“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.