Allah ha u naxariisto Marxuuma ilahay samir iyo imaan haka siiyo qarabidisa iyo eheladisa

^^ Be a bit more optimistic Che anything is possible

The smiling warlord who Controls Ras Kamboni Photo|NYAMBEGA GISESA|NATION Sheikh Madobe (right) talks to Kenya’s Lt. Col Jeff Nyaga at Afmadow. To the left is Brig. Gen Ismail Sarhadid of the Somali National Army. By NYAMBEGA GISESA Tuesday, June 12, 2012 On May 22, as the sun was setting, a luxuriantly-bearded figure appeared at the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) camp in the Somali town of Belles Qocani guarded by a squad of civilian fighters. Instead of being alarmed by the gunmen in solid green fatigues armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, the Kenyan soldiers were happy. The bearded man, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam, popularly referred to as Sheikh Ahmed Madobe, is the leader of the Ras Kamboni Brigade, a paramilitary group that is the predecessor of the Ras Kamboni Movement. “Ours is a political party,” he said when we asked him whether he considered himself a warlord. The Ras Kamboni Movement is named after the coastal Somali town on the Kenyan border, and the members of the ****** clan, which is the most populous in southern Somalia, form the bulk of the Ras Kamboni Brigade. “I got the nickname Madobe from our family because I am the blackest” he said. Sheikh Madobe has risen from nothing to become a key player in the war against the Al-Shabaab. “He is a key asset in the war against Al-Shabaab as we seek to protect Kenya’s sovereignty and ensure that our citizens are not threatened by this terror organisation,” Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Nyaga, a KDF commander whose men captured Afmadow and is expected to lead the final assault on Kismayu, told DN2. After the fall of Afmadow, Sheikh Madobe was instrumental in the appointment of a new District Commissioner for Afmadow district. Stocky and seemingly implacable, the Somali warlord who is backed by Kenya against the Al-Shabaab, is credited with restoring some sort of stability in various towns in southern Somalia. Without an effective police force and a weak national military, KDF expects the warlord born in 1963 to play a big role in the pacification of liberated towns. Sheikh Madobe has turned his guns on his former ally, the al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab and fights alongside the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Somali National Army (SNA). He was the governor of Kismayu from 2006 until the Ethiopian National Defence Forces overthrew the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), and was almost killed during the battle for Kismayu. But the worst of all battles for the man who has been fighting for the larger part of his life was on January 22, 2002 when Americans bombed the Kolbiyo district in Kismayu. “Never have I come so close to death than on that day. We were eight people and I am the only one who survived. That attack remains the worst in my life,” he recalled. He was wounded by shrapnel but was spirited away to Ethiopia where he spent almost two years in prison or under house arrest. In January 2009, he was elected as MP but he resigned from his position three months later, becoming the first lawmaker to resign from Somalia’s expanded parliament since former ICU chief Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was elected as President. At that time, Somalia’s Radio Garowe reported Sheikh Madobe as saying that he had joined the 550-member parliament so as to be released from bondage in Ethiopia. Sheikh Madobe is keen on seeing Al-Shabaab, which he helped found, chased away from Kismayu, the capital of Lower Juba region, and crushed altogether. “I have tasted defeat in Kismayu. I will not allow that to happen again,” he says. The defeat he is talking about happened in the hands of one of his fellow lieutenants. Fighting had broken up between the Hizbul Islam faction to which he belonged and Al-Shabaab over the control of Kismayu. Over 40 people were killed. In the ensuing fight, the Ras Kamboni brigade split into two: one led by Madobe fighting Al-Shabaab and another one led by Hassan “Turki” aligned with Al-Shabaab. The fighting stopped in November 2009 when Madobe’s forces lost Kismayu and were forced to withdraw from the port city and most of southern Somalia. Three months later Turki merged with Al-Shabaab. Towards the end of 2010, Hizbul Islam also joined forces with Al-Shabaab. Other influential community leaders fighting against Al-Shabaab in Southern Somalia include Prof Abdi Gandhi, a geologist of French and Somali nationality, who is said does not see eye-to-eye with Sheikh Madobe, and Barre Hirale. Prof Gandhi is also a former Defence minister who used to work as a consultant for the French oil giant Total. In a previous meeting held in a hotel in Naivasha, Prof Gandhi was declared president of the fledging breakaway semi-autonomous southern Somalia region known as Azania, whose independence Kenya is said not to mind as a buffer state between it and the rest of Somalia. But unlike Sheikh Madobe, Prof Gandhi is accused of not being all-inclusive, especially in a country where consideration for every clan interest is important. Sheikh Madobe also prefers a united Somalia. Despite his efforts, some residents in various towns in Somali voice serious concerns about the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by Sheikh Madobe’s men. Some feel that he is more interested in instigating unnecessary wars that he then uses as his bargaining chip, allegations that offer an uncomfortable glimpse of the clandestine war that Somali warlords are waging against Al-Shabaab and the lack of accountability they enjoy. But Madobe insists that in the shadowy war being waged in Somalia, where you cannot easily identify who is attacking you and when, means it is certainly no place for armchair morality. One of the reasons why many feel that Sheikh Madobe will never take his eyes off this region includes rumours that the sea off its coast, and parts of the inland, are rich in oil. The area also has a lot of agricultural potential and is rich in fisheries. Coincidentally, Sheikh Madobe told DN2 he is a professional fisherman. Kismayu port raises hundreds of millions of shillings monthly, and Ethiopia is uneasy with the progress being made by the Ras Kamboni Brigade in case Sheikh Madobe uses its resources to support secession by Ethiopia’s O'gaden Somalis. Such a prospect cannot be taken lightly, especially in a region where some people have been calling for a semi-autonomous government that comprises Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba. Already, there are break away regions like Puntland and Somaliland, and other states are pushing for federalism. Asked about these concerns, Sheikh Madobe says: “I am here for peace, nothing else.” Political calculations, such as the desire to bring a speedy end to wars, make warlords like Madobe instrumental in heralding a new Somalia. “It’s still important to note that we will have to disarm warlords for the sake of long-term peace,” Wafula Wamunyinyi, the Deputy African Union Commissioner to Somalia, said during an interview in Mogadishu. But the challenge of disarming warlords in places like Mogadishu became evident a few years ago when a resemblance of a central government started taking shape. “Some gave up arms but they were still left with their own militia, capable of disrupting any peaceful government operations,” said Osman Abdi, a Mogadishu politician. It’s even alleged that the Somali Transitional Government’s minister for Defence has his own militia to protect him. Sheikh Madobe insists that his dream is to see a peaceful Somalia, achieved through any means possible. “We are a political party and we have made tremendous progress from being termed as a militia,” he said. His group has a strong relationship with Kenya, which guarded him in a safe house for about a year when Al-Shabaab put a bounty on his head. His family lives in Somalia and Nairobi where it’s alleged to be under the protection of the Kenyan military. On the battle field, his grasp of military tactics and his ability to laugh warmly and speak about war as if it’s nothing, has become a source of morale and inspiration for Kenyan soldiers. “You look at him and you get the feeling that you need to keep on fighting. He is such an inspiration,” said a Kenyan soldier when Sheikh Madobe visited the KDF Camp. In the recent capture of Xayo and Afmadow towns, despite being a high value target for Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Madobe left the security and comfort of an armoured personnel carrier to march with the troops under the scotching sun when entering the towns. He is no less a hero in Somalia. A Che Guevara-type figure, Madobe’s image can be found plastered on shop windows. Source: Daily Nation

Raila Odinga: Gacan hanagula siiyo qabsashada Kismaayo SHABELLE MEDIA NETWORK JUNE 12, 2012 Nairobi: (Sh. M. Network) Dowladda Kenya ayaa ugu baaqday dowladda Maraykanka iyo Midowga Yurub in lagu taageero howlgalkeeda ku wajahan dalka Soomaaliya gaar ahaan Magaalada Kismaayo ee Xarunta gobolka Jubbada hoose. Ra’iisul wasaaraha dalka Kenya Raila Odinga oo Warbaahinta Caalamiga ah kula hadlayay Magaalada Nairobi ee Xarunta dalka Kenya ayaa waxa uu ugu baaqay dowladda Maraykanka iyo Ururka Midowga Yurub in Ciidamada Midowga Afrika gaar ahaan kuwa Kenya ay gacan ku siiyaan sidii Al Shabaab looga fara maroojin lahaa Magaalada Kismaayo ee Xarunta gobolka Jubbada hoose. Raila Odinga ayaa waxa uu sheegay in u jeedka Kenya uu yahay inay gacanta ku dhigaan Magaalo Xeebeedka Kismaayo, si taasi ay usuuro gashona loo baahan yahay in laga taageero berriga, badda iyo Cirka. “Waxaan ka codsanay Midowga Yurub iyo Maraykanka in Maraakiibta dagaalka ee ka qeyb qaadanaya howlgalka la dagaalanka burcad badeeda ee ku sugan qeybo ka mid ah Xeebaha Soomaaliya inay nagala qeyb qaataan howlgalka ku wajahan Magaalada Kismaayo oo ay Shabaabku Maamulaan” sidaasi waxa yiri Raila Odinga Ra’iisul wasaaraha dalka Kenya. Kenya ayaa waxa dalka Soomaaliya kaga sugan Ciidamo lagu qayaasay 4,631-askari kuwaasi oo hadda si toos ah ugu biiray howlgalka Midowga Afrika ee AMISOM oo ka socda Soomaaliya.

Coofle;840591 wrote: I thought it is based on tribes not on regions...The Awdal clan have only 3 ministers( agriculture, labor and Hawlaha guud 'what is that') and one Vice-minister (Education)... The heads of Police, Armed Forces, Navy, Supreme justice, Parliament, House of Senate, Central Bank, port, Airports, Intelligence agency, all ambassadors and 95% of Government organizations are from the Beelaha Dhexe...is that based on regions too... it is even worse for Eastern clans... Waxa kaliya ee Somaliland la qaybsadaa waa xilal ee maaha hanti , let us remember that What Awdal wants it is not anymore positions than what they deserve... I qoute gaariye.. Maalin baa iman doonta Dadka sool iyo Awdal Aadanaw hagrateen Lagu raadsho ilays.. You are forgetting the state minister of foreign affairs Dr Rashid You are forgetting the Somaliland Representative in Canada The top general for all the western regions of Somaliland is from awdal As for the head of senate and the head of Parliament one should run for that its not appointed by Silanyo the current deputy parliament speaker is from the sool region a guy from awdal and a guy from sool were running for that position the awdalite guy lost. Next time he should run for the parliament speaker who knows he might win.

Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar;841237 wrote: Oh, the triple irony of this. Its true he should come to awdal and talk about this.

^^ Beautiful

http://www.lasanod.com/details.php?num=7594

hayee laakin kuwan goormeynu relatives noqonay

^^ Inaalilaah ma shimbir ba ku xaartay

Wali ma qotidi baad na daba wada.

Gaas: Somaliland dhowaan ayaan wadahadal la fureynaa Xukuumadda KMG ah ee Soomaaliya ayaa sheegtay in ay dhowaan wada hadal la furi doonto maamulka Hargeysa ee Somaliland. Ra’iisul wasaaraha Soomaaliya Cabdiweli Maxamed Cali Gaas ayaa sheegay inay qorsheynayaan sidii ay dhowaan Somaliland wada hadal ula furi lahaayeen. Wuxuuna intaas ku daray in uu rajo weyn ka qabo in wadahadaladaasi ay sida uga dhaqsaha badan ku bilaabmaan islamarkaana uu filayo in qodobo wax ku ool ahi ay kasoo baxaan. Somaliland ayaa horay u qaadacday inay wada hadal la gasho dowladda dhexe iyadoo cabasho ka muujisay xubno kasoo jeeda Puntland oo qayb ka ahaa guddiga ay DKG ahi u saartay wadahalada Somaliland. Arintaas ayaa dhinaca kale dhalisay khilaaf soo kala dhex galay Puntland iyo dowladda Federaalka ah inkasta oo markii danbe shir dhowaan Addis-ababa ka dahcay xal looga gaarey. Wadahadalkan ayaa hadii uu qabsoomo noqonaya kii ugu horeeyey ee ay isku soo hor fariistan maamulka Somaliland iyo dowladda dhexe ee Soomaaliya.

Somaliland iyo TFG du Goormay Soomaali U Sharxayaan Waxa Wada Hadalku Yahay? Wadahadalka lagaga baaqay shirkii London inay yeeshaan xukuumadda KMG Soomaaliya iyo Somaliland waa arrin aysan umadda Soomaaliyeed meel ay joogaanba aysan garan walina aysan helin cid si rasmi ah uga bixisa sharaxaad ay dadku ku qancaan,waxaase isweydiin leh labada war ee lakala haysto ee Hargeysa iyo Xamar kala yaal kee run ah? . Maxayse tahay Ujeedada qarsoon ee laqarinayo ee ka dambeysa wadahadalada? . Yaase Keeni kara Israac ama Kala go’? Waxaa warbaahinta laga maqlay in Somaliland ay sheegtay inaysan wadahadalka ka qayb qaadanayn haddii aan laga joojin waxyaalaha carqaladda ku ah oo ay masuuliyadeeda ay saareen madaxweyne Shiikh Shariif,waxayna carabka ku dhufteen inay ka boodsan yihiin laba xubnood oo TFG du ku soo dartay oo ka tirsan maamulka Puntland oo ay sheegeen inay kasoo jeedaan Waqooyi. . Waxay xuseen in loo wadahadlayo Waqooyi iyo Koonfur oo lakala yahay sidii wixii ka horreeeyay 1dii July 1960 kii. . Waxaad ogaataan haddii aydin runta ka sheegin wadahadalada inaydin wax dan ah u ahayn shacabkiina ee aad waddaan dan kale oo ayna ku dhammaan doonto fashilaad. . Warkana la heli doono maalintaad isqabataan. . Haddana waxaa durba soo baxaya iftiin ka qarsoonaa shacabka soomaaliyeed marka loo eego wareysigan uu bixiyay Wasiirka Arrimaha dibadda ee Somaliland Dr. Mxamed Cabdullaahi Cumar oo wareysi siiyay laanta af soomaaliga ee BBC da ayaa waxaa hadaladiisa ka mid ahaa: . Labada geesood ee wada halayaa waxaa weeye Somaliland iyo Soomaaliya,sidii dalkani ahaa intaan laysku biirin 1dii bishii Juuly 1960 kii. . Somaliland waxay danaynaysaa oo ay jeceshahay sidii beesha caalamku ay ku baaqday inay wadahadlaan somaliland iyo somalia oo ay ka hdlaan arrimo farabadan oo ka dhaxeeya,ka hadlaan sidii mustaqbalkooda siyaasadeed noqon lahaa. . Hase yeeshee maaha dad dhulkayaga kamid ah inay umagacawdo inay kasoo qayb galaan oo ay wada hadlaan oo ay darafka kale ay soo fariistaan. . Arrimahaasi waxay u muuqdaan arrimo aan laga wada hadlayn. . Qaddiyadii siyaasiga ahayd iyo madaxbanaanidii iyo wixii ay somaliland ay ka doonaysay wadahadaladaasi inay kusoo qaado, oo aad mooddo inay ugu talagaleen inay hadheeyeen arrimo kale oo noo gaar ah,oo Soomaaliland ugaar ah. . Somaliland Kama Qayb Galayso Wadahadalka TFG da Haddii Aan Wax Laga Badalin——- FM Siilaanyo Oo Sheegay Kalsooni “Danta Iyo Madax Banaanidu Ay Ku Jirto” Wadahadalka TFG v Somaliland . Dawladda Soomaaliya Tafsiir Haka Bixiso Qodobada Shirka London .

Why do you care what their leaders do, did any one had a problem when yey was in Mogadishu supported by his state Puntland Military politically financially. The garaad clan isn't opposed to cali khalifs policies so why do you care why does it bother you if it doesn't bother liibaan. Why is it a big sin if Cali khalif galaydh wants a kursi miyaanay Somali oo dhani kursi rabin lets say if he wants a kursi he didn't even say he wants a kursi but lets if he wants to be the President or Prime minister, maxa u diidaya soo nin Somaliyeed maha?

^^ So what if he did Khaatumo are his people if he want to climb a ladder using the khatumo entity why not its his entity his people his elders.You are acting if he is committing a major sin:D

Carafaat are you saying NGONGE is a laangaab. Carafaat by the way the Koonfurians might get excited when we keep talking about the laan.

Carafaat adeer are u laangaab?

The Islamist group al-Shabab, that controls large parts of central and southern Somalia, has recently suffered significant defeats at the hands of Amisom, the African Union force that has been fighting the al-Qaeda-allied militants. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse is in Mogadishu and has been travelling with them. BBC News Monday, June 11, 2012 "Every day they attack, but without success," a Burundian soldier says as he takes us to see his new front line, on the outskirts of Mogadishu. "Shabab, finished!" shouts a new Somali recruit, as he heaves himself into his "technical" - a modified pickup truck with an anti-aircraft gun welded to the back, bullet belts slung around his neck. African Union forces have been hitting al-Shabab hard. Together with their allies in the Somali national army (mostly former militiamen like the young fighter in the "technical"), Ugandan and Burundian soldiers took the key town of Afgoye at the end of April. It is about 30 km (18.5 miles) from Mogadishu, and had been a crucial stronghold for the Islamist fighters, as well as a centre of their bomb-making activities. Almost simultaneously, Kenyan forces have been advancing on the al-Shabab stronghold of Kismayo in the south. And Ethiopian troops are squeezing the Islamists in the west, near the town of Baidoa. Col Kayanja Muhanga, the Ugandan officer in charge of the assault on Afgoye, says it has been a tough battle. He says he and his men have been aided by a steady trickle of defectors. "They have had a lot of losses," he says at his camp outside Afgoye. "And when the enemy is defeated, some of them report to you. They have been giving us very useful information." We meet a young man by the name of Abu Khalit. He is 24 years old and had deserted from al-Shabab only the previous week. He says he joined the Islamists four years ago. He would have risked certain death if he had been caught as a defector. "I realised al-Shabab were not bringing freedom to the people," he said. "I realised it wasn't about religion. These people just want to fight. The real enemy here is al-Qaeda." Al-Shabab's recent losses have had an effect on morale. "They have all fled this area. Their morale has died. Everyone is looking for somewhere to hide." Proxy war? Over the past 20 years, there have been numerous attempts to bring peace to Somalia by force. The United States failed, culminating in the now-infamous 1993 incident in the battle for Mogadishu dubbed "Black Hawk Down". Other UN-backed international missions also failed. But this time, Col Muhanga says, it is different. "This is Africans solving their own problems. Africans solving African problems. The Somalis identify more with us because we are neighbours, we are Africans. They identify more with us than the foreign forces that have been here before." Col Muhanga's assessment of the situation is accurate, up to a point. As their armoured convoys rumble through the streets of Mogadishu, reactions from local residents are by and large positive, with waves and cheers from the shops and stalls that have re-emerged in the capital since Amisom pushed out al-Shabab. But Amisom is almost exclusively financed not by African nations, but by the big Western powers, notably the US and the EU. Ugandan troops receive training from US forces inside Uganda. In Mogadishu itself, Amisom officers are "mentored" by a group of international private security contractors, mostly from Europe or the US, some of them veterans of decades of African conflicts. All of this leaves the Amisom mission vulnerable to being labelled a "proxy war". The AU mission is ultra-low-budget. For example, Amisom does not have a single helicopter, a fact that contributed to heavy losses among Burundian forces during last year's battle for Mogadishu. The operation costs a fraction of other UN-led peacekeeping missions, for example the UN mission in DR Congo, which is widely seen as ineffectual, not to mention the US-led missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shabab nostalgia So is Amisom a model for future conflict resolution in Africa and elsewhere? It could be, says Augustine Mahiga, the UN Special Representative to Somalia. "[Amisom] has not only delivered, but believe me, it is also cost-effective. It has to be revisited. There has to be re-thinking at the UN." But despite the military advances, the battle for "hearts and minds" is not yet won. At Mogadishu seaport, we watch two dozen men unloading bundles and boxes from cargo ships and piling them onto their trucks. All the drivers said they thought life was better under al-Shabab - less corrupt and more secure, so long as you stayed out of politics. "In al-Shabab areas, we don't see guns everywhere," said Mahmood Abdullahi. "If the government disarmed the militias and got rid of the checkpoints that steal money from us, then we would support the government." Yet it is politics that could make or break Somalia's current momentum towards stability. There is a hugely complicated political process under way that is supposed to culminate by 20 August this year. First, a group of clan elders must select a Constituent Assembly. That body must in turn must adopt a new constitution, and nominate members to a new parliament, which will then elect a new president. The process is fraught with potential pitfalls, not least a number of former warlords who have financial and political interests in maintaining instability. But Somalia is now closer to establishing some sort of meaningful central government that it has been for more than two decades. The African Union knows it needs more than just military victories. The gun has become a way of life. "Africans solving African problems" seems to be working for now. But in the end, Somalia's patchwork of private militias needs to be integrated into a unified national force - one that will defend the security of the population, not just the interests of the clan. Source: BBC

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Nonsense on abtigis part no one fled cigaal was forced. To sign a peace deal after he could not win the war ma anago nool ba taarikda been laga sheegeya

Waryaaa abwaan i can see the video what did you post the habar habar wars in somaliland what does that have to do with edna

Black it helps in away not only when she is adressing the ic. But also the koonfurians what will they think when they hear her speak and talking about them and their country in such a way They would say naga taga please naga baxa and thats what edna wants.

Uchi oday gaal ah baa maalin pirate igu yidhi it took me 20 min to explain that we fight piracy akhirki waa isku xiiqnay wuxu iga dan waayeey stealing is not good.why do you do that meeshan waxba qaldan.

Kan che baba ugu daran marba wu ina weydinaya dee soo dhegeyso lool She said either give us ictraaf or there will be 50 000 godanes.

^^ Indeed lovely hotel i loved it