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Fyr Kanten, you're speaking as if Sland is like a European country. Where on earth would she seek representation? What? A Quick call to Bosaso? I bet Ernst & Young have a large presence there eyh? But wait a dear moment. She's not even an adult, she's just a young teenage girl who just got abused and intimdated. Don't you think your mouth is full of cow's dung with your amateurish camel milk design. I swear. One word of anybody about her being an adult and deserving what she got and I cannot guarantee to contain myself. As for Smith, I too resent her picture posted on the net for all to see. If I was her, the last thing I wanted was after this awful period [understatement] in Hargeisa to live with this shame throughout the rest of my life because my face is out in public. Even though I'm fully aware that you don't mean any harm by it. But still.... Now the only hope for Samsam Du'aleh to be released immedeately is by the amnesty grant from the Sland president's office. That would be Riyale Kahin, the former dreadful NSS chief in Berbera. Now what can one expect from a nabadsugid spending his days in General Morgan's old villa? Especially if he is the puppet of a more evil and rotten clique that some here seem to represent in SOL.

It seems Abdullahi Yusuf indeed made the right choice for the prime minister position.

Bari Nomad, I don't quite understand what you just wrote mate? Here are the pictures. I'm glad traditions like caanoshub and celebrating the new tribal chief the entire day is still amongst us. The new young Sultan Muhamad Sultan Mahamud Elmi Alas in the midst of a ritual in Abqaale, Harfo town. Islan Bashir Islan Abdulle [his father Islan Abdulle Islan Farah was a SSDF legend] The coronation in a large tent the fine horses Rer Mudugh have to offer.

Amiin to that Oda. Couldn't have said it better. Allah bestow mercy upon the girl and protect the Sland people from the nutcases in charge.

Woman preparing food on a solar cooker in Bosaso, Bari region Horn Relief has imported several solar cooker from China. The cooker's parabolic mirrors are made of cast iron with a highly reflective aluminium tape comprising the reflective surface. This tape has proved to be durable, but it could be easily repaired should it be necessary. Each cooker weighs about 80 kilograms. This means the cookers are heavy and so stable in high winds and they are also sturdy. The large reflecting area, 1.5 square meters in the one shown in the photo, means that in bright sunshine the cooker is about as fast as cooking on a charcoal fire and more convenient. Cookers with a mirror area of 2.0 and 2.5 square meters are also manufactured. The cooker can be turned on its verical axis and screw mechanism allows the tilt of the mirror to be easily adjusted. Moving the cooker to track the sun therefore only takes a few seconds. The cooker's design means that people actually like to use it. This is in contrast to some cooker designs which require people to change their usual daily routine, something which people often cannot easily do. The cookers are very price competitive. For information about purchasing a cooker please contact Fatima Jibrell at Horn Relief. Her email address is fjibrell@yahoo.com For more info visit: http://www.hornrelief.org/index.html

Thanks for the article Orgilaqe. Yet I found this illustration of Amin Amir interesting. It illustrates my thoughts about the parliament.

This is a total outrage. The Sland government must know this does not go with impunity.

Did I deny what happened?

Orgilaqe is correct HornAfrique. Abdullahi Yusuf's militias fought against Jama Ali Jama's militias in Qardho. He did not atack the civilians of Qardho by any means. Must I remind you many Rer Qardhod are staunch supporters and friends of Abdullahi Yusuf. As in most cities that are suddenly tansformed in battlegrounds without civilian's warning, collateral damage is inevitable. Also the massacre didn't surpass tens of people and no looting, rapes etc occured at all. Only fatal casualties, indeed it's a tragedy. Furthermore it was a blessing in disguise that Abdullahi Yusuf drew a halt at Jama Ali Jama's rise to Pland presidency. Abdullahi Yusuf as well as many other Pland officials knew the dangers of Jama Ali Jama's reign. People were well aware of his corrupt tendencies and friendly links with the morbid Arta faction concocted in Djibouti. Pland was threatened to be ruled by Arta, while Arta itself prooved to be a clan-based faction thriving under chaos and anarchy. The fact that Pland would be dragged into the rest of the south's mess was unbearable for every Plander, wether from Galkayo or Bosaso. Also you underestimate the support and it's complexity Abdullahi Yusuf enjoys among the people of Pland. He's popular as the president of Somalia in Pland, yet the people believe the time of the civil war when Planders opted for a strong leader who would provide peace, than law & order and than development & empowerment is over for him in Pland. Abdullahi Yusuf succeeded in these modest and raw goals Planders pertained for themselves. Now those goals have been reached, it's time for a more refined leadership to shape Pland into it's final stadium as a federal state of Somalia. This is exactly my line of thinking. Abdullahi Yusuf's service is not needed anymore in Pland. He fulfilled his duty and now he seeks to fulfil the same duty for Somalia and in that we support him.

Originally posted by Sophist: Ali Jangali hails from the famously well illuminated House of Jangali, Buhotle. The man you speak of is his father, the career Diplomat and the former Foreign Secretary in the Somali Republic. Didn't this gentleman build Xadhadhan school in 1964?

Well I assure it wasn't a distrustful defense by any means, Mr. Mooge.

Checkmate, good suggestion mate. Unfortunately polls cannot be edited after they're posted. Perhaps babyface can help me out here eyh? Ngonge, how on earth could you interpret my explanation as an attack? Ok the title president is chosen, because it has a nice ring to it. Oh lord... Kowneyn, from your point of you it might look that way. But Abdullahi Yusuf wasn't carried to Pland presidency. From Galkayo to Bosaso he's the Atatürk of Pland. The headfigure of the SSDF the de facto backbone of Pland's government appratus. He defended the people of the northeast, brought them together and provided them peace and prosperity as the first president of Pland state of Somalia.

Minster of Stray dogs and lost cats (Nationalists – he loves nature) Indeed I love nature. I reckon my posts about nature on the forum was a tad too much eyh? I have a programme for those doggs and cats that litter all over our Somali cities. Hunt them down and sell them for hard currency to China.

Smith is correct. You see Ngonge, regarding the fact that you are my brother from the northwest let me tell it to you bluntly. In retrospect when Pland was founded in august 1st 1998 in Garowe, one of the goals was to undermine anti-patriotic elements in the northwest whom favor the notion of Sland. Suffice to say Pland took it's duty as Somalis to safeguard the unity of Somalia under the absence of a central government. There are of course some other reasons, but this I find the most interesting.

In januari there will be presidential elections in DGSPL Pland state of Somalia. The three candidates that are most likely to win are: - H.E. Muhammad Abdi Hashi [President of Pland] - Gen. Mahammud Muse Hirsi [Chairman of PSC Pland Salvation Congress] - Dr. Abdirahman Muhammad Farole [former DGSPL minister of finance under Abdullahi Yusuf] Seeing these three gentleman's names make me think this is going to be a hard decision to make for the Pland parliament. Who would you choose as the new president of Pland state of Somalia?

Sophist it looks like you're a psychic. A government sacked before it could even introduce it's programme to the parliament. Only in Somalia, where MPs jealous of the new ministers collectively sack a government and all some people can say is: "well at least it happenned in a democratic manner!". Sophist, let's see if Pland manages to elect a president and form a government sooner that Somalia. What a shame would that be!

What task force? I feel insulted. How can I show up at my clan's doorstep without a ministry. Taskforce? No, they will think as if their son is send to a special school for the 'slow' learners. Thanks for nothing. I know I'm a bit corrupt, but I thought that doesn't count being Somalis and all. I knew I should have bought a return ticket on my way to Nairobi.

I will send my CV to Juma and Smith and apply for minister of tourism. Than I'm sure I will have the job I'm tirelessly looking for. Sit around and do nothing.

Smith, I'm so angry at everybody right now. My anger at the parliament has shifted to the president and the former prime minister. All these airheads need to start treating each other with repsect and also stop making a big deal out of everything. This is not the time to act proud. I believe a lot of people would disagree that Abdullahi Yusuf disrespected the parliament. Not for his known manner anyway. Yet the former prime minister even disrespected our journalists, let alone the MPs. Like always Somalis are wasting valuable time. If you have a sense of dignity, don't blame the Ethiopians of masterminding anyhting. They surely don't deserve that much credit as they are not that powerful at all. It's the Somalis themselves whom are ruining it for themselves. Prime minister my foot! Somalia needs a presidential democracy like Pland, not an exhausting parliamentarian democracy inherited from the colonials. Let the old man do his job for goodness sake. Look at Pland now. He ruled with military style discipline and therefore Pland got it's reputation as a superpower among the current Somali fiefdoms.

This is not good mates. I'm actually quite angry at those 153 MPs. Any cabinet will always have to include the militia leaders if it doesn't want to be another farce. And about Gedi not respecting the powersharing arrangements is complete bull. My only problem with the new cabinet was that it was too large, with many meanibgless and useless portfolios. These darned MPs need to know that time is running, the government needs to be installed in Mogadishu as quickly as possible. They also need to understand, as was stated in the grand conference in Stockholm, that there will always be Somalis that have problems with any government formed. Juma, I'm happy to live in cuckooland, if it's not the same land where you roam with your selfdestructing and shortsighted mindset. Celebrate today, but I assure you Abdullahi Yusuf will come to Mogadishu eventually. With or without Gedi.

Now, this is the kind of talk I absolutely loath. Talk about 'a new generation' and 'an alternative to the status quo'. Talk with no usefullness or reality what so ever, mate. Talk that makes you feel good and gives you some adrenaline shots in the back of your brain of hope, till you realise it is just talk. I believe we should stay real mate. New generation or alternative or whatever, they will still face the problems that we are facing at this very moment mate.

^ You think you've got it all figured out, don't you mate? Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!

Manshalah. Also I should point out that the heroine of Pland; Fatima Jama Jibrell who's from Eastern Sanaag, Buran in particular, is the most responsible to the fact that Pland is now the entity in the horn of Africa with an effective protection of the acacia trees. I will dedicate a thread about her NGO Horn Relief within a short period Inshalah. ps: Orgilaqe, I was waiting for your pictures you were about to post.

I think it's funny how we Somalis gained another word in our vocabulary: Ordeal.