In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

[General Duke]

Billy Connolly - Comic Relief - Hargeisa Hospital

 

 

[Somalina]

This is a Somali citizen voicing his concerns over the state of our affairs, it is simply none of your beeswax awoowe Xunjuf!

[Malika]

Duke, your right - enough of the self imposed sense of well being - when all is just false and rotten underneath.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

and the qiiro continues;)

[General Duke]

^^^Xaji thanks for showing your secessionist side.

[General Duke]

Business is booming

 

 

 

[A_Khadar]

Alle ha inoo sahalo, rajadu ma fiicnee..

[Wiil Cusub]

The Horn of Africa The path to ruin

A region endangered by Islamists, guns and its own swelling population

 

published by Economist Aug 10th 2006

 

BOSSASO is an exit point from the Horn of Africa and it is bursting. This port in northern Somalia already has 300,000 people, up from 50,000 in the 1990s. More arrive each day. It is a raw place: entrepreneurial, resilient, armed to the teeth. It is also diseased, inadequate and famished. The port's champions reckon it could spread along the inky blue shore like a little Dubai, prospering on exports of livestock and frankincense. But such a future, which now looks a fantasy, depends on the stability of the Horn, which these days is looking only a little less fantastical.

 

Several thousand Ethiopians sleep rough in Bossaso's dirt, like animals. They are sustained by Muslim alms: a free meal each day, paid for by Bossaso traders. Some of the Ethiopians arrive in town feral with hunger. They have to be beaten back with cudgels when the meal is served. The hope of all of them is to be illegally trafficked across the sea to Yemen. They slip out of town in the moonlight, cramming into metal skiffs that are death traps. Many drown in the crossing: the boat sinks or they are tossed overboard by traffickers when Yemeni patrols approach. Some of the men interviewed in Bossaso for this story have since drowned in this way. Refugee agencies say only a few of those who survive will find jobs in Saudi Arabia. The rest will drift, disappear or die young.

http://www.economist.com/node/7270000