Originally posted by AfricaOwn: Duke will cheer for him until the new pm has his runnings with the old man yey. Just watch loooooooool

Originally posted by Thierry: Although that is a hypothetical question But if he gets them out and reaches out to all factions in the land, then we have no option but to follow suit. We don’t resist because we get a kick out of it. There is a reason why we resist the Ethiopian invasion we don’t want to be governed directly or indirectly by Ethiopia or any other foreign forces. sax

Originally posted by nuune: Abwaan, I remember they were saying the same for GEEDI when they elected him for PM, Geedi is a civilian man, nice man, good character, and it turned out to be chaos, anarchy, and the biggest stoogie Somalis ever heard of. , [/b] true that...ninyahow waan arkaynaa Haddii Ilaahay yiraa.......As said Geeddi was a Professor and baq baq baa markaas na waashay waa runtaa saaxiib.

lol...weriyaha xiriirinaya is he a war correspondant for some station in Hargeysa? Waa ayaandarro runtii Soomaali is laynaysa iyo dagaal qabiil oo 2007 dhacaya, midkii Itoobiyaanka ayaaba dhibkiisa laga bixi la'yahay waaba hadda iyo in Soomaali is qaxiso, anigu kolleey waan ka xumahay waanan ka soo horjeedaa dagaalkan waxaanan dhihi lahaa qaab kale ayaa lagu xallin karaa arrimaha Soomaalida dhexdeeda ah.

I am not suprised ee Ilaahay haka saaro dhibka, meeshaas xun oo ay ku jirtana haka dhaqaajiyo.

lol...here comes qiiradii...even if he is good and clean and whatever, what can the man do with the presence of Ethiopian tanks, spies and agenda? NOTHING Waxba yaan wakhti la iska lumin baan leeyahay...sheekadaan waan arkaynaa meesha ay ku dambayn doonto Haddii Ilaah yiraa, kolleey sidii Geeddi ninkaani u nacnaclayn maayo, dad xambaar iyo lacag-boobna geli maayo baan filayaa oo wuu ka shakhsiyad duwan yahay, laakiin hawsha maanta meesha taallaa mid hal nin uu Soomaali ka saari karo ma ahan ee waa arrin u baahan in fikir iyo tallaabo culus lala yimaado. There are reall issues to face aan runtii ahayn of sheekada qabiilka iyo qiirada, eexda iyo jago-doonka meelahan lala wareegayo, so waan arkaynaa waxa soo kordha.

naxar nugaaleed meel baa ku xanuunaysa haye markaad daba-dhilif maqashid, cause daba-dhilif la'aantiis waxa maanta Soomaaliya ka socda ma socdeen. Accept the truth I know inay kharaar tahay. You are talking about dowlad? Which 1? The bandits that was put in place by Meles? You must be joking. If you really want to do something just try to prevent this happening in Nugaal and it is sad to see dagaal ka socda degaannadaas and I know in Itoobiyaanka caqli xumadooda inay ka suurtoowdo inay one day inta Taangi la yimaadaan dhahaan waxaan kala dhexgeleynaa dadkaas dagaalaya oo aan aaminsanahay inay iyagu isku direen shaqadana ay u fulinayaan kuwa meesha jooga sida Riyaale iyo Cadde. U malayn maayo inaad cidna ka dowlad jeceshahay ee Ilaahay indhahaaga runta ha tuso, Qabyaaladda iyo eexdana haka weeciyo, intaas baan ku dhihi lahaa markaan. Saaxiib nabadeey

A very disturbing situation but Insha Allaah things will improve soon and Ethiopians and their daba-dhilifs will go.

Duke trying to be objective now? What happen no one is responding?

By David Gollust Washington 21 November 2007 The United States Wednesday expressed serious concern about the humanitarian situation in Somalia, where an estimated one million people have been displaced by civil warfare, mainly around the capital Mogadishu. The chief U.S. diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, says it is time for Somali moderates to come forward and work to end chronic violence. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department. US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer (file photo) The relative optimism about the situation in Somalia that prevailed in Washington earlier this year has been replaced by deepening concern that civil strife is again spinning out of control. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said this week an exodus of Somalis displaced by fighting in Mogadishu has rapidly accelerated, and that a million people are homeless in a crisis that is in some ways more severe than the situation in Sudan's Darfur region. In a written statement Wednesday, the State Department urged all parties in the Somali conflict to ensure unfettered delivery of humanitarian aid to those affected, and said the United States will work with international partners and aid donors to respond to the needs of Somalis. At the same time, it appealed for an effective cease-fire to reduce the level of violence, and it urged all Somali parties to renew dialogue and commit to a non-violent political process. In an interview with VOA, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said blame for the surge in violence in Mogadishu is shared by political extremists as well as forces of the country's transitional government and the Ethiopian troops who intervened in its behalf at the end of last year. Frazer said the United States will continue to work for full deployment of the African Union peacekeeping force for Somalia authorized by the United Nations nearly a year ago, but which is still under-subscribed. However she said peace will not return to the country, which has been without effective central governance since 1991, until moderates from all factions come together and support peace. "It's for the Somalis themselves to come together. That is something that the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative Ould Abdallah (of Mauritania) said. He said where are the Somali patriots? Where are the moderate voices within Somalia, to isolate the extremists and have a legitimate opposition. Either join the transitional federal government, or be in opposition to it. But do it through a political process. That's the key," she said. Frazer said for the increasingly-unpopular Ethiopian troops to withdraw, the full 8,000-member A.U. peace force needs to deploy. At present only 1,600 Ugandan troops are in place. But the chief U.S. Africa diplomat said the United States is training Burundian troops for duty in Somalia and pressing other countries, including Nigeria and Ghana to take part, while remaining ready to provide logistical support. In the interview, Frazer accused neighboring Eritrea of supporting Somali extremists and giving haven to radicals who fled the country after Ethiopia intervened, and said the Bush administration continues to consider putting Eritrea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. She also reiterated U.S. calls on Eritrea and Ethiopia for restraint in their border dispute, as a deadline for delineating the boundary under a U.N. settlement plan approaches. "We have seen the deployment of forces along the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia and that creates tremendous concern about miscalculation. But I think it's neither in the interest of Ethiopia or Eritrea to go back to war. So the main concern is that we clearly state that they need to resolve their problems, particularly on that border, through diplomacy, through the U.N. process that's under way," she said. Frazer said the U.N. plan requires concessions by both parties and said the United States does not take sides in the border issue despite strained relations with the Asmara government. The Algiers accord in 2000 that ended a two-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrea set up a demilitarized zone and a commission to adjudicate the boundary. The U.N. panel is completing its work without achieving a mutually acceptable settlement, and a disputed previous border plan is to take affect late this month.

lol...Liqaaye, dafaaye, Shidaaye...alaabtaas buu ka tegey...nice one....Jaajuumoow is rageedii. I wonder where he is at now. Last time I saw him he was @ Utaanga in 1992. Malaha maanta magacyada hadduu tirin lahaa oo ku celin lahaa sidaan buu dhihi lahaa: Ma quuste, Ma qance, Ma qoye, Ma qanciye, Hebel Jeelle, Kaalay i dooro, Isbaarayste, Qalaaye, Qarwaaye, Khayrlaawe, Waa la i wataa, Yaanba loo kala harin, Argagixiso Iyo qaar kaloo badan!

ahahah Caamir...Proof? otherwise warkii Allpuntland baan ka soo qaadaynaa!

Waan ku faraxsanahay inaan ku soo turaanturroodo, xasha waxaan ka wadaa inaan u soo talaabsado jiirada Afsoomaaliga. Waayahaanba waan la'ayn meel Ingiriiska ka caaggan oo aan ku nasanno ee horta malla nabdoon yahay reerkana berrin khayr qaba mallagu furay, yaana sahan ugu maqan oo aan ka ahayn ninkii Jacaylbaro ahaa oo Adis Ababa iyo Leon u sahan tegey? Northener saaxiib adigu xaalkaaga ka warran waayahaan war lagaama heline?

lol...topic-gaan ma inuu gabdhaha nagu diruu rabaa? Which 1 isn't pretty anyway...naga daaya arrintaan khatarteeda ayey leedahay...lol

Xan Rice, East Africa correspondent Monday November 19, 2007 The Guardian The Islamist-led resistance in Somalia is growing in scale and aggression, with insurgents openly taking on Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers in the capital Mogadishu, in fighting that has killed dozens, possibly hundreds, in the past three weeks. Early on Saturday two groups of rebels fired grenades at Ugandan peacekeepers and briefly entered their post before being repelled. The attack, which coincided with an internet call by a Somali Islamist extremist, Adan Hashi Ayro, for peacekeepers to be targeted, came after two weeks of fighting and reprisals between insurgents and the allied Ethiopian and government troops that caused a massive exodus from Mogadishu. Article continues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The UN estimates that 173,000 people have fled the city since October 27, adding to the 330,000 already displaced from the capital this year. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of civilians were killed, as both sides fired shells indiscriminately into residential neighbourhoods. Ahmedou Ould-Abdullah, the UN secretary general's special representative for Somalia, said last week that the huge displacement, coupled with high child malnutrition rates and extreme difficulty in delivering aid, had made this Africa's worst humanitarian crisis. Few people believe that the situation is about to get better. Several experts interviewed by the Guardian say that the insurgents are becoming more powerful. A military analyst and a western diplomat to Somalia, neither of whom wished to be named, warned that the angry mood and conditions that allowed an Islamist movement to defeat a gang of warlords and take power in Mogadishu last year were returning. "We are on a merry-go-round and it's back to 2006," said the analyst. "The insurgents are gaining not only in physical strength, but in moral strength too." African Union commanders told diplomats last week that the insurgents were actively fighting in 70% of Mogadishu's neighbourhoods. There are also signs that the resistance has spread beyond the capital. Islamic courts are reported to have taken control of two towns in the far south, while Hassan Al-Turki, a radical Islamist on the US terror list, is understood to be expanding his influence up the coast from his base near the Kenyan border. Analysts say that the situation reflects a chronic miscalculation by the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, who sent his troops into Somalia late last year, and by the US, which backed that decision. The goal was to rout the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC), which had brought a measure of calm to Mogadishu for the first time in more than a decade, but which was accused by Washington and Addis Ababa of close links to al-Qaida. Ethiopian troops easily swept through the Islamist fighters and installed the weak and unpopular Somali government in Mogadishu. The calm did not last long. Remnants of the SCIC's military wing, the Shabaab, launched a low-scale insurgency, using hit-and-run tactics and remote-controlled bombs to target Ethiopian and government troops. Many ordinary Somalis also resented the presence of tens of thousands of troops from Ethiopia. Soon warlords, clan leaders and businessmen were aiding the resistance with money, arms and their own militias.

Originally posted by SheekhaJacaylka: Inaalillaah ,,, Apology muxuu tari Malla yaabtay... laba ruux iyo yaa kaloo og inta ay sidaan oo kale khalad wax ugu sameeyeen ayey naftooda halis geliyeen and just apology iyo shaqo ka eryid!.

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 23:55. In a near-explicit threat, Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Nov. 13 called on Mogadishu residents to help fight insurgents—or suffer in government crackdowns in the violence-torn capital. "My government is doing all it can to save the lives of the Somali people, but insurgents are responsible for the continued violence," Yusuf told a press conference in Nairobi. "People in neighborhoods must also fight the Shabab and chase them away. Otherwise they are the ones who suffer in crackdowns." The Shabab (Arabic for "Youth") insurgent movement continues to harass government and Ethiopian troops in Somalia's capital. "When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers," Yusuf warned. Dozens of civilians have been killed and at least 114,000 displaced from Mogadishu in recent weeks in some of the worst fighting since April, when Ethiopian troops took Mogadishu. The recent clashes have deepened Somalia's humanitarian crisis, with rural areas struggling to cope with the new influx of displaced people. Meanwhile, the Shabelle region—known as Somalia's breadbasket—has suffered its worst crop in 13 years. Relief agencies warn that food shortages threaten the lives of thousands. (AFP, Nov. 14) Somalia is without a prime minister since the resignation late last month of Ali Mohamed Gedi—long seen as a rival of Yusuf—in the interest, he says, of national unity. In his resignation speech, Gedi said he had survived five assassination attempts in his three years in office. The Economist writes Nov. 1: "It was probably the prime minister of next-door Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, who advised Mr Gedi to go." Gedi and Zenawi are said to be close. Gedi's father was a colonel in Somalia's intelligence service in the '80s, and was assigned to oversee cross-border aid to Zenawi's then-rebel group, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). But Zenawi apparently perceived that the younger Gedi had outlived his usefulness. In The Economist's words: "Mr Gedi belongs to the ****** clan, the most powerful in Mogadishu, Somalia's ravaged capital. He has been unpopular with ****** elders, some of whom have Islamist sympathies so are hostile to Somalia's feeble, Ethiopia-backed government. It is unclear whether or not his exit will make it easier for Mr Yusuf, now squarely in charge, to strike a deal with the ****** to deprive jihadist fighters of clan support and shelter." Eritrea plays "Greater Somalia" card A Nov. 15 commentary by Patrick Mutahi in Nairobi's The Nation (online at AllAfrica.com) finds: "Ghedi's resignation has once again brought to the fore the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea being fought in Somalia." Violence has once again mounted in Somalia since Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki pledged support for the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), formed in Asmara by Somali opposition figures and Islamist militants. "The Eritrean people's support to Somalis is consistent and historical, as well as a legal and moral obligation," Afewerki proclaimed. But Mutahi finds that Ethiopia's counterinsurgency war in Somalia "has put the Bush administration in a dilemma. While Washington is concerned about Eritrea's support for al Qaeda-linked Somali Islamist militants, it is not clear how it intends to handle Ethiopia's governance record." Congress has passed the Ethiopian Democracy and Accountability Act, which threatens military aid cuts if Ethiopia doesn't clean up its human and civil rights record. "Yet Addis Ababa is Washington's major counter-terrorism partner in the Horn and has troops in Mogadishu." Despite the Congressional slap at Zenawi, Washington has failed to pressurise Addis Ababa to implement the April 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea Boundary Commission ruling—much to Afewerki's frustration. Mutahi quotes an unnamed Kenya-based Somali analyst saying: "Ethiopia will not relent until it accesses the Red Sea port it lost to Eritrea. Access to the port through a superhighway was in their development plans before the 1998 war." This conflict has led Eritrea to play a "Greater Somalia" card—a phenomenon which Mutahi sees as hstorically recurrent: The irredentist hope for a Greater Somalia since colonial times has sucked the region into an endless conflict. Britain's hope was initially for a united Somalia comprising Kenya's Northern Frontier Districts, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia. This was fiercely resisted by the new Kenya government, prompting a severance of diplomatic relations between Mogadishu and London, while Somali ethnic patriotism in Kenya rose. The "shifta" (bandit) war, led by the Somalia-backed Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement, broke out in north-eastern Kenya. It ended only when the Kenya and Somalia signed a Memorandum of Understanding in October 1967. A direct result of the shifta war was the signing of a mutual defence treaty between Kenya and Ethiopia in 1964. Both President Jomo Kenyatta and Emperor Haile Selassie acknowledged the need for cooperation to bar Somali irredentism... The proxy war intensified as Somalia turned into a stage for the Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union... President Siad Barre's 21-year rule (1969-1991) initially relied on Communist support. Buoyed by Russian military equipment, Mogadishu's irredentist ambitions drove it to Ethiopia's ****** region, triggering the 1977-1978 war. This unsuccessful invasion of the American ally permanently redefined politics and conflicts in the Horn of Africa. The Soviets switched their backing to Ethiopia's President Mengistu, while Somalia suffered growing Ethiopian-backed domestic dissent, including a failed coup in April 1978. The same rivalry is still playing itself out in the current, considerably more chaotic situation: After more than a dozen peace attempts, Djibouti's May 2000 effort was significant, yielding the first transitional national government (TNG), led by Abdulkasim Salad Hassan. But the TNG received little support from the international community. Somali warlords then based in Ethiopia formed the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) in 2001 to challenge the legitimacy of the new government. From 2002, Kenya hosted the TNG and SRRC for European Commission-financed talks, culminating in a power-sharing agreement brokered through IGAD in 2004. This agreement established the current transitional federal institutions, with Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a leading member of the SRRC group, elected TFG president. He appointed Ali Ghedi prime minister. This arrangement sidelined core TNG supporters and Islamist groups. In May 2005, the TFG tried to establish itself in Somalia but immediately split, with some members moving to Jowhar and others to Baidoa. The exclusion of Islamist groups from the TFG, coupled with divisions in the cabinet, heightened the militancy and hostility in the country. The ensuing vacuum was filled by the ICU [islamic Courts Union]. The Islamic courts emerged in the early 1990s as a response to the need for law and order in Somalia. But in 1998, a new brand of the courts was established under the leadership of Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a former vice chairman and military commander of the jihadi Islamist organisation, Al-Itihaad Al-Islam. The courts formed a non-warlord controlled and pan-****** military force... The 2006 Sudanese mediation efforts as the chair of the Arab League were ineffective, and the immediate prospects for the Horn of Africa are obviously bleak. The major test now is to create a wider consensus for peace. As the July 2007 UN Somalia Monitoring Group states, the combined Ethiopian and TFG forces' rapid success over ICU (Shabaab) forces was less than decisive. The elite Shabaab forces were only scattered. The current bloody insurgency in Mogadishu confirms this. Somalia's opposition leaders are predicting that a further surge in Islamist-led insurgency could defeat Ethiopian troops. "The liberation forces are gaining strength day after day," says Zakariya Mahamud Abdi, spokesman for a congress in Eritrea that has gathered Islamist leaders, exiled lawmakers and diaspora representatives. This congress in Asmara came just as the Somali National Reconciliation Conference was being concluded. Although the Somali Conference tried to attain some level of inclusiveness, it left out the opposition groups in Asmara... The TFG is still relying on Ethiopian military backing and African states are yet to send adequate peacekeeping troops. The UN Security Council, at the prompting of the US, passed resolutions supporting the deployment of the AU Mission in Somalia, and exempted the mission from the arms embargo on Mogadishu. But deployment of these troops remains reviled by Somalis, and is opposed by Eritrea and Djibouti. Its effectiveness is suspect since a lightly armed force is being sent into heavily armed Mogadishu. Piracy in the time of cholera The Economist, meanwhile, finds: "The all-out fighting that ripped through Mogadishu in the spring has not resumed, but the seaside city remains violent. Jihadist rebels pin down Ethiopian troops and peacekeepers from Uganda, the only country willing to send troops under the aegis of the African Union. The failure of moderate Islamists to create a plausible negotiating position at a recent meeting in Eritrea may have strengthened the armed radicals, who hope to foment a holy war with 'Christian' Ethiopia." The UN says school attendance in Somalia has "collapsed"; malnutrition and cholera are common. The recent killing of yet another Somali journalist illustrates the grim situation. Bashir Nur Gedi (no close relation to the ex-PM) was the eighth journalist to be murdered in Mogadishu this year, The Economist finds. "Other Somali reporters have gone into hiding or left the country; both the government and Islamists have targeted them for trying to report freely." And the ongoing coastal piracy problem is also telling. US forces pursued two ships hijacked by pirates the week The Economist went to press—one of them a North Korean freighter whose crew managed to kill two of the pirates before the Americans arrived. (Nice to see the US rushing to the defense of an Axis of Evil member.) There is no sign yet of a naval escort promised by France. See our last post on the struggle for the Horn of Africa.

Extraordinary courage behind the camera Palestinian wins Rory Peck Award Murderers of shot freelance 'will be caught' Rory Peck award journalist Adler shot dead in Somalia Film-maker shot dead in Gaza wins Rory Peck Award Peck Award contenders announced Friendly fire' Main Page Content:Local fixers honoured at Rory Peck Awards 16 November 2007 By Colin Crummy Fixers for news and documentary makers were honoured at the Rory Peck Awards, which acknowledge the work of freelance cameramen and women in television newsgathering in London last night. The Martin Adler Prize, a discretionary award which honours a freelancer who has told or played a vital part in telling a significant news story, was awarded to Ugandan fixer and freelance journalist James Bitek Oketch. Announcing the award, the co-founder of the Rory Peck Trust, Tira Shubart, said that journalists owed “a debt of gratitude to fixers”. She said: “What we call a story, they call their lives.” Shubart said of Oketch: “He’s the real deal. He simply wants the story to be told truthfully.” Oketch dedicated his award to those, he said, hardly see their contribution to international news and documentary making. The Martin Adler Prize commemorates the Swedish freelance journalist and cameraman who was murdered in Somalia in 2006. Australian-born Elizabeth Tadic won the 2007 Sony Impact Award for her film Malaria, Money and Murder which investigated the impact of the global drug counterfeiting industry. The self-funded investigation into the illegal drug racket fuelling a malaria crisis in Africa was based on research of Robert Cockburn, the Oxford University team and the Nigerian health unit. Somalia’s Farah Roble Aden was awarded the Rory Peck Award for hard news for his footage Somalia Reports and British-Irish Sean Langan won the award for features for Fighting the Taliban at last night’s ceremony at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank. Somalia Reports captured close-to-the-action fighting in Mogadishu after the Islamic courts militias were ousted by Ethopian-backed Somali Government troops. Roble Aden was arrested and had his camera confiscated during the filming. He said: “It was difficult to see relatives and friends suffering and dying during the fighting and even losing their homes. Even journalists have been killed, but I knew that my coverage would show the world the real situation inside Somalia.” The judges selected Langan’s Fighting the Taliban for its unique approach to non-conventional current affairs programming as a standard-setting achievement. The film, broadcast by Channel Four, shows the experience of the British forces effort to re-take the town of Garmser from the Taliban over the course of a week. The Rory Peck Trust, which exists to support freelance newsgatherers and their families worldwide in times of need, and to promote their welfare and safety, also launched an appeal to raise funds for the Trust to continue its work internationally. You can watch the program on BBC World, Sunday 18th Nov 20:10 GMT

Farah Roble Aden & Sean Langan Win The Hard News & Features Awards At The 2007 Rory Peck Awards Industry Awards, Content Creation, News & Journalist Fri, 16th, Nov 2007 Somalia’s Farah Roble Aden was awarded the Rory Peck Award for Hard News for his footage Somalia Reports and British-Irish Sean Langan won the Rory Peck Award for Features for Fighting the Taliban at last night’s annual Rory Peck Awards ceremony. The Rory Peck Awards is the only ceremony of its kind to celebrate freelance achievement in television news gathering around the world. Through The Rory Peck Trust’s expansive reach, freelance cameramen and women are honoured for their enterprising spirit and integrity in raising awareness of critical issues. “Through these reports we are able to gain insight into issues that impact millions of lives across the globe. The images captured by freelancers remind us of the need to keep a wider news agenda. Despite the often harrowing circumstances under which the footage is shot, these individuals remain calm and composed, to deliver well executed and thought provoking reports. The Trust exists to ensure that freelance news gatherers have the support they need to protect and promote this vital resource,” said Tina Carr, Director of the Rory Peck Trust. Hard News Award Winner Farah Roble Aden, Somalia Reports Broadcast by World News Service Somalia Reports captures close-to-the-action fighting in Mogadishu after the Islamic courts militias were ousted by Ethiopian-backed Somali Government troops. The subsequent attacks and street demonstrations impacted thousands of civilians, with people forced to flee their homes before ultimately being injured and killed in the chaos. This year’s judging panel was impressed with Farah’s skillfully shot footage that provided insight into an enormously significant story. The raw pictures offered local insight into a region of the world that is often unrepresented in the press. Enduring huge risks to be there, Farah remained very calm to capture the immediacy of the situation. Eventually asked by Reuters to suspend coverage in the interest of safety, Farah was arrested and had his camera confiscated during the filming. Farah commented, “It was difficult to see relatives and friends suffering and dying during the fighting and even losing their homes. Even journalists have been killed, but I knew that my coverage would show the world the real situation inside Somalia.” Winner of the Features Award Sean Langan, Fighting the Taliban Broadcast by Channel 4 Fighting the Taliban captures the experience of the British forces effort to re-take the town of Garmser from the Taliban. Filmed over the course of a week-long battle, Sean Langan took great personal risks to capture the combat footage. “I spent a week embedded with UK forces. Normal embed conditions applied, sleeping and eating where soldiers did, while under almost constant fire or threat of attack,” said Sean. The Rory Peck Award for Features recognises freelance footage that demonstrates originality and depth of approach.Filmed alone, the judges selected Sean’s Fighting the Taliban for its unique approach to non-conventional current affairs programming as a standard-setting achievement.

Good News Farah has won the Award. Congratulations to him and Somali journalists.

K_K adiga meesha waad ku shan jirsatey waan u jeedaa!

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: War jiro uma eko. You know website-yada Somaalida, Waan la yaabaa siday wararka u abuuraan laakiin waxaa ka naxsanahay sida ay Soomaalidu ugu dhacaan dabinnada ay u dhigaan. Waxba lama hubsanaayo ee warka waa la iska ruxayaa.

Originally posted by nuune: Dil Dhac Jab Kadeed Wareer Qaxar Gaajo Macluul Jirro iyo weliba: Gumeysi Aarsi Qax Barakac Abaar Awalba kuwaan khayr kama filayn

loool...nuune

Nah, Dowladda ayaa ku guuleysatay nabadgeliyadii ugu fiicnayd 17kii sano ee ugu dambeeyey...Indho adakaa C/llaahi Yuusuf iyo Moo ryaantiisa Soomaalida ah intay dadkii xasuuqeen bay meelaha hadalladaas la gebgeb leeyihiin.