Heh@raula. I actually I tell a lie. That was the most important thing that I like about sijuis. But to tell the truth, I have NEVER met a sijui that I didn't like (not even on SOL).

^^ Warya, asmac naseexti yaa saaxbi oo nimanka ha shukaansan! Heh@Ayoub's attempts to sully my name again. Al xaasid ma yaflax.

^^ You're such an amatuer, Carafaat. It's not really hard to guess that Wyre is chubby, he lives in Saudi Arabia dee. Wax fahan.

A pipe dream. Sooner or later, they'll drive Turkey away with their infights and petty arguments.

^^ I once asked LST to make me a mod but he refused because he knows I'd end up banning all the scripts.

ElPunto;826728 wrote: Horrific, barbaric, unislamic system in the UAE and most of the Arab world. An Emirati woman can't give her children citizenship if married to a 'foreigner'. Waligeed Somalia saas yena noqon. I met an old reer waqooyi man there a few years ago who used to be a driver and general aide for the top Emiratis including members of the Royal Family and he was getting kicked out after 40 years and was scrambling to get himself an iqama with a Somali business. What a waste. Ngonge going overboard with his repetitive obstinancy but I agree with him. The only thing is the Mexicans to the west could be a threat given the sparse population of Somalia - they're the only folks I worry about with regard to this. Like I said, the UAE did not have to go through a war where its people were scattered all over the world and had their eyes opened. They are beduins that are as xenophobic as any Somali here. With our people on the other hand, and more so those living outside Somalia, some lessons should have been learnt. To make a big fuss over this clause makes you a xenophobe (nothing "overboard" about this fact, saaxib).

^^ I bet he does. He wakes up every morning and searches the net for anything with the word "siilaanyo" in it. Luckily for him, all he reads are good news (or humble requests like the one above). The bad news/opinions/threads are missed out because the ones writing it call him "siiranyo, dhiig cab, murderer, etc". The Imam also has the same habit. Only poor Sharif does not.

NGONGE;822356 wrote: Oh not again! Oh not again! (I blame the women of SOL for being soft on this rascal).l

It's age related I think.

Warya Jb, is it true that A&T looks like Mahatma Ghandi? p.s. Why did Alpha turn up to meet A&T at the drop of the first hat but I had to catch him unawares in the street when it was my turn? Something is not right here! p.p.s I'm told that Ibti had to urgently leave town on some important errand. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the arrival of A&T!

^^ It's a long road, adeer. But I promise to get you there. SOL has been boring of late and I'm glad I finally got me a project to focus on. I'm giving myself three months. We can do it. p.s. Your homework for today is read and reread the comments of the PM & President. I'm going to ask you specific questions about them tomorrow. Don't let me down warya.

^^ Yaay! You can READ! Now lets work on how to understand subtle differences. The PM took on a defensive posture and put the emphasis on the 'talaabo cad' nonesense. The president, spoke about not accepting those that reject the constitution put played on the idea that it's no big deal and it could be amended. Now stop posturing and sit yourself down, son.

Sitting here with a box of tissue is no good. I'm going home instead. Salaam and bye.

^^ Nice picture of you there. Now go read the replies of the two men, compare them and then come back to me if you struggle for any understanding (but I'm still not going to teach you to read).

^^ Look! I can explain things for you but I could never teach you to read, adeer. Slow down, take your time and work it out for yourself.

^^ Qabiil is Everything but the hopeless Somali PM does not warrent any qabiil based attackes from me, adeer. And, NO, Sharif did not say exactly what the PM said. Note the subtle difference in their speeches, son.

Abtigiis;826622 wrote: The evolving Sheikh has been sending out different message in the last couple of weeks. Now waa tan tu kale. Ninkan warkiisa anigu ma qaato oo final uma arko. For sure, he will evolve again! A much better reply than the one his PM made. At least he allowed himself room for change here; no opposing of the constitution but sections of it can be questioned (what if it's ALL sections?). I'm telling you, the geography teacher finally got himself a competent advisor!

*Blessed;826349 wrote: ^speaking of mad women, on your wedding myself and one of the other girls ayaa ku xamanay. When we saw how beautiful and cool you other half was, we declared that she must be mad, to have ended up with you... true story. Ayeeyo, I'm sure you were far too young to attend my wedding! Heck, I didn't even attend my wedding.

Can't be done. At any rate, why would you need to 'parody' the man when most of his replies are TIMELESS and apply in every situation and occassion? Here, have a bit of his previous replies to you and tell me if they don't fit here too. ----------------------------------- Well, lets just say, that the sort of hide-and-seek verbal construct, in which you intending to play with us in here shan't be good enough to cover your naked back-side. Hence, it really ought to be beneath you to play coy with us in here. Consequently, a gallant man would say, I stand by my argument, and, therefore, I in turn, shall go to end of the world in defending what I have put my name to it. Hence, it's understandable, that you are of the opinion in disavowing what you have written till you get the "permission slip" from those that command your action (intellectual or otherwise) on a daily basis, indeed... My friend, do not, for love of god, curse yourself altogether into unnecessary "early grave" in here, indeed. However, if, by-the-by, on the other hand, you would of have said that you may die long before you see something call "ONLF" amounting anything other than a passing fiction of the day in which some "Somali Diaspora-based" communities entertained themselves with it, at least as a "political distraction", then, one, after the soberly fashion in which this sort of thing ought to be talk about it, would of concur with you there, indeed, my friend.... Naga daaya dee.

Not again! :D http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/33319-Correspondence

^^ I don't dispute the existance of such problems but doubt the Somalis in the article are doing this for simple patrotic reasons. They smelt money (like the guy who set up a consultancy to advice the government on wide ranging issues). Naga daaya.

Juxa;826173 wrote: it is horrible custom, ee iga dhaaf unless each and everyone of you have hots for the wives of your brothers. mukulaalow isku xishoo,,,,,intaanan miciyaha kugu dhufan Bal gardarada eega! I have NEVER looked at Ibti in that way (beautiful, interesting and crazy as she is). Say sorry, you have wronged me Juxa!

^^ :D Juxa, I liked her as a script I'm sure I would have also liked her as a real person. Bonkers she is.

'The economy without a state' wants to talk to investors - not be patronised by Kenya-based aid workers BY Jessica Hatcher LAST UPDATED AT 07:49 ON Wed 2 May 2012 IF SOMALIA experiences its own Arab-style 'spring', it might not be a revolutionary wave against its own government - but an uprising against British intervention in the form of 'aid'. Senior government ministers in Mogadishu have expressed concern at the renewed international interest led by London. They believe the "projectification" of Somalia benefits mainly Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya, where NGO workers have earned a negative image because of a fondness for driving brand-new Land Cruisers and inflating property prices. "They don't consult with us. It's like a doctor trying to prescribe medicine for a patient you haven't seen yet", says Abdullahi Goodah Barre, Somalia's Minister for Planning and International Cooperation. According to Barre, it is the Italian NGO workers in particular who are thriving. "One of them is building houses in Nairobi. Another is making cheese. It's like The Sopranos," he said. British aid to Somalia started in March 2010. A year later, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced an average spend of £69 million per annum. Total humanitarian assistance rose by nearly 600% between 2009 and 2011. In an ironic twist, the spike of international humanitarian interest in Somalia has encouraged a blossoming of new organisations set up by Somalis to defend against it. Hands Off Somalia is described by activist Haseeb Ahmed as a political organisation which opposes British intervention in Somalia. Although it is just three months old, its supporters already number in the thousands. "We have agreed from the beginning that it is unfair and unjust for Britain to be talking about Somalia behind closed doors and branding the country a 'failed state'," Ahmed says. In February, a London conference on Somalia issued a communiqué reading: "We are determined to place the interests of the Somali people at the heart of all our actions". But many Somalis say it drowned them out. On the day of the conference, the Somali Relief and Development Forum released a plea. "If you want to help us, listen to us," they said. "We are fed up with sitting on the sidelines as endless international meetings take place to decide the needs of Somali people." It is estimated that 25 per cent (or even 50 per cent according to some sources) of Somalia's GDP comes from remittances abroad. "The diaspora are coming back. We've been appealing to them for a long time", says Barre. Through poetry, blogs, petitions and protests, the internet is providing a platform to re-engage those living abroad. Awoowe Hamza's poem, Letter to David Cameron, contains the lines: "You decide to punish me by robbing my brothers and sisters in Somalia from their economy / and politically try to change them and bring them back to being a colony." The British government's unpopularity with Somalis is related to the country's ostensibly selfless provision of 'aid', which Cameron then justifies by calling Somalia "a failed state that directly threatens British interests". This is a dangerous position. "When humanitarian assistance of this nature is presented as beneficial to Britain's national security, one's ability to reach those most in need is fundamentally undermined," wrote Marc DuBois, executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières UK (MSF) last year. The perception of the UK serving its own interests was reinforced in February when The Observer reported that British officials had held talks with the semi-autonomous northern state of Puntland about oil exploration. The UK campaign group, World Development Movement, warned "the UK's new drive to provide aid to Somalia is looking like a cynical attempt to grab its oil". A United Nations source insists "there is no alternative" to the costly Nairobi-based international aid missions. But Somalis believe there is; investment, not aid. "Somalis are renowned for being some of the most commercially savvy people in the world and the country coined the phrase, "The economy without a state." The largest telecoms company in Somalia, Hormuud, reported sales of $40million in 2010 - staggering when the World Bank estimates that 73 per cent of Somalia's population of nine million lives on less than $2 per day. Selling phones is only one part of Hormuud's activities: it also distributes emergency food aid. Prior to being Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, Mohamed Ibrahim was a teacher at Newman Catholic College in Brent. "Now that Mogadishu is liberated, we welcome a lot of private investors, especially in the tourist sector," he says. The al-Shabaab Islamist militia retreated from the city in August last year, leaving it under the protection of African Union troops. Like many of his fellow politicians, one of Ibrahim's dreams is for Somalia to become self-sufficient. Hope lies in people like Junaid Egale, a 30-year old former Londoner, who this year opened a UK-registered international business consultancy firm, MIJ, in Mogadishu. "We are here now to service the Somali government projects and the international private sector firms - NGOs, telecoms and finance," he says. Egale returned to Mogadishu after al-Shabaab's defeat. Although the Somali capital is still in counter-terrorism mode, security is much improved. Tourists are also returning. On Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Ibrahim, a man in his late twenties who lives in London but was born in Somalia's second city Hargeisa, says he has come on holiday "for the beaches". And Somalia's transitional government is developing its own anti-piracy task force – bypassing international NGOs. Walking around Mogadishu, young children who see me shout: "Turkey, Turkey!" Ankara has had remarkable success in Mogadishu, for the obvious reason of their shared Islamic faith, but also, as one local put it, because they show they are not afraid to walk around in the city and "get their hands dirty". In early March, a Turkish trade and investment delegation arrived on the inaugural Turkish Airlines flight to the capital and stayed for days to discuss opportunities for diplomatic cooperation. By contrast, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague was described spending "a few hours in Mogadishu glad-handing the president, announcing a new ambassador (who will stay in Nairobi) and praising the improved security (while travelling in an armoured car and wearing a flak jacket)". Hague also chose to call Somalia "the world's most failed state" in front of its President and the gathered international media, a quote that is now routinely attached to any description of the country. In February, Abukar Arman, Somali Special Envoy to the United States, coined the term 'ghost-lords' for the invisible actors in Nairobi and beyond - the international community - which he accuses of being "perhaps the biggest and most elusive obstacle to the reconstitution of the Somali state". Unless the ghost lords start listening, the anti-imperialist Somali Spring could derail attempts to stabilise this nation. Private investment in Somalia is risky, but dialogue would be a start. In the words of George Bernard Shaw, "the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place". Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/africa/46604/why-britains-aid-efforts-could-be-victim-somalias-spring#ixzz1toMiYhoM

Carafaat;826132 wrote: President Shariif Former PM Geedi Former PM Dr.Ali Khaliid Galeyr And now former PM Farmaajo The list of Head of Goverments rejecting this constitution goes on. All the old PMs are making noises and trying to remain relevant. Shame nobody woke the fat one up for him to also have his say!