stage a suicide attack." "But what can you do?" he asks. "Our driver ran away and then later was allowed to come back for his ambulance." Oto'otoyadii xataa kama fakan la' in lagu gambado. Yaa Eebboow.

Dankis for the infotainment, Ms Sarah Palin. N.B. -- Did Glenn Beck sign this too as well just to give it more authentic slant?

Originally posted by Jacaylbaro: U don't even look at the photo i'm talking about ............. I think it is you who is not understanding. That same UK ambassador to UNka is in the immediate preceding picture as well. I guess the "parking lot" brief meeting did produce the kulan with miis, kuraas and the real deal, the foreign minister present. Mise one side wax lagu arkaa, oo lama rabo the other side in la arko.

Farancab, xaalka Kismaayo hurdada kaa soo kicisee maxaa jiro? Tolka are in the conflict miyaa?

Where are 'hip hop' e-jihadists on SOL? Ma yaabanyihiin it came to this? Will Turki and Madoobe be the new 'gaalo'? And since Gaashaanle Aweys will undoubtedly ally with Turki, will he then unceremoniously labelled the 'Grand Murtad' of them all soon?

Where are 'hip hop' e-jihadists on SOL? Ma yaabanyihiin it came to this? Will Turki and Madoobe be the new 'gaalo'? And since Gaashaanle Aweys will undoubtedly ally with Turki, will he then unceremoniously labelled the 'Grand Murtad' of them all soon?

Where are 'hip hop' e-jihadists on SOL? Ma yaabanyihiin it came to this? Will Turki and Madoobe be the new 'gaalo'? And since Gaashaanle Aweys will undoubtedly ally with Turki, will he then unceremoniously labelled the 'Grand Murtad' of them all soon?

Sheeko xariir madadaalo miiran oo wanaagsan. Aad u fuuray qosol daraadiisa. Meesha kasii wad dadaalkaaga. Laakiin magaciisa haddaa Keller ka dhigtay, micno kale leedahay ereygaas magaceedka. Killer iyo keller magac ahaan iyo erey ahaanba iskumid ma'aha, isku macnana ma'aha.

Originally posted by nuune: istaag ama waan ku tooganayaa Stop or I will shoot u amarkeena raac Follow our orders xabad ha ridin Don't shoot hubka dhiga Put your weapons down dhaqaaq Move halkan imoow Come here i soo daba soco Follow me halkan joog Stay here halkan igu sug Wait for me here ha dhaqaaqin Do not move joog halkaaga Stay where you are i soo raac Come with me aamus Be quiet tartiib Slow down. tartiib u dhaqaaq Move slowly. hoos u dhig gacmahaaga Lower your hands. dhulka seexo Lie down. caloosha dhulka dhig Lie on your stomach. kac Get up. is dhiib Surrender. maxbuus baad tahay You are a prisoner. waa inaan ku baarnnaa We must search you. dib u jeeso Turn around. horey u soco Walk forward. saf sameeya Form a line. hal-hal One at a time. adigaa ku xiga You are next. hadal ma jiro No talking Sambuus iyo bur maa kasoo dharagtay oo ma iska tufoysaa si enerjiga xoog kaaga baxo? ______________ Castro, kumas taay, sinyore. Wa beene dheh. Nice to see you xaaji.

*Sigh* [Ever bewildering Soomaali politics.]

War ninka qamiiskiisa iyo bahalkiisa Carbeed ku roonaa ee xaa u giliye jaakad iyo garabaati?

Axmed Madoobe iyo Aaden Madoobe laba qof iyo laba magac ayee kala yihiin.

Haye. Su'aasha xujada waxee tahay: Sadex babaay kasoo qaad afar. Meeqaa heysataa?

Originally posted by roobleh: I always pray for US to continue its prosperity and remain strong! Keep ur hatred and selfless minds to urselves. You keep hating the hand that's feeding you while you keep destroying ur country-Somalia. May be it's time u guys go back HOME if not satisfied here. You guys need to unlock ur brains. First, I and many others on here, on this board, on this very thread as well don't live in Mareykanka. Secondly, it doesn't 'feed us.' Thirdly, it can all $%@ all it wants. I don't care. Fourthly, it is "your destroyed country Soomaaliya" that brought you on here directly or indirectly, as a welcomed refugee. If it wasn't of Soomaaliya's civil war, you might not even have lived on here without any hassle as you do now comfortably. Might have been called another 'illegal alien' by those you are ironically sounding like now. Thank Soomaaliya, "your destroyed country" for that itself, the least you can thank for it.

I was and still am anti-Xabashi. Were you? And unlike, again, someone whose only shaky politican opinion is shaped by an octogenarian forced to spend his last days in the deserts of Yeman. _______________ This image needs to be reposted. Someone might not be happy to see it again. Or it could be an irrelevant, meeting a 'minor' representative. But when he meets Faroole, it is all hoopla.

Waa 5 - 7. Shan hoos joogto iyo toddobo geedka kor saaran.

Rednecks waa dad -- aah, I don't know what to call yaaqeey. Ila arka at the following protest signs against Obama's healthcare reform. No pubic option, indeed. I too like it in private, dank yuu feeri armaajo. This sums up best. More.

Sulfa in his best. Especially the second song he sings and starts at 3:10. What a baashaal, I can see Cowke, Magool, Qamar Harawo, C/jibaar Khaliiji and Shimaali I think -- all ciyaar jiniyeed inay ciyaaraan rabaan. Hoobaa hilowloow Hoobaa hilowloow Boga iyo beerkaa i duleela

Honest, loyal man dadkiisa ka baqo waaye laakiin ma'ahoo? Catooshka u shaqeeyo BBC ka sheekeynaaye a few months ago about his meeting with Turki in the jungles of Jubbooyinka. Intuu la kulmin kahor, wariyaha si aad ah ayaa loo baaray, oo indhihii laga xiray si uu u ogaan meesha uu u socdo iyo ka socdo. Markuu la kulmay Turki, Catoosh asked, "Xataa ina'adeerkaaga maa saan lagaaga baarayaa?" Turki ugu jawaabay, kuwa uu iska ilaaliyo had iyo jeer waa ina'adeeradiis laftirkood. In a kaftan way, of course, but kaftandhable at the same time.

Eebboow dadkeena u sahal oo ka saar marxaladahaan adag -- aamiin, aamiin.

Originally posted by Canjeex: quote: If you notice a woman acting modestly, being not too obvious through her actions (by lowering her voice when around men), one who attempts to hide her attractions (which includes her external beauty as well as her internal charms), then you know she has some of those precious qualities. Precious qualities indeed! however hard that's to see in reality, but gotta keep hope alive i guess When you see a woman unashamedly flirting, unconcerned about her revealing clothes, and freely converses with males- keep far, far away. I'm sure when you get married you want your wife to devote her love to you, not to twenty other "just good friends". hmmmmm, noted! Great article, thanks for sharing brother!! Why it is always 'women' laakiin? Flip the quotes, substitute the word 'woman/women' to man/men and the opinion would change, methinks. Dhaqankeena, he who does what is outlined above might even be considered nin rag ah, dadka iska dhicin karo, oo social ah, shukaansigana wax ka yaqaan. But it is not for women. If there is a dhoocil, there must and has to be dhoocisha's counterpart, the dhoocilka.

I can see them fine in Google Chrome browser, even in this thread's last page. I can see Sayidka has Tupac in contemplation posture. Indhoos has iljibis avatar. Farancab with some guy with a mask, a doctor? However, I think Firefox lagama arko. I don't know about IE.