Somaliland president with delegation jets of for south sudan juba

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

He just got on the plane in berbera stay tuned

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

laadhan oo uu Hogaaminayo oo goordhawayd u Amababaxay Koonfurta Suudaan.

 

 

 

 

Waftiga Madaxwaynuhu hogaaminayo ayaa ka dhoofay Madaarka Berbera

 

 

 

 

Madaxwaynaha Somaliland Mudane Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo) iyo Wafti Balaadhan oo uu Hogaaminayo ayaa Saaka u Anba Baxay ka qayb galka Xaflada Wanqalka Koonfurta Sudan halkaasi oo ay ka heleen Marti Qaad Rasmi ah.

 

Waftiga Madaxwaynuhu hogaaminayo ayaa ka dhoofay Madaarka Berbera Waxaana la filayaa in Maanta Waftiga Qado sharaf loogu Sameeyo Markab ay leeyihiin Ciidamada Ingiriiska oo ku soo xidhay Dekadda Berbera halkaasi oo sida uu ku Soo waramayo Wariyaha Gabiley News ee Magaalada Berbera la diyaariyay Casuumadaasi.

 

Waxa kale oo uu Warku intaasi ku Darayaa in Saaka ay berbera ku suganyihiin Wasiirka Arimaha Dibada iyo Saraakiil sarsare oo ka Tirsan Ciidamada Somaliland kuwaasi oo sii diyaarinayay soo dhawaynta madaxwaynaha, Waxa kale oo uu Warku intaa ku darayaa in Ciidamada maraykanka ee Casuumada u Fidiyay Madaxwaynuhu ay Doonayaa in ay Tabar siiyaan Ciidamada illaalada Xeebaha Somaliland.

 

Waftiga oo Goor dhawayd ka baxay hargeisa ayaa la filayaa in ay Galabta ka duulaan madaarka Berbera.

 

Wixii warar ah ee ka soo kordha kala

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

laadhan oo uu Hogaaminayo oo goordhawayd u Amababaxay Koonfurta Suudaan.

 

 

 

 

Waftiga Madaxwaynuhu hogaaminayo ayaa ka dhoofay Madaarka Berbera

 

 

 

 

Madaxwaynaha Somaliland Mudane Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo) iyo Wafti Balaadhan oo uu Hogaaminayo ayaa Saaka u Anba Baxay ka qayb galka Xaflada Wanqalka Koonfurta Sudan halkaasi oo ay ka heleen Marti Qaad Rasmi ah.

 

Waftiga Madaxwaynuhu hogaaminayo ayaa ka dhoofay Madaarka Berbera Waxaana la filayaa in Maanta Waftiga Qado sharaf loogu Sameeyo Markab ay leeyihiin Ciidamada Ingiriiska oo ku soo xidhay Dekadda Berbera halkaasi oo sida uu ku Soo waramayo Wariyaha Gabiley News ee Magaalada Berbera la diyaariyay Casuumadaasi.

 

Waxa kale oo uu Warku intaasi ku Darayaa in Saaka ay berbera ku suganyihiin Wasiirka Arimaha Dibada iyo Saraakiil sarsare oo ka Tirsan Ciidamada Somaliland kuwaasi oo sii diyaarinayay soo dhawaynta madaxwaynaha, Waxa kale oo uu Warku intaa ku darayaa in Ciidamada maraykanka ee Casuumada u Fidiyay Madaxwaynuhu ay Doonayaa in ay Tabar siiyaan Ciidamada illaalada Xeebaha Somaliland.

 

Waftiga oo Goor dhawayd ka baxay hargeisa ayaa la filayaa in ay Galabta ka duulaan madaarka Berbera.

 

Wixii warar ah ee ka soo kordha kala soco gabileynews

[xiinfaniin]

Ceel dawlis dheer baad gacmaha soo dar leedahay'e

Wixii Daahir soo waayey baad doon is leedahay'e

Nin dudumo u qayshanahayoo daallan baad tahay'e

 

The symbolism cannot be denied; a grief-stricken community (South Sudan) that has long sought to break from its historical tormentors wins its sovereignty and freedom. A separatist wanna-be (Somaliland) joins the spectators of the independence parade, perhaps to massage its deeply felt failure with the excitement of others success. And that is very much the spirit of Siilaanyo’s trip. The substance? Zilch.

[Jacaylbaro]

Ceel dawlis dheer baan gacmaha soo darahayaaye

Wixii Siyaad joojin waayay baad Doon is leedahaye

Nin dalkiisii burburshoo daallan baad tahaye

[xiinfaniin]

^^LOL

 

Nice try Jacaylbaro.

 

However, as good AwTusbaxle found out the hard way, few on this board can compose after the xiin .

 

Look awoowe, I gave you the symbolism of the trip. If you are a man from Sheekh, you shall concede the substance of this argument.

[Jacaylbaro]

Don't worry niyow .... Sharif is not invited to the event so far

 

I'm not going to ask the symbolism in the South Sudan a man from Khartoum .... if u know what i mean

[xiinfaniin]

^^Speaking on symbolism, Sharif goes to bigger, and more relevant gatherings than you can even dream of, including the UN, the mother goose of all the little kiddos Siilaanyo is bothering to visit.

 

Laakin bal hadiyada odogu soo celiyo aan aragno

[Jacaylbaro]

Now there are big important gatherings that the Sharif cannot go ...... Start with this one and more to come

 

Don't bother with wuxuu la soo guryo noqdo ... all is strategic.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Madaxweyne Siilaanyo iyo Gudoomiyaha UDUB oo u ambabaxay Berbera si ay ugu dhoofaan Dalka Koonfurta Suudaan

 

Hargeysa(Waaheen) Madaxweynaha Somaliland Axmed Maxamed Maxamud Siilaanyo iyo Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga UDUB Daahir Rayaale Kaahin ayaa gaadhay magaaladda berbera halkaas oo ay uga sii gudbi doonaan Koonfurta Dalka Suudaan oo ay kaga qayb galayaan Munaasibada Gooni isutaaga Dawladda Cusub ee wanqasheeda lagu qabanayo Caasimada Dalkaasi ee Jubba

 

Wararka aanu ka helayno magaaladda Berbera ayaa sheegaya Madaxweyne Siilaanyo inuu fuulay Markab taagnaa Badda dusheeda kaasoo laga leeyahay Dalka Ingiriiska oo uu qado kula yeeshay madaxdii saarnaayd kuwaas oo aan ilaa hada la ogayn ujeedada ay ka wada hadlee.

 

Hase yeeshee waxa Qorshaha kulankaasi isagu hore u sii diyaariyay Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibedda Somaliland oo isagu Madaxweynahja hortii sii joogay.

 

Waxa kale oo lagu soo waramayaa intii uu weftigu dhexda ku sii jiray inuu gaadhiga Taliye ku-xigeenka Ciidanka Asluubta Somaliland Xasan Cali Dheere uu jiidhay laba nin oo shicib ah oo midkood bartii ku geeriyooday halka kii kale dhaawaciisa laga keenay Cisbitaalka Hargeysa.

 

Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga UDUB Daahir Rayaale Kaahin ayaa isna maanta gaadhay magaaladda Berbera waxaana la filayaa inuu si madax banaan halkaas uga dhoofo isagoo sii mari doona Imaaraadka carabta

 

Weftiga Madaxweyne Siilaanyo ayaa la sheegay inay raaceen Xubno kooban oo ka tirsan Xukuumaddiisa hase yeeshee waxa uu magaaladda Hargysa kaga tegay Wariyayaashii aay u balan qaadeen inay raaci doonaan kuwaas oo la sheegay inay bari ambabixi doonaan inkastoo laga muujinayo cabsi ah inaan qorshaha safarkoodu cadayn iyadaoo taas na loogu malaynayo Af-hayeenkii Madaxtooyadda ee hawshooda waday oo isagu dalka ka dhoofaya daraad isla markaana u kicitimay Jubba

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

 

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somaliland President Ahmed Siilaanyo today left for South Sudan to attend the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of South Sudan on the 9th of July, 2011

Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo leaving for South Sudan today at Berbera International Airport 7th July 2011

 

 

Berbera-Somaliland President Ahmed Siilaanyo received an official invitation from the president of South Sudan Salva Kiir to attend the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of South Sudan on the 9th of July, 2011. South Sudan is set to become the 54th nation in the African continent after long fought civil against Northern Sudan’s rule that saw thousands of lives lost and millions displaced.

 

 

 

The invitation of Somaliland’s president Ahmed Siilanyo to South Sudan’s historic day has been welcomed with delight in Somaliland by both the government of Somaliland and its citizens. Somaliland believes it could use the south’s independence as a precedent as it seeks more support for its case for international recognition and become the 55th nation in the continent after South Sudan. Some foreign observers and politicians believe the Juba government will recognize Somaliland which will pave the way for other regional powers to follow.

 

 

Somaliland became a British protectorate in 1888 after the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 during which the European Powers effectively carved up the African continent between themselves. It was in June 26th 1960 upon an agreement signed between Britain and Somaliland that it became an independent country. At that time Somaliland was formerly recognized as the Republic of Somaliland by the UN and 34 countries, including Britain, USA and Egypt. Somaliland willingly decided to unite with South Somalia formerly Italian Somalia on July 1st, 1960 when the South gained their sovereignty from Italia. Somaliland however reclaimed its Sovereignty in 1991 after the overthrow of former dictator Mohamed Siyad Bare and his henchmen after a long brutal civil war.

[NGONGE]

Xiin miyuu gabyaay?

 

I like the way he fell back on symbolism. Lakin wixiisa waa wax culus aan la fahmi karin. War maad iska tidhaahdid "Waa iska aroosad malxeesadiida casuntay"? (Ducada na raaci).

[Suldaanka]

A foreign observer's take on recent Somaliland news:

 

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Somaliland Update: European Attention, South Sudan Invitation, Launch of Youth Organization

 

 

Today’s Somaliland Update is full of unusual efforts to increase the profile of Somaliland internationally, increase the support of Somaliland youth for their homeland, and of European nations to help benefit their own strategic calculations in the Horn of Africa. As there are many updates to make (thanks to Somaliland247), let us get on with it.

 

South Sudan Invitation:

 

Somaliland President Ahmed Silanyo has been a busy man recently. Today he left Somaliland with an official invitation from the nation of South Sudan, which is going to declare their independence tomorrow [1]. South Sudan has expressed a vocal and public interest of recognizing the independence of Somaliland as one of their earliest acts as a sovereign nation, an act that may encourage other nations in the region to do so. At any rate, providing an official invitation to the president of an unrecognized state to attend your international debutante ball is certainly a provocative move. Somaliland certainly hopes that the support and example of South Sudan’s successful secession will serve as a fitting precedent for Somaliland’s own longstanding independence from the imaginary state of Somalia. Somaliland should not need such a precedent, but no doubt the precedent is welcome to its people and leadership nonetheless.

 

British Warship Pays Visit To Berbera:

 

 

Somaliland247 has helpfully posted a video showing a British warship (presumably engaged in anti-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden) paying call to Berbera and inviting Somaliland President Silanyo and other Somaliland government officials aboard [2]. This, like the official invitation given to President Silanyo, is a provocative move. Given the importance of the Suez Canal to European trade and to having a safe harbor in the very tumultuous region of the Gulf of Aden (Yemen and Somalia both border this sea as well), the fact that a British warship is making a visit to Somaliland would suggest that Somaliland is seen as an ally in the fight against piracy and worthy of official recognition (if not yet reaching the level of an independent nation). It does, at the very least though, show that Great Britain views Somaliland as an ally, which may yet pay dividends if greater aid and recognition is seen as the worthy price for aid in the fight against piracy.

 

EU Comissioner For Development Addresses Somaliland House of Representatives

 

Somaliland247 has helpfully included the (somewhat lengthy) address of the EU Commissioner for Develop, a fellow named Andris Piebalgs, to the Somaliland House of Representatives [3]. This address is long on rhetoric, but is nonetheless somehwat useful in examining the attention Somaliland is receiving from the European Union. The address praises Somaliland for its steps towards democracy, looks for more regular orderly local and national elections, looks for the greater involvement of women and young people in Somaliland politics, and comments on Europe’s commitment to the development and well being of Somaliland. Without saying anything about recognition, the address manages to speak volumes about how Europe considers itself to be Somaliland’s most faithful friend, pointing out how the EU has the only permanent presence in Somaliland as an international donor, and he gives some very extensive details (it was a well prepared speech) on exactly what Europe has done and is doing to help Somaliland’s development. Can Europe be counted on to help Somaliland achieve recognition on a larger scale, or is it looking for Somaliland to continue to be an important, though somewhat secret, ally in its goals of ensuring the protection of European trade in a very dangerous part of the world? This address does not answer that question, but it is still a useful and important address nonetheless.

 

EU Projects In Somaliland

 

Somaliland247 also helpfully provides a look at the current EU projects in Somaliland, which run to 62 projects and about 63 million Euros [4]. Included in these projects are some intriguing ones. The EU paid about half the cost of the most recent national elections, and donates substantially, including technical assistance, to help educate the Somaliland people and government about holding elections properly. The EU is also helping Somaliland in education, including the education of marganilized groups, increasing literacy rates, training teachers, building schools, and reviewing and updating textbooks. Europe has been trying to help Somaliland in family planning and providing care for pregnant mothers so that they can deliver their children safely. Additionally, the English are helping train hundreds of future Somaliland doctors at Kings College in London. The EU has a variety of Millennium Development Goals that were set in 2000 for 2015, including such matters as eradicating extreme hunger, providing universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, as well as ensuring environmental sustainability. Additionally, the Europeans look to help boost job creation in Somaliland through labor intensive infrastructure improvements, as well as help improve agricultural productivity and the treatment and prevention of animal diseases in the vitally important Somaliland livestock industry. Looking at the lengthy list and its explanations, it is clear that Europe has a major interest in the development of Somaliland.

 

Somaliland Youth Alliance of North America (SYANA) Launches

 

A couple of weeks ago the Somaliland Youth Alliance of North American launched to help young people of Somaliland descent living in North America (especially in the United States) become more involved with their homeland, as they are part of a large diaspora) [5]. I’m not quite sure exactly who the Robleh Maxamud Lafcanbe is who founded and chairs the effort, but it appears to be an initiative focused on harnassing the support of second-generation Somalilanders in the United States and Canada to support helping Somaliland develop, as well as providing visibility to the needs of Somaliland from within Western countries themselves, which gives press attention to Somaliland. It also seems to be casting a wide net for support—a direct connection with Somaliland is not necessary, only an interest in helping out, at least so says its communique.

 

[1] http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/somaliland-president-ahmed-siilaanyo-today-left-for-south-sudan-to-attend-the-declaration-of-independence-of-the-republic-of-south-sudan-on-the-9th-of-july-2011/

 

[2] http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/video-british-warship-dock-in-berbera-portsomaliland-and-invited-somaliland-president-on-board/

 

[3] http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/andris-piebalgs-european-commissioner-for-development-address-to-house-of-representatives-of-somaliland/

 

[4] http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/examples-of-eu-projects-in-somaliland/

 

[5] http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/somaliland-youth-alliance-of-north-america-syana-launch/

[xiinfaniin]

South Sudan, the Newest Nation, Is Full of Hope and Problems

 

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

 

JUBA, Sudan — After five decades of guerrilla struggle and two million lives lost, the flags are flapping proudly here in this capital. The new national anthem is blasting all over town. People are toasting oversize bottles of White Bull beer (the local brew), and children are boogieing in the streets.

“Free at Last,” reads a countdown clock.

But from the moment it declares independence on Saturday, the Republic of South Sudan, the world’s newest country and Africa’s 54th state, will take its place at the bottom of the developing world. A majority of its people live on less than a dollar a day. A 15-year-old girl has a higher chance of dying in childbirth than she does of finishing primary school. More than 10 percent of children do not make it to their fifth birthday. About three-quarters of adults cannot read. Only 1 percent of households have a bank account.

Beyond that, the nation faces several serious insurrections within its own sprawling territory and hostilities with northern Sudan, its former nemesis.

It is clearly an underdog story.

So many people here embody the distance traveled and the hopes to come. James Aguto, a former child soldier and longtime guerrilla fighter, now delivers babies. Mr. Aguto is a newly minted clinical officer, working in a government hospital, and his journey from taking life to sustaining it makes him an apt symbol for the transition this country is trying to make.

“There was one night I delivered six babies, six babies in one night!” he said. “I was so happy. I was making development here. I was showing that I had skills.”

Mr. Aguto now wants to be a doctor. “I have that spirit,” he explained.

The nation will certainly need it. More than 2,300 people have been killed in ethnic and rebel violence this year, with at least a half-dozen rebel groups, some with thousands of fighters, prowling the bush, attacking government soldiers, terrorizing civilians, and stealing cattle and even children.

The hospital where Mr. Aguto works is a case in point. In one bed lies a thin young man with a huge cast on his leg.

“Abyei,” the man grunted, referring to the disputed area on the border of northern and southern Sudan that is claimed by both sides. It is considered one of the many potential trouble spots that could plunge this region back into war. He was shot there in May, when the northern Sudanese army invaded.

Nearby is another young man, hobbling around with a walker. “Unity State,” he said. “A militia.” He was shot as well, in another tense border area.

Ethnicity is a consistent fault line here. The government is dominated by the Dinka, the biggest group in southern Sudan, and some of the toughest rebel armies are commanded by members of the Nuer, a historic rival.

“This is just tribal fighting,” Mustafa Biong Majak, a South Sudan government spokesman, said with a dismissive wave of his hand, arguing that the clashes posed no threat to stability. “Let them die.”

But many people here fear that after the glow of independence wears off, the Nuer and the Dinka, who fought viciously during the north-south civil war, will become locked in conflict again. And even within the Dinka-dominated government forces, there are deep problems.

Government troops routinely take sides in local land disputes and battles over cattle, and recently soldiers have been hijacking United Nations trucks hauling food. Hunger is yet another challenge, with more than three million people in South Sudan, nearly 40 percent of the population, needing food aid to survive.

Less than 10 miles outside the capital, in the village of Rajaf, people are fleeing the countryside because bandits are killing farmers and kidnapping children. The rule for visitors is to leave by sunset.

“There is no security here,” said Rose Bojo, a tea seller.

Insecurity is such a drain on resources that under the current budget, the government of South Sudan spends about $700 million on security-related matters — more than the budget for education, health care, electricity, roads and industry combined.

But this is also a country of obvious possibilities. South Sudan produces about 375,000 barrels of oil per day, and though negotiators are still working on the specific formula of how the two Sudans — north and south — will share the oil, the south stands to make billions from its reserves.

It has land, miles and miles of thick forests and fertile jungles, where the trees drip with vines and branches bend earthward, heavy with fruit. Still, in most villages, there is no electricity, no running water, no metal even. Barefoot boys dusted with the red dirt stirred up by passing trucks sell bottles of honey along the road. The South Sudan government says 83 percent of its people live in thatched-roof huts, a legacy of decades of marginalization.

Even before Sudan declared independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, southerners were clamoring for more rights and complaining about being treated as second-class citizens.

South Sudan is mostly animist and Christian, culturally more akin to sub-Saharan Africa than northern Sudan, which is predominantly Muslim and dominated by Arabs. Southern rebels fought for years against the central government, and in 2005 the Bush administration helped broker a treaty between the sides that granted the south wide autonomy and the right to secede.

This January, southerners voted by nearly 99 percent to form their own country, which is what will officially happen on Saturday in festivities to be attended by high-ranking Western officials and more than a dozen African leaders.

Some of the expected guests, like President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea, are cautionary tales of what can happen when guerrilla leaders finally take power. Zimbabwe and Eritrea are considered among the most repressive countries in the world. But South Sudanese officials say that they are aware of the pitfalls, and that their government will be different.

“If we had wanted to, we could have declared a five-year transition period from the beginning,” said Mr. Majak, the government spokesman. “But no, we didn’t do that. We held elections.”

For the past six years, the southern Sudanese have essentially been running their own affairs, policing themselves, patrolling their borders, and wooing investment and development aid. International aid organizations are still going to play a crucial role here, especially in health and education. For example, Mr. Aguto, the bush fighter turned clinical officer, was trained by Amref, an aid group. He is now looking for sponsors to pay for medical school so he can become a pediatrician.

“South Sudan started from zero,” he said. “Why shouldn’t we be able to transform?”

Josh Kron contributed reporting.