Islamically it is permissible to eat even a dead pig if you are starving.The civilians of Hargeisa have no blame in this as the admin of war criminal Silanyo has failed them. Naxdin: Rag Neef Baqtiyey Qalanaayo oo Hargeysa lagu Qabtey.

21 March 2017 UK Excludes Somaliland from Donor meet over postponed elections A top British official said on Tuesday that Somaliland would not be invited to a donor conference on Somalia in May because it had repeatedly postponed Presidential elections. “There was an opportunity for a new government to come to the conference if the elections had been held in March, as promised, “Deputy British Ambassador Andrew Allen told journalists in Hargeisa. “But the elections have been postponed again and again and will not take place until November. So, we cannot invite the current government. We wanted to work with a new government because the conference will pledge aid for the next four years.” The polls were to have been held in March this year but were postponed. The government said that a critical drought had displaced so many people that proper elections were not feasible as many voters had fled their homes. Allen said he understood the problems the drought caused the organisation of polls but pointed out this was just the latest in a series of postponements, including elections to the National Assembly, which has been in place for more than a decade and will not face re-election now until November 2019. Allen said he had voiced Britain’s concern in his talks about the continued arrest and detention of journalists and erosion of the freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. The Human Rights Centre, an independent body, says arrests of 26 journalists in 2016 was slightly down on the previous year’s figure but the profession still felt vulnerable to arbitrary arrest and detention. He said Britain was also concerned about the government’s transparency about major decisions it has been taking, including an agreement this week between Somaliland and the United Arab Emirates to establish a military base near the coastal city of Berbera. The Somaliland government has released few details about the agreement. “The same small number of people responsible for the delay in elections are the same small number of people responsible for the agreement with the UAE. The people of Somaliland need more information on this base. What are the benefits? What are the risks?” Allen said one risk was that Somaliland would become a target for extremists in the region, as well as “a whole set of regional relationships inlcuding those with Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia itself. “It’s difficult for the people of Somaliland to make their assessment of these risks because the information is just not available,” he said. Allen acknowledge that many of top Somaliland officials had British passports and said that they were liable to prosecution under the UK bribery laws if found to have received money illegally. He was speaking in response to fears among many Somalilanders that people in power are abusing their office to enrich themselves and transferring money overseas. Allen said the UK government had pledged 110 million sterling to combat drought in the Horn of Africa and that assistance of this sort went directly to people in need, not through governments and that no political criteria were attached to humanitarian assistance. Allen, who is based in Mogadishu, Somalia, but also has responsibility for the breakaway state of Somaliland, said he had expressed Britain’s concerns in talks with senior Somaliland officials including Minister of the Presidency Mohammed Hashi. http://www.somalilandpress.com/uk-excludes-somaliland-donor-meet-postponed-elections/

@galbeedi said: By the way, the minister of labor Saalax Ahmed Jaamac, seem to be familiar. Is this ourown Saalax here in SOL. . He is from Sanaag. I did met him some eight years ago. Before we launched Hiil-Qaran, Proff. Samatar came to town and we met the locals at one of the hotels. During the Q and A, a well spoke an educated young man threw tough questions about Somaliland , and as I recall, he just sounded like Oodweyne. Some people told me that same guy is the new minister, yet , I have a feeling he could be our own Saalx. :D The name Saalax is popular with Sanaagians.

@Holac said: May Allah protect them. These people have been left alone to starve while politicians steal millions. Really sad. I agree. That is why it is better from now on aid agencies should deal with civilians in village/towns directly on the ground otherwise the money will just go in the pockets of some politician.

Kulmiye candidate Musa Bihi Abdi drinking wine in a meeting with US representatives to Somalia in Nairobi.

This is the problem when you appoint people based on tribalism, she can't even speak English properly. The other issue here is her corrupted boss Silanyo stole millions, so why cry to the white man if what he gave already has been stolen by the criminal syndicate Silanyo mafia family? Ironically the Silanyo mafia family originally thought that the drought will affect the west Burco & Awdal communities the most that is why they let it drag for longtime since late 2015, but today it is the people of east Burco that are suffering the most from the Guban to Caynabo (already reported by The Guardian). Her cries seem genuine but it is misplaced, She has failed to condemn the elephant in the room - the criminal syndicate that stole millions of dollars donated by the EU between 2010 - 2017, aslong as Somalis don't hold their politicians accountable those famines will happen since there is no management, corruption is widespread and there is no plans to prepare for the long-term future.

Meanwhile Silanyo and his immediate family get obese from the millions they stole. Disgraceful xaraan ku naax. Amina Jirde Silanyo

@Maakhiri1 said: Eebe ha ufududeeyo Ameen.

'Where is the help?': black tea and dark despair as Somalia edges closer to famine Sunday March 12, 2017 By Ben Quinn in Burao With nothing to eat and no sign of respite, people in the Somali town of Caynabo are fighting to stave off malnutrition and disease as they survive off scraps Empty cooking pots are seen inside a makeshift home at a settlement near the town of Caynabo in Somalia. Photograph: Kate Holt/Unicef On a rock-hard dust bowl of barren land outside the Somali town of Caynabo, more than a thousand people have pitched up makeshift shelters as they figure out how to survive. Searing drought has all but destroyed their pastoral lifestyle and now it threatens to kill them. They are among 6 million people here in Somalia in need of urgent food assistance to prevent a repeat of the 2011 famine that claimed a quarter of a million lives. Amina Dahir, a mother in her 30s, travelled for two days and two nights to get to Caynabo after the last remnants of the family’s livestock perished. She was accompanied by her six children and other relatives. “People are coming every day like us, carrying what little belongings they have. But there is nothing here for us – nothing to eat, nowhere to go,” she says, holding up the empty bowl from which the family consumed their last remaining food this morning – a few portions of plain rice – along with their final water reserves. Dahir is among the many people here who say little or no aid has arrived. As acute malnourishment and disease take hold among the group’s children, she asks a simple question. “Where is the help from our own government or the international community?” Somalia is one of three countries at risk of famine. In parts of South Sudan, it has already been declared. The world faces the unprecedented prospect of four simultaneous famines. Three consecutive years of drought have left two regions of Somalia on the brink of emergency. These areas are marked out in red on the food security maps compiled by UN agencies (pdf), the final stage before a darker hue denotes famine. The red areas include a large, densely populated area of south Somalia where some districts are under the control of Islamist insurgents al-Shabaab, making access complicated. In the other red areas, which spread over the self-declared autonomous states of Somaliland – encompassing the region where Amina Dahir and her family find themselves, – and Puntland security is less of an issue. Temporary shelters near the town of Caynabo in Somalia. Photograph: Kate Holt/Unicef Here, once green pastures have become dust, the scale of the crisis evident in the carcasses of goats and sheep that litter the roadsides. Dr Hamud Mohamed needs no coded maps to gauge the scale of the problem. At a health centre outside Somaliland’s second largest city, Burao, dozens of mothers wait patiently with their babies for immunisations, antenatal care and other treatment. He gestures to a wall chart that shows the alarming rise in the number of moderately and severely malnourished children. “We are seeing malnourished children coming in every morning, but the most severe cases are from families who have been forced to move to this area recently because of the drought,” says Mohamed, whose clinic provides nutritional support through schemes funded by Unicef, the UN children’s agnecy, and the World Food Programme. ara Fara Mohamud’s two young children are suffering from flu and diarrhoea. She has been able to obtain medicine but has no food. Photograph: Kate Holt/Unicef Treatments include the use of Plumpy’nut, the peanut-based paste, rich in calories and protein, used to help starving children gain weight “The other problem with a drought is how malnutrition complicates other medical conditions. We’ve already seen an outbreak of measles and other conditions that worsen and reduce the lifespan of a child,” says Mohamed. Some new arrivals in the area are too disorientated or distressed to find help. At Burao airstrip, less than 20 minutes away by foot, Roda Mahamud sits with hundreds of other families. She quietly rocks her pale and listless two-year-old niece, Ayan, who she has been looking after since the child’s mother died giving birth. The family, which includes 10 children, has been surviving on occasional portions of rice and sometimes just black tea. They had arrived weeks earlier, but were still unaware of the clinic. Mahamud’s relative, Keyse Farah Abdi, says they walked for days to come here, having heard a rumour that the Somaliland authorities were bringing assistance to the area. They waited, availing themselves of water from a tanker as well as small amounts of rice an donations of tea and sugar from the community, but aid has yet to materialise. Their few remaining goats are slowly dying. “We heard from people that grass and water would be here but there is nothing. Now we scavenge and get donations,” says Abdi, a softly spoken pastoralist who has traditionally moved with the goats a few times a year to find grazing land. His anxiety about the desperate plight of his family was etched on his face. Roda Mahamud and her niece, Ayan, who hasn’t eaten properly for weeks. Photograph: Kate Holt/Unicef Humanitarian workers and NGOs have issued repeated warnings. Save the Children cautioned this week that the international community is failing to learn the lessons that led to the last famine, stressing that all the early warning signs of an avoidable catastrophe are evident. The charity’s chief executive, Kevin Watkins, said on a visit to Puntland this week that the scale of the suffering is even greater than at the equivalent stage in 2011, with deaths from cholera and acute diarrhoea rising sharply. “Given the weight of evidence, the scale of suffering and the memory of 2011, the international community’s response to the crisis facing Somalia’s children is indefensible and unforgivable,” said Watkins, who called on aid donors to act urgently. An estimated £677m is needed by June to keep people alive and start the recovery process. Similar criticism was voiced by ActionAid, which pointed out that the 2017 UN appeal for Somalia has received £110m from donor countries – just 11% of what was requested. Hunger and disease mean countless lives are at stake yet at this rate food won’t arrive until after people begin dying,” said head of humanitarian response Mike Noyes. Of the aid already in the pipeline, Britain’s Department for International Development has allocated £100m to Somalia as part of a wider Horn of Africa response. More than £20m of that is already being spent by Unicef on work such as screening and treating malnourished children, rehabilitating water boreholes and immunisation programmes. As with other “pre-famine” appeals however, the financial clout of the US has yet to be felt. While the US contributed nearly $855m to support relief interventions in the wider Horn of Africa in 2016 (pdf), USAid’s food aid programme for 2017 consists of an estimated $171m of assistance spread across Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Back on the side of a road half an hour’s drive outside of Caynabo, Nuur Mohamed says he has been reduced to begging for food in the town and trying to catch scrawny dik-dik antelope by night. His family and others erected shelters near to the leaking watertank here after his entire herd of 25 camels and 100 sheep and goats died. A veteran of Somaliland’s war of independence, the 56-year-old says: “We’re proud of the country that we have become and whatever happens I am proud of my part in that. We have our freedom still. But only now we have this drought. It was brought by God. I don’t have any other answer.” https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/10/somalia-edges-closer-to-famine-where-is-the-help-black-tea-dark-despair

Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States are deeply disappointed by the Guurti’s decision to delay further Somaliland’s electoral cycle, unilaterally extending the government’s term beyond even the dates requested by government. The further postponement of the presidential election to November 2017 and the parliamentary and local elections to 2019 was given without justification or a plan for addressing the obstacles to holding the long-delayed parliamentary polls. These delays undermine democratic progress in Somaliland and have caused serious concern among international partners about the government’s credibility and respect for democratic norms. We note that Parliamentarians will have been in office 14 years without an election under this plan, more than twice the constitutional limit. We therefore urge the Guurti, as a sign of respect to Somaliland voters, to reconsider their decision and set a timeline for presidential, parliamentary, and local elections to take place as soon as technically feasible. As donors, we have been clear on extensions of mandate and delay of elections, as well as their implications. The Somaliland Government’s credibility is at stake and significant investments are being lost. Regrettably, as previously stated, donors will not cover the costs that these delays will incur. ### For more information, please contact Raymond W. Stephens Public Affairs Officer United States Mission to Somalia https://so.usmission.gov/international-partners-disappointed-somaliland-electoral-delays/#.WMFpFA0ZGFo.twitter

We have been hearing that for 26 years of delusions. Unfortunately all it produced is more proverty, famines, corruption. mass tahriibs etc.

Either way the reason this minister is crying is all past agreements (including the base) with former HSM admin will have to be reviewed. The handouts will be cut once and for all for corrupted Silanyo family.

As many have pointed out it was HSM admin that allowed the base deal, Somaliland can't sign things by itself since it is not legally recognized. FAADEEXAD:-Maxamuud Xaashi oo Qiray in Heshiiska Saldhiga ay Wada Saxeexeen Somaliya

Simple. It is a corrupt regime that stole millions from Somaliland civilians , with blood on their hands. I will not support criminals. Lastly telling the truth (the fact everyone knows Somaliland won't get recognition) doesn't mean advocating for anything but stating the reality.

@Mintid Farayar said: 2nd attempt to post. Salaax, Putting aside your narrow-minded agenda, this is a sad state of current affairs for Somaliland. It will further alienate Somaliland's international allies who have held it up as a beacon of representative democracy in the Horn. Sxb you are naive. I have been saying that since 2010, it is the Kulmiye policy to destroy Somaliland credibility and they achieved it. "1. Moving Away From, Rather Than Towards, International Recognition: The abandonment, which began with the inauguration of the Kulmiye Party Government on July 20, 2010, of the consistent path toward international recognition has led to a decline in international credibilit y due to corruption and the fact that the Kulmiye Government has refused to conduct constitutionally -scheduled elections.1 It has, in other words, clung to power illegally" http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Africa/Geopolitical-Time-Bomb-Chaos-In-Somaliland-Could-Trigger-Regional-Conflict.html

@Che -Guevara said: What does Somaliland Constitution say about these extensions? Can members of the Parliament (who I assume haven't stood for election in long time) unilaterally extend their term and that of the Government? Could this be challenged in the Supreme Court? The parliament can but the issue here is the elections have been delayed many times by a group of unelected men called Guurti (house of elders). So there is nothing democratic about it.

While Somalia had 3 presidents since 2010. I guess cajuus Siilanyo has no shame, the only way he will go is by the bullet. Somalia - Sheikh Sharif Ahmed - 2009/2012 , Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud - 2012/2017, Farmaajo -2017 (Present) Mamuulka Somaliland - Siilanyo - 2010 to present 2017 https://qarannews.com/war-degdeg-ahgolaha-guurtida-oo-mudo-kordhin-u-sameeyay-xukumada-siilanyoxilligayse-ku-beegeen/

holac Nothing new those are the Kulmiye programmed robots. Good to see the police man chase them away.

@Che -Guevara said: It seems in Oodweyne, Barwaaqo and now Mintid are in overdrive. Take deep breeth folks.

Now many other Somaliland media are reporting it. Wasiirka madaxtooyada Somaliland oo ku lugo’ay Xaramka oo uu Farmaajo islahaa kula kulan iyo Farmaajo oo https://qarannews.com/wasiirka-madaxtooyada-somaliland-oo-ku-lugoay-xaramka-oo-uu-farmaajo-islahaa-kula-kulan-iyo-farmaajo-oo/

Pro-Islamists are hell bent on spreading their influence & version of Islam in the region, and are exploiting the plight of the people of Somaliland. Islamists are the kind of people inspired by a boundless hate who could even exculpate and excuse the crimes of the Holocaust. They have scant regard of the dire needs of the Somali people. All they are interested in is to have their way and are pouring arms and funds to set-up a pro-Islamic regime in our country and establish more Islamic proxies throughout the region. Their modus operandi is to take advantage of people’s predicament and impose unsuitable Islamic regimes upon and unsuspecting people. Somalila nd is doing all it can to be a bulwark against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism and sees this as an international issue, thus would appreciate it if your Excellency would use your good offices & enormous influence in the West, particularly in the US, to alert them about the portentous/ominous situation developing in this region, so that they would not remain hapless on-lookers while their national/international interests are being threatened. I am absolutely certain that those Arab countries noted above, as well as Iran, will whip-up Islamic/Arab passion against Somaliland establishing amiable & strategic partnership with the State of Israel and thus could use this as a pretext to exacerbate our situation further both inside and outside Somaliland. However, those countries need to know that my government is not playing with empty emotions, as they often do, but playing pragmatism and real politick for the best interest of its people and country. The people of Somaliland have a daunting and onerous task to overcome their Islamist adversaries and contain the encroachment of Islamic influence, considering their strength, however, we are like David facing Goliath, but then there were an overwhelming odds against Israel when it defeated Arabs in three major wars. In order to surmount such an onerous task my government needs the support and assistance of the State of Israel, not only to defend our nascent state from the menace of pro-Islamist dark forces, but also in terms of relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction of this devastated country. Establishing Strategic Partnership with the State of Israel "In this regard my government has a number of priority areas where your Excellency’s assistance is pivotal to the people of Somaliland, among these are: First, military equipment and counter insurgency experts. Second, conducting plebiscite on the issue of independence at the end of next year 1996 or early 1997. Third, relief and rehabilitation aid as well as development advisers, petroleum and mineral exploitation expertise. The people of Somaliland have full confidence in their government and are absolutely behind me in this historic decision of establishing strategic partnership with the state of Israel and I am determined to see it come into fruition." Shalom, I have the honour to remain, Your Obedient Servant Mohamed Ibrahim Egal President Republic of Somaliland

As I am sure you are aware, at the height of the cold war Somalia’s strategic geographical location was acknowledged by both sides (East/West). Today, however, although the West had won the cold war and the threat of communism appears to be vanishing in many parts of the world, we, in the Horn of Africa, are being threatened by a more sinister and pernicious enemy in the form of encroaching Islamic influence. It would be true to say that the State of Israel and its people are, perhaps, more aware and alert of such threats than most other countries, and know how perilous and pestilential the spread of Islamic influence would mean for the entire region. The political upheavals which have been taking place in the Horn of Africa and the lack of stability in the region could be aggravated further if the influence of Islamic Fundamentalism is not curtailed or contained very soon. Somaliland’s concern is reinforced by the growing influence of the Saudis and the pro-Islamic Yemen, particularly ever since it had crushed and defeated the South Yemeni’s courageous attempt to forsake or renounce its union with the north. Discovering that Eritrea is not interested [in] to act as an Arab satellite, both Sana’ and Riyadh, as well as Khartoum (not to mention how pariah states like Iran and Libya are meddling into the internal affairs of my country), are now directing their efforts to force Somaliland to forfeit or withdraw its independence with the intention of installing a pro- Islamic Somali state (under a federal Somalia). This will most definitely render the control of both the north and southern coasts of the Red Sea to pro-Islamic regimes, with the exception of Eritrea and the miniature state of Djibouti which has no significance leaving the whole region to become a bed-rock for Islamic influence. Your Excellency, my government firmly believes that owing to this region’s strategic geopolitical importance as a result of its propinquity to the oil routes and the narrow Babul-Mendeb entrance, as well as its proximity to the Gulf, the Middle East and the access to the Indian Ocean, it will be highly deleterious if such a strategic region falls almost entirely under the dominion of pro- Islamic regimes. Needless to say that this should be a portentous eventuality which will in turn adversely affect the national security of the State of Israel, and that of other countries in the Horn of Africa who are trying to recover from years, if not decades, of both man-made and natural disasters i.e. civil wars, military coups, draughts and famines, etc. In addition, since countries in the region are not politically stable the encroachment of Islamic influence will most certainly have a destabilising effect. For instance, in Ethiopia with its various nationalities and particularly with its large Muslim population, the expansion of pro- Islamists in the region would act as a tinder-box with the potential to enflame the entire region. Although the people of Somaliland are over 98% Muslims, they are, nevertheless, averse to adopt an antiquated Islamic Sharia Law as their way of living and governance. In contrast my government intends to make Somaliland a beacon of democracy and oasis for stability in this region of upheavals and turmoil. But this is unlikely to happen in the present climate, as we are ranged against by strong and powerful Islamic proxies whose primary aim is to put out such an illume of hope. A foretaste of what will happen if dark forces of Islamists will succeed in their pursuit of bringing in a passé or an out-moded system, could be seen in Mogadishutoday, where a de facto administration from a coalition of Islamic proxies and minority tribal groups headed by not so long ago UN/International fugitive warlord General Aideed, where Islamic surrogates have been infringing people’s human rights with impunity; people are being stoned to death for committing no crime other than fornication; and limbs are being chopped off for petty crimes such as mugging and burglary in a barbaric inhuman and uncivilised manner. My government has, in lieu of imposing Sharia Law on our people, just completed the draft of a new secular Constitution which is very liberal and mundane, for I am conscious that Sharia Law does not reflect the needs of my people who are aspiring to become a modern society.

Exactly, thirty five years later, the dreams of Greater Somalia are discredited and disavowed. It was under the union with Somalia that Somaliland found itself a pathetic captive within a ruthless, destructive and hostile state. Indeed, it was this union whose culmination was the tyrannous and repressive regime of the late Siyad Barre which brought about the enormous suffering, starvation and destruction in which the world had witnessed and came to notice, too well, during the past five years or so. The people of Somaliland have renounced such a union in May 1991 and reclaimed their independent sovereign entity, and nothing will make them reverse the decision to extricate themselves from the captivity of Somalia. The vice-president and the Foreign Minister of Somaliland have, recently, paid an official visit to Eritrea and while there met H.E. Ariel Kerem, the Ambassador of Israel in Eritrea, who furnished them with valuable advice and suggested that I, the President of Somaliland, should write to your Excellency, as the Prime Minister of Israel, in person, informing you about Somaliland’s eagerness to establish an ex parte relationship based on strategic partnership with the State of Israel and sharing with you about my government’s concerns and fears vis-a-vis the alarming menace emanating from the expansion of Islamic influence in our strategic region.

"In my capacity as the President of the Republic of Somaliland, an admirer of the state of Israel and the courage of its people, please accept my compliments and my people’s profound felicitations to you, your Government, President and the people of Israel for their tenacity, strength and resourcefulness which had finally constrained its adversaries to make peace with the State of Israel. I have the honour of representing the people of Somaliland and its nascent state in this opportunity for seeking to establish amiable and strategic links with the State of Israel." "It is important to note that our two nations have had strong links since time immemorial. Indicative of such historical links, stretching well before the advent of Islam to this date, is the influence of the Hebrew culture in Somaliland and how Jewish legends and their mystical powers are widely acknowledged and homage paid to them. In addition, the people of Somaliland are appreciative as they have an indelible memory of the fact that Israel was among the first three countries who recognised Somaliland after it declared its independence from Britain on 26th June 1960, alas, that independence lasted no more than four days as Somaliland entered into a voluntary union with the UN Trust Territory of Somalia on 1st July 1960, in the hope of creating Greater Somalia."