Waranle_Warrior;933141 wrote: Chimera, you are a young passionate man who believes everyone who questions Mogadishu as our capital a hater of Somalia. No one hates anything, Mogadishu was made a capital in 1960 by the Somali people after we gained independence when our first government assumed office. A civil war broke in 1991 and Somalis disintegrated, civil unrest and conflict ensued, the government fall and every Somali went back to their respected regions. Efforts have been going since that time to get the Somalis together and establish a proper Somali government, these efforts have failed many times before but now, for the first time, we are seeing a glimmer hope as a new republic is born again, a new federal system is introduced, a new government which most Somalis are willing to work with was selected and once everything goes to plan the new capital of Somalia will be decided and agreed upon by all the Somalis that disintegrated before or returned to their respected Somali regions. Mogadisho's status as the capital of Somalia is set in stone. It is not open to questions.

xiinfaniin;933127 wrote: For the record, the author is a Somalilander (if there is a such thing ) and the website that published his piece is called Hadhwanaagnews.com which is the premier internet news portal for Somaliland I know that and Hadhwanaagnews is where all those with mirqaan go for gossip;)

Chimera;933124 wrote: LOOL, we'll see what you have to say in a year's time. The hatred for the republic and all its symbols never ceases to amaze me. What's next, adopt a new official language? A new flag ? Yes actually Somalia should give up the blue flag as it is only one part of the five Somali regions. The star in the flag represents an ideology which is no longer relevant.

I nominate Dhuusomareeb. Second choice is Wanlawayn

What a useless thread this is. I wasted my time coming to this thread. Just like the author of this rubbish I can also write whatever I want and post it on the many Somali websites which spout nonsense everyday. But will the garbage on Somali websites like Garoweonline change the realities on the ground in Somaliland. The answer is NO.

OdaySomali;932773 wrote: Edited & Updated. Tooray City a.k.a Burco Boodhweyn. We arrived in Burco and I believe we drove into the city from the new-Burco area side on the smoothly paved road that leads in to the city. Driving from Sheikh to Burco you find yourself, after some travel of-course, having suddenly arrived in Burco. I say suddenly because in the New-Burco area which is the first part of the city that you will come across, the houses are still few in number and so you will find the odd house or two suddenly appearing next to the road. This is the signal that you have arrived in Burco. Among those houses is the house of Dahabshiil himself and the house of another wealthy local fellow whose name I do not recall. These handful (two or three houses) will probably be the only handful of double story houses you are likely to see in Burco. (Of-course there are a number of multi-storey hotels in the city's centre). From the outset I got the misguided idea that many of the city's houses wouls be as large and lavish as those I first saw on the outskirts. Oh how wrong I was. We drove further into the city and soon the houses eitherside of the road becamse more numerous. Burco is probably the "terraced houses capital" of the Somali republic as most streets consist of a row of terraced houses. The single paved road soon developed side-roads and eventually we turned off from the smooth, faultless asphalted road and found ourselves doing some serious off-road driving in the side-streets and being thrown around inside the car. We soon got a better idea of what the real city looked like. Once-again I was utterly shocked and sitting there with a harrowed look on my face. I was sitting there with my window half down, an unintentionally dropped jaw and a perplexed and puzzled look on my face. I was overcome and consumed with yaab; what can only be described as shock. Where had I just come? I thought. Where is the city that is spoken of? I thought... surely they didnt mean this chaotic, dirty and underdeveloped oversized slum. Imagine: there is no pavement, no paved road, no street lights, no front gardens. Instead, you will find that the streets and neigbourhoods of the city consist of narrow streets consisting of dark maroon-brown earth, sand and mud where you have to wade through heaps of trash and rocks. The houses are slum-esque; rows of small, dingy, boxey terraced houses, many with haphazardly built shacks in front of them to house goats. On the corner of each street is a "cornershop", which is a shack constructed of metal sheets or sticks and branches, selling soft drinks, bread, sugar and other such consumables. Burco was even worse that Hargeisa because in Burco the houses are, for whatever reason, not built as high or wide as in Hargeisa . Unlike in Hargeisa, most of the houses (I say most) are not detached but in Burco you will find rows upon rows of squalid terraced "houses" of old Burco, many of which are in a bad state of disrepair. This means that it looks and is an awful lot more like a slum , a very big and expansive one at that. There are also newer rows of terraced houses. These newer houses sit on bigger land, average 3 bedrooms and are constructed with beautifully and proportionately crafted white& beige coloured natural stone of various hues, with vividly contrasting gates and metal doors of brightly coloured variations and designs. These houses do not, unfortunately, have front or back gardens but if the streets in front of the houses are cleared and flattened/levelled, the streets are paved with cobble-stone, trees are planted and front gardens (even if only gardens of a 2 metre expanse from the house) are created, the look of the city would be transformed. Burco is known as Burco Boodhweyn and only once you are there do you realise how appropriate the name is. If you are coming to Burco, ensure that you bring big sunglasses because the sand and dust that rises from the city's streets will get into your eyes. So much so that it is almost impossible to walk or go outside if there is a slight wind (and there usually is). There is, as though the city were built on a beach, a permanent layer of coffee-coloured sand (not earth or dust but sand ,God knows where it appeared from), on every inch of street, road, open space or other land of the city. So much so that you can sit in front of you house, take your shoes off and press with your feet into the sand ; in some areas the layer of sand is so deep that the sand will reach above your ankles. You would think that Burco is built on the Sahara. I found it suprising then, when I discovered that the city is home to 2 or three water-blottling plants. Apparently, there is an abundance of underground water that the city sits on. Burco is also home to a nascent manufacturing industry and it is home to the water-bottling plants, furniture manufacturing, detergents manufacturing. It also does a lot of trade with the regions and many consumables that are imported through the Berbera port are traded into the hinterland and, via Galkacyo, in some cases further south. The city also has a large livestock and meat market that besides causing a great part of the city to be swamped by thousands upon thousands of belligerent flies (swarms of them), means livestock is brough in from the surrounding countryside as well as many regions further afar (further South). The city also has a bustling city-centre with a market & 'high-streets'. Much like Bakaara market, each long street speacialises in and sells a particular item. One particular street is lined with physical stores selling gold (vast majority owned by women). Another street is lined with physical stores selling clothing (womens clothing, vast majority owned by women). Then there are the markets (bacadlayaasha) which sell a vast array of consumer products (mainly owned by men, interestingly). Brisk trade is done and the quantities of things being bought and sold, the number of streets and stalls selling goods is surprising and especially so because of the city looks so poor. If only the narrow streets would be paved with cobblestone, once again it would very much transform the city centre. It goes without saying though, that most of this consumer spending is a false economy financed with remittances and should those remittances stop, this entire economy will grind to a halt. Another thing I noticed is that the vast majority of things being sold is imported, from shoes (insane when we have such a high number of livestock and thus potential leather), to mobile phones, glasses and teacups. These goods are shipped from China and transhipped through Dubai to Berbera/Boosaaso which means they are quite costly. The quality of the items being sold is very very poor and this is epecially the case where they are Chinese-made goods. In fact, poor does not even adequately describe the appaling quality of the goods. Most of these goods are worthless because they are fauly and will break, rip, disintegrate or stop working withing a few days of you haveing purchased them. I bought a bag for my clothes, the wheels and handle broke off, the material started to rip and falling apart. I bought a mug and simply held it; the handle broke off, it dropped to the ground and it smashed into pieces. The windoes of the houses are Chinese-made, they are of very poor quality, do not close or open properly among many issues with them. To be continued... Tooray city. Oday, saaxiib why don't you help these poor people build more luxurious accomodations like those in Bevely Hills and Malibu Beach?

xabad;932667 wrote: Oday, this is thoroughly enjoyable and informative thread. please go ahead and let us know more of your journey. and to these guys who bring up sl everywhere, desist from your tiresome arguments. we are not interested in them. Did you forget this entire thread is about SOMALILAND?

Alpha Blondy;932589 wrote: 15-year-old rape-survivor sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public in Maldives for “sex outside marriage” The girl's stepfather is accused of raping her for years and murdering the baby she bore. Now the court says she must be flogged for “sex outside marriage”! President Waheed of the Maldives is already feeling global pressure on this, and we can force him to save this girl and change the law to spare other victims this cruel fate. This is how we can end the War on Women – by standing up every time an outrage like this happens. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL........ THIS IS MADNESS! What was the punishment of the rapist then?

Alpha Blondy;932640 wrote: what a terrible thread this is.....the thread starter doesn't even take question....do you want these questions pre-approved for the purposes of googling and wikipedia-ing these first ever steps across the somali peninsula. a New Yorker Bestseller beckons for Oday, ma istidhi? He is wants to force the failed union down our throats, so your questions are not welcome;)

Alpha Blondy;932509 wrote: i'm burning more cuud, now..... you're NOT! marka...iska amuus, dee. your spiritually prowess is poor and lacking. i'm sorry Tal. anyways, you can't burn foox and cuud together at the same time because its a bad omen....which means 14 yrs bad luck, ee sida uula soco. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Our Sanaag highland's foox has no bad omens. It is the one we sold to Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the other Pharaohs who used it to summon their ancestors, and used by Cleopatra in her charm offensive. So It can't go wrong.

Of course, no surprise there.

^ I don't mean the facade and the word games but the logic behind the song.

Alpha Blondy;932403 wrote: Nuune, i'm burning some Cuud and it smells nice. anyways, do you know why i've taken the name Alpha Blondy ? p.s - the pic wasnt even X-RATED. what you talking about you little MOD jajuus? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I occasionally burn cuud as well. I bought it from Camden's crazy hippie market three to four years ago:) Alpha do you like foox. I like it and it gives me spiritual serenity.

So what is her justification now? For peace? For justice?

Well nobody is bothering Siyaad now, he is with his Creator. It would be better for Mr Shirdoon to ask the Somali people to forgive him not Siyaad.

Stoic let me give you an example in order to ease your unfounded anxieties. Suppose you had an argument and a fight with a much larger fellow. Then with your quick moves you grounded that large fellow and he ended up in an intensive care unit fighting for his dear life with the help of some Ugandan, Kikuyu, and Habashi doctors. After some twenty two and so years that unfortunate man started moving his fingers and came out of the coma. In those two decades while your opponent who is now an unrecognisable shadow of his former self was in a ventilation unit with dozens of wires sticking out of him, you went to college, graduated, got a job, got married, had several children some of whom are now in their late teens, and became a respected member of the society(world). Will you them Mr Stoic be worried about what the recovery of that poor soul mean for your security and wellbeing? Edit: I forgot to add that a rogue kikuyu doctor gave a bad injection to the patient and as a result there are some serious complications on the lower part of the body.

OdaySomali;932405 wrote: Djibouti is probably the worst example you could have picked... a tiny city-state that is economically entirely dependent on the port revenues it generates from Ethiopia and the fees it levies on the American, French and Japanese military bases. If it were not for its fortunate location and Eritrea seceding from Ethiopia, it would just be an insignifcant, tiny, barren coastal enclave with no political, social or economic clout or relevance to speak of. Adigu rumayso waxaad rumaysanaso, im not going to futher detract from the subject of this thread. This is an excellent thread but you can not ignore the fact that if the union of Somaliland and Somalia was good for the Somali people today we would have something to show for it.

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^ I see no difference between those chicks with a bikini and a bottle, and the Somali guys who sleep with women outside of marriage. Both groups are immoral in equal measure.

*Blessed;932428 wrote: ^Most of them are single..and would probably remain so until they get over themselves and actually see another person for their humanity rather than how they can mold them to their fantastical views of the world and most crucially learn to view women as equals with strengths as well as faults like themselves. No woman wants a man who sees her as a deficient minor who aught to be tolerated! This is sisterly advice boys, no offence intended Well said blessed. Just the other day some guys were unashamedly bragging about their “first white chick”, and now here we have others saying they can't find a "good" Somali girl. I believe it is the Somali male and not the female who is a total failure.

^ Where are the ladies? Please u jawaaba ninkan:eek:

I think the government of Somaliland needs to learn a thing or two from the kacaan government when it comes to land management and the enforcement of the law. A very nice video indeed.

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nuune;931970 wrote: ^ Xageed ka jeclaatey islaanta, ma internetka With your comment you must have offended a lot of female SOLers. Are you suggesting a 35 years old chick is islaan??:mad: