Just to show ppl the hypocracy of those so called westerns ,,,,, how many people are more quilified than this gaal and they still insist to honor him ,,,,,,,,,

Adduunku wuu rogmayaa believe me ,,,,,, qaarad walba dagaal baa ka socda oo wax baa burburaya

Ilaahay caraba ha naxariisto ,,,,,,,,, kuwaasi dadkoodii bay iibsadeen maxaynu kuwan ula yaabaynaaba

It is interesting to read your enemy's writings and see how you write about you sxb ,,,, it is funny coz it is fabricated ,,,,,,,

that is it ,,,,,,,,,

INTERESTING AND FUNNY INDEED ........

Does it hurt to say we have a good relationship with Ethiopia ??? ,,, well i know but it is the governmental level and not indivitually of course ,,, ppl are always different. The ICU could have done even better and could play a lil bit smarter political cards that could send Ethiopia out of the window ,,,,

I Hope THIS Will Help.

Risky business in Ethiopia’s Somali Region The phone call came in just after Ali Farah Kadiin had finished breakfast in his house in the centre of Jijiga, the bustling capital of Ethiopia's Somali region. It was his agent in the port of Mokha, Yemen, telling him that a boat carrying 300 cattle - 35 of them his - had hit a rock just outside the harbour and sank, drowning every animal on board. It was a serious blow for the businessman who had paid just over 3,500 Ethiopian birr (around US$400) a head in the livestock markets around Jijiga. But he did not despair. "There was no insurance. There was no compensation. We just lost them," said Ali, one of 15 legally-registered livestock exporters based in Jijiga making their living funneling thousands of cattle, sheep, camels and goats from across the vast expanse of the strife-torn Somali region, through Somaliland's Red Sea port of Berbera and out to the Middle East. "In this business you have to learn that sometimes life makes you happy. Sometimes life makes you sad. Sometimes Allah gives you something. Sometimes Allah takes something away. You have to be patient. You have to be peaceful." It was a philosophical reaction born out of more than 15 years in the Somali region's huge livestock rearing and trading industry, an industry where pastoralists and traders have spent centuries balancing enormous risks for often small but steady gains. "Sometimes it is bad. But it is the only business we have," said Ali who stands out from the traditionally-attired agents and herders in Jijiga's open air livestock market in his sharp grey suit and shades. "Sometimes it is good. There was a time after the birth of my son when I couldn't borrow 10 birr. Now the earnings are good. I export 250 to 300 bulls a month." His reaction is typical of hundreds of traders operating in the region said Abdi Umar, Pastoralist Livelihoods Researcher for UN OCHA's Pastoralist Communication Initiative (UN OCHA-PCI). "For these traders, risk-taking is part of the business. They live with risk so they learn to manage risk. Just look at what happened with his Mokha deal. "He only had 35 of his bulls on the boat. All the traders would have split their stock, putting 30 bulls on this boat, 30 bulls on another. They share the risk so that when a boat goes down they only lose part of what they had." The risk-sharing arrangement amounted to a basic system of insurance, he said. In many cases the traders also get together later and quietly pay some compensation to the ones who lost out. ********** Shipwrecks are only the most dramatic risk facing the Somali region's livestock traders – and the thousands of herders and pastoralists who sell them their animals. Traders claim there have been times when coastguard officials in Yemen have fired on boats carrying livestock, thinking they are bringing in refugees or contraband. Other times they have made it over to the Middle East, only to find no one willing to trade with them. Recent reports of Rift Valley Fever in Kenya have cast a shadow over the whole East African livestock trade. In the weeks after the news spread, traders say Yemeni and other Middle East middlemen refused to take Ethiopian animals, even though the disease has so far not appeared in the Horn of Africa nation. Other dealers agreed to take the animals, but at much lower prices. The disruption came on top of a long running Saudi Arabian ban on the import of Ethiopian animals, again based on fears over livestock health. Ethiopian bulls, sheep and goats still regularly get through to Saudi Arabia, but via Yemeni traders who again use the ban as an excuse for keeping purchase prices down. Working backwards from the Red Sea, another risk facing Somali region traders come from their own customs officials. Ali might be one of 15 legally registered exporters in Jijiga, filling in all the right papers with the right authorities. But there are scores of others who engage in what they call "informal trade", smuggling their livestock over the long, largely unguarded border with Somaliland. "I export all my animals informally," said a trader who asked not to be named in *****shekh market, two hours drive southeast of Jijiga. "There are no banks to give letters of credit. No customs offices here. So that is all I can do." Women were herding goats and other small animals into one side of the open air market at the centre of a maze of winding streets and huts. But the trader was more interested in the bulls and camels tethered behind a rough stone wall at the other end. Business is so brisk in the town that the market stays open for two hours on Fridays, a day of rest in the rest of the largely Islamic region. "Most of the time it is no problem to get them out," said the trader, taking a break from the busy haggling to sip a cup of tea from a makeshift stall. "There has been less trouble since they opened the customs office in Jijiga. But there have been seizures. So you send some of your cattle on this path and some on another. And they get through." Sometimes the animals do not get through so easily. Customs authorities have the power to impound all unregistered goods and regularly boast of the size of their hauls of contraband. Before the Saudi ban, large scale 'shirkad' or companies from Somaliland or Yemen sent agents deep into Somali region to negotiate the purchase of livestock. Since the ban, the shirkad have moved on, leaving individual Somali Region traders to coordinate the movement of their livestock along the ancient trade routes, taking their profit where they can. Livestock regularly make the 20 km trek across rough land out of *****shekh to the town of Alybaday, on the Somaliland border. From there, they are loaded onto trucks by trusted agents and driven to Berbera across the plains of Somaliland. The risks do not stop there. There are the droughts and floods that hit the region on an increasingly regular basis, destroying livestock and pasture in their wake. Roaming sheep and goats can fall prey to hyenas and other predators. And there is always the possibility of getting caught up in inter-clan clashes, banditry and the growing conflict between Ethiopian government troops and the separatist forces of the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF). Prices can also fluctuate widely from market to market and week to week, according to the demand from the Middle East and local trading conditions, threatening thin profit margins. "We hope to make between US$15 and US$20 a bull. Sometimes you have to take a loss," said Arab Muhomed Guled, another *****shekh trader with 10 years experience under his belt. The price of cows in Jijiga market ranged from 1,470 Birr all the way up to 2,500 Birr in January 2007, according to figures gathered by the government's Livestock Crop and Natural Resource Development Bureau in the town. The reason that traders persevere in the face of so many risks is simple. The risks may be high, but the scale of the potential trade is higher still. The sheer size of the region's livestock trade is often masked by inaccurate Ethiopian government figures that only count the legally-registered movement of animals beyond the country's borders. According to official statistics, Ethiopia as a whole only exported 41,565 animals from 2003/4. But according to a soon-to-be-published report from UN OCHA-PCI, more than 400,000 animals were exported, mostly "informally", through just two Somali region markets in 2005. UN OCHA-PCI researchers estimate that as many as 100,000 bulls may be leaving Ethiopia's Somali region every year, bringing in, on average, 3,750 birr (US$420) a head. Taking the same journey with them are up to 3 million sheep and goats, each worth around 360 Birr (US$40) to Yemeni traders. UN OCHA-PCI's Abdi Umar does the sums. "That's about US$162m in revenue split between the 5 million people we estimate benefit from Somali Region’s livestock production. The traders are only taking a small margin but the pastoralists can make a lot on each animal. Somali region traders also do all they can to minimise the daily risks they face. Large herds are split into smaller units as they move across borders to limit their exposure to customs officials and other natural disasters. Animals are handed over to well-trusted agents, bound to the seller by long years of friendship or clan allegiance. Traders are also starting to minimise the risk of customs seizure by going legal, taking advantage of the first letters of credit schemes set up with local banks just three years ago. "Now I don't have to stay awake at night wondering if my animals are getting through," said exporter Mahamoud Gass Qalinle. Wherever possible, traders make use of the latest communications technology – either mobile phones or high-frequency radio sets known as fonios – to get a jump on changes on market conditions. "I can stand in the middle of Jijiga market with my mobile phone and find out when there is a boat waiting in Berbera," said Basha Hassan Hussein another legally-registered exporter. "I can find out whether the demand is highest for cows or bulls or shoats [sheep and goats]." ********** Mid-March, trading was slow in Jijiga market. Recent rains across Somali region had pushed up the prices of livestock – pastoralists like to keep hold of their animals when there is plenty of pasture around to fatten their animals. That coincided with a seasonal drop off in demand from Yemen. At 10am on a hot Thursday morning, mother-of-five Osub Fahid walked into the open square trailing three camels behind her. They were the last of a 15-strong herd that she had brought from the small markets in Degahbur more than 120 km away, a whole 25 days earlier. The camels had been brought into Degahbur in ones and twos by small scale herders from some of the most remote corners of the region including Gode and Fik. She had snapped them up and entrusted them to agents who trekked them across the region's flat plains for three days to Jijiga and nearby Babile markets. It is a business she started 10 years ago when her husband was sent to prison and she was forced into the role of family breadwinner. "It is difficult for a woman. The camel business is not for women. But I am going to continue. I know how to handle camels now. The camel business is what I know. "I started by selling one camel and now after 10 years, I sell 15. My business is not growing fast. But I have enough to feed my children." here

“Our [Xabashi] soldiers are not allowed to do these kinds of things,” said Nur Abdi Mohammed, a government spokesman. “This is only propaganda and cannot be justified. If a government soldier did this type of thing they would be brought before the courts.” I wonder which court ,,,,,,,,,,

Bombay born author Salman Rushdie has been honoured with a Sainthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. A spokesman said the prize had been awarded in recognition of pissing off Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah "Ali-the-Nuke" Khamenei, who famously issued a fatwa against him in 1989 for shopping in Marks and Spencer. Rushdie who was educated in Rugby admits that his academic career was far from illustrious. "My best subject was colouring in", he said. A former member of Cambridge Footlights theatre company, he now writes children's books. Saint Salman expressed no surprise at his recognition and said, "I am sure my loan to the Labour Party had nothing to do with it". Source

THE accession of Rwanda and Burundi into the East African Community will be the key item during the summit of the five heads of state, held in Kampala today. The Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, was the only head of state who had arrived yesterday. Kibaki, accompanied by his wife Lucy, jetted in on his presidential Fokker70 plane at around 4:30pm. He was received at the airport by President Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet, and several ministers, led by East African Affairs minister Eriya Kategaya. After inspecting a guard of honour, mounted by the UPDF, he proceeded to Kampala, while Museveni waited in vain for his other guests. The Burundian President had travelled to Dar es Salaam for peace talks with the last remaining rebel group in his country, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), mediated by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. The two presidents are expected today, as well as Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The admission of Burundi and Rwanda follows a heated debate since 1999. It will increase the regional population to 115 million people. The enlarged community is expected to boost cross-border trade, investments and tourism, as well as enhance security and peace. The main organs of the East African Community will all need to be restructured to accommodate the new members. These include the Summit of Heads of State, the Council of Ministers, the East African Court of Justice, the East African Legislative Assembly and the Secretariat. During the admission session, Rwanda and Burundi will sign a number of protocols, which are already in place in the East African Community. These include the Defence Pact, which involves sharing intelligence information, joint training and whenever necessary, joint operations. Other protocols relate to the customs union, combating drug trafficking and money laundering in the region, the establishment of the Inter-University Council for East Africa and sustainable development of the Lake Victoria basin. Besides creating a customs union and allowing the free circulation of goods, the movement of people within the region will be eased when one common passport becomes operational in the five countries. In respect to foreign policy, the five member states will be able to take a common stand at international fora and assist each other in countries where they do not have diplomatic missions. This entails that any of the five member states can appoint one mission to represent their interests abroad. Nationals from the five countries will also be able to have visa applications processed in any of the missions representing the region. With regard to the East African political federation, the consultative process which has been going on in the three partner states, is expected to extend to Rwanda and Burundi. A federal president and parliament is expected in 2013. Analysts argue that such a federation would promote political stability and eliminate tribalism in the region. However, many fear losing power and national sovereignty, while Tanzanians are afraid their country risks being infected by ethnic problems which characterize politics in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The biggest challenge facing the states is the financing of the fast tracking process. This is evident from the many occasions partner states have failed to remit their contributions. In general, however, the entry of Burundi and Rwanda is expected to increase development and prosperity for the EAC’s 115 million people, the way it did for the countries in the European Union, and increase the region’s bargaining power in international institutions like the World Bank. Good Idea

The current government is doing a lot in this issue ,,,, they put a big presure on the NGOs and other UN partners to work in those areas ,,,, it seems they succeeded a lil bit and a lot of NGOs are working in those areas now

Intaas oo keliya xataa hadaynu garan lahayn cirkaynu carrabka la gaadhi lahayn ,,,,,,,,

Yes ,, af lagaadada ha la joojiyo Robleh, it is Ok bro ,,,,,,,,, this won't take so long before it is resolved. It is just to let those young boys know the international rules.

shows the weakness of your argument. It shows cowardice, be a man and say what you believe in, don't beat around the bush. Nice try ,,,,,,,,,,,, i said what i believe only if you can see it ,,,

loooooooooool ,,, Now this is your problem ,,, I told you if you've read it ,,,, i'm not gonna make life easier for you sxb ,, i offered you to go back and see my previous posts and what i said about Faysal ,,,,,,,,, I will only respond to the other nomads if they ask the same question ,,,,,,,

Very good and interesting points ,,,, i think i agree with you most of the points you said here. UCID would be more effective if they change the leadership of this crazy guy, Faysal. It seems that he owns the party and there have been no other candidates as far as i know. We could give a try to the scandanavian policies only if there is a more trusted leadership of UCID. As i said before, KULMIYE is living in the past and i don't think they'll do much better unless they come to live at this moment. All these qaylo, insults and name-calling are not the wise political campaign they should do. It seems they cause their loss and they'll cry later. UDUB needs to change the Vice president only ,,, if they bring better than Rayaale would be even better ,,,,,,,,,,, but they have strong and quilified figures that can do a lot only if the corruption is contaminated.

is that what your saying? He is right in thinking that and he is right in calling for a genocide.......is that what your saying? YOU AGAIN UNDERSTOOD WRONG SXB ,,,,,,, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ??

I call it a conclusion drawn from your actions. Your conclusion is absulotuly WRONG ,,,,, If you do not understand what I am saying aan kuu jilciyo. Haye ,,, bal warka soo daa ,,,,,,,,, 1. You are denying that the Hyena threatened to murder thousands of people. I did not denay ,,,, i simply asked you a proof and you failed to bring even one ,,,, you better admit your loss ,,,,,, you were humilated in fron of Suldaanka and your argument turned into colors ,,, Blue, Red,,, Orange ,, remember ?? 2. Your defending the hyena. YES I DO ,,,,,, He deserved to be deffended from the outsiders until he is proven guilty ,,, anyone in this world including you have the right to think and to believe even if it is WRONG ,,,,, it is up the people to either folow your path or reject you ,,,, just like what happened to Faysal ,,,,, 3. You are not making your personal stance on this issue clear. I've been making it clear since i joined SOL but it is you who is not reading it carefully ,,, if you go back lil bit to my previous posts you will find it clear ,,,,, go and do it now ,, don't expect me to make the life easier for you sxb These three action by you,have forced me to draw the conclusion that you support the murder of countless Somali Muslim brothers and sisters. See ??? ,,,,,,,,,, Again you are doing the same mistake sxb ,,,, Allah ha ku soo hadeeyo ,,, dhamaanteenba ,,,,,

Background The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which entered into force in November 1999, is the first regional treaty on the human rights of children. Amongst its provision are the prohibition of the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by children and of social and cultural practises which are prejudicial to the health or life of the child and which are discriminatory to the child on the grounds of sex or other status. The Charter is also the first regional treaty to establish 18 as the minimum age for all forms of recruitment and participation in hostilities and therefore strengthens the standards set by the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The Charter complements the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, taking into account social and cultural values of Africa and offering protection against violations of children’s rights. Its implementation is supervised by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child . For more information on the African Children’s Charter and the Committee visit the African Union website). As 1 June 2004, 33 out of the 53 African Union Member States have ratified the Charter and a further ten have signed it HERE

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE AI Index: AFR 01/012/2004 (Public) News Service No: 151 16 June 2004 Africa: Day of the African Child: the unending plight of child soldiers As Africa observes the Day of the African Child, as many as 120,000 children under 18 years old, some as young as eight, may be compelled to spend the day as child soldiers across the continent, Amnesty International said today. Despite the growing dynamic of peace in many conflict areas in Africa, the inadequate and insufficient response of African governments and the international community to solve the problem of child soldiering is encouraging the continued ruthless exploitation of Africa's children by leaders of armed forces and armed political groups to further their own material and political ends. Whether in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, children have been abducted in the streets or taken from classrooms, refugee camps or camps for the internally displaced. Many have also been taken from their homes at gunpoint, as their distraught parents looked on helplessly. Others have reported being picked up while playing in their neighbourhood or walking along the road. Some children are known to have voluntarily joined the army or armed political groups after being separated from their families and facing poverty and the collapse of basic social services such as educational and health centres. Once recruited, forcibly or otherwise, some children are sent to camps for military training and indoctrination. Here, they are mostly subjected to violent treatment. In some camps children have died from deplorable conditions. After a few weeks of training, the children are deployed to the front lines for combat. In DRC, some front line duties have included serving as decoys, detectors of enemy positions, bodyguards for commandants, or sex slaves. Most girl soldiers are sexually exploited or raped by their commanders or other soldiers. Boys and girls are also often used as porters for ammunition, water and food, or as cooks. At an unofficial camp for internally displaced people in Monrovia, Liberia, several adolescent girls recounted how they had been abducted from Ganta, Nimba County, by former government militia in March 2003; they had all been raped, including E.B., aged 14 years. "I was coming from church on Sunday morning. They abducted five girls coming from church. They took us to the front line. We had to cook and carry ammunition in the bush. They treated us bad; if I didn’t go with them, they would kill me...They brought me to Monrovia and left me here. I want to go to school. I want to go back to Nimba to my people." Once on the front lines, children are repeatedly forced to commit abuses, including rape and murder, against enemy soldiers and civilians. Jean-Noel R. joined the Burundian armed forces aged 15 in 1998. In the five years that followed before he deserted with serious mental health problems, he served in several areas of Burundi as well as Katanga, DRC. "Everything in the army is done through fear. I didn’t want to do the things I did. All I did was through fear. Congo was the worst. I saw too many things ... I am very tired." The personal price paid by child soldiers is often high: brutalised and deeply traumatised by their experiences, many continue to be haunted by the memories of the abuses they witnessed or were forced to commit. For girl soldiers, beyond the brutality and trauma of rape itself, sexual assault may result in serious physical injury and forced pregnancy, as well as infection with HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. Many former child soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Benedicte, who was recruited at the age of 11 by an armed group in Goma, eastern DRC, recalled to Amnesty International what she witnessed on the front lines: "Several of my friends were killed on the battlefield. And others lost their limbs - their arms, their legs. I remember there was one comrade, a friend of mine, who had his nose blown away. Another had a big hole blown in his face, around his lips and mouth." Some former child soldiers who have been demobilized told Amnesty International that they are afraid to return to their communities because the local people witnessed them taking part in crimes. "The recruitment and use of children under 15 in armed conflict is an egregious human rights abuse, and constitutes war crimes. On this Day of the African Child, African governments should sign, ratify and vigourously implement international standards which prohibit the recruitment and use of child soldiers, notably the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the African Charter of the Rights and Welfare of the Child," Amnesty International said. "Tackling the practice and legacy of child soldiering is an important element in achieving a durable peace in which the human rights of all are respected. In those countries where disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes are ongoing, priority should be given to child soldiers," the organization urged. Beyond the legal and political abolition of recruitment and use of child soldiers, economic development and peace building efforts must be addressed, so that demobilization and rehabilitation of former child soldiers are sustainable. If not addressed properly, the legacy of using child soldiers in Africa, and for its children who witnessed and committed crimes, will be profound and enduring. For access to the Day of the African Child webpage, go to: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/childsoldiers-africanchild-eng

now you start attacking me personally ?? ,,,, that aint working either Try again ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i guess you're running out of tricks niyow My stance has been clear from the beginning if you read carefully ,,,,, i'll repeat if requested by other nomads here ONLY

XUKUUMADA SOMALILAND OO JOOJISAY ETHIOPIAN AIRLINE Xukuumada Somaliland ayaa joojisay duulimaadyada Ethiopian airlines ay ku iman jirtay Somaliland sidaana waxa sheegay wasiirka duulista hawada iyo circa Mr waran cade ayaa warbaahinta u sheegay inay xukuumadu ka cadhootay ka dib markii ay Ethiopian airline isku dayday inay baadho gudoomiyaha baarlamaanka Somaliland iyada oo uu guddoomiyuhu ku gacan saydhay in la baadho iyada oo ay dhawaan diyaarada itoobiya ay baadhay waftigii madexweynaha Somaliland. Wasiirku wuxuu sheegay inay maanta joojiyeen laba duulimaad oo ay ku iman lahayd Somaliland, Ethiopian airline oo wiigi timaada shan duulimaad somaliland. Ethiopian airline oo hada bilowday inay baadho madexda qaranka oo ay sharaftooda meel kaga dhacdo ayaa hada wasaarada duulistu ay ka qaaday talaaabadii ku haboonayd.. Lasoco Sooyaal.com