Sad story. As usual, the culprits will never be caught.

Tillamook, in West Burco and Erigavo country, the word Jeegaan is politically offensive. Ask Saalax.

Farmaajo is a politician with one of the best US lobbying firms working for him. His every move is carefully choreographed and calculated. After the Mogadishu debacles and setbacks, he needed to change the media narrative and his trip to Garowe did just that. It was brilliant as Galbeedi would agree. Abdiweli is an old friend of Farmaajo (they had a falling out when Abdiweli became PM) and the two recently worked out their differences, promising to work together. Puntland did everything it could to give Farmaajo a great welcome to Garowe with the authorities there actively organizing the turnout many days prior to the visit. Some Mogadishu media found it offensive that Hassan Sheikh Mohamed's pictures were burned in Puntland after former president's visit and in contrast farmaajo was welcomed with open arms. I don't believe it was clannish. I think it had everything to do with how Hassan handled the Federalism talk with Puntland. In the coming months, we will see whether Farmaajo's trip to Garowe has any lasting impact on his presidency. For now, we can assume not much has changed in Mogadishu's opposition towards him.

Good point, but human development is still a development. Anyone willing to educate our people (regardless of the job situation), is doing us a favor.

Scholarships for Somaliland students come to mind.

Jeegaan's literary translation is "rainbow coalition", but in Somaliland clan circles, the term has become a derogatory term to belittle the clans that supposedly make up this coalition (East Burco and Gabiley).

Isaias looks like the late Saddam. This man singlehandedly destroyed the hopes of Eritrean people who had so much promise after winning independence. Eritrea is now stuck in the past.

Any development projects Somaliland gets from Ethiopia is good for all Somalis.

That is good progress. Good for Garowe.

You guys are making many assumptions. We don't know what prior arrangement the runner had with anyone. We don't even know if he personally knows the ambassador. We don't know if he was ok with the ambassador being there. He doesn't seem alarmed or embarrassed when the ambassador is speaking next to him. As Maakhiri said, he is a wealthy athlete and probably doesn't care who is there.

I don't about Mo, but I don't think Coldoon cares about whether one is Somalilander or Southerner.

From what I heard, Thabit the young mayor of Mogadishu is planning to sell the land.

This is quite clear. Ethiopia is interested in making everyone happy. It wants Berbera and there is little the Somali government can do at this point. Farmaajo is busy in Mogadishu.

Here is a video from opposition website. The Amhara opposition websites are referring to the protestors as Qero (Youth)? Anti-government protests against the brutal Ethiopian regime spreading throughout Ethiopia. This short video clip shows the street fight between the Oromo youth (Qero) and ‘Agazi’ forces (the regime death squads) in the town of Moyale, border of Ethiopia and Kenya. https://ecadforum.com/2017/12/14/ethiopia-oromo-youth-qero-fighting-tplf-on-the-street/

The Jaarso community is confused. Even those in the video would not come out and say "WE ARE 100% SOMALI". All three in Che's video, including the old lady, are ducking the issue. The Jaarsos need to reverse that historic decision of giving away Somali land to the Oromos and adopting the Oromo language. They need to come back to their community if they don't want to be treated like Oromos. Illey probably removed the Jarso's including the hotel owner from Jigjiga for their own safety because an angry mob was running around the city hunting Oromo members.

I support any effort to remove Oromos from Somali region permanently. Not because I dislike Oromos (they are good people ) but because in the long run, it is good for both communities to have clear separation. We can be brotherly neighbors and do trade as usual. For a long time I was bothered by what I was hearing from family members that Oromo is taking over Somali region and some Somalis have even forgotten their own language and became Oromos.

It is amazing.

I haven't seen helicopters during Farmaajo's Puntland visit. Who owns them? Why are the copters there?

Are they rebelling but at the same time loading the gems? I thought I heard "Muuse ma oga macdantii waa la dhamasytay".

OO, is it true that Ethiopian government is exaggerating GERD Dam's output power? A number of experts believe the dam is not going to produce as much power as is claimed, and that the dam should be smaller in size for efficiency and cost. Asfaw Beyene, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University (California) says the dam is 300% over-sized. “More than half of the turbines will be rarely used,” he says. “GERD’s available power output, based on the average of river flow throughout the year and the dam height, is about 2,000 megawatts, not 6,000. There is little doubt that the system has been designed for a peak flow rate that only happens during the 2-3 months of the rainy season. Targeting near peak or peak flow rate makes no economic sense.” Beyene notes that that the issue is so highly politicized that “it seems to suppress legitimate engineering inputs and environmental discussions.” He suggests that the concerned authorities should make the project transparent, and resize the hydroelectric power output by reducing the number of turbines. https://www.internationalrivers.org/resources/the-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-fact-sheet-8213

Isn't it fair to say that bringing the Irob (Catholic Saho people) under Ethiopian "Christian" rule was the main thing driving Ethiopia-Eritrea war? Irob is one of the clans of Saho people. Sahos are 90% Muslim and are cushitic people who mainly live in Eritrea. Irob are the only Saho clan that is Christian and Ethiopia wanted to separate them from Eritrea.

Farmaajo shopping in Bosaso.

Did the Africa export thing work out @Instinct.Poet ? One would expect lots of Somali Dulaaliin living in Yiwu apartments waiting for a buyer's phone call from Somalia.

@Old_Observer, can you elaborate what happened and what the end-result was? I am curious.

Galbeedi in his elements!! Good analysis. Trump is a fraudster. He knows how to manipulate the media and he is doing exactly that. Everything controversial he's ever said in the last few months was a distraction.