Dedicated Thread for KH2 @ Taleex Daily Updates

[A_Khadar]

Oodweyne;772666 wrote:

^^^

:D

 

If you hold the view that we in Somaliland didn't have had the means to cleanse Buhodle, much less of the small skirmishes in Kalshale, then, I am afraid you have been drinking too much Kool-aid about how gallant the dervish clan are, from those internet site that was intended to uplift the sagging morale of the

"Tolka"

as they try to reason as to how come Somaliland is in Las-Anod.

 

Hence I won't hold it against you. But, let me say, just make sure this conference doesn't end up as failure like all others before it. And furthermore make sure, that, you won't have us hanging around long before you tell us to pack our bags from that city. For, I fear, that, just like the 4 yours, we will behold empty braggadocio as well as heart-felt chess-thumping from your end, but, nothing else. But, we shall see..

:D

;) Can I have whatever you're on with? You said Kalshale was small skirmishes! That is so hilarious to say the least. There were said a lot and more than enough about Kalshale and I don’t know where you get this sanity to bring it back. Probably, you believe your militia won then.. Anyhow no need to go back to it, it was a history..

 

I mentioned already the reason you're holding LA for the last 4 years and if you still believe that you there because of your own power, I think it's time for you to go and visit to see yourself without spending too much reading the self- glorifying clan websites of yours.

[A_Khadar]

^^ Now we're getting some where least to say. So let us wait and until the Taleex completes and ssc unites under one admin which is the one just announced.

[xiinfaniin]

Carafaat, stop the side arguments you are having with yourself awoowe . The man of the hour is Oodweyne in this thread, and so far he yielded the floor until the Taleex conference is conclusive.

[MoonLight1]

Kadar sxb Do not under estimate those rebel Garaads, we know we are Somalis, the clan and the clan chief is everything, at the end of the day they will have to gather the army your willing liberate LA , the army who liberated Kalshale were from the Baadiye and were gathered by Garaads and Cuqaal, when it comes to tribal warfare its the illiterate reer baadiye who will respond to your TOLLA'AY, not Ali Khaliif's sons who are driving SVUs somewhare in Atlanta.

[Carafaat]

xiinfaniin;772674 wrote:

Carafaat, stop the side arguments you are having with yourself awoowe

. The man of the hour is Oodweyne in this thread, and so far he yielded the floor until the Taleex conference is conclusive.

Haye Maakhir waa no Maalin kale.

[A_Khadar]

MoonLight1;772683 wrote:

Kadar sxb Do not under estimate those rebel Garaads, we know we are Somalis, the clan and the clan chief is everything, at the end of the day they will have to gather the army your willing liberate LA , the army who liberated Kalshale were from the Baadiye and were gathered by Garaads and Cuqaal, when it comes to tribal warfare its the illiterate reer baadiye who will respond to your TOLLA'AY, not Ali Khaliif's sons who are driving SVUs somewhare in Atlanta.

Good point but remember those "reer baadiye" you mentioned who respond to Tolla'ay want this and hate the Garaads.. So this is moved train..

[MoonLight1]

Believe me that is not the case, they still control the baadiye mindset, I am not talking about few hundred reer magaal and qurbajoog who will go back to their homes soon, then these Garaads will start dismantling what the left.

[A_Khadar]

MoonLight1;772696 wrote:

Believe me that is not the case, they still control the baadiye mindset, I am not talking about few hundred reer magaal and qurbajoog who will go back to their homes soon, then these Garaads will start dismantling what the left.

So you know my "reer miyi" more than I do. Let me tell you, The garaads have no direct contact and relation with Reer miyi, but Cuqaasha are the grassroots and they are enlign with KH2 and new admin..

[Liibaan]

HAMBALYO: DARWIISH STATE HAS ARRIVED !

 

 

 

Ergooyinkii Shirka Khaatumo oo isku raacay in Maamul Cusub la dhiso iyo Shir Saxaafadeed Maanta La qabtay oo lagu sheegay in maamul Cusub lagu Dhawaaqayo

 

(Taleex, Jan 10, 2012 Ceegaag Online)

 

Waxaa Maanta Gelinkii Hore Maalintii 2aad ay Kulan ku yeesheen Darayda Khaatumo Ergooyinka Shirka Khaatumo2 waxa ayna Ergooyinkani soo Saareen Qodobo wax ku ool ah ay kamid tahay in ay dhamaan ergooyinku isku raaceen in Shacabka SSC ay Yeeshaan Maamul Ka Taliya arimha iyo masiiirka Umadda Waxaana Maanta gelinkii Danbe Shir jaraa'id Qabtay Afhayeenka Gudiga qaban qaabada Shirka ahna Gudoomiyaha Saaxafadda Shirka Mudane Aadan C/laahi Shuuriye iyo Mudane Saleebaan Waji Xaad oo ah Gudoomiye ku xigeenka 2aad ee Gudiga Dhaqalaha Shirka Khaatumo2, waxaaana Qodobadii Shirku u ahaayeen Sidan.

Warsaxaafadeed Shirka Khaatumo 2 Taleex.

 

Ergooyinka Shirka Khaatumo 2 ayaa maalintii 2aad ka dooday Ajendaha Shirka Khaatumo 2 waxaa saaka hawlohoodii kasii watay Madasha Shirka Dhamaan Ergooyinka Gudaha iyo Qurba Joogta. Dood dheer iyo Falanqayn kadib waxay ergooyinkii Codeeyeen Go'aamo aad Muhiim ugu ah Masiirka Deegaamada Sool, Sanaag iyo Cayn.

 

Waxaa Ergooyinku Fadhigii saaka Ugu Codeeyeen Deegamada SSC in loo sameeyo maamul Goboleed u gaar ah oo masuul ka ah Aayaha Deegamada Shacabka Soomaliyeed ee ku Nool goboladda SSC. Qodobkan iyo Go'aamo kale oo muhiim ah oo maanta ergooyinku isla qaateen ayaa Beri lasoo hor dhigi doona Shirwaynaha. Waxaa maanta Madasha Shirka Berdaha Khaatumo ka Muuqday dabaal Deg iyo rayn rayn iyadoo Jidadka magaalada ay marayeen Tiro badan oo Baabuur ah oo ruxaya Calanka Somalia.

 

Xafiiska Saxaafadda ee Shirwaynaha Khaatumo 2.

 

Maxamed Cismaan Cabdinuur

Taleex.

[Liibaan]

Congratulations pour in for the New SSC Regional State of Somalia

 

 

Beesha Gedo Oo Taageero Iyo Hambalyo U Diraysa Shirwaynaha Khaatumo 2.

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Anagoo ku hadlayna magaca iyo sharafta beesha **** ******* ee ku nool magaalada Odense dalka Denmark, waxaan halkan uga diraynaa taageero iyo weliba hambalyo walaalahayaga ku abtirsada deegaanada Sool,Sanaag iyo Cayn oo haatan uu uga socdo shirkii Khaatumo 2 oo ay gogashiisu taallo magaalada taariikhiga ah ee Taaleex.

 

Beesha **** waxay u aragtaa shirkan mid muhiim u ah qaddiyadda guud ee Sool, Sanaag iyo Cayn maadaama ay isugu yiimaaddeen dhamaan, amaba inta badan, isimada, aqoonyahannada, cullumaa’udiinka, dhaliyarada, iyo haweenka SSC si ay aayahooda uga arinsadaan.

 

Haddan nahay qurbojoogta beesha **** *******, waxaan u rajaynaynaa shirka Khaatumo2 inuu noqdo mid ay kasoo xasilaan is afgarad beeshu u dhan tahay maadaama ay midnimada iyo israaca beesha SSC ay lagama maarmaan u tahay nabad iyo xasillooni ka dhalata ama ku baahda geyiga ay deggen tahay beeshu iyo waddanka Soomaaliyaba.

 

Ugu dambayntii waxa ay beesha **** ******* illaahay uga baryeysaa inuu tawfiiqda waafajiyo dhamaan ergada shirkan qiimaha wayn leh ee matalaysa beelweynta Sool,Sanaag Iyo Cayn. Waxaa xaqiiq ah in wixii kasoo baxa shirka Khaatumo2 uusan noqon doonin mid ku gaar ah beelwaynta SSC, ee uu noqon doono mid saamayn ku yeesha Soomaaliya oo dhan,madaamada ay beelwaynta SSC udub dhexaad u tahay dhawrida Qaranimada iyo sharafta Soomaaliyeed.

 

Wabilaahi Towfiiq

 

Nabadoon Maxamuud Aden Cali (Ceeljiid)

Nabadoon Xuseen Barre Qaasim

Nabadoon Maxamed Aden Carab

Ganacsade Nuur C/qaadir Ugaas

Nabadoon Jaamac Shire Gurey

Canab Cumar Aw Xasan

Xaliimo Maxamuud Xalane

[Liibaan]

Beesha Maakhir oo Taageertay Shirka Khaatumo 2

 

Sida ay ku baahiyeen qaar kamida warbaahinta ku hadasha Afka Soomaaliga waxaa magaalada Badhan ee Gobolka Sanaag lagu qabtay kullan ay soo abaabuleen odayaasha iyo waxagardka Beesha ********** kaasi oo lagu muujiyay in Taageero Buuxda ay beesha ********** u hayso shirka Khaatumo 2 ee ka bilawday degmada Taleex ee Gobolka Sool.

 

Kullankan taageerada ah ee ay Beesha ********** ku ayidday Shirka Khaatumo 2 ayaa waxaa lagu soo waramayaa iney soo qaban qaabiyeen Odayaasha Dhaqanka, siyaasiyiinta, Waxagardka, Haweenka iyo qeybaha kala duwan ee Bulshada, iyadoo kullankaasi lagu dhiirigeliyay Beesha *********** islamarkaana ay Beesha ********** tilmaantay iney si weyn u taageersan tahay shirka Khaatumo 2

 

Gaashaanle Indhayare oo kamid ahaan jiray saraakiishii ciidanka Soomaaliya oo madashaasi ka hadlay iney hiil iyo hooba la garab taagan yihiin Shirka Khaatumo 2 ee beesha *********** uga soconaya magaalada Taleex.

 

Qaar kamida ganacsatada oo ay kamid yihiin Ayuub Baarjeex iyo Goodir oo kullankaasi ttageeray islamarkaana digniin kulul u diray Somaliland oo sheegtay iney kullankaasi weerari doonto, waxayna arintan taageerada ah kusoo aadaysaa iyadoo uu khamiistii si rasmiya u furmay shirka Khaatumo 2 ee ay ku shirsan tahay beel weynta *********** oo sheegtay iney aayaheeda ka tashanayso.

 

Liiska Odayaasha Baaqa Taageerada Diraya

 

Garaad C/laahi Cali Ciid

Suldaan Maxamed Suldaan C/laahi Suldaan Cartan

Islaan Xuseen Xaaji Cabdi

Nabadoon Cabdalla Maxamuud Dabshid

Jiif Caaqil : Abshir Maxamed Maxamuud. Guddoomiye.

NB. Jaamac Warsame Faarax.

NB. Cumar Siciid Axmed

NB. Maxamuud Xasan Maxamuud.

NB. Maxamuud Faarax Ducaale.

NB. Cabdi Saalax ( Cabdi Wabax).

NB. Maxamuud Cumar Muuse

W/NB. Farxaan Suudi Ducaale.

W/NB. Ismaaciil Yuusuf C/kariim.

W/NB : C/laahi Maxamed Muuse

W/NB. Maxamuud Axmed Barre

W/ NB. Daahir Cali Cabdi

Shiikh : C/qaadir Axmed Ismaaciil.

Shiikh : Axmed Cismaan Xirsi.

Shiikh Axmed Yuusuf Maxamed.

Guurti : Maxamed Cali Cabdi.

Guurti : Xaaji C/laahi Maxamuud Yuusuf

Guurti : C/raxmaan Aw-cali Maxamed.

Guurti : Cali Cabdi Jibriil.

Guurti : Bashiir Cali Dheeh.

Guurti : Axmed Faarax Maxamuud.

Guurti :Axmed Maxamuud Nuur.

Guurti : Axmed Cali Awaare.

Guurti : Shire Saalax Axmed.

Guurti : C/laahi Maxamuud Cumar.

Guurti ; Siciid Faarax Xirsi.

Guurti : Ibraahim Maxamed Guuleed.

Ganacsade Ayuub Baarjeex

Aqoonyahan Goodir Maxamed Qoobey

Coll Indha Yare

[Liibaan]

Beesha Meheri ee waqooyiga Mareykanka oo hambalyo iyo bogaadin u direysa shirka khaatumo2.

 

Anigoo ku hadlaya magaca qurbo-joogta waqooyiga Mareykanka ee beesha Meheri waxaan hambalyo iyo bogaadin u direynaa beesha *********** dhamaantood kuwooda jooga gudaha waddanka & dibedaba waxaanan ugu hambalyeyneynaa sida geesinimada leh & weliba isku duubnaanta leh ee ay u dhaqan geliyeen inuu u qabsoomo shirweynaha Khaatumo 2 kaasoo ay uga arrinsanayaan masiirkooda reereed iyo weliba danaha beesha oo ay meel qura uga soo wada jeedaan.

Waxaan haddaba kula talineynaa beelaha soomaaliyeed dhamaantood in ay taageero aan kala har laheen u gudbiyaan beesha *********** lana garab istaago qoddobada ka soo baxa shirkaa Khaatumo 2,waxaan cod buuxa kula talineynaa maamulada halkaa ka jirana aaney wax gacan gelin ah ku sameyn beesha *********** ee ka tashanaya danahooda qaaska ah.

Haddaba waxaan halkaan ka cadeyneynaa dhamaan beesha Meheri iney la garab taagan tahey shirkaa Khaatumo 2 hiil & hooba,waxaanan illaah ka baryeynaa in shirkaa uu ka soo baxo qodobo wax ku ool ah oo beesha danaheeda ah, ku dayashona u noqda dhamaan bulso weynta Soomaaliyeed una xaara waddadii ay qaadi lahaayeen kaasoo dhalin kara ineynu maanta helno waddadii nabada.AAMIIN INSHA ALLAAH.

Waxaa qorey C/qaadir Maxamed Samater(Cawaafe)

Afhayeenka beesha Meheri ee waqooyiga Mareykanka

[Liibaan]

2012: SSC SPRING - The Blessed SSC Revolution

 

Towradatan/Kacaankan Barakeysan

 

Daawo Ku Dhawaaqidii Maamul-Goboleedka SSC

 

 

[Liibaan]

Somaliland’s threats against the SSC Conference By: Osman Hassan (Badawi)

 

Geneva:-The reaction of the one-clan secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland to the opening of the long-awaited SSC conference at the famous fort of Taleex on 26 December 2011 was predictable. Panic and palpable gloom now pervade throughout the enclave and among its diaspora. In their desperation, their media and government have typically resorted to their usual ways of rubbishing anything that goes against their wish, or threatening to use force if provoked. This time, they have maliciously smeared the whole SSC people as terrorists for simply exercising their inalienable right to meet, deliberate over their affairs and decide their future. Somaliland’s reaction sounds as if the SSC people and regions belong to Hargeysa, and as if they had the effrontery to rebel from their owners – the very real rebels from Somalia! That mindset is the ultimate affront to the Darwish descendents.

 

 

Upping the ante, their most respected senior citizen and a member of the house of elders, Haji Abdikariim Hussein (nicknamed “Abdi the Hyena”), spoke for most of the secessionists in the enclave in delivering his apocalyptic ultimatum to the SSC Taleex conference. Unless they remain faithful to Somaliland, he warned, they will find themselves stateless refugees outside the SSC regions just like the Palestinians. Not mincing his words, he added that “land does not move but it is its people who are liable to displacement and ethnic-cleansing”

 

Their minister of the interior, not one to be outdone by Abdi the Hyena, also warned of the dire consequences that would follow if the SSC people had the temerity to establish their own regional administration, reckoning rightly that this would usher the end of their occupation of Laas Caanod and some parts of the SSC. The fact that his own clan (and others) had organised similar conferences in the past and subsequently established their own clan administration, albeit one masquerading as national and independent, is beside the point. Do what we tell you and not what we do is their motto.

 

If there is one thing the secessionists have faithfully emulated from their venerated British colonial mentors, it is their arrogant posturing, their self-righteousness, their use of the language of diktat and domination, and their readiness to resort to force in order to bring other clans to heel unless they get their way. That is what they did to Awdal in 1991, to Sool in 2007, but failed to do to Kalshaale in 2010.

 

For the SSC people, at home and abroad, Somaliland’s sabre-rattling and smear campaign against their conference will be dismissed as the last gasps of a doomed secession that is on the ropes. Far from acting as a deterrent, the enclave’s ranting will, if anything, only serve to galvanize the resolve of the conference to declare the SSC regions as ones under the control of its people through whatever administrative arrangements they choose to establish but an order that will at all times uphold the unshakeable unity of Somalia.

 

 

Since the minister realistically does not expect the SSC conference to heed his threats, the audiences he has in mind are his own secessionist clan and the international community. For his clan, his speech is meant to sooth their anguish. For the past 2o years, they were made to imbibe brazen unfiltered propaganda about their independence, imminent recognition, and lies that all the clans in former British Somaliland were on board. Much to their horror, they now sense in the SSC Taleex conference the beginning of the end of their dreamland.

 

All the more then that the international community is the other main target of the minister’s speech, entailing a plea for support in two ways: firstly, it is an appeal to the international community to accept, if not recognise, Somaliland’s “sovereignty” and “territorial integrity” vis-à-vis their preposterous claim to the SSC regions. And secondly, it is a plea to them to accept as legitimate any force Somaliland may have to use in order to keep the SSC regions under its control in line with their claimed “sovereignty” over the SSC.This is a request symptomatic of a people who live in a cloud cuckoo land.

 

For the international country, there is no such a thing as a “separate independent and sovereign” Somaliland but only one Somalia in which the secessionist enclave, the SSC and all other regions are part and parcel. The upshot is that the international community, or more precisely those member countries that matter, would not intervene in Somalia’s internal affairs and support one clan against another clan(s).

 

Of all the other four clans and their regions in former British Somaliland, it is the SSC regions (preferably without its people as Abdi the Hyena would wish) which the secessionists consider existentialist for their cause. This is because the SSC regions are the only ones contiguous with the rest of Somalia (former Italian Somaliland). And as long as the SSC people are determined to remain part of Somalia, the unity between former British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland would remain intact. Without the SSC regions, the puny residual secessionist enclave would stand even less chance to win recognition. This precarious situation would become more untenable when all the four clans in the unionist regions – SSC, Awdal and eastern Sanaag – make a common front against their secessionist occupiers. This is already happening.

 

The consistent stance of the international community on Somalia’s unity has now been given an unchallengeable legal underpinning. An important development in this respect is the recentsubmission of China to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague to rule that Somaliland is an integral part of Somalia. There is no reason to doubt that the court will not confirm China’s position which is in line what the United Nations, the African Union, the League of Arab States, the Organisation of Islamic Countries and regional organisations have been saying all along since the collapse of the Somali State. Always defiant, the secessionists’ bizarre counter claims was that the union of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland was not legally ratified(not true), or that Somaliland’s colonial borders remain valid (ridiculous and untrue) and a host of other fairy tales. The expected ICJ judgement will put all this to rest.

 

Given the stance of the international community and the judgement of the ICJ, Somaliland’s occupation of the SSC regions is in the first place illegal. Its continued occupation, and any force it uses to deny, foil or oppose the SSC people in exercising their inalienable right to be part of Somalia and to manage their own affairs would constitute crimes against their human rights, or, even worse, crimes against humanity, something that comes under the purview of the International Criminal Court.

 

The dilemma that faces the secessionist camp is the choice between two painful options:. One is to fight on to the bitter end in order to hold on to the occupied SSC areas as well as Awdal in defiance of the ruling of the International Court of Justice and the stance of the international community. The problem with this option is that occupation of one clan over others is unwinnable and doomed. Not only will they ultimately fail, but they will bring upon themselves untold economic, financial and humanitarian disaster (the SSC are prepared for the sacrifice). And their political and military leaders will be liable to be indicted at the International Criminal Court for the crimes they commit against the SSC people.

 

 

The other more sensible option, albeit a bitter pill to swallow, is to throw in the towel, accept that the secession has come to the end of the road and seek their rightful place in the new federal Somalia that is to emerge. Though hard to stomach it, this is the appropriate occasion to prepare their folk for the inevitable demise of the secession and the need to reconcile themselves with their fellow Somalis in Somalia. This task would be made easier by the ruling from the International Court of Justice and the opposition of all the other four unionist clans in the north to the secession and to be part of Somaliland.

 

Giving up the secession would require a very brave, statesmanlike and visionary Somaliland leader who is prepared to confront his people with the painful Hobson’s choice they face. Siilaanyo is certainly brave. But whether he has got the vision to see the inevitable and has what it takes as a statesman to lead his people towards reconciliation with Somalia remains to be seen. This is where the international community, and in particular those countries which wield considerable leverage over them, like Great Britain, the USA and the EU, could weigh in and persuade them to come to terms with the harsh realities and be part of a federal Somalia in which they are bound to play a pivotal role.

 

Osman Hassan

Chairperson

SSC Foreign Relations Commission

[Liibaan]

Participants of Khaatumo II Conference in Taleex

 

 

The SSC Come Back

By Mahado Sheikh Dahir

January 10, 2012

 

 

William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902) not only won notoriety for being the most dreadful poet of all time in the English-speaking world, but also for showing no regard or recognition whatsoever for his peer’s views of his work. Yet, if history were to be charitable to the Scot, he could have been remembered for chronicling momentous battles and events he witnessed, with farcical but candid prose packaged as poetry. "The relief of Mafeking", one of his counterfeit poems, is entertaining for its horrendous pretense than for its lyrical potency. Here are the first lines, which will rock your kidneys for a much-needed release by way of a lengthy laughter:

 

“Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing,

For being so brave in relieving Mafeking,

With his gallant little band of eight hundred men,

They made the Boers fly from Mafeking like sheep escaping from a pen”

 

 

McGonagall’s personification in the Somali political circles is an opulently bald man named Faysal Ali Waraabe, chairman of one of the opposition parties in Somaliland (North Western Somalia). He is callous, full of vitriol, rough and all. But he captures the mood of the day and the talk of Hargeisa town rather fittingly and also says it with exceptional candor. And, lately he is breathing fast and short, is in combative mode, and remonstrating.

 

His problem? - The secession dream of Somaliland is getting into a dead-end, the passageways of recognition are getting blurry and befuddling. He is not worried about Presidency and the higher perch. He is worried for the fate of his “home-land”. It is fragmenting, he says.

 

Somalia is coming back, he wailed. Sool-Sanaag-Cayn (SSC) is rising, and so Somalia is coming back, he declares. It is a correct transposition of fates. SSC must rise for Somalia to revive. He should indeed be worried, vexed even. For like McGonagall, what he is saying is comical but true. The dream of a clan enclave is turning into a midday fantasy.

 

After two decades of arduous voyage, the secessionists are finally sleepwalking into the final interment. Because the die is firmly cast in Taleex, and there is no going back. Taleex - a dying village which is home and the birthplace of an undying idealism of Somali nationalism!

 

The SSC magnitudes, themselves politically footloose and utterly divided, are now coalescing for the cause they are famed for, the cause of Somali unity. With purpose, with determination! And each baby-step they take towards setting up a viable SSC regional administration is a dagger in the heart of the secessionists in the North. With the strong come back of the SSC, and the declaration of Awdal State, it is evident that the secessionist agenda of the Somali Nationalist Movement (SNM) is now not only damaged but it is, in fact, over and the SNM drive of mutilating Somalia, as we have known and experienced it, is kaput, finito and gone.

 

 

 

The secession agenda is popular in the North simply because there is no alternative program to it in the SNM heartland. Because separating son from uncle and daughter from aunt is impervious to logic and allergic to wisdom, the SNM agenda is a feeble scheme, which cannot succeed when challenged by a more commonsensical, high-minded ideal of brotherhood and unity. Decorating the SNM clan chauvinism is certainly a roguishly attempt to dye the air and is akin to the feverishness of a beautician to spend time applying cosmetic to a baboon. It is ugly, for no amount of cosmetics can beautify a baboon.

 

The gravitas and significance of the SSC get-together will be tested soon though. But the panicky rants of Mr. Waraabe shows it is certainly a stern test to the false republic in Hargeisa. In “The Path of Thunder”, Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, states “Now that the triumphant march has entered the last street corner, remember o dancers, the thunder amongst the clouds…”

 

Indeed, beyond the sentimental Press releases and declarations, and victory parades, lies a real danger. The SSC can only succeed in achieving the political clout and autonomy it craves, only if the Taleex conference can quickly establish the foundations for an effective administration, which can raise funds from the SSC people everywhere, in a short period of time. Then, it will have to do the routine stuff: set up a security sector, provide services, and pay civil service, etc.

 

 

This week was a tale of two Hyenas (Waraabe’s). While Haji Abdi Waraabe’s threats against the SSC people is the insensitive fart of a sleeping person, which does not irritate the owner but sends the awake shying away and out of sorts, Faisal Ali Waraabe’s panicky and discordant reaction is a signal that the SSC politicians and elders in Taleex cannot expect a noiseless ride towards an autonomous homeland. The SNM militias in the garb of ‘republican’ military will visit them in the not-so-distant future.

 

The Taleex triumph is a Eureka moment for those who believed in the cause of togetherness, and not in retail politics. But as Okigbo warns, this faltering step forward is the beginning of a cast that will have to go and change over several, long seasons to come to bear fruit. The Taleex trajectory, therefore, unavoidably heralds vibrant vicissitudes of success, failure, grief, risks, confusion, impediments, opportunities, breakthroughs, and setbacks. What is at stake the morning the ephemeral ecstasy in Taleex ends, is for a more focused, more resolute, and a more durable understanding of the huge tasks ahead.

 

Regardless, those who invested in this noble cause, undaunted by difficulties and fraudulent Mahiga, must savour this small victory, albeit briefly. Rejoice the torch-bearers of this minute of enduring joy – the Northern Somali Unionist Movement (NSUM) and the Northern Somalis for Peace and Unity (NSPU)! Exult the indefatigable Osman Hassan et al. We salute you!