“Beelaha Daafaha Iyo Beelaha Dhexe Inta La Isku Diro In Somaliweyn La Inagu Daro Ayaa La Doonayaa, Ismaan Lahayn Hadii Siillaanyo Madaxweyne Noqdo Muddo Kordhin Iyo Saxaafad Caban Doonta”

“Beelaha Daafaha Iyo Beelaha Dhexe Inta La Isku Diro In Somaliweyn La Inagu Daro Ayaa La Doonayaa, Ismaan Lahayn Hadii Siillaanyo Madaxweyne Noqdo Muddo Kordhin Iyo Saxaafad Caban Doonta”

Guddoomiyaha UCID Faysal Cali Waraabe

Hargeysa, December 28, 2010 (Haatuf)- Guddoomiyaha xisbiga UCID Eng. Faysal Cali Waraabe ayaa xukuumada madaxweyne Axmed Siillaanyo dhaliilo culus uga soo jeediyay xaaladaha amaan daro ee ka taagan gobolada bariga Somaliand iyo deegaanada Kal-shaale iyo Ceel-bardaale oo u sheegay in lagu doonayo in lagu colaysiiyo beelaha darafyada iyo beelaha dhexe ee reer Somaliland si loogu gaadho in Mustaqbalka la isku daro Somaliland iyo Soomaaliweyn, waxaanu tilmaamay in xukuumadu ku guul daraysatay inay si deg deg ah wax uga qabato shaqaqooyinka ka aloosan deegaanadaasi, isagoo intaa ku daray in madaxweyne Siillaanyo ku guul daraystay inuu fuliyo ballanqaadkisii ahaa inuu soo dhisi doono dawlad kooba, balse uu tilmaamay in mid ka tiro badan  xukuumadii  Rayaale uu soo dhisay kuna soo kordhiyay hay’ado kale oo aan sharciyadoodu dhisnayn.

Guddoomiyaha xisbiga UCID Eng. Faysal Cali Waraabe oo khudbad ka jeediyay shirweynaha shanaad ee dalada ururada dhalinyarada Somaliland ee Sonyo uga furmay Hote Ambasdoor ee magaalada Hargeysa ayaa sidoo kale eedo kulul ugu soo jeediyay khilaafka golaha wakiilada la aloosan iyo muddo kordhintii ay iskugu kordhiyeen Wakiilada iyo Guurtidu muddada xilka iyo Mushaharka, madaxweyne Siillaanyo-na uu sheegay in aanu ka filaynin inuu muddo kordhin aqbali doono iyo in Saxaafada madaxabanaani ay maamulkiisa ka caban doonto.

Guddoomiye Faysal ayaa khudbadisii uu ka jeediyay madasha shirweynahaasi waxa ka mid ahaa hadaladiisii”

Cambaarayn ka soo baxday jaaliyada beel waynta R.Nuur ee ku dhaqan dalka switzerland

Cambaarayn ka soo baxday jaaliyada beel waynta R.Nuur ee ku dhaqan dalka switzerland

Cambaarayn ka soo baxday jaaliyada beel waynta R.Nuur ee ku dhaqan dalka switzerland
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010
Jaaliyada Beel waynta R.nuur ee ku dhaqan dalka Switzerland ayaa si kulu dusha ugaga tuuray cambaaryn xukuumada uu Silaanyo hogaanka u hayo sida ay uga dhaga adaygaso wax ka qabashada dhacdooyinka soo noqnoqday ee ay fuliyen maleeshiya beeleedka uu hormuudka qaldan u yahay cawar xareed.

Bishan horaanteedii waxa ay maleeshiyo beeleedku ay warar gaadma ah ku soo qaadeen deegaanka kaxda oo hoos taga degmada Baki halkaasina ka fuliyay falal waxshino leh oo ay ku waxyeeleeyeen qoys ceebka saliim ah iyaga oo dil, dhaawac iyo dhac xoolaadba u gaystay qoyska.

Dhacdada gaadmada ah oo gabi ahaanba fashilisay ciidan ku sheega la soo dhoobay deegaanada lagu muransayahay iyo meelaha labada beelood ay iska soo gaadhaan xuduud ahaan iyada oo ciidan beeleedku ay si sahlan so dhaafeen kuna sii dhaafeen ayaa hadana ilaa hada ay san jirin wax war ah oo ka soo yeedhay hogaanka ciidan ku sheega iyo dhanka xukumada. Sikastaba ha ahaatee ma aha markii ugu horaysay ee ay weeraro gaadmo iyo jidgayn ah kula kacaan dadka rayidka ah.

Cambaarayn:
waxa aanu si kulu u cambaaraynaynaa Xukuumada uu hogaanka u hayo Silaanyo iyo inta sharci darada kula shaqaysata oo si qayaxan isaga indha qabtay wax ka qabadka dhacdadan iyo gabi ahaanba colaada ka aloosan degaanada ay ku muransanyihiin Reernuur iyo Jibril abkor, iyada oo ay xukuumadii Daahir Rayalena ku guul daraysatay sidii sharciga lagu soo hortaagi lahaa budhcad beelkii jid gooyada ku sameeyay ganacsato aan wax galabsan una gaystay dilka foosha xumaa,

Tacsi:
waxaa aanu tacsi u dariyanaa dhamaan eheladii iyo qoyskii weerarka gaadmada lagula kacay ee loo gaystay khasaara isugu jira dilka, dhawaaca iyo dhaca xoolaadba, waxaanu ilaahay uga baryaynaa wiilkii laga dilay qoyska in uu Ilaahay naxariistii jano ka waraabiyo
samir iyo iimaana ka siiyo.

mohamed mahamud shirdon:switzerland           

email adress:awdal06@hotmail.com

Somaliland fosters trade in frankincense and myrrh

Fabled aromatic resins are produced in Somalia's peaceful north and sold round the world.

By Tristan McConnell - GlobalPost
Published: December 25, 2010 07:45 ET in Africa

Somalia's trees produce a flourishing trade in frankincense and myrrh in the quasi-independent state of Somaliland. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

HARGEISA, Somaliland — In the mist forests of the Golis Mountains in northern Somalia, clouds roll in off the sea. Up and over the mountain ridges, they evaporate into the desert air.
There, in the southern slopes, stumpy trees grow as if anchored to the mountainside by some unknown force. From the hand-slashed bark of these stubborn, spiky trees leak droplets of a gum that hardens into a chewy resin.
These aromatic gums are the biblical frankincense and myrrh. Harvested and dried, they have been highly valued trade items for thousands of years. The gums are simply processed and exported. They look like dirty little stones, and they find their way out of Somalia's wild north and into European perfumes, Christian churches, Arabian households and Chinese medicines.
Somaliland is the northern territory of Somalia that functions largely independent from the war-torn south, although it is not officially recognized as an autonomous country. The production and trade in the aromatic gums of frankincense and myrrh is an important economic activity for Somaliland.
Guelleh Osman Guelleh, general manager of Beyomol Natural Gums in Hargeisa, told GlobalPost that he exports 330,000 pounds of frankincense and myrrh every year. Much of his product is distilled abroad for use in perfumes.

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“The main market for us is in southern France, in Grasse. Ninety percent of what we sell goes there to be used in perfumes,” said Guelleh who studied in the United Kingdom before returning to Somaliland in 1999 to set up his gum exporting business.
The only processing done in Somaliland itself is sorting and grading the gums according to size and color but Guelleh hopes that will change, one day.
“It’s a technical issue because it is not a simple process to distill for the perfumery industry. You need to show reliability of quality and consistency of supply, you need to be able to process the same way the French do,” he said.
Nevertheless, exporting the unrefined gums alone is a profitable enterprise earning Guelleh up to $60,000 a year. Overall Somaliland's economy is estimated to be worth $50 million, of which 95 percent is exports of livestock.
Guelleh’s business operates out of Somaliland, where successive governments of the self-declared independent province have a laissez-fair policy toward private enterprise that borders on disregard.
“Somaliland is fantastic for doing business because the government keeps out of the private sector,” said Guelleh enthusiastically. Regulations are minimal, taxes non-existent. “Somaliland allows you to do your business and they don’t interfere.”
It was not always this way. During the years when Somalia was under the military rule of Mohamed Siad Barre, the government-owned Frankincense and Gums Trading Agency nationalized the sector and the crop was part of the corrupt state bureaucracy. But since the collapse of Barre’s regime and Somaliland’s declaration of independence in 1991, gums, like the rest of the economy, have been making a slow recovery.
Myrrh is extracted from the Commiphora myrrha tree that grows on the lower slopes. Frankincense comes from the Boswellia carteri tree that grows at higher altitudes. Both are used in herbal medicines, essential oils and perfume, not to mention religious ceremonies. Christians often incorporate frankincense and myrrh into traditions, given the fact that the Three Wise Men are said to have offered them to baby Jesus.
Lesser known in the Western world is "maidi" a type of frankincense that is extracted from the Boswellia frereana tree and is popular in the Arab world as a naturally scented chewing gum. This high quality gum — pure white in color — is sought after and sells for $12 per kilogram, six times the price of the best inedible frankincense.

Waxgaradka Dilla oo si kulul ugu hadleen shaqaaqada kasoo cusboonaatay Ceel-bardaale

Saving Somalia

Saving Somalia

Author: Andy Carling 12 December 2010 - Issue : 915

A rally organized by Al Qaeda-backed Islamic militia al-Shabab in Mogadishu, Somalia's capita. Dozens of Koranic students have declared to join the al-Shabab and vowed to sacrifice themselves with suicide attacks to defend the Islam and holy Koran. |EPA/BADRI MEDIA

The UN Humanitarian Representative, with the UN Country Team, visited Brussels, looking for help towards $530 million to provide aid and humanitarian assistance to Somalia, regarded as being almost beyond saving. The state of affairs is more nuanced, and less hopeless, than the media portrays, according to the UN chief. He spoke about Somalia with New Europe.
What are you hoping to achieve in Brussels?
We’re trying to raise awareness over the humanitarian appeal, launched last week and to brief the European Commission. We want to develop a joint partnership with them.
What do you think about the EEAS strategy on the Horn of Africa?
Talking with ECHO, there is still further to go. The real challenge in Somalia is starting to deal with the root causes of the conflict and not just dealing with the peripheral politics. We’re now on the 14th version of a transitional government and I think there’s a general mood, in the EU and elsewhere, that we need to take a longer term look at Somalia and deal with the critical issues, such as the conflict over resources, increasing religious conflict and the sort of things that have led to instability in the country.
Is there any way for Somalia to become a nation state?
I think part of the problem is that Somalis have a very different concept of statehood than we do and there’s a danger that the international community are trying to force Somalia into a model that might work for Europe, but doesn’t necessarily work for Somalia. I hope part of the strategy will be to look for a more stable political configuration for Somalia.
What would you like to see being done?
I would like to see some development investment in Somalia. There’s tremendous potential in places like Somaliland and Puntland and unless you start to get serious infrastructure investment, we’re going to be dealing with an increasingly poor population across the whole of the country. The levels are already very high and people have lost most of their livestock because of drought.
People are displaced internally and the way out of that is to focus on development where it is possible and it is possible in 60% of the country, and to provide some stability in those communities and to safeguard the economy which are things like livestock, which is a large export market, and there are Somali entrepreneurs, who have areas like telecoms. We need to move into a situation where the government can get the benefits of what is considerable profit in some parts of the private sector. This requires people putting trust in the state as a... non predatory actor, but as a facilitator and a far looser structure of government than we’ve been promoting. I’ve been pushing for Somalia to sign the Kyoto Protocol because the environment is a huge issue and nothing is being done. Signing will release funds.
Somaliland has been a quiet success story, have we neglected it?
I don’t think so. Donors and others have recognised what is going on there. The tragedy is that Somaliland lives in a bad neighbourhood and it is dependent on overall perceptions of Somalia.  Overall flows of aid are affected. Somalia has a major issue with debt and it means that the whole of the country, including Somaliland, isn’t available for funds.
Other issues include the lack of a mechanism for large institutional projects, such as road building, which would really help with development.
What are the advantages for Europe of having a stable Somalia?
One, is that Somalia is, globally, the main refugee generator and that could stabalise, and lead to a return, because there is a very active Somali diaspora, who would return and Europe has the largest Somali diaspora. Secondly, it would have an immediate impact on piracy, because the solution is not military. The solution is going to be found on land and this is a very important trade route for Europe. The funds we are asking for are small, compared just to the cost of piracy.
Do you see al Shabab as transitory or are they going to be part of a future Somali state?
It’s a very difficult question. The older Somalis, who had a secular state, would say it has changed to be a more radical state, so there has been a shift. Shabab is a symptom, rather than a cause. Nobody quite  understands if they are interested in coming into government, because they talk about a Caliphate. Some groups associated with them might want to go into government and the government should be as inclusive as possible.

Will Sudan threaten the idea of African statehood?

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Posted Sunday, December 12 2010 at 00:00

Alan TaccaAfter a bitter war in which thousands upon thousands were armed in two armies facing each other, and after protracted negotiations, a state called Eritrea was created and split from Ethiopia. In the same Horn of Africa, a part of Somalia separated from the old country and called itself Somaliland.

Somaliland has not yet been recognised by the international community as an independent country, but it is neither less no more viable than the war-torn rogue state, Somalia proper.
However, the biggest deal in separation on the post-colonial African continent will very likely be when South Sudan breaks away from the north, if the January referendum takes place, and if the southerners vote for a separate country as expected.

In the 1960s, Biafra would have been an early shocker, had the Igbo rebellion under the leadership of Gen. Ojukwu been able to resist the onslaught of the Nigerian army under Gen. Gowon in the brutal civil war.

Powerful identity causes, experiences or perceptions of humiliation, and economic injustice and political exclusion are some of the factors that have pumped up the passions that put those separations on the agendas of the affected nations. As we can see, the rebellions occasionally brought a harvest.

The war between South Sudanese rebels and the Khartoum government went on for so long and was so savage, and the stakes in the oil-rich region are so high, that if the Sudan finally splits (and by a vote), the event would definitely attract global attention. But more importantly, the split could potentially influence the thinking about statehood in many other parts of Africa. Its impact will be much greater than happened after Eritrea or Somaliland came into being.

Several months back, Libya’s Col. Gaddafi upset Nigeria’s officialdom and many old style African nationalists by suggesting that Nigeria should be split in two, a predominantly Muslim north, and a largely Christian south.
More recently, col. Gaddafi warned (disapprovingly) that a Sudan split would inspire many other countries to try the same medicine, suggesting that there could be chaos all around us.

Commentators saw in these two positions a typical Gaddafian inconsistence. However, there is in fact an underlying truth that Col. Gaddafi’s contradiction illuminated.

Let us look at it this way: The demographic strength of the Nigerian north and that of the south are fairly even, and power is sometimes held by a northerner, and sometimes by a southerner.

There even seems to be a polite understanding in the ruling elite that this alternation is healthy and should be maintained. Only a split Nigeria would more or less guarantee a permanent Muslim authority - in the north. And Col. Gaddafi would have a more assured area of influence out there.

On the other hand, Sudan has been exclusively in the hands of Muslim leaders since its independence. Without serious destabilising rebellions (and the referendum), Sudan’s demographics would probably ensure the status quo was maintained.

With the creation of northern Nigeria and the maintenance of a United Sudan, there would be two nations that are predominantly Muslim. Not bad for Col. Gaddafi.

Perhaps because he himself is bedecked with so many trappings that are associated with an obsessive quest for personal identity, Col. Gaddafi (roguishly opportunistic as he may be) is quite conscious of the same drive in other people.

His flirtation with Africa’s traditional leaders can be viewed partly in that context. Col. Gaddafi’s remarks about Nigeria show that he is not necessarily averse to redrawing Africa’s boundaries.

A new nation, South Sudan, would for him undesirably reduce the “imperial” sphere of Islam, but he understands why it would fire the imagination of many other Africans. As for Africa’s other despots further south, the lesser of Col. Gaddafi’s worry is probably their greatest fear, the very idea that the ill-governed post-colonial state can be dismantled with the blessing of the international community.

Mr Tacca is a novelist, socio-political commentator and artist
altacca@yahoo.com

Sweden: Somaliland government accepts the forced return of asylum seekers

The news coming from asylum seekers in Sweden have confirmed to Medeshi that their lawyers told them that the Somaliland government requested asylum seekers from the country be retuned back through Hargeisa or Berbera airports.
The asylum seeker who did not want to reveal her identity said that her lawyer informed that she was assessed and found to be of Somaliland origin and , according to a recent agreement between the current government of Somaliland and many EU countries, all failed asylum seekers assumed from Somaliland will be forced and flown back home.
This news is contrary to the policies of the previous Somaliland governments lead by Egal and Riyale who have both opposed the forced return of asylum seekers to the country. It said that the current government has been given incentives by certain EU countries to accept the forced return of asylum seekers from both Somalia and Somaliland.
This could be very damaging for the policies of the current Somaliland government that is seeking international recognition as this shows betrayal of the genuine Somali asylum seekers and reveals the governments’ desperate situation to get the European support.
Read also Somalia and IOM : http://iom.fi/files/Information%20sheets/IOM%20Helsinki/IOM%20AVR%20Sweden-Somalia_English%2029%20July%2005.pdf
Somaliland is an unrecognized state located in the Horn of Africa. It is regarded internationally as an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of Somaliland, however, regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which was independent for a few days in 1960 as the State of Somaliland.
In 1988, the Siad BarreSiad Barre regime committed massacres against the people of Somaliland, which led to the Somali Civil War. The war left the economic and military infrastructure severely damaged. After the collapse of the central government in 1991, the territory re-asserted its independence and withdrew from Somalia on May 18 of the same year. Since then, it has been governed by an administration that seeks self-determination as the Republic of Somaliland.
Currently, it remains unrecognized by any state or international organization. However, many foreign governments maintain informal ties with the state and have established an increasing number of foreign delegations and embassies in the capital Hargeisa.
Somaliland is bordered by Ethiopia in the south and west, Djibouti in the northwest, the Gulf of Aden in the north, and by Somalia in the east.

Saudi King Abdullah is reported to have suggested during a March 19 meeting with U.S. counterterrorism advisor John Brennan that surgically implanted chips could help monitor released Guantanamo detainees.

The release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables revealing backroom war negotiations — where truth sometimes becomes collateral damage — could become fodder for Al Qaeda propagandists, analysts warn.
Take for instance the blunt admission contained in the thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables that states Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh concealed U.S. missile strikes against a local branch of Al Qaeda.
“We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,” Saleh is quoted as telling U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, then the American commander in the Middle East, in a January meeting.
The cable notes that Saleh’s comment prompted Yemen’s deputy prime minister to light-heartedly add that he had just ‘lied’ to parliament, telling them that Yemeni forces had carried out the strike.
The detailed cable goes on to quote Saleh’s concerns about drugs and weapons smuggled from nearby Djibouti — then joking that he is not concerned about whiskey being brought into the Islamic republic, “provided it’s good whiskey.”
It is a poorly kept secret that the U.S. has been heavily involved in Yemeni security since Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed credit for last year’s failed Christmas Day plot to down a Detroit-bound flight, among other attacks.
But some warn that Saleh’s candid admission in a country where foreign intervention is despised will be a boon for groups like AQAP.
“President Saleh’s comments will be translated and used over and over again by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a recruiting and propaganda tool,” says Princeton scholar and noted Yemen analyst Gregory Johnsen.
“His statements regarding lying about U.S. air strikes and ‘whiskey’ fit seamlessly into a narrative that AQAP has been peddling in Yemen for years.”
Sunday’s disclosure of nearly a quarter-million cables from website whistle-blower WikiLeaks touches on some of the most sensitive and pressing national security concerns, including U.S. fears about the rise of Islamic militant organizations in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.
But the cables also provide bizarre details of candid conversations that were sure to make foreign leaders squirm Sunday night and dread the continued release this week of thousands of more cables.
Saudi King Abdullah is reported to have suggested during a March 19 meeting with U.S. counterterrorism advisor John Brennan that surgically implanted chips could help monitor released Guantanamo detainees.
“ ‘I’ve just thought of something,’ the King added, and proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth,” the cable states.
“ ‘This was done with horses and falcons,’ the King said,” according to the released document.
To which, Brennan reportedly replied, “horses don’t have good lawyers.”
The issue of closing Guantanamo appears often in the cables, although the anticipated disclosure of documents concerning Canadian detainee Omar Khadr was not released Sunday.
Negotiating placement for the Guantanamo detainees became a diplomatic version of “Let’s Make a Deal,” with State Department officials promising lucrative financial and political payoffs to personal meetings with President Barack Obama if allied countries would take a detainee off their hands.
One cable notes that accepting Guantanamo prisoners would be a “low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.”

Swiss voters approve harsher deportation plan

 

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Foreigners make up more than a fifth of the Swiss population

Switzerland has approved a plan to automatically deport foreigners convicted of serious crimes. The proposal, put forth by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party, has been criticized by human rights groups.

 

Swiss voters have approved a far-right initiative to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of serious crimes, according to poll results.
Swiss national broadcaster SF1 said 52.9 percent of voters backed the initiative in Sunday's referendum, a plan proposed by the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP).
A counter-proposal put forth by the Swiss government, which would make expulsion dependent on the length of a prison term rather on an arbitrary list of offenses, appears to have been rejected by most voters, according to preliminary results. Currently, decisions to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes are made on a case-by-case basis.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:  Posters for the Swiss People's Party have been controversial
The initiative, which would apply to foreigners convicted of crimes like murder, rape or trafficking in drugs or people, has been criticized by human rights groups and legal experts, who said it could disregard international anti-discrimination treaties and the free movement of peoples under European Union law.
Switzerland, while not an EU member, does allow EU citizens to take residence without special permission.
Foreigners make up more than a fifth of Switzerland's population of 7.7 million, and according to official figures are disproportionately charged with crimes.
Growing support for SVP
The SVP has become one of Switzerland's biggest political movements in recent years, garnering support by playing on the rising fear about immigration.
Posters for the SVP proposal showed a group of white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag, a move criticized by anti-racism groups.
Sunday's referendum comes a year after Switzerland approved a ban on the construction of minarets, a decision that drew international criticism.
Author: Martin Kuebler (AFP, AP, Reuters)
Editor: Ben Knight

Revenge and clan based anger cannot build a nation

Revenge and clan based anger cannot build a nation  

by Hashim Goth
Monday, November 22, 2010

President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud "siilaanyo"

When Kulmiye political party was in the election campaign, we have seen President Silanyo playing the tribal card a number of times by evoking the memories of the Somali National Movement (SNM) and his role as the leader of the movement.

Despite his divisive political line, many of us gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought that he was using these issues to win the election but will not use them in government. Many of us entertained the hope that he would form a national government that would maintain the harmony and the unity of the people of Somaliland.

We had faith in him due to his long service as minister with Siad Barre government and also due to his political experience as head of the SNM.

However, his true color became more apparent when he formed his first cabinet. The new government was a mixed bag consisting of clan chauvinists, Islamists, In-laws of his sub-clan and a few individuals from Diaspora with high degrees who campaigned for him and who were away from the country over twenty years and have no experience or connection with the realty of the country.

What is worse than that is the key ministers in Silanyo’s cabinet such us: - The Ministers of Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Planning, Public –works, Mining and Mineral Resource, Education and Health are all from one clan. In addition to that important positions such as : President of the supreme court country, The Governor of the central Bank, Commander of the Army  force and the Spy Chief, were all given to SNM supporting clans and none of them came from Awdal, Sool and Sanag regions .

This is in violation of The Borama accord of 1993. The new government of Silanyo is in a nutshell a clan based administration and has left out the none middle regions of the country. This action has triggered a fierce feeling of anger in a number of regions such as Awdal-. The minor positions allocated to Awdalites would not persuade us to believe that we have a share of the pie because the information and the advice Mr. Silanyo is getting from little men in the Awdal region is misleading and to depend on the opinion of these people will not be helpful to maintain the peace and the Unity of the country.

Secondly, let me add to this, Awdal region is Somaliland historically, politically, and Socially and the Awdalite people are not divided on that issue. Mr. Silanyo may also be reminded that his dagger wielding advisor in the Presidency is unwelcome to that the vast majority of Somaliland people and particularly those of the Awdal region.  The people are obviously watching how your lopsided Government is running the affairs of their country.

The ball is in your court and the situation needs to be rectified.

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Hashim Goth.
hashimgoth@hotmail.comEditorial AwdalpressSomaliland           

Video of Kidnapped British Couple’s Journey to Freedom After a Year With Somali Pirates

Foreign Companies Loot $350m From Somalia

Foreign companies loot and dump toxic wastes in Somali seas in the full glare of the EU and NATO naval forces that patrol the Somali coastal lines, a Somali professor at the University of Minnesota has said.
Abdi Ismail Samater, a professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota claims foreign companies poach and dump toxic waste in Somali waters.
He said foreign interests seized the opportunity to begin looting the country's seafood after the collapse of the Somali government in 1991.
"Between 700 up to 800 illegal fishing ships directly steal Somali seafood. They took any kind of fish including nest eggs in the deep waters", he told AfricaNews in an exclusive interview. He added that foreign ships use prohibited fishing equipment, including nets with very small mesh sizes and sophisticated underwater lighting systems, to lure fish to their traps.
Somalia waters have huge numbers of commercial fish species, including the prized yellow fin tuna.
The illegal fishing ships come from Italy, Egypt, India, South Korea, Kenya, Tanzania, and Spain, according to a research that is yet to be published by Prof. Abdi Ismail Samater and his colleagues at University of Minnesota.
The research also indicates that illegal fishing companies from Japan, China, Denmark and Holland are also part of the lootings process in Somalia.
"The illegal fishing companies poach an estimated between $250 up to$350 million in seafood from Somali waters annually", Prof. Samater said.
The foreign companies steal an invaluable protein source from one of the world's poorest nations, where half of its population needs food aids.
One in six Somali children is acutely malnourished - a total of some 240,000 children - the highest acute malnutrition rates anywhere in the world. In south and central Somalia these rates are even higher, reaching one in every five children, According to WFP.
The UN estimates it will need $689 million to provide aid in 2010 to the Somali population, of which 43 per cent live on less than a dollar a day.
Professor Abdi accused foreign companies for ruin the livelihoods of legitimate fishermen. He claimed NATO and EU force in Somali waters don not stop or even speak out illegal fishing in the coast.
"NATO and EU forces are aware of the ongoing poaching in Somali sea but they are focusing on pursuing only their economic and security interest", he said.
But Lieutenant Colonel Per Klingvall, spokesperson for EU NAVFOR said his force is contributing in monitoring fishing activity off the coast of Somalia.
"We are mandated to monitor and report illegal activities off the coast of Somalia. We have no information about illegal fishing in Somalia", Per Klingvall said.
"European fishing vessels pass their location to us daily, they have not been in Somali waters since they started passing EU NAV FOR their details. As far as we can monitor the European fishing fleets are outside the, by Somali, declared 200 NM Economic exclusive zone."
Prof Abdi Ismail Samater said foreign warships came to the Gulf of Aden to protect only their interests and the increasing insurance costs.
But the spokesperson for EU NAVFOR said that their main objective is to escort World Food Programme (WFP) ships so they can deliver humanitarian aid to the Somali people. "Since we started Dec 2008 we have escorted more than 80 ships who have delivered more than 410 000 metric tons. That feeds 1 300 000 people every day", he told AfricaNews.
'Other missions are to escort AMISOM logistic ships and other vulnerable ships. We are also mandated to disrupt and deter acts of piracy and armed robbery off the Somali coast".
Somali pirates are causing havoc in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping routes connecting Europe to Asia and the Middle East.
"There are stories that piracy probably started as a reaction to foreign illegal fishing over 10 years ago.
However, the pirates are no longer motivated by good causes - all of the recent attacks off the East coast of Somalia have been hundreds of miles from Somali waters and have been for financial gain only", said Per Klingvall.
In sharp contrast to the EU Naval force for Somalia, Professor Samatar says a number of pirate are out to make money, some are patriots who are out to defend the waters against looting. "All power full states are just pushing only their interests. Somali pirates took only $35 million each year while foreign companies loot $350 m seafood annually.
No-one is addressing looting but world bodies are busy discussing pirates", he said.
Prof Samater says western nations are only focused to fight pirates since it is a threat to their economy.
"No one is listening to a weak person who is crying and saying "please don't take my fish". No nation is serious for Somali issue. They are all busy for their interests".
Warships from the United States, Britain, Japan, France and other countries have been trying to stop Somali pirates, but have been unable to uproot the problem of piracy.
The international community has been focused on training Somali ground forces-military and police-to defend Somali government from Islamist rebels but EUNAVFOR spokesperson said they have no mandate to train Somali Naval Force.
By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya

Feds Break Up Somali Sex Trafficking Ring in Minnesota, Tennessee

Nearly 30 Somali immigrants named in indictment

John Morton says the US authorities will bring sex traffickers to justice

 

Updated: Monday, 08 Nov 2010, 10:44 PM EST
Published : Monday, 08 Nov 2010, 10:06 AM EST

by Tom Lyden / FOX 9 News

MINNEAPOLIS - In a series of arrests carried out Monday morning in the Twin Cities and Nashville, Tennessee, federal and local authorities broke up a human trafficking ring that provided underage prostitutes.
A federal indictment unsealed Monday morning in Nashville details the sex trafficking operations of 29 Somali men and women tied to the Somali Outlaws, Somali Mafia and Lady Outlaws gangs, which are all connected and based in Minneapolis. Of the 29 indicted, 12 were arrested Monday morning in the Twin Cities, eight in Nashville and six were already in jail in various locations. Three remain at-large and wanted.
Word of the activities of the ring first became public in September, when investigators sought the phone records of a 15-year-old girl who was a prostitute for the ring.

According to the indictment, one of the intentions of the three groups is to “identify, recruit and obtain” girls under 14 and girls under 18 for prostitution. The sex ring operated between 2000 and 2010 in Minneapolis, Nashville, and Columbus, Ohio.

“Trafficking children for sex is intolerable and the Department of Justice will aggressively enforce trafficking and other laws to eliminate these types of deplorable acts,” said U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin. “As shown here today, law enforcement agencies at every level will come together to bring the full force of justice to bear on individuals who choose to profit by victimizing innocent children.”

The indictment details the trafficking and sexual assault of four girls – two under the age of 18 and two aged 13 and under at the time of their recruitment. The girls were allegedly taken between Minneapolis and Nashville, where they were sold for sex and forced to have sex with gang members. One of the victims was also taken to an apartment in Seattle and to Columbus with other girls.
One of the victims detailed in the indictment was picked up from her high school several times and raped in a bathroom at Northtown Mall in Blaine, Minn. and inside an abandoned garage.

During a trip to Nashville, one of the gang members allegedly shot a cell phone video of a victim engaging in sex acts with someone else in the car. He then sent that video to other people.
Most of the prostitution transactions took place in apartments, homes and hotel room in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities metro or Nashville.
The sex trafficking offenses carry a penalty of 15 years to life in prison.
“Human traffickers abuse innocent people, undermine our public safety, and often use their illicit proceeds to fund sophisticated criminal organizations,” said ICE Director John Morton. “ICE is committed to bringing these criminals to justice and rescuing their victims from a life in the shadows. We will continue to fight the battle to end human trafficking both here in the United States and around the globe.”
Those charged in the indictment are identified as:

• Abdifitah Jama Adan, aka “Shorty” aka “Faleebo” aka “Kuzzo,” 28;
• Abdullahi Sade Afyare aka “Forehead,”19;
• Ahmad Abnulnasir Ahmad aka “Fabulous,”23;
• Yahya Jamal Ahmed, 23;
• Abdikarim Osman Ali, aka “Homer” aka “Big Abdi,” 22;
• Musse Ahmed Ali aka “Fat Boy,” 23;
• Hassan Ahmed Dahir aka “Mohamed Ali Hussein,” 21;
• Fadumo Mohamed Farah aka “Naana Naana” aka “Gangster Boo” aka “Barnie,” 25;
• Idris Ibrahim Fahra aka “Chi Town,” 22;
• Yasin Ahmed Farah, 19;
• Abdullahi Hashi aka “Kamal,” 24;
• Fatah Haji Hashi aka “Jerry” aka “Jr,” 23;
• Abdirahman Abdirazak Hersi aka “Biggie,” 20;
• Muhiyadin Hassan Hussein aka “CD,” 22;
• Dahir Nor Ibrahim aka “Dahir Lucky,” 38;
• Abdifatah Bashir Jama aka “Cash Money” aka “Ohio,” 23;
• Andrew Kayachith aka “AK,” 20;
• Abdigadir Ahmed Khalif aka “Awali,” 24;
• Bashir Yasin Mohamud aka “Br,” 26;
• Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed, 22;
• Fuad Faisal Nur aka “Hanjule,” 24;
• Abdifatah Sharif Omar aka “British” aka “Pinky,” 25;
• Liban Sharif Omar aka “Sunderra,” 21;
• Mohamed Sharif Omar aka “Moe D” aka “Mojo,” 26;
• Hamdi Ali Osman aka “Big Hamdi” aka “Boss Lady,” 22;
• Haji Osman Salad aka “Hollywood,” 20;
• Bibi Ahmed Said, 19;
• Ahmed Aweys Sheik aka “Rear Hammer” aka “Abdul,” 24; and
• Yassin Abdirahman Yusuf aka “Junior” aka “Black Cat Junior,” 21.

Hay'adda Camuud Foundation oo Xaflad lagu qabtay London Ugu baaqay Somalida in ay gacan ka Gaystaan Arimahan caawimada ah ee ay Wadaan

NOTICE OF AMOUD FOUNDATION EVENT IN LONDON

NOTICE OF AMOUD FOUNDATION EVENT IN LONDON

Oct.30 - (alnuur)-Amoud Foundation of Dallas, Texas, USA, is holding a very important event in London.

All Somali residents in London and surrounding areas are invited.

Where: The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
London, N7 6PA

When: November 6, 2010

Time: 4:00PM-10:00PM

Contacts: Hassan M. Khalif 07904045422
Mohamoud Omer Hussein (Aw Bash Bash)07949031031
Mohamed Ali (Gabiley) 07539305008
Mohamoud Abdillahi (Dhagafiiq) 07983412173
Ruqiya Abdi Khalif 02088458412

Speakers: Mohamoud Farah Egal, Founding President
Yussuf Aden Kalib, Vice President and cofounder

Human suffering does not discriminate and knows no clan or kin. Amoud Foundation has been fighting it in many fronts for the past twelve years- from Borama, Hargeisa, Burao, Bacaadwayne, Afgoye, and beyond. Much has been accomplished and yet there are miles to go because the need is so great and pervasive. Please join us to learn and lend a hand.

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TLC Executive holds first meeting with Tol Sultans

October 22, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

MINNEAPOLIS/BORAMA, OCTOBER 22, 2010–The Executive Committee of the Tol Leadership Council (TLC) and the Tol Sultans in Borama agreed on the need for a strong, united and innovative leadership that could effectively meet the current and future challenges facing the Tol community.

Attending the meeting held through telephone conference on October 13, 2010 were TLC Chairman Prof. Ahmed Ismail Samatar, and the two Vice Chairs, Mr. Abdiwahid Sh. Osman and Yussuf Adan Kalib; while Sultan Abdirahman Jama Dhawal, Sultan Ibrahim Jama Samatar, and Sultan Baade Hassan Hadi were present on the Sultans side.

The TLC leadership briefed the Sultans on the TLC’s long term vision and mission and the Sultans conveyed their insights about the condition of the TOL and the hardships facing the community, especially in the area of the improvement of the infrastructure such as roads and the development of   local maritime facilities. 

Both sides agreed that without strong unity and very competent and innovative leadership, none of the challenges could be met effectively. 

“The TLC leadership and the Sultans had a substantive discussion in which they listened to each other with high attentiveness, solicitous fraternal spirit, and palpable eagerness to break the ground for genuine civic solidarity,” said Prof. Samatar, commenting on the atmosphere in which the meeting was held.

TLC leadership and the Sultans had agreed on the need to:

1. Drill deep into our people the principle distinction between tribalism or clanism and tolnimo –one that is simultaneously essential for the cohesion of the Gadabursi Tol and brings enormous concrete benefits to them as well as to the Somali communities near and far.

2. Aim to build our region’s material, intellectual, and political capacity

3. Contribute to the legitimate welfare (i.e. justice, peace, and prosperity) of Somaliland

4.   Keep a wakeful eye on the overall condition of the Somali people.

Both sides recognized and underscored the need for close and ongoing cooperation between TLC and the TOL traditional leadership. They also agreed that the TLC should formulate protocols for future mutual consultations between the two sides.

WikiLeaks: At Least 109,000 Killed During Iraq War

The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks today released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces. 

The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces)," WikiLeaks said in a statement regarding the documents' release. "The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60 percent) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six-year period."
The new documents covered 2004 through 2009, WikiLeaks said, with the exception of May 2004 and March 2009.
A review of the documents by Iraq Body Count, an advocacy group that long has monitored civilian casualties in the war, found 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths, according to WikiLeaks -- a detail first reported in The Guardian newspaper, one of a handful of international news organizations that got an advance look at the documents.
The U.S. military long has maintained that it does not keep an official death tally, but earlier this month following a Freedom of Information Act request, the Pentagon said some 77,000 Iraqis had been killed from 2004 to mid-2008 -- a shorter period than that covered by WikiLeaks.
Besides the different time periods, the New York Times, which also saw the WikiLeaks documents early, noted that "some deaths are reported more than once, and some reports have inconsistent casualty figures."
Al Jazeera, which also got an advance look at the documents, reported a total of 285,000 war casualties on its Arabic-language website, a number that included both dead and wounded. It also reported that the documents said 681 Iraqi civilians were killed at U.S. checkpoints, 180,000 Iraqis were arrested during the war and 15,000 Iraqis were buried without being identified.
The massive leak of 391,832 documents at 5 p.m. ET today, which WikiLeaks billed as "the largest classified military leak in history," followed WikiLeaks' similar but smaller release on the war in Afghanistan.
The new release was anticipated by the Pentagon, which has warned that publicizing the information could endanger U.S. troops.

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West turns to Somaliland while rest of Somalia crumbles (Feature) By Michael Logan Oct 19, 2010, 3:06 GMT

Hargeisa, Somalia - In the centre of Hargeisa, the capital of the self-proclaimed state of Somaliland, a Soviet-era MiG jet sits atop a brightly painted plinth.
Its squat, deadly body is a reminder of the destruction dictator Mohamed Siad Barre ordered visited upon the city as Somaliland fought for independence from Somalia in the 1980s.
But beyond the memento of the bloody past, the scaffold-bristling skeleton of a multi-storey building rises into clear blue skies that once rained bombs.
The building - the new headquarters of Dahabshiil, a booming money-transfer company handling hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances from the diaspora - symbolizes a brighter future and shows why the international community is taking increasing notice of Somaliland's efforts.
Somaliland declared independence in 1991 when Barre was ousted. Since then, it has rebuilt Hargeisa and recast itself as a bastion of stability and democracy.
It is a stark contrast to the rest of Somalia, where Islamist insurgents lay siege to the latest ineffective government in the south and pirates based in the breakaway region of Puntland terrorize international shipping in the Gulf of Aden.
Just a few months ago, Somaliland held a presidential poll international observers deemed credible - a feat regional states such as Rwanda and Ethiopia couldn't pull off.
Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, the new president, slashed his cabinet and filled key posts with Western-educated technocrats. In response, dozens of representatives from the United Nations, European Union and the World Bank trundled through Hargeisa in a dusty convoy last week to discuss development with the new administration.
The UN estimates Somaliland receives close to 100 million dollars each year in aid - almost a third of what goes into Somalia and twice the budget of the Somaliland government.
Marc Bowden, the UN's Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, believes this could double next year.
'As people see the capacity and opportunity, I'm sure funding will increase,' he said.
The United States, which recently announced it will work more closely with Somaliland and Puntland, put 7 million dollars into Somaliland in 2009 through its aid wing USAID. By the end of this year that figure will have almost quadrupled.
Washington, concerned about the Islamist terrorism threat, has focused its support for Somalia on the Transitional Federal Government in the war-wracked capital Mogadishu.
The conflict, which has killed over 21,000 people and displaced over a million people since early 2007, has only intensified. The al- Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab and its allies now control much of south and central Somalia.
Somaliland insists that, if supported, it can serve as a buttress against radical Islamism and fight piracy. Minister of Mining, Energy and Water Resources Hussein Abdi Dualeh, a Somali-American, believes the new US approach shows the message is getting across.
'The US has for some time been wasting money on ... Mogadishu,' he said. 'I think they realized ... aid we get here will not be torn up by shrapnel.'
Washington may be impressed by Somaliland's efforts, but al- Shabaab is not.
It killed around two dozen people in suicide bomb attacks in Hargeisa in October 2008. Today, concrete barriers shield hotels and government offices from car bombs and dozens of police toting automatic weapons protected the visiting delegation.
Although donors are upping their funding, there is a limit to what they can do while Somaliland remains unrecognized.
Much of the World Bank's funding mechanisms are out of reach due to Somalia's massive debt, bilateral relations are not possible and getting insurance and guarantees for exports is an uphill battle.
'The main problem is the recognition,' said Guelleh Osman Guelleh, who runs a business exporting Frankincense and Myrrh to France. 'It`s a big disadvantage being placed in the same bracket as the rest of Somalia.'
Somalilanders believe they should be recognized given the former British protectorate was briefly independent in 1960, before joining with Italian Somaliland to form Somalia - a decision they still regret.
'That other African states would then declare independence is used as an excuse, but Somaliland has been a nation state before,' said Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Omar.
Somaliland`s economy is dominated by livestock - the port of Berbera exports the largest number of livestock through a single port in the world - and diversification is seen as crucial.
Aid officials say developing the Berbera transport corridor to Ethiopia would boost the economy, while the private sector - thriving =in telecommunications and money transfer - has significant promise. = According to Dualeh, huge deposits of oil, gas and minerals are waiting to be exploited once issues of concessions handed out to foreign companies under the Barre regime are resolved.
Despite this promise, there is a long way to go.
In Hargeisa, mansions built by returning diaspora sit cheek-by-jowl with makeshift huts housing displaced people. Rubbish litters the side of roads that are little more than compacted sand. Somaliland faces huge unemployment, poverty, cyclical drought and a widespread debilitating addiction to the narcotic Khat leaf.
Yet many believe that given the right backing, the self-proclaimed state of 3.5 million people could disprove the notion that Somalia - which routinely tops the list of the world`s failed states - is beyond help.

Misfar misfortune: 900 children abandoned in Egypt by Saudi fathers

By FATIMA SIDIYA | ARAB NEWS

Published: Oct 13, 2010 23:12 Updated: Oct 13, 2010 23:12

JEDDAH: About 900 children born to Egyptian women and Saudi men in what is commonly known as “misfar” or “tourist” marriages are abandoned by their fathers, said an Egyptian activist at a recent forum on human trafficking.

Speaking at the conference in Egypt, Aiman Abu Akeel, chairman of the board of trustees of the Maat Foundation for Peace and Development, said that the majority of men who visit Egypt looking for misfar marriages tend to be Saudi, followed by Iraqis, and that the women they marry are predominantly younger than them.
“Misfar” marriage refers to a union contracted so that a woman may join her “husband” for the period of time he travels in a foreign country.
The women in such unions are divorced after a short time ranging from a week to a month, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yaum Al-Sabi reported.
Speaking at the same forum, Azza Al-Jazaar, the general organizer of the Anti-Trafficking of Egyptian Girls program, said that these young women do not know they are being treated like commodities.
Their fathers receive up to 4,000 Egyptian pounds from these men for trading off their girls, she said, adding that most of these girls are below 16 years of age.
Statistics show that some SR100 million are spent on misfar marriages, which last for not more than a month, with 90 percent of Saudi fathers leaving behind children born out of such relationships.
However, Najeeb Al-Zamil, founder of the Back to the Roots Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that helps Saudi children abroad, said that although there are many such children in Arab countries, their suffering is less than that experienced by children born in non-Arab countries.
He added that these men abandon their families and children, as they fear what their relatives in the Kingdom will think.
He also said that while some children live in miserable conditions and turn to drugs and illegal activities, there are others who have become models and actors. He added that some of these children are smart and get educated, but they feel lost because of unrecognized parenthood.
“I met one Saudi-Filipino girl who said she has everything but feels she has nothing because her father doesn’t recognize her, while another said she feels like a puzzle with a missing piece. She said she wants her father to feel proud of her,” he said.
Al-Zamil, a member of the Shoura Council, said he has called for DNA tests to be recognized as a legitimate means of determining kinship, something that would force a father to admit parenthood. He also said that many of these children are not in need of financial aid nor do they want to come to the Kingdom but are desperate to be recognized.
There are 47 Saudi-Filipino children registered with the Saudi Embassy in Manila, but Al-Zamil believes their actual number is much higher with more people contacting them daily.
Saudi lawyer Ibrahim Al-Zamzami criticized women who do not bother registering their marriages, adding that this is what complicates matters. “If a woman has a marriage contract and witnesses, and if the child’s birth certificate states that the child is born after a legitimate relationship, authorities can force the father to accept the child as his,” he said.
“Even though the father violated the law that prevents him from marrying a non-Saudi without approval, this does not mean that any children from such a marriage will not be registered at the Ministry of Interior,” Al-Zamzami said.
He added that Saudi embassies have been advised to register children and issue temporary travel documents that allow fathers to bring their children to the Kingdom and arrange passports and ID cards for them.
Al-Zamzami said that fathers, however, could be punished for violating the law and that this could be in the form of a travel ban or a prison sentence.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, has warned against misfar marriages saying they are not different from “mutaa” marriages, which are conducted to fulfill desires unlawfully.
Al-Asheikh said traveling abroad to marry with the intention of divorcing upon return is not permitted in Shariah, and said such acts would have detrimental effects on society, women and children from such unions.

The journey of Ismael

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Should the U.S. Help Break Up Somalia?

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Last month, the United States announced a new policy toward Somalia. In a September 24 press briefing in New York City, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said that the U.S. would "work to engage more actively with the governments of Puntland and Somaliland," two autonomous regions within Somalia. This ends the U.S. policy of relating exclusively to Somalia's transitional federal government (TFG), which can be described as the country's central government only if "central" is understood to mean controlling several blocks of the capital with the help of 7,000 foreign soldiers. The change was driven by escalating violence in Somalia's south from the al-Qaeda-aligned militant outfit al-Shabaab, the TFG's clear ineffectiveness, and the relative security that both Somaliland and Puntland have enjoyed. Though this new policy falls far short of recognizing Somaliland's long-sought independence, thus creating a new African state and fundamentally reshaping the Horn of Africa, some observers believe the U.S. should now give independence a closer look.

The U.S.'s hope is that by engaging Somaliland and Puntland, those regions will be better equipped to contain the spread of violence. Carson made this clear, saying that both regions are expected to "be a bulwark against extremism and radicalism that might emerge from the South." He continued, "We hope to be able to have more American diplomats and aid workers going into those countries on an ad hoc basis to meet with government officials to see how we can help them improve their capacity to provide services."

Though Somaliland declared its independence on May 18, 1991, it is not internationally recognized; Puntland declared itself an autonomous state in 1998, but has not sought outright independence. Carson, by referencing these regions as countries, drew questions from reporters on whether the U.S. was contemplating diplomatic recognition of them as independent states. He replied that the U.S. "still recognized only a single Somali state." But Somaliland's representatives believe the U.S.'s policy shift does not go far enough.

I spoke with Saad Noor, the North American representative of the Republic of Somaliland, who believes that as long as its independence is not recognized Somaliland's relative stability will be in jeopardy. He noted that, at present, Somaliland cannot engage with international institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, or even the Universal Postal Union. Noor also pointed to businesses' hesitancy to engage in the region because Somaliland's status as an unofficial country makes it difficult to insure their investments. Without recognition, Noor claimed, "our people's hopes and adherence to the state will erode day to day. If you cannot employ and educate the young men and young women, if you cannot build roads, if you cannot bring businesses that provide jobs, everything will be in a state of continuous deterioration."

Noor is also unhappy that the U.S. is explicitly linking its Somaliland and Puntland policies. "Puntland never left the union," he said. "Puntland still flies the flag of Somalia and uses the same currency. They say that they would like to have a federal republic of Somalia."

Most of the scholarship to date regarding Somaliland's independence supports U.S. recognition. Peter J. Schraeder made the case in a piece he wrote for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Matt Bryden proclamed that Somaliland "looks like a state, smells like a state and tastes like a state." (Honestly, it makes more sense in context.) To be fair, ideas that are far from being implemented frequently have more public advocates than adversaries, and only garner more opposition once they look like they could become a reality.

I spoke to a few opponents of recognizing Somaliland to get a better sense of the debate. Abdulkadir Hashi, Puntland's State Minister for International Cooperation, called me from Puntland and voiced a fundamental philosophical objection. "The world is coming together," he said, pointing to the European Union as one example. "So it doesn't make sense for Somali people to be split up." Puntland thus does not seek independence, and opposes independence for Somaliland.

Another opponent of Somaliland independence is Abdiweli Ali, an associate professor of economics at Niagara University who has advised some of Somalia's political entities. Ali told me that geopolitical concerns include territorial disputes between Puntland and Somaliland, which he believes could make cause conflict. Some of the clans in these regions identify with Puntland rather than Somaliland, for example. In my conversation with Saad Noor, he brushed this concern aside, pointing out that Somaliland declared its independence almost twenty years ago. "Why haven't those bad things happened so far?" he asked.

Another objection that Ali raised is the precedent that Somaliland independence might set. "If you allow Texas to secede, how can you deny Oklahoma?" he asked. Advocates of Somaliland independence point to the fact that it once was an independent country: the former British Somaliland Protectorate gained independence on June 26, 1960, and was recognized by 35 countries before voluntarily forming a union with the former Italian Somalia five days later. Peter Schraeder wrore that Somaliland independence would not "call into question the African mantra of the 'inviolability of frontiers' inherited at independence." Instead, dissolving the union "would constitute a unique case of returning to the boundaries inherited from the colonial era."

While Abdulkadir Hashi acknowledges that Somalia's north has historically been short-changed by the government in the south, he told me: "I don't think that the grievances of the Somaliland people, great as they are, really justify secession." He suggests that there may be intermediate solutions short of independence, such as giving the country's presidency to Somaliland.

Whether or not recognizing Somaliland's independence is the right solution, the U.S. would do well to understand the challenges that the region confronts. As Noor said, "Somaliland is held up as a shining example because of its successful recent elections and security situation. But it could lose its shine. The situation is not sustainable unless the international community invests in it." And it is clear that the U.S.'s engagement with Somaliland and Puntland will only grow increasingly important, since the new U.S. policy is an acknowledgement that the TFG is not up to the challenges that confront it. So the policy is not just about Somaliland and Puntland: it is also about admitting to ourselves that the violence in the South will not end anytime soon, and searching for ways to contain its spread.

Image: Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdillahi Mohamed Dualeh speaking at a 2007 press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By Jose Cendon/AFP/Getty.

Hargeysa( Waaheen) Suldaan Ismaaciil Suldaan C/raxmaan oo shalay Shir jaraa’id ku qabtay Hotelka Xaraf ee Hargeysa ayaa ka jawaabay Hadal uu Suldaan Xasan Suldaan C/laahi ku naqdiyay Hadal kale oo ay Salaadiinta Gobolka Awdal ugu digeen Xukuumadda Somaliland kadib markii ay Dadweynaha Gobolka Awdal ka cadhoodeen sababtii lagu bedelay Taliyihii Ciidamadda Xeebta Galbeed iyo eedo loo soo jeediyay dadka deegankaas oo la sheegay inay ku lug lahaayeen.

Halkan Ka Dhageyso  Maqal

shirkaasi jaraa’id ee uu shalay qabtay suldaan Ismaaciil suldaan C/raxmaan waxa uu ugu horayn faah-faahin kaga bixiyay ujeedada uu shirkaa jaraa’id u qabtay waxaanu yidhi “ waxa aan maanta shirkan jaraa’id u qabtay

1. in aan raali gelin ka bixiyo,oo aan raali geliyo madax dhaqameedka Gobolka Awdal iyo bulsho waynta ay hogaanka u yihiin.
2. shacabi-waynaha Beesha Habar Awal ee magacooda laga been abuurtay.

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BAAQ KA SOO BAXAY UGAASKA GADABURSI & QURBO JOOGTA WAQOOYIGA AMEERIKA

September 30, 2010

By staff-reporter

Awdalpress(Ottawa) 30-Sept-2010-Anagoo ah qurba joogta Reer Awdal, Salal iyo Gabiley oo ay weheliyaan Ururada TLC & ARDAA. Iyadoo aan xog-ogaal u nahay isbadalka siyaasadeed ee ku dhisan  qabiilka raba in uu ka amar ku taagleeyo heshiis laba reer dhexmaray in si sinaan, cadaalad iyo maamul daacad  laga yahay la wada samaysto.
Anagoo ka warqabna war saxaafadeedkii odey dhaqmeedyada (Salaadiinta) gobollada galbeed ee isugu jiray warbixin dhacdooyin si isdaba jooga ah u dhacay ee ay maamulka Hargeysa ku dhaliileen tixgelin la’aanta codsiyadoodii hore.  Markaan aragnay sida badheedka ah ee khaladaadkii uu galay taliyaha ciidamada Gen.Nuux Taani, hasayeeshee, si badheedh ah loogu soo leexiyey Gen. Maxamed Osman Ibraahim (Xudhuun).  Haddii aannu nahay qurba joogta ku nool Waqooyiga Ameerika oo uu hogaaminayo Ugaaska Gadabuursi Ugaas Cabdirashiid Ugaas Rooble Ugaas Doodi, waxaan soo jeedinaynaa go’aamada hoos ku xusan oo isugu jira bogaadin, tusaalayn iyo digniin:
1.      Waxaan si buuxda u taageeraynaa bayaankii Salaadiinta Gobollada Awdal, Salal iyo Gabiley.
2.      Waxaan bogaadin iyo hambalyo u diraynaa bulshada sadexdaas gobol ee ka gilgilatay cadaalad darada isbiirsatay, dhaga adayga, cagajuglaynta iyo balan qaadyada beenta ah ee ku salaysan siyaasadda nifaaqa ah ee maamulada kala dambeeyey ee Hargeysa ay ku sifoobeen.
3.      Waxaan uga digaynaa maamulka Hargeysa ee dhaqan galinaya siyaasadii jabahadii SNM in heshiiskii labada reer (Gadabuursi & Isaaq) ee Boorama lagu soo dhisay, uusan mar labaad Boorama ku burburin.
4.      Qurba joogtu markay warar lagu kalsoon yahay ay ka heshay bulshadeeda dalkii ku sugan, in maamulka Hargeysa aanay sinaba uga aqbalayn inay maamulka Gobolladaas ay keenaan dad aan isir iyo ehel u ahayn.  Haddii taasi dhacdana ay jawaabtu noqon doonto mid nabad- galyada khal khal weyn gelin doonta.
5.      Waxaan ugu balan qaadaynaa  bulsho weynta gobolladaas inaan HIIL & HOOBA la garab joogno si ay uga midho dhaliyaan badbaadada danahooga siyaasad-dhaqaale iyo xuquuqdooda aas-aasiga ah.
6.      Waxaan ku wargalinayaa maamulka jabhadaysan ee Hargeysa, haddii aanu si deg deg ah uga waantoobin talaabooyinkaas qaawan ee qabiilka ku salaysan, in wixii ka yimaada gudaha iyo dibedaba ay masuuliyadooda iyagu iska leeyihiin.
7.      Waxaan u soo jeedinaynaa Siyaasiyiinta Gadabuursi ee ku sugan Hargeysa in ay si deg deg ah uga hawlgalaan Gobolladii laga soo doortay, iyagoo si foojigan u dhageysanaya dareenka bulsha weynta soo dooratay ooy tageero siiyaan.
8.      Waxaan si cad ugu sheegaynaa maamulka Hargeysa in miisaan la’anta maamul kasta oo ka jira Somaliland iyo shaqaalaba ay tahay mid ummadda Gobolladaas iyo qurba jooguba ayna dib dambe u oggolaan doonin oo ilaa la dheeli tiro nidaamka maamul kasta siiba ciidamada amniga, guurtida, baarlamanka, xukuumada, iyo shaqaalahaba.
9.      Gen. Xudhuun badalkiisu waa hadal layska yidhi cidina kama qaadi mayso,umanaya malaynyo inuu aqbali doono,inuu ciidankii 17sanno dhisayay uu maanta aayar ka dhaqaaqo,waxaan leenahay ,walaalkayo maxamed xudhuun ha ku laabto ciidankiisii wixii baahi ah ee ciidanku qabana anaa dabooli.Mana ogolin in la soo faragaliyo Xuduun iyo Ciidankiisa.
Dhacdooyan isa soo taraya ee ku beegsanyo madaxda maamulka kaga jirtay Gadabuursi waxa uu ka dhigay tusbax furmay, waa hordhac in maamullada Gobolada Awdal , Salal & Gabiley laga fogeeyo madaxda,qof ku abtirsada magaca Gadabuursi. Siilaanyo muu hilmaahay inuu Rayaale si sharaf leh uu xukunka ugu wareejiyay isagoo wax shuruud ah ama gorgortan ku xidhin.
Qorshaha Siilaanyo iyo SNM way socon doontaa illa la gaadho marxalad la mid ah tii uu ka gabyey halyeygii  iyo  geesigii weynaa ee Sayid Maxamed Cabdille Xasan markii uu tiriyey tixdan hoos ku xusan:
“Dallacaad jacayl baad kurtin noola dirirteene 
Dubaaqina waxa saa u galay daara buuxsade e                                                                  
Dux kama heshaan farenji aad dul i dhigataane                                                                
Dabin buu idiin qoolayaa waydin dagayaaye 
Dirhamkuu idiin qubahayaad dir u go’aysaane                                                             
 Marka hore dabkuu idinka dhigi dumar sidiisiiye                                                         
Marka xigga dalkuu indin ku odhan duunyo dhaafsada e
Marka xigga dushuu idinka rari sida dameeraaye”
Qorshuhuna wuxuu yahay:
“Marka xiggana Ceelbardaaluu  ku darsan degaladii horre e                                     
Dilla iyo Lughayaana loo dan leeyahaye”
Gabaygan waxuu guubaabo u yahay bulshoweynta Gadabuursi ee ku nool Gobollada aan kor ku xusnay, khaas ahaan inta ka tirsan maamullada cadaalo darada ku sifoobay, waxaana aan ugana digaynaa cawaaqib xummada iyo khatarta ay kala kulmi doonaan daallimiinta uu hogaaminayo maamulka Hargeysa,   Gabaygani wuxuu baraarujinayaa qof kasta oo Gadabuursiya oo maamulkan ka tirsan inuu fahmo khatarta  soo socota iyo waxa lala damacsan yahay. “Walaalkii loo xiiryoow adiguna soo qoyso”.
Waxaan Ilaahay (SWT) uga baryayaa in Ummaadda Gobolladaas ee xushmadda, qaddarinta, dal jacaylka iyo dulqaadka faraha badan ku soo caano maashay inuu uu siiyo is-afgarad, midnimo iyo adkaysi ay u yeeshaan dulmiga iyo cadaalad darada soo waajahday. Si xikmadaysanna ay u xoreeyaan dadkooda iyo degaankoodaba. Aamiin.  Wa Bilaahi Tawfiiq.
UGAASKA GADABUURSI
UGAAS C/RASHIID UGAAS ROOBLE UGAAS DODI  .
WA BILAAHI TAWFIIQ                                                                
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