^^it rained non stop for 3 days saxib. Imagine shaarac imaaraad when its raining At least you can walk the streets and use public transport now :cool: come June we will go indoors again for 3 months

^^no idea but I wish it reached further south

^^So you are finally willing to say it is a time for change? I didnt know enough about the TNG to make a judgement laakin I know some TFG SOLers (if memory serves me correctly) were not supportive of the TNG but today support the TFG :confused: I do support a govnt in Somalia. Just not the current one.

^I know you miss the food though At least you have some Lebanese/Syrian restaurants in Sydney

The Dome of the Rock in Occupied Jerusalem had a white covering on Wednesday. In Amman, Jordanians pelted snowballs at each other. Roads have been blocked in Lebanon. AP The usually bustling Beirut-Damascus highway was cut off to traffic. Meteorologists said temperatures dropped below zero since Wednesday In the West Bank, streets were deserted after heavy snow blocked roads. Soldiers from Mahmoud Abbas's security force take time to have a snowball fight.

Dear all, Please pass on the following information to anyone who may be effected. A sandstorm may engulf Dubai on Thursday evening, bringing with it near gale-force winds and making driving conditions difficult for motorists, the met office warned on Wednesday. Dubai Meteorological Office said wind speeds of up to 30 knots were expected to hit the UAE's west coast over the weekend, caused by a high-pressure system building over Saudi Arabia, and strong northwesterly winds blowing in from Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. A senior forecaster at the met office urged drivers to be careful on the roads, especially those in open inland areas particularly at risk from sandstorms. High winds could also prevent aircraft from landing at Dubai International Airport due to poor visibility, the forecaster said. He said construction workers were also at risk, and warned boats on the west coast not to go out over the weekend. “Waves could reach up to 18 feet off the UAE coast; we may issue a marine warning [on Friday] to advise boats to stay off the water,” the forecaster told ArabianBusiness.com. According to the met office, the temperature during the day in Dubai is not expected to pass 20 degrees Celsius on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the night temperature is forecast to drop to 16 degrees Celsius. The high winds are a result of the Shamal wind, a wave of high pressure that funnels through the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The winds can last three to 40 days and are thought to be the most hazardous weather condition in the region. The sandstorm warning comes just as the UAE is recovering from three days of heavy rains earlier this month, causing widespread flooding that resulted in traffic chaos across much of the Emirates :confused: :eek:

^^The man who was put in charge of solving Somalia's problems or at least try to gain some sort of understanding between all, decided to bomb them! I'm I prepared to support a leadership in Somalia? As I have been saying for the past 3 or 4 years, show me the money! ps did you support the previous TNG?

^^not necessarily a good thing

^^LoL, So we should forget about SL and root for the TFG miya? You can try to discredit SL as long as want to saxib but the TFG has failed! Nur CAdde looks to have had some success recently and I hope it continue but until the old man Yeey is relieved of his duties Somalia will not get better. Youre trying to sell me a blind horse saxib (TFG).

Originally posted by +Faheema: The Verdict : £90 fine and must attend a 2hr educational course called the 'Speed Awareness Workshop' instead of receiving 3 penalty points on my licence Apparently this only applies to motorists detected exceeding 30mph and 40mph speed limits (within a certain criteria). What a relieve! Is they what they do these days?? 'Speed Awareness Workshop' I wonder who set that up and how much of the £90 goes to them. Faheema do ask if your lecturer for this workshop was a former Police officer :rolleyes:

Ngonge, ana acraf luugal carabi wa faham al sowtaha (for want of a better word) laakin al yowm ana mowjuud sanateen fi al khaliij wa alxamdullilah af carabi gaygu sidii hore wuu dhamaa

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Aar maxaad ka hadlaysaan?

Mashallah. Every returner to Islam has his/her initial jolt. Whatever that jolt may be, one should always be greatful and what better way than marriage and beautiful kids (those smiles on your facebook page ). I still had misconceptions, not really about the diin itself, but how I was supposed to live. I figured that I would have to be Arab automatically, meaning I would have to dress like one, talk like one, and basically live like one. Keep it coming.

^^A simplistic way to view things wouldnt ya say?

By Louisa Norman I’m a self-confessed disaster junky. I studied in Northern Ireland in the eighties, worked in Cambodia when it was still the wild west and not yet back-packer heaven; in Afghanistan where I would wake at night to wonder if it was an earthquake or a rocket attack; and Angola, where every day was a battle on a different and more personal level. And now here I am in the next hardship post - Hargeysa, Somaliland. Mention Somaliland to anyone and once they have stopped looking blank, the first question is usually one of these: is it safe? are you mad? or… where?. The answer to the first is; ‘absolutely’, to the second, ‘maybe’ and the third, well, it takes a while. Still that’s what you get for choosing to work in a country that technically doesn’t exist. My fascination with this place began last year when I was asked to come to make an assessment as to whether PSI should start a programme. Until that point I was also in the ‘…where?!’ category. But as soon as I arrived at airport I knew this place was different. This is a country where the language was not written down until 1972 and the oral tradition is still strong – which may also explain why the phone network is as cheap as it is. Social and clan relationships are paramount. The strength of the private sector is due in large part to the strength of these social relationships – no-one would dare default on a transaction, as they would be ostracised by the entire community. There are no banks for instance but the informal system of money transfer works with extraordinary efficiency and money can be transferred to and from almost anywhere in the world to anywhere in the country within 24 hours. I remember a friend telling me some years back ‘if you want to move money, trust a Somali’ and its true. There is virtually no crime here. The same social networks that control financial transactions, also ensure that theft is in no-one’s interests either. When I first arrived here I sat down with the NGO Security Officer and asked him to tell me what crimes had been committed in the last 12 months. He sat back, put his hands behind his head, thought for a while and said ‘well…last year someone stole some solar panels’. And really that was all he could think of. So, it is fairly ironic that friends in Nairobi and Johannesburg worry about my safety. Mogadishu is geographically closer to Nairobi than Hargeysa and about a million miles away culturally from the place I experience on a daily basis. There is a drive and sense of potential here that I have rarely come across before. With very little donor support, the country largely operates on an entrepreneurial spirit and remittances from the large Somali diaspora. The flip-side of this is that, supported by these same remittances, Khat chewing is endemic. Nothing much happens in the afternoon when most of the men are indulging in this expensive habit which can cost between $2-$20 a day. We have a beautiful office which is featured on a local poster of ‘New Hargeysa’ (copies available on request!) and has the best IT I have ever had anywhere: fast, dependable internet, an excellent wireless network, zippy little scanners and the cheapest phones in the world. We even have power 24 hours a day provided by the local hotel. So, no more power cuts or noisy generators, no more excuses to Washington about not being able to deliver reports on time, and no more faxing the monthly financials at midnight. That’s an adjustment in itself. Now, several months after arriving, the office is slowly filling up with staff and the compound with tortoises that the guards find on the street and re-house with us. I have just moved out of the hotel I have been living in since I arrived and into a house with a huge compound which has bananas, papaya, guava, pomegranate and oranges. The house took 2 months of fairly intense project management to renovate, but it was worth it for the garden alone. As I write this my cleaner has just walked in and handed me sweetcorn that the guards have been growing at our office. It’s a fair swap, so tomorrow I will bring in some papaya from my garden. OK, I admit, its not paradise. There are certainly downsides: entertainment is limited so it helps to be very low maintenance; we cannot buy alcohol or retire to the bar at the end of a long day; and the small expat community is still paying the price for the murders of foreigners four years ago with an overly cautious security policy and 24 hour armed guards. This is generally not as daunting as it sounds - until you go to the beach and find yourself prancing about in a bikini while Kalashnikov-toting guards in boots and fatigues look on in amusement. At least I think its amusement. Luckily my prancing and bikini days are just about over. Still, it makes for some good stories at parties (yes, we have them too). I came here because in my ignorance, I thought there might be some danger to feed the disaster junky in me but instead I found something else. Life is about balance and I think the disaster junky may finally and unexpectedly have found some kind of equilibrium here in this dry, dusty spot. My friends and I regularly congratulate ourselves on discovering one of the world’s more misunderstood hardship posts. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I should have just openly admitted any of this where my boss will see it – he still thinks it’s a hardship posting. Source: Somaliland Times This article first appeared on PSI Impact.

^^typical Somali

Sounds as though Nur Cadde has the right intentions and the Ethios don't like it. What say the TFG boys and girls? Somalia: Ethiopian Generals Complain About New PM Email This Page Print This Page Comment on this article View comments Visit The Publisher's Site Garowe Online (Garowe) 29 January 2008 Posted to the web 29 January 2008 Ethiopia's top military commanders serving in Somalia have dispatched a letter to the country's interim president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, expressing their dissatisfaction with the policies of new Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein, confidential sources tell Garowe Online. The exact contents of the letter have not been independently verified yet, but government sources in Mogadishu and Baidoa privately confirmed the existence of the letter. PM Nur Adde [wearing red tie] arrives in Mogadishu, Jan. 20/GO The Ethiopian generals expressed their displeasure with the way Prime Minister Nur Adde is running his new government, said reliable sources with first-hand knowledge of the letter. The letter was also sent to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, President Yusuf's main backer. The generals' central argument in the letter is that the Prime Minister makes decisions without consulting Ethiopian army commanders based in the capital Mogadishu, the sources said. Prime Minister Nur Adde is "not as expected" and that the army commanders "cannot work with him," the Ethiopian commanders complained. Relevant Links East Africa Arms and Military Affairs Conflict, Peace and Security Ethiopia Somalia Sources close to the Prime Minister confirmed to Garowe Online that he is aware of the letter, but declined further comment concerning its exact contents. Since his arrival in Mogadishu last week, Prime Minister Nur Adde has refused to meet with top Ethiopian commander Gen. Gabre, according to a Cabinet source who did not wish to be named in print. Ethiopian Prime Minister Zenawi is largely believed to have personally hand-picked former Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, who resigned last October under Ethiopian pressure following a serious rift with President Yusuf. http://allafrica.com/stories/200801290928.html

Originally posted by General Duke: Toure, the TFG is not gonna change and the old days of clan militias ruling Mogadishu/South are over. Thanks to the ICU the warlords were chased out. I see the TFG boys and girls will try to put a brave face on as usual Let hope it is true and things get better for all IA.

I think hes probably too busy to travel to London ninyow. He still plays regularly though.

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Is that brother Northern ? LoL Too early for me saxib. Maybe in Sept '08 JB, what say you of this news?

Register? Organise? You just turn up on the day with what is your best team (those who you managed to contact and actually woke up and made the journey), name your team (usually involves great debate) and play. ps accidental cough? rather than an Intalian cuisine?

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: The tournament is free for all who want to partake in it. The thread title is misleading but, just in case,say the word 'kubad' instead of 'banooni' just in case

^^In one tournament we were busy playing then a fight broke out between the spectators . In another one the spectators ran on the pitch to try and fight us

Change shall cometh!