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.

You need to know about Hiiraan terrain and Soomaali regions before you comment. They are coming from Beledweyne to Buuloburde. One cannot go to Jowhar without passing Buuloburde. Kabiisha?

Alaabta rasteesan??!! Walaahi qosol caadi iga keentay. Badeeco miyaana oo iskafaalo saaran. Nuunka, duqa, kuwaas nimanka qurbaha ka imaanaaye dheylo ugu wacaayeen. Laakiin ani kuwaas wax dareen iga galo iska dhaafee, xataa fiiris ma siin jirin, inkastoo guriga iska soo xaadirin jireen. Istiinkeygaba ma ahayn. Laakiin, abaabiina, midoo ayaa joogtay, oo hoteel Safaari ku dhagan hoteel Kaah ku yaalo 6th Street kula kulmay. Baasaboor Swiss la watay oo wada gaduud ah, Afjarmal waa weyna oo Reer Zurich ah waala tumaaye. She knew and her family daris la ahaayeen my late abti, who lived in Berne. Ar long story short, baashaalkii adduunka toddobaad dhan socday, aniga iyo iyada, intee ka baxeysay. XaaX. Was she fine or fine or fine. Lord. Sawaariiq ayaa ka dhacday at that hoteel ee Safaari oo taariiq iga taalo lama iloowaan ah. Same with Andaluus ku yaalo 12th Street. Bas, bas, intaan ka bacdi haddii la sheego xaaraan waayee.

This was once posted on SOL: Let's see if Abwaan and aqiyaarta kale can count all the faces.

Mukhtaaradaan wey bateen. kolba meeshay ethiopianku ku daba jiraan ayeey aadan, hadeey tigreegu ka baxaan kala beryka, beledweyne maalin cad beey ka dhaqaaqi. Fair enough. Maxee Xabashada ugu cararaan dadkaan halyeeyga ismoodo markee Soomaalida la dagaalamaayaan, but the moment alleged Xabashi magacooda maqlaan inay usoo dhowyihiin cagaha wax ka daayaan. Why? Aawey "jihaadka" ee maalin walba ku haayaan, mise jihaadka dhiigga Soomaaliyeed ee Muslimka bas u furanyahay.

Soomaali iyo dhafar maxaa kala heysta horta. I realized Soomaalida dibadaha usoo qaxday aad ayee u dhafartaa, siiba xiliga kuleelaha fasaxa lagu jiro, yarkooda iyo weynkoodaba.

That is blasphemous to write, even in jest, don't you think? What is next. Aakhiro ayuu safaarad ka furanaa and will be reciprocated?

Still darn funny after all those years.

Waw. I too like her. Taloow saas mee u egtahay wali mise waa hore kala baxday.

Bashir Makhtal's ordeal Stories of Canadians seized overseas, detained and thrown into squalid jails have become sadly commonplace in recent years. But the latest, of Bashir Makhtal, is especially alarming, because the former Toronto man faces a potential death sentence after an Ethiopian court declared him guilty of having links with a separatist and terrorist organization. His sentence will be handed down tomorrow. Makhtal's real crime appears to be having a grandfather who founded the ****** National Liberation Front, which Ethiopia has labelled a terrorist group – and to which Makhtal says he has never belonged. An ethnic Somali from Ethiopia's embattled eastern ****** region, young Bashir was sent to Somalia for safety at the age of seven. But a flaring civil war forced him to flee to Canada in 1991. After 10 years in Canada, Makhtal returned to Africa to open a trading business, apparently to support impoverished relatives. In December of 2006, he was arrested by Kenyan authorities while re-entering the country from a business trip to Somalia, which had enjoyed a period of relative calm until it was attacked by Ethiopian troops fighting to dislodge an Islamic government. Caught in a sweep of terrorism suspects, he was stripped of his Canadian passport and deported, under protest, to Ethiopia. Since then, Makhtal has been subjected to solitary confinement, interrogated in a language he doesn't speak, and hauled before a military tribunal. Canadian officials were denied access to him for 16 months. But after Transport Minister John Baird took an interest in his plight last year – following pleas from Somali constituents –Makhtal's conditions improved and his case was moved to a civilian court. However, human rights groups say the case against Makhtal is seriously flawed. In protest, his Canadian lawyer filed a suit to limit Ottawa's non-humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. Although Baird continues to support Makhtal, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have been silent. That sends a mixed message to Ethiopia. With tomorrow's deadline looming, they should do everything possible to urge that Makhtal not receive a death sentence. Then, they should find a way that he can be repatriated. It's time his ordeal was ended. Editorial

Once more Harper regime ignores another Canadian's plight. Once again, the right-wing prime minister's true feathers are more apparent, satisfying his redneck base that votes for him. _______________ Canadian convicted of terror charges in Ethiopia Calling the court's decision a 'travesty of justice,' Toronto man's lawyer urges Ottawa to intervene A Canadian citizen who has been in jail in Ethiopia for 2 1/2 years has been convicted of being part of a separatist terrorist organization there. Bashir Makhtal, who lived in Toronto until June 2002, was devastated when the judge announced the verdict, according to relatives here. Makhtal has maintained his innocence throughout the years he has been held captive. Relatives here said he told kin in Addis Ababa that his only hope now is the Canadian government. They said he did not believe he would be treated fairly by Ethiopian officials. Makhtal also denied in court any affiliation with the separatist movement known as the ****** National Liberation Front, which is fighting for the Somali-speaking population of Ethiopia's disputed, oil-rich ****** region. The group is considered a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government. Makhtal is scheduled to be sentenced next week, but his Toronto human rights lawyer, Lorne Waldman, called yesterday's decision "a travesty of justice." Makhtal didn't get a fair trial, Waldman said, adding the Ethiopian justice system is nothing more than a "kangaroo court." The only hope for Bashir is "a very forceful intervention by the Canadian government on his behalf, demanding he be repatriated back to Canada," Waldman said. He said it's urgent that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon get directly involved. Makhtal's family members here and the Canadian-Somali community are also urging Harper to get involved. Until now, Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, and Transport Minister John Baird have worked on the case. Baird issued a statement saying he was "disappointed" with the verdict, adding everything is being done to provide Makhtal with the full support and assistance of the government. The former CIBC employee left Canada to work with a fellow Canadian in a used-clothing business in Djibouti. He was arrested in 2006 as he was trying to cross the border between Kenya and Somalia after fleeing violence in Mogadishu. He was taken to Nairobi, where he was supposed to appear in court. But before his case could be heard, he was spirited away in January 2007 to Addis Ababa, where he has been held since. It is believed that Ethiopian officials were interested in him because he is the grandson of one of the founders of the ****** National Liberation Front. The Star

Originally posted by GAAROODI: Miskin Macruuf, your a clever guy....what does it matter if he travels with a figian passport. It doesnt make sence why that is relevant. Well, if he uses and travels with the green baasaboor, a baasaboor he despises, that would make him a labafoole before my eyes. Again, I am sure he is using the Finnish one rather than the green one he scorns.