<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> I find it varies... some older Somalis are pleased when a diaspora youth can even speak a few words, while others mock youngins who are quite competent in the language (despite never living in or even visited Somalia in most cases) while they themselves have lived 20+ years in Canada without learning proper English.

<cite> @Safferz said:</cite> I don't know why they agreed to a Somali language interview. Pre-recorded ads for Somali TV/radio where they could have read from a script and practiced would have been more wise. Safferz, that would have been the wise decision. Broken Somali is not very popular among the older generation who tend to vote in larger numbers.

Somaliland's progress throughout the last two decades deserves praise and should be celebrated by all Somalis, but it is illegal for Somalis of the North to unilaterally declare independence without the consent of the rest of the country, or its leadership. Scotland and Catalonia both required the Federal government to approve any independence vote.

I think Elman FC is named after Ilwad Elman's father.

Elman FC takes the trophy this year. This is great. Somalia is coming back slowly.

I don't think Somalis are involved.

I hope this becomes a reality soon.

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> Thankfully, the majority of the world's population and every respectable scientific and medical institution have now come to the inevitable conclusion that homosexuality existed as long as humanity existed and will continue to exist no matter what, is not a disease, is a different variant of the overall human sexuality. Tallaabo, there is little conclusive evidence that homosexuality is genetic. The science to conclusively support such assertion is just not there.

It is strange some Somalis feel the need to rub old wounds with salt by celebrating Siyad's seizure of power when so many people died because of it.

What will be the reaction of the Western donors?

<cite> @Admin said:</cite> Xabad is banned from SOL. Alhamdulilaaaah. This qashin should have been banned long time ago. I have not seen him contribute to SOL anything other than abusive and hateful remarks.

DoctorKenney, this CBS News report was filed just 4 days ago. "Kagame has had "complete impunity to eliminate" his political rivals during his 14 years of rule. Kagame's Rwanda "doesn't look like a democracy," says Davenport."

Rwanda is a beautiful country, but the same issue that contributed to the infamous genocide still exist today. Tutsi control of the political and economic power of the country has doubled since the genocide and the country can descend into violence once again. The West is propping up Kigame as a savior but the Hutus feel marginalized and a Tutsi minority (15% of the total population) still controls the country.

Why is it that the extremist are always targeting minors, specially females. This active recruiting by ISI agents in the West must be exposed and stopped.

I've never heard of them. Good for them. I wouldn't stay in Kenya as well knowing what is happening there.

<cite> @galbeedi said:</cite> until Ebola is controlled. Mr. Johnson keep speaking louder. I agree. Mr. Abdi Johnson keep telling us about the coming Ebola disaster in Somalia. There will be no one left in Somalia if Ebola spreads there because we don't have a fraction of the healthcare infrastructure the West African countries have.

The Sierra Leone Government is the most corrupt. Instead of admitting that a basic protocol has been breached, they change the story and now deny that the soldier was even part of the battalion headed for Somalia. Do they think we are fools? Why doesn't Somali President stop the deployment of these troops?

Welcome back Lost-One.

This disease has the potential to wipe out generation of Africans.

Health workers scrambling to contain the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia now have to contend with an outbreak of corruption among those detailed to collect the bodies of victims. US Ebola case is first diagnosed outside Africa AFP Sierra Leone's burial teams for Ebola victims strike over hazard pay Reuters WHO: More than 8,000 people have been infected in current Ebola outbreak The Week (RSS) U.S. airline group to meet with health officials on Ebola Reuters Liberia nurses threaten strike over Ebola pay Associated Press The Wall Street Journal reports that retrieval teams are accepting bribes from families of Ebola victims to issue death certificates that say their loved ones died of other causes, allowing them to keep their bodies for a traditional burial. “The family says the person is not an Ebola patient, and [the retrieval team] pull them away from the other people," Vincent Chounse, a community outreach worker on the outskirts of Monrovia, told the paper. "Then they say, ‘We can give you a certificate from the Ministry of Health that it wasn’t Ebola.' Sometimes it is $40. Sometimes it is $50. ... Then they offer bags to them and [the family] carry on their own thing.” A teenager in Montserrado told the Journal he saw the father of his neighbor pay $150 for a certificate that said his son's corpse was Ebola-free. Government Information Minister Lewis Brown told the paper his office has received reports of health workers issuing fake death certificates, but he added that no burial team has "a capacity to go and issue certificates." According to the World Health Organization, more than 4,000 Ebola cases have been reported in Liberia, resulting in 2,316 deaths since the outbreak began. But local health officials say the numbers are not adding up. “We are not receiving the amount of community calls that we should be,” Agnes “Cokie” van der Velde, who oversees body collection teams for Doctors Without Borders, told the paper. The grim task of removing bodies infected with Ebola is critical, health officials say, because the dead are a major source of contagion. Working against them is the stigma associated with Ebola among West Africans, and the desire for the family to have a traditional burial. Often, communities will assume that one person infected with the disease means his or her entire family is infected and therefore is discriminated against and shunned. Van der Velde said while she was not aware of body retrieval teams accepting bribes, they are nonetheless in a tricky position. “We try to be very respectful, but in the end what we’re doing is taking their loved one, zipping them in a bag and taking them away." https://news.yahoo.com/ebola-families-bodies-bribes-153423993.html

UPDATE (9:20 a.m. EDT): CNN reported new details Sunday morning on the health worker infected with Ebola in Texas: The victim is a female nurse, and Texas Health Resources chief clinical officer Dan Varga said she was involved in Thomas Eric Duncan’s second visit to the hospital, meaning that she was wearing full protective gear when she interacted with Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. A “close contact” of the nurse has been “proactively” isolated as well, Varga said. The fact that the nurse was apparently wearing the full gown, gloves, mask and shield meant to prevent Ebola transmission when she was treating Duncan adds a new layer of concern as the virus has been characterized as “difficult to catch” by news outlets and the government. In addition to speaking with CNN, Varga issued a statement Sunday morning, confirming that the nurse is in “stable” condition. Less than one week after the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died, the virus has struck again: A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the Texas Health Department announced Sunday. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is the facility where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola inside the U.S., was admitted and tested.