1+ Zack! Meesha cadaalad haddey jirto waa la ogaana! Oba, the mayor should reflect the historical reality of mogadishu not the power of ak47!

Is it me or am I hearing the name "Amiin Caamir" in the formal presentation of Prof. Gaandi by the journalist? Listen carefully to part of the tape 00:32-00:34 Great program though! Dooda ha sii socoto.

xiinfaniin;920497 wrote: Federalism is the future. To live in Somalia, one needs to accept that reality. Xiin, you need to elobrate, If its the future whats federalism in its somali meaning? 20 clan states and another 20 more wanting to become clan states? Noo sharax adeer..

For materialistic people that only believe in what their senses and perceive the idea of an "evil eye" sounds far away. Xabad gave a howling NO to the question if the evil eye exists or not. But I am open minded person. Is this world limited only to what the human senses are able to detect`? Is the truth only limited to what we see or hear or taste? Sxbyaal I once had a course proteins and other biological stuff (boring stuff) But the teacher once said that some insects see colors that we can not see. A student asked "and how do those colors look like". The professor ofcourse said "I dont know, I have not seen those colors". So whats the wisdom of of this? The Evil eye does exist so does the unseen world. So lets not limit ourselves.

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto! Wuxuu ahaay nin dintiisa iyo dadkiisaba wax u taray!.

Arrinta wey sahlantahay, SOMALIA does not need more WEAPONS, we need more reconcilation and more dialogue! AK-47 badan khayr ma keenayaan.! As a banaadiri I am totally against the lifting of the arms embargo! Dadka ma washeen yaakhay? Dad ma jiro aaminsan in hub kale soomaliya ku tooseyso! An old somali women once said " NIN AANAN YAABIN WUXUU DHAHAY WAA YAABAY";)

I have said it before, The arms-embargo should not be lifted. What dont need more weapons, what we need is aid or technica support in rebuilding our nation. By the way if the arms starts to flood somalia who do you think will get hands on it? The Corruption is so ripe in somalia that al-shabaab and other clan militias will probably get the arms.

Coofle, just do it and boardthe ship. Marriage viewed from the western perspective is seen as something great or a phase of life. I dont personally belive that it is like that. Marriage waa in rabbi nii xaaleelayay to live amongst each other. Just get married and start having fun, and if things dont work out, divorce is allways an option and then marry again. It´s not more complicated then that.

London muslims? I guess a fair number of them might be pakistanis.. Why dont those pakistanis demonstrate against USA who uses pakistani airpsace to bomb pakistani civilians everyday? Cajiib maahinow?

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto. Those who did this should be put on trial.

nuune;916652 wrote: ^^ Not the country that is crazy, but its rulers, kala saar, waligaa yeysan arrimaha iskaga kaa kala dhax qasmin adeer, the country is beautiful. Well lets look this from another whole angle, when did the ban started that no women should be allowed to drive, and why, to my knowledge to this subject is that, 2 decades ago or so, Saudi women used to drive, at one point, an incident happened that outraged women, and the result was dozens of women protested while driving their cars through the highways, markets, and neighborhoods, this caused the death and injuries of many people. After that, the government BANNED women to drive. On the other hand, the Somali story behind this banning is that, Saudi women if allowed to drive cars will cause more injuries and accidents not because they are protesting but because they are busy with MARSHADA!! Soomaalideena waa cajjiib, Nuune, does once isolated incident justify that women cant drive cars?. Aduunyo fiiriya, dadna bisha ey tagooyan dad kalena iyagoo saxarada joogo ey ka doodayan haddey naago baabur wadi karaan lol!

Pious and vicous at the same time? Do they even cosign with each other. OdaySomali... You need´come forward with a more detailed example. Maxaa aragtay?

Somalia has lots of weapon, the solution to a war-ravaged nation is not more weapons. Xiinfaniin I dont agree with you that the Somali government needs to build it's own security apparatus. But I fail to see where that goes with somali weapons embargo..! You know how corrupt somali officals are. What do you think will happen when a whole lead of ak-47s or heavier weapons come to Somalia? Instead of the somali army those weapons will in some shady way go right into the hands of armed groups. It way to early to lift the embargo. This is very dangerous... qofki dab lee ku dheelo lee gubto...

Aliya I have to say I laughed when writing that. Your not supposed to laugh when your hear the death of a person, and even worse a muslim. The irony of the whole story is funny, people die in wars, illness, but this man died in a bizarre shameful way.

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto, it doesn't matter if he was a somali or not, kolley he met a horrible death. Think about it, how would you guys feel if your last second of life would be seeing the face of a fat gay saudi man hitting you hard and biting you . Whats shocking is that you can get away with murder just as nin-yaaban said. All it takes is to be the son of a king.

This does not surprise me, the British gave them money and rifles in change for lucrative deals in the 1800 century. Things have not changed since that date. When Gamal Cabdal Nasser was trying to rid the arabs from imperialism by capturing the Suez. Guess who was against him? The Saudis

Looks very nice but where is the african somali touch of it? Oba do you have any pics of the architecture of the building?

Maaddeey;904750 wrote: What is the book's name and who translated it to Somali?. kitabka Barzanjiga

Indeed, the prophet said Haatu, But what did he mean it? a) The Christians whorship Jesus and says his a god. b) God has a son. Why are misleading us in this forum as if the mawlid-nabi is an imitation of the christians. Have you seen where musims commemoration the mawlid say that Muhammad is god? Maacadallaah! Nio! So what do thet do then? They come togehther reaad the quran. speak about the seera, chant poetry for the prophet, send salaams to the porphet. This acts the best and you get reward from God!

Salahudin;910901 wrote: Naxar, brother u do know that Abu Bakar [ R.A.], Umar Al-Khattab [ R.A.], Usman [ R.A.], and Ali bin Abu Talib [ R.A.], never celebrated the prophet's [sAW] bithday right... Salaaxadiin, Did the the prophet make the saalaada taraawixda in jamac? No he did not. Does it mean that is something that we should not do? Ofcourse not. I could copy and pase a long fatwa with full of culama who supports the mawlid but for the sake of the discussion I will not do that. The Wahaabiyya Could also do that. I do not think that will lead to a fruitfull discussion. Let us use the wahaabi logic and se where it leads us. A couple of years ago when we were making the mawlid in a community center a somali man came to us and said "Why are you doing this, did the prophet do this". Before I continued I asked him "Tell us, what are we doing" God be praised, The man was not decitful in his character he answerd "You are reading the quran, you are reciting poetry to the prophet, and you are talking about his seera . I asked him, is this forbidden in the view point of the shareeca. The Wahaabi man answerd with a clear No, But he did say "the prophet did not do this on this specefic outlined day" So, I answerd him... and told him " Sheekh, what about your gatherings in the summer". (For those who dont know it. The wahabiyya organises big events every summer. They usally read the quran, have some muxaadaro and other good things.) I told him, sheekh, Did the prophet tell you guys congregate every summer in july? He said No. I abrubtly ended the discussion My yaa salaxaadin is: If the acts are not bidden, infact they are praise worthy, and do not break the shareeca it should be recommended. Mawlidka nabiga is a blessed day. His birth even made abu jahl so happy that he freed prophets beloved breast feeding Slave. All the creations between the heaven and earth became happy. Indeed Sayid Muxammad was the one who attained the title imaamu-qibalatyn ( The Imam of the two directions. He was the Sayid of All Sayid.

Kenya: Traders cart away capital from Eastleigh Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, January 22, 2013 On the brink: The bubble that was Eastleigh is threatening to burst as shoppers and traders flee the area in the wake of mysterious terror attacks. The picture of Eastleigh is one of total withdrawal and subjugation. The poor roads that had caved in under the weight of human traffic are empty. Human traffic within the Eastleigh peri-urban shopping centre has thinned to unimaginable levels like the morning dew that evaporates with the rising sun. The flow of toxic sludge — evidence of human life and activity — onto the roads is gradually drying up. The verandas of mega buildings that teemed with hawkers and wares on display have been zone off with mean nylon ropes — as if to keep the ‘bad guys’ away. The hawkers, whose daily bread singularly hinged on shouting, have since gone mute — vending their wares in silence and only occasionally waving gently at a passing onlooker. The stalls that housed not just the merchandise but secret safes hoarding millions of shillings are deserted in their dozens. Public transport is a sorry portrait of a battered sub-sector. PSV conductors — known for the sub-culture of violence and ruthlessness — have been reduced to a tame lot. Seated in their vessels, they count on providence and blank stares to bring passengers their way. The drivers, openly bored due to an alien culture — one of total order and silence — drift off in thoughts. With vehicle stereos in the mute piling onto their misery, the drivers often doze off as they await a signal from their conductors to step on the pedal. Shoppers and traders alike talk in low tones — occasionally glancing over their shoulders as they barter their suspicions. This is the new Eastleigh where fear of the unknown is the new commodity in stock. The recent wave of terror attacks in the area has sent a chill down the spine of residents and shoppers alike. The security crackdown that followed has only made life harder and business near impossible. Businesses worth billions of shillings are either closing down in Eastleigh or being relocated to other countries. Business Beat has authoritatively learnt that proprietors are fleeing the region’s business hub to escape a sting of security operations targeting aliens — most of who run a chain of businesses in the area. Massive withdrawals Banks that rushed to the area are already feeling the pinch of the fleeing businesspeople. Our investigations reveal that an estimated Sh10 billion was withdrawn from 12 banks that operate in the area in the past three months alone. Efforts to get a comment from Barclays Bank Managing Director Adan Mohammed proved futile, as he did not respond to our phone calls. Paul Sesi, Head of Operations at Chase Bank, which also operates in the area said Chase Bank hadn’t witnessed any panic withdrawals. “We are yet to see anything untoward,” said Sesi. “We haven’t been affected and are operating normally.” But even as operators in the areas denied knowledge of anything unseemly, Barclays Bank, which used to operate two branches on a 24-hour basis, has since stopped night operations due to lack of customers. “Barclays now operates only day time because the night business is dead,” says Hussein Roba, Chairman Eastleigh Residents Community Association (ERCA). “People no longer sell or buy at night because nobody wants to dare the police to a duel.” A few months ago, the Government outlawed the alien card — apparently the only identity and security some of the traders held — making their stay in the country untenable. “The government recently issued a directive that such people should either go back to their countries of origin or refugee camps,” says Eastleigh District Officer Charles Muiruri. Some of the traders are reportedly fleeing to Somalia, Uganda and Dubai while others are said to be ‘melting’ into within the country — most notably at the Coast. Analysts say the developments in Eastleigh — previously believed to be nexus of unexplained cash flows from piracy and sneaked goods from Somalia, vindicate a report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) for the quarter ending June 2012. The report showed that unexplained forex flows dropped to the lowest level. “There is widespread belief that some of the money used to fund the booming property market in Kenya and other businesses is from Somalia,” says Job Kihumba a director at Standard Investment Bank (SIB). “It is likely that this money found its way to Eastleigh.” According to the KNBS data, unexplained foreign money in Kenya’s banking system fell to Sh6.5 billion ($76.5 million) mid last year from a high of Sh170 billion ($2 billion) at the beginning of 2011 — the lowest in five years. Cheap imports Kenya had also been flooded by billions of shillings worth of goods imported through the Al-Shabaab controlled Somalia coastline — and sold cheaply into the market. However, this has severely been affected by the fall of Kismayu. Provincial administrators say smugglers have been trying to sneak in goods from Ethiopia through Moyale into the area, but this has proved costly, especially with the influx of cheaper goods from China. The security operation in Eastleigh started slightly over six months ago, but has intensified in the recent past following a series of blasts in the area. It is believed the successful excursion of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF’s) in Somalia has helped stem piracy in Indian Ocean and blocked the routes used by smugglers to sneak in goods to the country. “Eastleigh is at a critical crossroads and will likely emerge from the ongoing crisis looking quite different from the one we know today,” says Kihumba. “Most businesses that operate there will be affected in some way, regardless of how the security operation unfolds.” The exodus of moneyed immigrants, mostly of Somali origin, has also left property owners in Eastleigh chalking up huge losses in lost rent. In fact, the provincial administration is now fighting to stem an explosive situation brewing between thousands of vacating tenants who are all demanding back their rent deposits and reluctant property owners, some of who are still repaying the loans they used to build the houses. “It is true we are swamped by numerous cases between landlords and several tenants who are vacating,” says Muiruri. Muiruri says the situation is so complex that in some instances, a property owner is swamped by more than 20 tenants all demanding their deposits back because they are relocating. In a familiar tale of high-living in the boom years, followed by an uncomfortable return to reality, the landlords borrowed heftily from banks to construct houses for the incoming immigrants. The exodus of the ‘refugees’ has triggered a plunge in the value of the assets the loans were based on — with some borrowers reportedly having trouble making repayments. The fleeing traders have also left several business premises in prime areas like Garissa Lodge unoccupied. A survey by Business Beat revealed a number of vacant business premises in Eastleigh’s business hub where 16 tenants vacated a mall referred to as Yaburiani last week. According to Hussein, Sh500 million used to exchange hands in Eastleigh’s major business hub before the security operation, but things have since changed with estimates showing the figures could have plunged to Sh150 million. A high-ranking provincial administrator who requested not to be named due to sensitivity of the matter confirmed the figures. Besides local traders who come from various towns to buy stuff from Garissa Lodge, it has also been a key wholesale market for traders from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. These people have started shying away from Eastleigh on growing perceptions of insecurity in Nairobi peri-urban shopping centre and most importantly, because the people they used to buy from are running away. Incidentally, certain sectors of the Eastleigh economy have received a boost since the sporadic attacks and subsequent security operation with the most notable being security companies and taxi operators. Providing alternative means of transport for staff unwilling to travel into branches in Eastleigh was the principal cost of the situation for two banks that have branches in the area. “They have deployed more security personnel at their premises and we now have to pick and drop members of their staff who fear being caught in potentially explosive situations in the area,” says a taxi operator who requested not to be named. It is booming business for taxi operators and security guards who now have extra duties, but the situation is not enjoyable because we also have to check what is happening behind our backs.” There are now fears that the relocation of businesses from Eastleigh could have longer-term economic repercussions revenue collections. The fall in property prices, reduction of business activities and its impact on the retail and hotel industries could also have far reaching ramifications in the country. Financial institutions that provided loans towards the construction of some of these properties could be facing a potentially crippling situation as they could end up with assets in collaterals whose value is way below the amount given. For example unofficial estimates show that Nairobi City Council would collect Sh50 million less in taxes than in the previous fiscal year, with loss of parking fees and other licences from traders responsible for a huge chunk of the loss. The remainder is a result of the decreases in value of other property in the area and, interestingly, by a reduction in the value of hotels. Source: Standard Digital

Nin-Yaaban;910201 wrote: There is nothing wrong with it. It happens all the time. Personally, I like women who are much older than I am and have been in a relationship with quite few of them. Nothing wrong with older women... Naag dhishan ... experience leh maxaa ka maqan?.

That is not him mooge! Faarole marki la waayay, fiqi maas soo qaadatay? Fiqi does an exellent job and we hope that he continues.

Ninka wuu sigtay! And I mean that in a literal sense, notice what he does after a few seconds when he realises that he is going to be shot. He jumps on the man with all his might. Didn't think that an old man like him would have such strength.

hlib? lol, Nice pics MMA, loved the papaayo with sugar iyo liin When are you going to post the nice travel diary with pics? Meesha muddo aa laga maqnaay, noo sheeg waxa aad ku soo aragtay.