i doubt the bunker can close the diplomatic office in Hargeisa the Ethiopian goverment since the hey days of Meles zenawi always kept the Ethopian diplomatic office in Hargeisa and kept it as a seperate entity Seperate from their Embassy in Mogadishu they had this diplomatic office even prior to the formation of the so called TNG of arte so even before they opened an embassy in Mogadishu they had this office

i never believed the west could help defend ukraine to defeat russia never i dont believe in western propoganda tigray miscalculated they under estemated the gallas i kinda expect the war in tigray to happen how ever tigray came out stronger now after the pretoria deals with abiye Isias and abiye are now no longer buddies which serves the interest of tigray , and the gallas are focused on amhara these days an no longer on the tigrayans as for sool and goojecadde the garaad clan and their allies might have won the first battle now but the war is far from over

in Somaliland we dont wish to be protected by an african man or a white man ,, Somalilanders control their land their people and their goverment what we want fromt he world is to respect our decscion to live in peace and harmony with our selves and our neighbours as free people. independence we have we have taken it its not given. by any one now we want our statehood to be acknowldged that is all . the chinese are worthless nobody needs these slave coperate companies that exploite africa have u seen what they have done with angola

Galbeedi why do u think or why would u think hsm who wants re election would entertain awdal where he can’t get any votes , yes hassan sheikh is against somaliland quest for statehood yes , but he also cares for coming back to power so why would he sacrifice supporting the internet state called awdal against somaliland then alienating the larger clan in Somaliland who then would oppose hun. What is there to gain from him just put ur self in his shoes what would u have done

Alshabaab cant be defeated by amisom the same way taliban was and couldn’t be defeated by the United States. The strategy hassan sheikh is trying to defeat shabaab with macsiwslay isn’t much of a strategy at all. Hassan ulusow is very divisive he has now driven away the only stable state that was a signotary to the bunker. Puntland how is he going to defeat shabaab the country is so divided now . Hassan sheikh has no solutions at all

Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing According to high-ranking Ukrainian officers, the military picture is grim and Russian generals could find success wherever they decide to focus their upcoming offensive. Zelenskyy’s warnings are part of a broad diplomatic effort to free up the military aid his forces so desperately need | Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images APRIL 3, 2024 4:00 AM CET BY JAMIE DETTMER Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — Wayward entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest pronouncements regarding the war in Ukraine set teeth on edge, as he warned that even though Moscow has “no chance” of conquering all of Ukraine, “the longer the war goes on, the more territory Russia will gain until they hit the Dnipro, which is tough to overcome.” “However, if the war lasts long enough, Odesa will fall too,” he cautioned. Advertisement Advertisement With a history of urging Ukraine to agree to territorial concessions — and his opposition to the $60 billion U.S. military aid package snarled on Capitol Hill amid partisan wrangling — Musk isn’t Ukraine’s favorite commentator, to say the least. And his remarks received predictable pushback. But the billionaire entrepreneur’s forecast isn’t actually all that different from the dire warnings Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made in the last few days. According to Zelenskyy, unless the stalled multibillion-dollar package is approved soon, his forces will have to “go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps.” He also warned that some major cities could be at risk of falling. Obviously, Zelenskyy’s warnings are part of a broad diplomatic effort to free up the military aid his forces so desperately need and have been short of for months — everything from 155-millimeter artillery shells to Patriot air-defense systems and drones. But the sad truth is that even if the package is approved by the U.S. Congress, a massive resupply may not be enough to prevent a major battlefield upset. And such a setback, especially in the middle of election campaigns in America and Europe, could very well revive Western pressure for negotiations that would obviously favor Russia, leaving the Kremlin free to revive the conflict at a future time of its choosing. Essentially, everything now depends on where Russia will decide to target its strength in an offensive that’s expected to launch this summer. In a pre-offensive pummeling — stretching from Kharkiv and Sumy in the north to Odesa in the south — Russia’s missile and drone strikes have widely surged in recent weeks, targeting infrastructure and making it hard to guess where it will mount its major push. And according to high-ranking Ukrainian military officers who served under General Valery Zaluzhny — the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces until he was replaced in February — the military picture is grim. Advertisement The officers said there’s a great risk of the front lines collapsing wherever Russian generals decide to focus their offensive. Moreover, thanks to a much greater weight in numbers and the guided aerial bombs that have been smashing Ukrainian positions for weeks now, Russia will likely be able to “penetrate the front line and to crash it in some parts,” they said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely. “There’s nothing that can help Ukraine now because there are no serious technologies able to compensate Ukraine for the large mass of troops Russia is likely to hurl at us. We don’t have those technologies, and the West doesn’t have them as well in sufficient numbers,” one of the top-ranking military sources told POLITICO. According to him, it is only Ukrainian grit and resilience as well as errors by Russian commanders that may now alter the grim dynamics. Mistakes like the one made on Saturday, when Russia launched one of the largest tank assaults on Ukrainian positions since its full-scale invasion began, only to have the column smashed by Ukraine’s 25th Brigade, which took out a dozen tanks and 8 infantry fighting vehicles — a third of the column’s strength. Everything now depends on where Russia will decide to target its strength in an offensive that’s expected to launch this summer | Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images However, the high-ranking Ukrainian officers reminded that relying on Russian errors is not a strategy, and they were bitter about the missteps they say hamstrung Ukraine’s resistance from the start — missteps made by both the West and Ukraine. They were also scathing about Western foot-dragging, saying supplies and weapons systems came too late and in insufficient numbers to make the difference they otherwise could have. “Zaluzhny used to call it ‘the War of One Chance,’” one of the officers said. “By that, he meant weapons systems become redundant very quickly because they’re quickly countered by the Russians. For example, we used Storm Shadow and SCALP cruise missiles [supplied by Britain and France] successfully — but just for a short time. The Russians are always studying. They don’t give us a second chance. And they’re successful in this.” Advertisement “Don’t believe the hype about them just throwing troops into the meat grinder to be slaughtered,” he added. “They do that too, of course — maximizing even more the impact of their superior numbers — but they also learn and refine.” The officers said the shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles supplied by the U.K. and U.S. in the first weeks of the invasion came in time, helping them save Kyiv — and so, too, did the HIMARS, the light multiple-launch rocket systems, which were used to great effect, enabling them to push Russia out of Kherson in November 2022. “But often, we just don’t get the weapons systems at the time we need them — they come when they’re no longer relevant,” another senior officer said, citing the F-16 fighter jets as an example. A dozen or so F-16s are expected to be operational this summer, after basic pilot training has been completed. “Every weapon has its own right time. F-16s were needed in 2023; they won’t be right for 2024,” he said. And that’s because, according to this officer, Russia is ready to counter them: “In the last few months, we started to notice missiles being fired by the Russians from Dzhankoy in northern Crimea, but without the explosive warheads. We couldn’t understand what they were doing, and then we figured it out: They’re range-finding,” he said. The officer explained that Russia’s been calculating where best to deploy its S-400 missile and radar systems in order to maximize the area they can cover to target the F-16s, keeping them away from the front lines and Russia’s logistical hubs. The officers also said they now need more basic traditional weapons as well as drones. “We need Howitzers and shells, hundreds of thousands of shells, and rockets,” one of them told POLITICO, estimating that Ukraine needed 4 million shells and 2 million drones. “We told the Western partners all the time that we have the combat experience, we have the battlefield understanding of this war. [They] have the resources, and they need to give us what we need,” he added. Europe, for its part, is trying to help Ukraine make up for its colossal disadvantage in artillery shells. And in this regard, a proposed Czech-led bulk artillery ammunition purchase could bring Ukraine’s total from both within and outside the EU to around 1.5 million rounds at a cost of $3.3 billion — but that’s still short of what it needs. Advertisement The officers emphasized that they need many, many more men too. The country currently doesn’t have enough men on the front lines, and this is compounding the problem of underwhelming Western support. However, Ukraine has yet to pull the trigger on recruitment ahead of the expected Russian push, as authorities are worried about the political fallout mobilization measures might bring amid draft-dodging and avoidance of conscription papers. Zaluzhny had already publicly called for the mobilization of more troops back in December, estimating Ukraine needed at least an additional 500,000 men. The draft issue has gone back and forth ever since. Then, last week, General Oleksandr Syrsky — Zaluzhny’s replacement — abruptly announced that Ukraine might not need quite so many fresh troops. After a review of resources, the figure has been “significantly reduced,” and “we expect that we will have enough people capable of defending their motherland,” he told the Ukrinform news agency. “I am talking not only about the mobilized but also about volunteer fighters,” he said. The plan is to move as many desk-bound uniformed personnel and those in noncombat roles to the front lines as possible, after an intensive three- to four-month training. But the senior officers POLITICO spoke to said that Syrsky was wrong and “playing along with narratives from politicians.” Then, on Tuesday, Zelenskyy signed some additional parts to an old mobilization law tightening the legal requirements for draft-age Ukrainian men to register their details, and lowering the minimum age for call-up from 27 to 25. But in Ukraine, this is just seen as tinkering. “We don’t only have a military crisis — we have a political one,” one of the officers said. While Ukraine shies away from a big draft, “Russia is now gathering resources and will be ready to launch a big attack around August, and maybe sooner.” So, Musk may not be too wide of the mark after all.

no i think he hates Somaliland more he loves only the south and Siyad barre i think his hate for Puntland is only because deni supported hasssan sheikh to oust his hero the cheese fellow Thats where the hates stems from for puntland and ofcourse abdilahi Yusuf who turned his bay and bakool into an Ethiopian colony

What is more important is how will we go forward now and who is going to blink first and concede puntland or the bunker. Puntland ma ku adkaysan doonta diidmada dawladnimada bunkerka. Bunkerke see ma si waddi doona unilateral dhisida ama samaynta dasruurka cusub . So who is going to blink first

How come then he pursuaded the entire parliament to dance to his tunes or are u saying he bought them all also farmaajo and deni mps and sheikh dalxiis mps

I never said or I never insunated. Or compared somaliland with puntland . Where puntland doesn’t want independence they all doing this to get something out of Mogadishu. My point was to point maakhiri point of view he sticks to the point that somaliland at all cost must comme under Mogadishu, but believes puntland has the right to remove it self from Mogadishu. That was my point not to compare sl with the clan enclave with garowe. having said that. Somaliland claiming the successor state of 1960 is correct sl recognition is being denyed by politics. Not because of legality. Somaliland will get there all struggles. Take long bad we are willing to go the long path to achieve our goals and kill what’s self of the cancerous union with the bunker. All cards are on the table . I mean how do u get recognition from the parent country as international law states. When the parent state wasn’t even existing or in coma , or now when it recovering but refuse to sign the papers . Well we then. Go fight that paper govt with all we have

So why oppose SL independence of u believe bunkerka waxba lalama wadaagi karo or is it just pure xaasidnimo . It’s oke for puntland to have nothing to do with Mogadishu but u force hargeisa to be under Mogadishu

What I never understood if those in Mogadishu are opposed to federalism. Why on earth accept it in 2003 back in Eldoret almost 21 years ago . Why u accept something if ur not willing to implement or support it . Maxay dadka u daalinayan

no they did not declare independence xidhiidki uun bay u jareen bunkerka.. they have been doing that since the times of Faroole and abdiweli , eventually they will come back to their senses they always do , Puntland cant survive with out xamar iyaguna way ogyihin taas , its just what the reer xamar call Booto

i told u he would approive it . now basically he can appoint and dismiss the prime minister the prime minister is now ever less worthless then the vice president of Somaliland,. For the vice president cant be dismissed during the reign of the president in Somaliland but the president can choose a different running mate in between terms. But now the Prime minister can be removed by the president Also he wnt from 2 parties and he conceded to have 3 still all right

Somalia's bicameral Parliament approves amendment of provisional Constitution Saturday March 30, 2024 Mogadishu (HOL) - Somalia's bicameral federal Parliament approved the amendment of the first four chapters of the country’s provisional Constitution on Saturday following several weeks of heated debates in the Parliament. The lawmakers voted on the four chapters one by one before casting their votes for the overall amendments of the Constitution proposed by the Independent Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission. advertisements The Independent Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission stated that three provisions in the draft related to religion will be sent for further research. The Speaker of the Lower House, Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nor Madobe, announced that 212 members of the Lower House and 42 members of the Upper House voted in favour of amending the Constitution. No lawmakers abstained or rejected the amendment. One provision in the approved draft stated that the country will have a President and a Prime Minister, with the President having the authority to appoint and remove the Prime Minister from office. Previously, the Constitution stated that the President would appoint the Prime Minister, who would then require a vote of confidence from Parliament. Simultaneously, Parliament could remove the Prime Minister through a vote of no confidence. Other provisions set the term of office for government constitutional bodies at five years, referring to regional state presidents as leaders and establishing three political parties in the country. Former Somali Presidents Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Puntland State leaders opposed amending the Constitution, citing a lack of consensus among political stakeholders. Somalia’s 2012 provisional constitution has been under review for nearly a decade, but efforts to finalize the review have picked up since late 2023. In February, the Independent Constitutional Review and Implementation Commission sent Parliament suggested amendments to the provisional Constitution’s first four chapters, which includes articles on the age of majority and on the criminalization of female genital mutilation. On 24 January, Somalia’s Federal Parliament approved the ‘Adoption Procedure for Constitutional Amendment’ in a joint session of the House of the People and the Upper House.

Alamata isnt that in Tigray its also one of the very few regions in Tigray does have a large Muslim minority So what is going on there

Al-Shabaab resurgence in Somalia as state elections approach 48 SharesFacebookFacebook messengerTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInTelegramEmail Friday March 29, 2024 Mogadishu (HOL) - With the Somali state presidential elections scheduled between June and November 2024, candidates have launched campaigns in Galmudug, Hirshabelle, Jubaland, and Southwest states. Incumbents' potential re-election bids stir unrest among local politicians and clan leaders, particularly in Galmudug and Hirshabelle. The strife is fragmenting the coalition against al-Shabaab, enabling the militants to regain footholds in Galmudug. Concurrently, security forces in Lower Juba have initiated a new offensive against al-Shabaab, recapturing territories in March. Galmudug and Hirshabelle Face Electoral and Political Challenges The Galmudug administration's delay in announcing election dates has led to criticism, mainly targeting State President Ahmed Abdi Karie for aggravating clan conflicts. In Hirshabelle, government reshuffles and clan tensions are mounting, especially after the dismissal of Hiiraan's governor, which threatened the region's stability. The political tensions complicate the upcoming elections, risking further instability and potential secessionist movements in Hiiraan. Al-Shabaab Exploits Security Weaknesses Amid these political tensions, the Somali National Army (SNA) has encountered setbacks, allowing al-Shabaab to reclaim territories. Operational delays, internal disputes, and logistical issues have hampered the SNA, facilitating al-Shabaab's resurgence in key areas of Mudug and Galgaduud. The group has also successfully engaged with local militias, undermining the SNA's efforts. Renewed Counter-Insurgency Operations in Lower Juba Despite central Somalia's challenges, the security forces have initiated a robust counter-insurgency campaign in Lower Juba, targeting al-Shabaab with support from U.S. military forces. These operations have led to significant militant casualties and the dismantling of key bases, demonstrating a sustained commitment to eradicating al-Shabaab's presence.

Have u noticed that this isn’t about Ethiopia gaining access of Ethiopia annexing parts of Somaliland they mention . They mention that they hate what is in for Somaliland which recognition

Dowlada Jabuuti oo mar kale ka hadashay mawqifkeeda ku aadan isfahamka Somaliland iyo itoobiya Khamiis, Maarso, 28, 2024 (HOL) - Dowlada Jabuuti ayaa markale kasoo horjeedsatay heshiiska Somaliland iyo Itoobiya, iyada oo sheegtay in madaxbannaanida Soomaaliya ay tahay lama taabtaan. Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibada Jabuuti Maxamuud Cali Yuusuf, oo waraysi kooban siiyay MMTV, ayaa sheegay in loo bahanyahay in dib loo soo celiyo xidhiidhkii ka dhexeeyay Soomaaliya iyo Itoobiya. "In xidhiidhka fiican ee Soomaaliya iyo Itoobiya dhexmarayay in uu sidii kusoo noqdo hadafkaa ayuu Madaxweyne Ismaaciil Cumar qabaa, markaa gobolkeena dhibaatooyinkiisu way badanyihiin, dhibaato cusubna uma baahnin" ayuu yidhi Wasiir Yuusuf. Wasiirku waxa uu carabka ku adkeeyay in ay qabaan mawqif ah in la ixtiraamo madaxbannaanida Soomaaliya, isaga oo sheegay in dowlada Jabuuti anay aaminsanayn in Soomaaliya la kala jaro. Waxa uu sheegay in isfahamkii Somaliland iyo Itoobiya anay wali waxba ka hirgalin, isla markaana dowladaha Jabuuti iyo Kenya ka shaqaynayaan isku soo dhawaynta Soomaaliya iyo Itoobiya. Waxa uu sheegay in Jabuuti ay hada hayso xilka hoggaanka urur goboleedka IGAD, isla markaana ay masuuliyadi ka saarantahay ilaalinta nabada gobolka, iyo isku haynta dowladaha ururka xubnaha ka ah.

what makes u think a dagaal fighting for ur country is considered xaq daro?

so did ulusow back down or is he stil pushing for his new constitution and how does America have the right to interfere in internal affairs of the bunker isnt the bunker supposed to be an independent country

ilahaay haku dambaabin bilaha ramadan ilahay wax lama lihid eh ciiidanka qarankuna uma dagaalamayaan shakhsi ama hoogaamiye waxay u dagaalamayaan dalkoooda qarankooda wixi wax yeelaya

what if he pays them the MPS

Che u might actually suprised i think he has the votes if he didnt have the vote i think he would not be so confident to put it to a vote that early as Tomorow how many votes does madoobe have 15 its not really that decisive. I mean he has his clan votes and then he has all the votes from Somaliland and their cousins in the far south the key battle ground are the May May votes and the .5 votes and what hassan sheikh can steal from the D block votes here is where madoobe can come in