oh dear oh dear our local clown does seem to be i bit of bother these days isnt he it must be confusing when you are constantly contrdicting your self and doing the merry go-around 24/7, when then again its not easy job concorting reality and inventing manufacturing half truths, but it does make good comedy. ETHOPIANS, WHAT ETHOPIANS, THERES NO ETHOPIANS, YOU ARE ALL TERRORIST.

ANYWAYS After all that school boy ****** by duke the whole thing has been a shamble and it lasted about 30 mins... and to make already hard realitty even more biting for the ethopian stooges and their supportes not a single soul from somaliland turned up not even reer laascanood. oh dear oh dear.. we wait with bated breath what concorted tales of utopian fantasies mr comical ali will think of next to entertain us... [ July 18, 2007, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

duke it seems you are shamelesly shedding crocadile tears these days as things are getting desparate for adeero and his cowboy government because once you and your ilk have realised your utopian dream of convincing the world to your warped way of thinking has failed and failed miserbly then you and the likes of you have turned to what you have always done best i.e mud slinging and reality twisting. i hope you should have the foresight to realise there will always be tommorow so dont make enemy out of the whole world :confused:

hahahahah this is funny

Somali peace conference postponed AGAIN BBC, 15 July 2007--A national reconciliation conference in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu has opened - and then immediately adjourned. Organisers postponed the conference until Thursday to allow more time for all the delegates to arrive. Several mortar shells landed near the venue on Sunday, injuring civilians, but President Abdullahi Yusuf said violence would not deter the talks. The main Islamist opposition have refused to attend, saying the venue is not neutral. Somalia has been without a functioning government for 16 years. Clan focus Hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali government troops are patrolling the streets in Mogadishu and guarding the former police warehouse where the talks will be held. Over 1,000 clan elders, former warlords and politicians from across the country have been invited. The opposition Islamic Courts, who were driven from the city by Ethiopian and Somali forces and who are now mainly in exile in Eritrea, say they cannot attend because of the presence of their Ethiopian enemies. A number of delegates from the international community who had planned to attend the opening ceremony were unable to, when their flights were cancelled over security concerns. When talks begin, they are expected to focus on clan reconciliation, disarmament and sharing natural resources. But critics say clan conflict is not the major problem and the focus should be on reconciliation between political and armed groups. "The conference would make sense if it was bringing rival politicians and armed groups to the same table," said Ahmed Diriye, a spokesman for the powerful H clan. "But if the idea is to talk about a non-existent tribal conflict, it's a waste of money and energy." "There is no clan conflict at the moment in Somalia but there is a political conflict," Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim, a member of an opposition alliance linked to the Islamic Courts told the BBC. "We are calling for a national reconciliation conference which will deal with the differences between the Transitional Federal Government and the other stakeholders, including former parliamentary groups, the Islamic Courts, civil society and the Somali diaspora."

I think this culture of shady business, neptism corruption and short term gain was something the current administration of puntland has been practising for years and only now under this weight of mismanagement are people questioning them, i mean how many stories have we heard of state human trafficking or atleat having a hand in it, of Nuclear waste going into the sea and land, of money laundrying, money factory and so on to be honest since cade took office he has practice never practice nothing in open manner or honest politics.

Embagati lot, TFG, dmfc or whatever they are called is kinda irrelevant dont you think, i didnt know any of these terms have any difference but hey whatever makes you sleep at night TFG boy.

Dowladda Federaalka Ku-meelgaadhka ahi waa inay u jeestaan xasilinta xaaladda weli cakiran ee ka jirta Muqdisho, inta ay ka soo horjeedsanayaan Somaliland madax bannaanideeda oo ah arrin xaqiiqo ah what are you are you grinning about cant you not read somali, this is the somaliland foreign minister telling the TFG lot to sort out their own back yard instead of wasting their energy on somaliland issue. what exacly is changing???

ECOWAS flag, West Africa’s regional body, the African Union flag & the flag of Somaliland, fly high on the occasion of the seminar on “Somaliland and the African Union in the Horn of Africa” at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra. Some of the key participants of the Kofi Anan International Peacekeeping Training Centre seminar. Front row, from right: Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale, Dr Kwesi Anning of the Kofi Annan Centre, Dr Iqbal Jhazbhay of the University of South Africa, Ambassador of Portugal Mrs. Vera Fernandes. Second row from right: Acting High Commissioner of Canada to Addis Ababa Mr. David M Stockwell. (See attached programme for full detailsright) Speakers at the Kofi Annan Centre seminar included Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale, Mr. Okercheri Edusa (Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Ghana), the Chair of the session Ambassador Chris Kpodo, (former Director- General of the Ghanain Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Mr. Steve Mawuenyega (Somaliland Special Envoy) Major General JK Attipoe, Commandant, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre with Ambassador Chris Kpodo, former Director- General of the Ghanain Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale From the right: Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale with the Ambassador of Portugal to the Addis Ababa Mrs. Vera Fernandes and, Acting High Commissioner of Canada to Addis Ababa Mr. David M Stockwell, seen here with their accreditation badges. Portugal currently holds the European Union Presidency. 4 Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale at the entrance of the Kofi Anan International Peacekeeping Training Centre Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale at the entrance of the African Union Summit hall for delegates (see attached press release) Inside the African Union Summit hall: delegates confer with each other 6 Quite diplomacy hard at work wisely for Somaliland!!! AU Ministerial Executive Council meeting, where the case of Somaliland was raised by Ghanain Foreign Minister Nana Akufo- Addo and African Union Commission Chairperson Prof Alpha Konare. Diplomatic colonialism will be defeated and truth will prevail! From right: On the sidelines of the AU Summit, Somaliland Foreign Minister bdillahi Duale, Dr. Cindy Courville (US Ambassador to the African Union) and Mr. Steve Mawuenyega (Somaliland Special Envoy) Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale pictured here, after briefing the director of Ghana TV Mr. Kofi Bucknor. Somaliland’s case was strategically covered by Ghana TV, Africa TV (29 June), radio Joy FM (29 June), the print media, including Ghana’s most popular paper Daily Graphic (2 July, p. 5) and another well-known paper Daily Guide (27 June, p.14). The TFG’s Ambassador attempted to rebut Somaliland’s case with a weak response in the Daily Graphic (4 July, p. 5), when most heads of state returned home, just after midnight of 3 July. Ghanain Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo and Chair of the African Union Ministerial Executive Council in discussion with Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Duale

actually all the somaliland officialls use somaliland passport to travel now whether it is africa Europe or other places but only Djbouti and Ethopia except it from ordinary but then again somali people never really bother with these things....

actually all the somaliland officialls use somaliland passport to travel now whether it is africa Europe or other places but only Djbouti and Ethopia except it from ordinary but then again somali people never really bother with these things....

actually all the somaliland officialls use somaliland passport to travel now whether it is africa Europe or other places but only Djbouti and Ethopia except it from ordinary but then again somali people never really bother with these things....

ahaha you mean the tfg are desparate for more underage and malnutrition teens to take to kismaayo and muqdisho... how did it get to this sad state duke... am afraid puntland has given what it can to ina Yey and doesnt have alot to offer, i mean its administration is now bancrubt and due to the TFG sucking it dry and survives on neptism and corruption, its only revenue cow bossaso is on the verge of civil war due to cade mismanagement... am not sure if C/y and TFG are worth destroying puntland...

ferry ferry strange stuff... whatever it has loaded must be made public....unless it endagers national security i dont see why it must remain secret plus anything that involves american millitarry planes, middle of the night and CID must be shaddy business... :eek:

i bileieve the three large factory which include a cement factory underground coal factory and third which am not sure yet are set to cost 300M, or that what the government are saying atleast, which seems alot but then again Berbera really needs these large scale investments if it is set to compete other regional ports such as Djbouti and Asmara.

is it just me or the old man comical ali aka mr duke getting desparate these days, he seems to be drowning in his own sea of propaganda.... hehehe its so funny odaygii oo hafanaaya, wonder how long ago he lost touch with reality.

Indeed 26 of june is special day although bak home it has taken very quite back seat to the 18/05... but neverthekless this is special day not just for somaliland but for all somalis becuase it was the first time a somali flag was hoisted in liberty. it was a time of unparralelled nationlism which swept al the way to the to muqdisho, indeed you cant help but feel a sense of shame when you look at how the great dream and vision of liberty park has been raped by savages we all know too well. Soomaloo iscunaysa oo Saqda qaylo dhawaaqdiyo Sulub laysu cabbaystiyo Hadba soof la xabbaadhiyo Saraayaa dami weydey Kii laydhiisu na saaqdayow Kii sadqeeyey qabaa'ile Isu saaray gacmaa ee Saf walaala ka yeelayow Saaxirkii kala guurraye Sarreeyow ma-nusqaamow An siduu yahay eegno e Kaana siib kanna saar In sidayda tihiin iyo In kalaanan saxaynine Soomaloo calan taagta Saakay noogu horraysa oo Saddex wiig iyo maalmo Haddaan Soor cuni waayo Safrad laygama yaaboo Sarina mayso naftayda e Saaxirkii kala guurraye Sarreeyow ma-nusqaamow An siduu yahay eegno e Kaana siib kanna saar Cabdillahi Suldaan Timacadde

JB Democracy and good governance is achieved by trail and error over period of time, what you have to understand is government are public servants and in order for public servants not to abuse their position there has to be system in place to hold them accountable, now unless there is accountability then people will abuse their positions, its same with government usually they only work when they fully know if they mess up the the voter will kick them out. we need this mentallity in somaliland, there is no point just saying i will vote for UDUB/Kulmiye/Ucid for life because they not doing you a favour once they stop serving the public then we should boot them out. once each party knows there will be accountibility ie punishment and reward for good government then you will see performance. even if we have to go back a step i.e elect inexperiance party then so be it. i just cant imagine Riyaale and his ministers for another five years. also i think 5 years should be reduced to four.

JB i think its good for somaliland young democracy if no one feels they have god given right to ruyle, and once a particuler government feel they are outside the grasp of the public then they start to behave like royalty and i beleieve thats exacly what Riyaale and his henchmen of 50+ ministers are doing now... they strut around on public funds and do absaloutly nothing, they cant even change the money burco use and they been saying they will do it for the last eon yrs, they are useless bunch of money wasters who spend their whole time on either watching what the opposition doing and to try and descredit them or to try and silence the media, its 2007 and the citizens of somaliland are not even allowed to have radio station or public owned tv. i could go on and on but its not the time or place, i think the best thing to get these crooks out and give another party a chance this way the whole grass root of democracy is given a kick start, cos with riyaale and UDUB everything just feels old and stagnated that lack vibrance and new ideas. UDUB is lam duck that is out of ideas.

i think silaanyo seems to be obsessed with getting one particuler clan to vote for him, since he lost the last election he seems to have put all the reasons for losing at the feet of this clan. and since then he seems to have been on personal crusade to win their vote, but the funny think that particuler community are well known for their lets says "independant mind" and to be honest never really do anything as one, and i think he is wasting his time by thinking he can get them to all vote vote for him, because the be honest the ones that live in west burco aint the same as the one in hargeisa or ceerigabo or anywhere else. so instead of concentrating on tribal politics, people like silaanyo should concentrate on local village politics, and appeal to REER BURCO, REER HARGEISA REER AWDAL, REER CEERIGABO i this that more appealing than clan politics.

good discusion, but lets get to the poin here, in somaliland we have pretty useless and over bloated government,made worse by the useless and innept so called 'wasiiro'who swanp around the small pond of revenue this small nation generate and build lovely villas. now this may not sound too suprising after all that what a typical african government is, but the citizens of somaliland dont usually settle for the ttypical' even if it breaks their backs. so its time some serious pressure is applied to these useless crooks who are after all public servants, but behave like Royalty. I really dont see the Effing Point of Giving UDUB another bloody term, the problem seems to be that the opposition is not fit for government, because the other two parties sometimes behave like fanatical gorilla rebel (by the way this statement has nothing to do with the Honourable freedom fighters of SNM) rather than political party with policies and wide appeall to both majority and monority groups. i would love to see KULMIYE elected but am not sure about the Silaanyo of 2007 and if he is really capable of stable head of state, so maybe its time Kulmiye change the front door if they dont want be seen as party stuck in past and elect youndger more vibrant and less baggage than silaanyo, while UCID (LICUD) seems well organised and pretty well runed party but they seem to have smaller appeall and are not there yet but maybe one for the future, i also dont like their Socialist policies they seem to copy from scandanavian countries.

What an utter utter none sense speweded from the wrong end of the local spineless mr i have no principle Nayruush. now am wondering what the E stand for is it ; Exceeding Puppets Effeminate fools Egregious Dogs Egregious Murderers Embossed Carbuncle Embossed Rascals Empiric Enemy Inveterates Envious Emulators Equivocal Companion Erroneous Vassals Execrable Wretches E-paspport he says haaa haa haa, stick it up your A22 we say if you know that from your mouth!

Ereterian backed terrorist kulahaa alla maxaa dad gumoobeen, allow sharafta hanaga qaading. the entity of punt land has been a failled entity for severall years now thanks to the useless mr cade who has install a little regime which relies on neptosim and corruption to survive, cade and his henchmen have turn punland into an entity of piracy and human trafficing and dumping site for nuclear waste. and since those sources of income have dried up its the good old terrorist card and xabashi lab dancing. if reer puntland dont get rid of these bunch i think it will all end in tears.

Duke stop this calaacal and please whats this inbuilt fear certain people have of ina waraabe, stop worrying guys we wont elect him :eek: well lets hope so for certain people sake, but really duke why you crying about someone saying they will commit genocide when you already chearlead for murdurer of woman and children. Remember ina Yey has already commited war crimes or do you only worry when your tribesmen might be the ones being murdered, selective conscious i see it must come in handy.

Somaliland will not waste time in chasing greater Somalia mirage No true Somalilander would waste their time attending the much delayed and much talked about Somalia reconciliation meeting slated for June 15th. It is going to be another charade of self-interest, self-publicity and self-delusion. Somaliland has already had its dialogue and discussions and has reached a consensus. Somaliland is based on democracy and the rule of law. Whatever discussion that are going to take place among the conflicting groups in Somalia, this is frankly their own business. Since 1991, there have been at least fourteen attempts to put things in order for the miserable people of Somalia, and this will the the fifteen attempt. Sadly, there is no common or shared values between the peoples of Somalia. The main goal of every so-called interim leader is to shed more blood and settle a few scores. Somaliland is beyond such despicable practises. Somaliland has a thriving democracy, with a free and often vociferous media. Somaliland has checks and balances, with involve a hearty debate and the voice of the majority. In Somaliland, we don't' settle arguments at the point of an AK47, or through self-martyrdom, we debate, cajole and reach a consensus. So, I return to my previous point, there is an old Somali proverb, "hadal badani, haan ma buuxiyo", as much as I admire and marvel at the verbosity those who write lengthy and voluminous articles, I prefer to the get to the point. No true Somalilander would even consider wasting their time and energy on a meeting which hasn't nor will ever have any meaning for Somaliland. If there those among us in Somaliland, who feel the need to chase the "mirage" of a greater Somalia, let them read their history and learn from it. If there are those among us in Somaliland who hunger for power, then I say to them exercise your franchise under the Somaliland constitution. If the people of Somaliland vote for the person they consider worthy of leading the nation, then irrespective of social, economic or clan status, he or she will have our loyalty. If there are those among us going solely for the few dollars per Diem, my brothers and sisters, money is not everything. Better to be a free beggar in Somaliland, than a chained millionaire in no man's land. It is time for Somalilanders to stop devoting so much time to the internal politics of Somalia. It is different country with a different set of problems. We wish the people of Somalia well for the future, but whatever the outcome of the peace talks in Somalia, they will not have any effect on the situation in Somaliland. No mortal can turn back the clock.