Xaaji, baliis use lower-case letters in your titles of the threads. Not only would it make much easier to read, but it is also part of the netiquette.

What a beauty, waliba afkeeda udgoon ee Soomaaliyeed kusii , regardless how forceful one would feel she is trying. Kooraha ee garaaceyso i dishayba, hidaha iyo dhaqanka ee ku labisantahay ha sheegin. There is an aura about her, indeed. Keeping doing it, Saxuur.

Originally posted by Sayid*Somal: poor guy Curiosity: which one of you three above has the bidaar?? i suspect you all three have. especially MMA he is always talking about bidaar and related stuff. I didn't know I always 'talked about bidaar.' Tuujka maa igu qaldoysaa? Yea, bidaar wey isoo galoysaa, oo timihii kala yaraanooyo, as all my brothers did in their younger days. Our youngest waxeeba kusoo bilaabatay asagoo 19 jiro. I have no problem with it, though. Few people notice it. There were folks who hadn't had a clue about my receding hair at the middle because waligeyba anoo taagan i arki jireen since I am fairly a bit taller than most Soomaalis. Iyagoo ku weydiinaayo maqleysaa, "Ar goormee bahasha kugu bilaabatay?" Now I've realized one fact: Waa inaa istaagnaadaa markaa dadka cusub la joogo, all the time, no fadhi.

Not bad. Which kind of camera did you use to capture them?

Let it be a lesson for you: Read what was posted on the forum while you were away from the forum before you hurry up to post new threads.

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: ^ Where's Togane these days-no 'poems' about Sharif? I like the word play with geography,concepts, and ethnicities.Ever heard Somaliland –Canadian web page Maxaa ku xigto? Awkuuku-Canadian? Dad bee ka caddahay.

Afsoomaaliga hingaadiskiisa qaab xumaa. Afsoomaaliga soo baro yaa ku dhaho marka hore. One of my beefs. Dad u qoro see u hadlaan jiro, maba oga miyaa qoraalka iyo hadalka laba inay kala yihiin. Yaana u sheego, Afsoomaali haddii loo qoro waa Soomaaliya, ma'aha 'Somalia.'

Gobol has various meanings and it could apply any of these: state, region, territory, province. Soomaali language is not limited. Those who think it is limited, their understanding of Soomaali language is limited itself.

One more reason why awbidaarle folks with fake hairs should never bow again. .

Qoraalka Afsoomaaliga wali si wada dhameystiran la iskuma raacin. Ereyo badan ninba gobolka uu ka imaaday sida loogu dhawaaqo loo qoro jiraan. Eniwey, it is a start.

Ninkaana xaa baray KFC? Waa yaab. Taco Bellna ma taqaanaa too?

Guriceel maa iska dhahdid, duqa. at Guri-Eal. About warka in the article, it is another sad leap in the endless tragic of our never ending dagaalada sokeeye.

Isn't random xaaraan horta? Mise gaal la qabsado, lacagna laga qaato madaxfurashadiisa waa xalaal. Adduunkii waala wareeray.

Originally posted by nuune: ^^^^ GAAROODI , The amount of times you told us you went to Africa is passing hundredhs, do you have to tell us, really, and what is the significance of your trip to us, here in SOL, alot of nomads go there every time to Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia, and they don't brag about it. Every comment you make, you bring or support your comments that you just came back from Africa, it doesn't prove your point at all. Support you arguments or comments with something else OTHER than your trip! That is a brotherly advice Nuunka, some of us haven't been to Afrika in eons. Ee marka hanaloo faantamee dhaaf.

"The next five to 10 years, Somalia will have nobody there," said Ismail, a Somali truck driver living in Malawi. "There is no peace which is coming, there is nobody who is fighting for Somalia." Tan mid dhab ah ayee noqon doontaa soon. Dalkiiba dad kuma hari doonaan. Waa horena waxaa horey usii qaxay dhamaantood duurjoogtii. Dadka will follow soon haddii saan lagu sii socdo.

Ma Qanyare saas u ekaaday? Maskiin. Kii ayuuba u ekaaday, the old man -- what was his name? -- who promotes professional boxing.

Nuunka, kuligood waa keentay laakiin mid siyaado iskaga darsatay. Kan midigta jiro oo dhexda ku jiro waji ma'aha. Ishiisaba ma arki.

One can easily find all of them in seconds. The first two, I didn't even have to look for them.

That is too graphic, bisinka iyo acuudka. Sawir telefooneed kan u sawiranaayo gacantaas la gooye iigu sii daran, Eebboow.

Don't blame Kanada, duqa. Blame the current regime in power, especially the prime minister. I don't think the former prime minister of down under, John Howard, would have sent a 'private jet' to any Soomaali-Australian citizen. Asaga iyo kan hadda Kanada xukumo waa isku aragtiyee. Oh, meeshaada Kiwiland ahayd ileen. Wali naagtii maa xukunto taloow.

Somali-born travellers pay a price Kenyan airport official threatened Toronto man with jail. After handing over $50, he boarded flight Seeing a woman desperately stranded in Kenya calls to mind other horror stories for Toronto Somali-born travellers. "Many people have a very bad problem there," says Hussein Adani, a former Somali track star and owner of New Bilan restaurant on Dundas St. E. Adani was returning from a two-month visit to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi in 2000 when airport passport police stopped him. It was the sort of holdup that has caused trouble for Toronto single mother Suaad Hagi Mohamud, so desperate after two months of trying to prove she is the woman in her four-year-old passport photo, that she went to court to have Canadian consular officials take her DNA this week. "They have two signs," Adani said yesterday of the departure terminal at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. "One says 'Africans,' the other says 'Europeans and North Americans,' " he recalled. "I am Canadian. I lined up at the second sign." When airport police asked why he was in the wrong line, Adani showed his Canadian passport and a visitor's visa issued by the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa. "They told me, 'You will have a problem,' " he said. "They told me, 'We'll put you in jail, you will have to buy a new ticket tomorrow and your luggage will be gone.' "I put $50 in my passport and gave it to the officer," Adani said. "When they opened it and saw the money, they said, `Thank you.'" At Nairobi airport, every Somali-born Torontonian knows to expect to pay a bribe, said outreach worker Maryan Ali at North York Community House. "They take only American money," she said of the airport police. "They look at the date and ask for the newest, 2000 and up. It is well known." Such incidents are on the rise, said Mahad Yousuf, director of Midaynta Community Services. "People are travelling back and forth and asking us for help." Calls to the Kenya High Commission in Ottawa went unreturned yesterday. In 2008, Transparency International said the chance of being asked for a bribe when dealing with Kenyan police was 93 per cent. To make matters worse, relations between native Kenyans and ethnic Somalis remain tense. Since 1991, Somali refugees have been pouring over Kenya's northern border by the hundreds of thousands and an Islamist insurgency in Somalia threatens the entire region. As a result, ethnic Somalis in Kenya are treated with suspicion even at the Canadian High Commission, community leaders say. "The inadequate and sometimes casual attitude of the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi" exacerbates Kenya's "well documented history of institutional corruption," said Ebyan Farah, spokesperson for the Ottawa-based Canadian Somali Congress. For Mohamud, callous treatment has extended to Ottawa's highest levels. After she showed a dozen Canadian ID cards, spent weeks persuading Canadian consular officials to take her fingerprints and won a federal court action to have them take her DNA, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said she wasn't doing enough. "The individual has to be straightforward, has to let us know whether or not she is a Canadian citizen," Cannon told media after the federal court decision. Yesterday, a spokesperson said Cannon had nothing to add. Mohamud's DNA swabs are to arrive in a Vancouver lab on Tuesday to be matched with those from her ex-husband and son. Star

'Canadian refugee' a Nairobi celebrity Strangers in street offer support to woman detained for not looking like her passport photo Meet Suaad Hagi Mohamud, the "Canadian refugee." At her dingy Nairobi hotel, in the malls and on the streets of the Kenyan capital, that's how the 31-year-old Toronto woman has come to be known in the past few weeks. "It sounds strange but the local newspapers have written about me and so people recognize me when I go outside," said Mohamud, who has been stranded in Nairobi for more than two months. In that time, she has become a celebrity of sorts because two Nairobi newspapers, the Daily Nation and The Standard, have written about her plight, she says. The BBC and some local TV channels have also run stories about her while the blogosphere has gone ballistic with stories chronicling her nightmare. Somehow, somewhere, she was called the Canadian refugee. The name stuck. "I could have never imagined that I would be called a refugee," she said yesterday by phone from Nairobi. "I feel sad but I know people care about my situation and that's why they are writing about it." Mohamud was on her way back to Toronto on May 21 when she was detained at Nairobi's airport for not looking like her four-year-old passport photo. The Canadian High Commission in Kenya later said she was an imposter and cancelled her passport. Mohamud has done everything to return home to her 12-year-old son. People have stopped her on the streets and asked her how she was arrested at the airport, who put her into jail and if she needs any help. One woman, three children in tow, even asked her to pose for a photograph. Her story has created a buzz in Canada, especially Toronto, which has a large Somali population. Two Toronto newspapers, Somali Canadian Times and Toronto Somali Press, have been highlighting Mohamud's case, said Mahad Yusuf, executive director of Midaynta Community Services, a settlement organization. "Everyone knows what's happened with her," Yusuf said. Most people are sad and angry but not surprised, he said. "It's not the first time a Somali has been harassed overseas. The community has had strange experiences when travelling, especially in Nairobi." He said incidents of Somali expats being arrested, detained and thrown into jail by Kenyan officials have escalated in the past few years. Their stories have been discussed threadbare by people, but what has sustained interest in Mohamud's case is the absurdity of it all, said Mohamed Busuri, editor of the Somali Canadian Times. "It's unbelievable (they) stopped her because her lips didn't match (those in her photo)," he said. "People are talking about her and her son everywhere." Mohamud, her ex-husband and son have submitted DNA samples to prove to the Canadian government she is who she says she is. The Star

I highly like that I have the freedom to pick and choose my doc and what healthcare coverage I want. If our healthcare system sucks......why is it that many people come from all over the world to be treated here? Who can't choose a doctor? I think you are being misinformed, probably from watching Fox News. Here in Ontario, a province that has a universal coverage, I have had the privilege to choose any doctor I wanted at any time at any location. I've had as many doctors as I wanted. The one I have now, I've had him for five years. An excellent one, may I add, too. I also like the idea of the richest and the poorest being the same when it comes being covered and equal. You might even have the same doctor, a dream to many in that crumbling system you have and are probably cherishing in the States. And what healthcare coverage if the insurance companies ask you so many medical questions beforehand in their applications. Should you state any major pre-existing conditions in their applications, you will automatically disqualified into their plans. You cannot lie either, for they will find out and won't cover you, making you bankrupt in the process. Their plans themselves are a lot more confusing. And after all, it is for profit. Yea, many people come from other countries and be admitted and treated at fancy clinics and hospitals such as Mayo Clinic in Rochester and John Hopkins in Baltimore. But can you, as an average common person, afford it, even with your paid private insurance? And those 'many people' can certainly do, for because they are the wealthiest, some kings and other royal families. Best doctors might be enticed to work there because the pay is good, the patients few and far. It is like homeless people being told you live in the richest country. What does that do for that homeless person? Simply nothing better than this card for me and I would never trade anything for it:

I smell clanism in this article. Qiiq qabyaaladeed ka baxaayo. Kuwaas la baxay Dhalinta wax lagu eedeeyo lama weynaayo laakiin in qabiil lagu eedeeyo maya. Qofka qoraalka qoray Godane iyo Shangoole ayuu si qabiil ahaan u dacaayadeynooyaa.

Such a cute, cute children. Aabahooda iyo walaalahooda yaryarba must have iimaan raagsan iyo samir aan dulqaad badan. Masaakiinta mar kale Eebba ha u naxariisto janadiisa haka waraabiyo -- aamiin, aamiin.