I got the same problem. I hate went Somali ladies ask me what day it is. French is the only language that make makes sense to me.

Few years ago there was a guy in my town, he had three wife’s none of them couldn’t cook him a decent meal. One day he told them I’m taking to a cooking lesson he took them to a restaurant he said sit on the table. They sat there waiting for the lesson to start then he said you are divorced to the first wife and he said same to the second one the youngest one started running he said to her don’t bother running you are divorced is well.

1.To be honest I am a chef 2.If she is willing to learn I don’t think I’d have a time give lessons, her mother should’ve taught her that. 3.I prefer I gal who can cook.

There’s no way I’d ever consider marring a girl that can’t cook. Cooking is one of the main reason you marry them.

Somaliland, Mar 24 (UNHCR) – Ali Abdibihi is a bright, outgoing boy of 16 who is eager to practise his English with any visitor to the shantytown he calls home. He lives in a traditional igloo-shaped home – a tukul – made of rags and flattened tin cans, with his blind father, his mother and six older sisters and brothers, all of whom are unemployed. Yet he sees clearly how he can help them: "I am going to be a professor. I am going to teach computer science." The inspiration for such a precise ambition? A Somali who found refuge in Britain, earned a PhD there, and has come home to the Somaliland capital and set up an internet centre among the squatters' tukuls where he teaches computer science. Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared (but internationally unrecognised) state of Somaliland is bursting at the seams these days with people like Ali and his family – former refugees who have come back to their country, but have nowhere to live but squalid settlements, often set up without permission on state or private land. At the same time, the city is booming thanks to other returnees like the British-trained professor who are bringing home their skills learned in exile, and quite often their money as well. According to UN figures, Somalis abroad sent home $750 million last year to fuel the region's economy; this year the figure is expected to reach $1 billion. Much of that is fuelling Hargeisa's construction boom. Somaliland, which is also known as north-west Somalia, broke away from the rest of the country and declared itself the independent Republic of Somaliland in 1991. It was devastated by a vicious civil war in the late 1980s under the central government of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, followed by outbreaks of anarchic inter-clan fighting after his fall in 1991. "Not only did people come back from refugee camps in neighbouring countries," says Somaliland's foreign minister, Edna Adan Ismail, "but many also came from far afield. We have returnees coming back from Canada, from the U.S., from Britain, from Australia, from Saudi Arabia. These returnees – and I am one of them – are putting Somaliland back on its feet." Across town from the Sheikh Nur settlement where Ali's inspirational internet centre is located, a more formal computer class is under way at Havoyoco (Horn of Africa Voluntary Youth Committee), a local non-governmental organization funded by UNHCR that claims that 90 percent of its graduates find paying jobs. Today a class of about 30 young women is learning how to enter data into a computer to process payments. Elsewhere in Hargeisa, the Somali Women's Development Association (SOWDA) teaches basic literacy to girls and women, and also teaches skills like tailoring, incense-making and soap-making with funding from the UN refugee agency. Ugbad Ibrahim Kahin, 16 years old, dreams of someday becoming a medical doctor. For now, seated behind a treadle sewing machine at the SOWDA centre, she's happy to learn tailoring because "sewing is something that will improve my life." She's one of eight children, their father is dead, and their mother cannot find work, "so I thought I could be the one who could earn money and support the family," the teenager says. Helping Somalilanders acquire skills to support themselves is one of many goals of a $200 million Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) – to improve the lives of Somalis in the four main countries of asylum (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Yemen) and returnees and displaced within the country. In an area where being rich is defined as eating three meals a day, the regional CPA is designed to help place Somalis on a more stable footing by, among other aims, protecting returnees and displaced people, improving the nutrition of women and children, improving access to clean water, and increasing access to health care and education. With initial backing by the European Commission, Denmark, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, UNHCR and other United Nations agencies plan to present the CPA to donors later this year. This fundraising event will be the first phase of a larger donor appeal that aims to turn an assessment of needs of Somalis into a three-year development plan. Through these joint processes, the returnees in Somaliland should be in a better position to fully reintegrate and, together with other vulnerable groups, including those displaced internally, recover some "normalcy" in their lives. Back at the foreign ministry, Edna (as the foreign minister is affectionately known far and wide) says investing in the future of returnees is a smart move, and that the energy of Somaliland's returnees who have come home from refugee camps and elsewhere can stand as a model to refugees in other countries. "What is happening in Somaliland is encouraging for all refugees," she says, "that they should come home and rebuild their country like Somalilanders have."

Few years ago I read a book called crook rib written by a Somali guy, and I couldn’t believe the sexual detail he goes into, but drawing deformed private parts is wrong.

All i'm saying is u cn't call the guy Somali. I know is mother she an Indian who used to live in Somalia in the late 60s.

If she wanted him to be considered Somalia she’d have given a Muslim name. I’m not objecting him being half caste, but I just don’t agree with the title.

First of all I’d find out if he is a Muslims but I he is not a Muslim and he hasn’t got a Somali name then that makes him an Italian

Free speech protest to be staged Thousands gathered for a pro-Islam rally in the square last month Demonstrators are due to stage a rally championing free speech in central London's Trafalgar Square. The protest has been organised in response to the uproar over cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which appeared in some European newspapers. Organisers say it is not anti-Muslim and have asked the BNP to stay away. The Muslim Action Committee is staging a counter-protest in Birmingham over fears London protesters will carry placards of the satirical cartoons. Blog site The free speech movement was born from a blog site on the internet and now organiser Peter Risdon says he is expecting 500 people from across the political spectrum to join Saturday's rally, which starts at 1400 GMT. "We are in favour of free speech and not against Muslims. They are our neighbours and our friends," said Mr Risdon. "There will be some Muslims attending." Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat human rights spokesman, will be joined by women's rights campaigner Maryam Namazie and Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society, to speak at the rally. Initial plans to print the controversial cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad onto banners as a way of expressing support for the Danish cartoonists were shelved 'Potential threat' "There is no way in the present climate that they could be construed as anything other than a potential threat," said Mr Risdon. "We have asked people not to bring them." Ismaeel-Haneef Hijazi, of the Muslim Action Committee, said the group formed in the wake of the controversial publication of the cartoons, is calling for "global civility" and is not against the organisers' message. But the group fears the event may be disrupted by BNP members and antagonists. He said 1,000 protesters were expected to join a counter-rally in Victoria Square, Birmingham, at 1100 GMT on Saturday. The latest rallies follow demonstrations around the world including a trouble-free 5,000-strong pro-Islam rally in Trafalgar Square in February.

I love gals wearing hijab especially Arabs.

i beieve the guy is italian because he got an italian name, what makes he somali?. He is a sellout.

i beieve the guy is italian because he got an italian name, what makes he somali?. He is a sellout.

There no other country that you could display money like the in the street, and they and they call Somalia dangerous place.

Can anyone translate this for me?

Originally posted by Suldaaanka: "Stop the conflict in Mogadishu NOW..... " in other words... Afku gobaadsi. Sxb Duke, we all know you are rejoicing it as much as Col. Yey is. Wonder why he remains silent? Suldaaanka, the was irrelevant to this situation. I’m from Somaliland myself but i'm still deeply troubled by what’s happening in Mogadishu.

Its shame Somalis can’t survive in the city, it’s sad to see Somali die every night

As far as I’m concern the guy is Italian.

Take her back to Somalia and find her a husband, before she gets a passport.

SEND HER BACK TO SOMALIA.

This report was written four years ago. Why are u bringing it up now?

The problem for me is all of my friends are smokers. Now I’m avoiding them like I own them money, because I know I’ll be temped if i chill with them.

It increases my anger by the day, when I hear things like this aim at my fellow Muslims. Makalajabti u are too westernised go back to Somalia.

Nice one Castro, Suldaanka is obviously paranoid, like many Somalis.All i'm trying to say is it's only homework club and is managed by Somalis anyway.

I couldn't agree with u more. The Jewish are trying to gain something, what ever it is, but the Somalis got nothing to lose.