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Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
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Yasiin Garaad: Qofkii C/laahi Yuusuf Qabiil uga soo horjeedeyow, Shariifkaa ka daran Telefishinka Somali Media ee magaaladda Minneapolis ayaa Jimcadii (Sept 19, 2009) waraysi uu la yeeshay Yaasiin Garaad, oo ka mid ah aqoonyahanka Soomaaliyeed ee deggan magaalada Minneapolis. Waxana uu tibaaxay qofkii Sheikh Shariif aan ku raacin mabda' ee ku jeclaa dano shakhsiyadeed, in uu dabaal-dego oo inta uu kiraysto convension-ka (guriga lagu qabto shirarka ee Minneapolis) uu sacab tunto. Laakii qofkii mabda' ka tarjumaya riyadiisii lama gaarin, ayuu yiri. Asagoo arrintaas ka hadlayey Yaasiin Garaad waxa uu yiri: "Qofkii C/laahi Yuusuf u nebcaa ama waa reer hebel, ama waa dheer yahay, ama waa cad yahay ama waa madow yahay ama waa gaaban yahay, qofkii Cabdullaahi Yuusuf u nebcaa, ama ina adeerkay ma aha ama tolkay ma aha, ama dano shakhsi ah u nebcaayow, Shariifna u jeclaa ama waa reer hebel, ama waa ina adeerkay ama waa tolkay ama dano shakhsi ah u jeclaayow, waxaan ku dhehi lahaa xilligaagii waa la gaaray, ee dabaal deg oo convensionka kirayso, sacabada garaaco, ama ku dabaal deg in aad goolkaagii gaartey, waadna gaartay, waa haddii aad sidaas u fekereysid. Laakiin haddii aad C/laahi Yuusuf uga soo horjeedey mabda', amxaaro dabada lagu wato, qabqablanimo, 4.5, qabyaalad, dad laxasuuqo, barakac, burbur, haddaad mabda' uga soo horjeedey waxaa weeye intii C/laahi Yuusuf lagu haystey iyo in ka xunba tan Shariif ayaa maanta dabada ku sidata. Marka qofkii mabda' ka tarjumayow riyadaadii lama gaarin, hadafkaagiina kuuma rumoobin, halgankaagiina miro kuuma dhalin. http://www.somalitalk.com/2009/may/13/badda95.html -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
^^^No one wishes death on the man. However no one wishes this weak person as head of Somalia anymore. -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
Sh. Shariif oo ka gows qabsaday go’aankii Baarlamaanka Sh. Shariif oo ka gows qabsaday go’aankii Baarlamaanka August 07,2009 ayaa Madaxwaynaha DFKS Mudane: Sheekh Shariif Sh. Axmed wuxuu waraysi kusiiyey Magaalada Nairobi Wariyaha idaacada British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Abdirizak Haji Atosh, waraysigaas oo dheeraa ayaa waxaa ka mid ahaa in wax laga waydiiyey Heshiiskii Badda ee dhexmaray Soomaaliya iyo Kenya ee loogu yeeray ama loo yaqaan Is-afgarad. Marka laga yimaado shakiga iyo walaaca Saxaafadda iyo ummad Soomaaliyeed heshiiska ka keneen oo Madaxwaynuhu ku sheegay Borobugaando ayaa wuxuu muujiyey inuusan ku qanacsanayn go’aanka Baarlamaanka ay Heshiiskaas ku tirtireen, Madaxwaynaha ayaa wali ku adkaysanaya inuu ahaa Is-Afgarad ee uusan ahayn Heshiis, wuxuu kaloo xusay Madaxwaynuhu Baarlamaanku inuu Heshiis burinkaro sharciyan, laakiin kani heshiis ahayn. Hadaba intaynan galin iftiiminta ama sharaxaada hadalada Madaxwaynaha aan akhrino su’aalihii iyo jawaabihii Sheekh Shariif. Jawaabihii Madaxwaynaha oo maqal ah halkan ka soo rogo http://www.somalitalk.com/2009/may/13/badda89.html -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
Sheikh Shariif oo Noqday Madaxwaynihii ugu horeeyay Taariikhda Soomaalida oo Khilaaf Galiyay Badda Soomaaliyeed... Madaxweynaha DFKMG: "baddana waxaa waaye KHILAAF ayaa ka jira. Marka Khilaafkaasi in uu jiro in la muujiyo meesha ayay soo gashay, SomaliTalk.com | April 29, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jimacdii (April 24, 2009) xilli uu weriye Raage Cusmaan oo ka tirsan warbaahinta ku soo baxda Afka Carabiga ee HornAfricOnline uu waraysi la yeelanayay Madaxweynaha DFKMG ayaa waxaa sidoo kale goobtii ku sugnaa weriye Mahad Carrabow oo ka tirsan TV Universal iyo laba weriye oo kale. Waxaana weriyaashii Sheikh Shariif waydiiyeen dhawr su'aalood. Su'aashii ugu dambaysay ee uu waydiiyey weriyaha TV Universal Mahad Carrabow (oo uu duubay Raage Cusmaan maadaama uu goobta joogay) ayaa ahayd: "Waxaa jiray heshiis loo bixiyay is-afgarad islamarkaana xadaynaya badaha Soomaaliya, heshiiskaas waxaa dawladdaada u saxiixay Cabdiraxmaan Cabdishakuur Warsame oo ka tirsan xukuumaddaada, sidee ayay kula tahay heshiiskaas oo ummadda Soomaaliyeed ay shaki badan ka qabaan oo aysan shacabka Soomaaliyeed u caddayn." Madaxweynaha DFKMG ee Jamhuuriyaadda Soomaaliya, Sheikh Shariif Sheikh Axmed, waxa uu ku jawaabay: source -
^^^Shiekh Sharif bares responsability. FAALLO: Dowladda Sh. Shariif oo Martay Waddadii Maxamed I. Cigaal 1967-dii Yuusuf Cali Qammaan Qammaan@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kismaayo: Jubbaland ayaan daran, shalayto waxaa berrigaaga gatay M. I. Cigaal , maantana baddaada waxaa gatay dowladda Sh. Shariif. Jubbaland: Waa dhulka u dhaxeeya Labada webi Jubba iyo Wabiga Tana , waxaa mustacmarkii Ingriisku uu qabsaday qarnigii 19-aad dhammaadkiisa. 15 june 1924 waxaa heshiis Roma ku wada galay Talyaaniga iyo Ingriiska , talyaaniga ayaa waqtigaa ku sugnaa webiga Jubba Barigiisa , waxayna ku heshiiyeen in webiga Jubba laga soo gudbiyo Talyaaniga ilaa iyo Dhoobley , arrinkaas waxaa gaashaanka u daruuray Suldaan Xaaji Cusmaan Magan. Sh. Shariif: kuwa ka soo horjeeda heshiiskan haba yaraatee ma aysan akhrin source
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Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
FAALLO: Dowladda Sh. Shariif oo Martay Waddadii Maxamed I. Cigaal 1967-dii Yuusuf Cali Qammaan Qammaan@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kismaayo: Jubbaland ayaan daran, shalayto waxaa berrigaaga gatay M. I. Cigaal , maantana baddaada waxaa gatay dowladda Sh. Shariif. Jubbaland: Waa dhulka u dhaxeeya Labada webi Jubba iyo Wabiga Tana , waxaa mustacmarkii Ingriisku uu qabsaday qarnigii 19-aad dhammaadkiisa. 15 june 1924 waxaa heshiis Roma ku wada galay Talyaaniga iyo Ingriiska , talyaaniga ayaa waqtigaa ku sugnaa webiga Jubba Barigiisa , waxayna ku heshiiyeen in webiga Jubba laga soo gudbiyo Talyaaniga ilaa iyo Dhoobley , arrinkaas waxaa gaashaanka u daruuray Suldaan Xaaji Cusmaan Magan. source -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
Kenya and Somalia sign Maritime boundary agreement Kenya and Somalia sign Maritime boundary agreement Written By:claire Wanja/Release , Posted: Tue, Apr 07, 2009 Caption: The Memorandum is pursuant to a United Nations requirement that all countries with naval boundaries sign delineation agreements . Source: KBC Kenya and Somalia have Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on their common Maritime Boundary. The agreement was signed by Foreign Affairs Minister Hon. Moses Wetang'ula on behalf of Kenya, while the Minister for National Planning and International Cooperation of the Republic of Somalia, Hon. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame signed the accord on behalf of Somalia. The Memorandum is pursuant to a United Nations requirement that all countries with naval boundaries sign delineation agreements and lodge them with the United Nations by 13th May 2009 and it allows each of the signatories to lodge their documents separately to the relevant body. The signing ceremony which took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was witnessed amongst others by Amb. Longve Hans Wilhelm, Special Advisor in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ms. Rina Kristmoen from the Embassy of Norway in Nairobi. Also present were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Permanent Secretary Mr. Thuita Mwangi, Director for Political Affairs Amb. Ben Ogutu and the Head of Legal Division Mr. James Kihwaga. SOURCE: KBC: -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
Civilians Killed in Mogadishu Fighting, Shelling Mogadishu — Early Thursday morning, heavy fighting between Somali army backed militarily by the African Union peacekeepers and Al shabaab movement commenced parts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Residents said most of the fighting, which was very vehement, took place at Warshadaha Road, the vicinity of former Ministry of Defense in particular as well as parts of Hodan district. Battle broke out after Al shabaab fighters launched premeditated offensive on Somali and AMISOM soldiers in those areas. The two warring sides have used both heavy and light weapons as some of the exchanged landed far away from war zones. At least 15 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the bombardments, according to witnesses. No statements were immediately available from parts involved in Mogadishu conflict so far. -
Sharif Ahmed's Presidency an online reflection
General Duke replied to General Duke's topic in Politics
50,000 civilians flee Somalia in first quarter of 2011 Alarm over continuing deterioration of situation in Somalia as more people flee war-torn country. Middle East Online The bulk of the refugees have been going to Kenya GENEVA – The UN refugee agency said Friday that an increasing number of Somali civilians were fleeing their country amid the deteriorating security situation, with 50,000 arriving in neighbouring countries in the first quarter of this year compared to 23,000 in the same period in 2010. "UNHCR is alarmed by the continuing deterioration of the situation in Somalia," the agency's chief spokesperson, Melissa Fleming, told journalists in Geneva. "Kenya again received most of the new arrivals – more than 31,400. Virtually all of them have been registered by the Kenyan authorities and UNHCR in Dadaab refugee camp complex – on average some 10,000 a month," she added. UNHCR has also noted a sharp rise in the number of Somali refugees arriving in Ethiopia. "We registered more than 12,200 Somalis crossing, mostly through the Dollo Ado corridor," Fleming said, adding that UNHCR was running two refugee camps there. "Both camps are fast reaching their maximum capacity," she noted. The majority of these refugees came from the Bay and Bakol regions of southern and central Somalia – two of the major conflict zones in the country. They all speak of a grim situation inside the country, marked by relentless violence and human rights abuses. Somali refugees told UNHCR staff about forced conscription by some of the warring parties and crippling drought. The dire situation in Somalia is leaving no alternative for many, forcing them to take a desperate decision to cross the Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea to Yemen. Despite the risks involved, and despite the anti-government unrest in Yemen, more than 22,000 refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa arrived on Yemeni shores during the first three months of this year. This is more than twice the number of arrivals during the first quarter of 2010, when some 9,400 people reached Yemen. It also topples the record-breaking first quarter of 2009, when nearly 17,000 refugees and migrants crossed the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Similar to 2010, Somalis continue to represent only every fourth arrival in Yemen, although their number doubled in comparison to the first quarter of 2010 (3,200 in 2010 to 6,000 in 2011). Ethiopian migrants, whose arrivals almost tripled (nearly 17,000 in 2011), continue to account for 75 per cent of all of the crossings. "Some of the new arrivals told us that they were unaware of the political and social upheaval in Yemen, but many coming from Somalia said they had no other option but to flee. For these Somali refugees the situation in Yemen was still, by comparison, much safer than the one back home," Fleming said in Geneva. Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world. An estimated 1.4 million Somalis are displaced within the country while another 680,000 live overseas as refugees. (UNHCR) -
Somali Capital Casualties Highest in Decade SharePost a CommentPrintText Size- / +By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya January 28, 2011 (AP) The near-daily violence in Somalia's capital last year wounded the highest number of people in a decade including nearly 2,300 women and children, an international Red Cross spokeswoman said Friday. More than 6,000 patients were treated at Keysaney and Medina hospitals last year, compared to the 2,800 admitted in 2008, said the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross, which supplies the hospitals with medicine and pays staff salaries. The international humanitarian group, one of the few operating in Somalia, said it was hard to get reliable death figures from the capital. The only ambulance service in Mogadishu has said that more than 2,100 civilians died in warfare last year. A U.S. group that works to prevent civilian deaths says Somalia is more dangerous for civilians than Afghanistan or Iraq. "Severely wounded people arrive at all hours, even in the middle of the night," said Pascal Mauchle, the head of the ICRC's Somalia delegation. "We are especially concerned about the large number of civilians, including women and children, suffering from weapon-related injuries." Aid groups and Mogadishu residents have repeatedly decried the combatants' indiscriminate shelling of populated areas of the seaside city. Mogadishu suffers frequent barrages of mortars, rockets and artillery shells exchanged between Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces who protect the sliver of land controlled by the fragile government. The ICRC has urged the parties to the conflict to avoid civilian casualties. "The warring parties must distinguish at all times between civilians and fighters. They must not employ indiscriminate means and methods of warfare. Medical staff, hospitals and clinics must be respected and protected in all circumstances," said the ICRC, noting that nearly 2,300 women and children were caught in the cross fire last year. Somalia has not had a functioning government since clan-based warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on each other, sinking the Horn of Africa nation into chaos.
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Oba: Growing Numbers of Young Children Wounded, Killed in Somalia This is not talk lad, this is real. this news is from MAY 30/2011... In the Somali capital Mogadishu, more and more children are becoming victims of the fighting between pro-government forces and the Islamist militia al Shabab. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of weapon-related casualties at the city’s three main hospitals reached a new peak last week. Of the nearly 1600 casualties, 46 percent were under age five. Many ways to wound a body “Beginning of May, we found the increase in the number of casualties under five and mortalities under five. The main types of injury are burns and shrapnel, blast injuries and bullets,” said Dr. Omar Saleh, a WHO trauma surgeon. source
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^^^At least with Yey, your grandfather’s graves were intact. The fact that the day he left Sharif lost every single village his clan resides in to Al Shabaab. Yagay, were is Jowhar, Balcada, Mahaday and others. Yey never lost a single village or town in Puntland to Al Shabaab while he was president and in fact they were in the bushes. Man go fool someone else for all the talk. Yey proved he was a better leader and much tougher. Also was it not Sharif Ahmed who tried to sell the sea to Kenya? Come on, have you captured Gedo yet? NO.
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Breaking News: Yemen Presiden Salah injured in a mortar attack
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^^^He is now fighting his clan chief. The Salah's Vs the Ahmars -
MN is a beautiful place to live, the winters are cold but the people are warm. The Somali’s here are doing well, yes we have our problems but overall it’s a State that has fostered a great deal of development for our community. I agree with my brother Jacphar, what makes MN great is its natural beauty, its lakes, its parks and the air on a summer or spring evenings are fabulous.
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Yemen: attack on president keeps observers guessingConfusion reigns in Yemen over president Saleh's injuries. Whatever the truth, the country is facing a decisive moment Brian Whitaker I started this morning planning to write a general blog about Yemen, but events took a dramatic turn this afternoon – and are still developing. Let's start with the official version. The presidential palace in Yemen was hit by shells on Friday. Government sources said at first that President Saleh was unhurt and would be giving a news conference within an hour. The news conference didn't happen and the new line seems to be that the president has been slightly injured and is now in hospital. At present, there is no way of knowing if this is true. Being taken to hospital could explain why Saleh hasn't given the promised news conference. So would being killed. We can't be absolutely sure that Saleh is still alive until he is seen on television talking about what happened. If he were dead, Yemeni officials wouldn't necessarily say so until the resulting power vacuum had been filled. Similarly, if his injuries were serious, officials might still be expected to describe them as slight. The only thing we can be sure of is that he is not uninjured – otherwise he would have been on television by now, describing his escape. Saying that he is in hospital provides the regime with a sort of holding position which in due course will allow for him to either recover or get worse. So, what does this mean for the Yemeni uprising? In what might be the best scenario for Yemen's future, Saleh would be seriously injured but not dead. In fact, sufficiently injured for the doctors to decide that he needs urgent treatment abroad. Flying him out of the country for medical reasons would provide a near-perfect exit from the crisis. The vice-president could take over and Yemen could begin to calm down. It's unlikely that anyone would want Saleh back if or when he recovered. Probably the worst scenario would be a lightly-wounded president who returns to the fray within a day or two, with renewed ferocity, to wreak his revenge. The least predictable scenario would be if Saleh has actually been killed. In theory, his vice-president should step into the breach while new elections are arranged, but there would also be a possibility of a power struggle behind the scenes if his death were concealed for long. Whichever of these turns out to be correct, Yemen badly needs a solution soon. It's not just the violence – which hopefully will subside once Saleh goes – but the impending economic collapse. Whatever happens on the political front, the repercussions of that will be felt for years to come. Shops and restaurants are closing, queues for petrol are lengthening, electricity supplies are erratic and people are hoarding basic supplies (including even water) according to a report in the New York Times. Nobody is quite sure how much money the country and its government still have left. Tax collection has come more or less to a halt. Saleh, who needs to continue paying his supporters, is said to have been demanding multi-million dollar loans from Yemeni businessmen. Diplomats have also been enquiring about rumours that he has raided the coffers of the Central Bank.
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A New Scramble for Africa -- land and water acquisitions by foreigners
General Duke replied to Baashi's topic in General
Bashi; old boy welcome back. The Middle East must be a terrible place if it kept you away from SOL for this length of time.. -
Our footprint could be visible as radioactive material from bomb tests like those at Bikini Atoll in the 1950s, increased CO2 and mass extinction. Photograph: Corbis These are epoch-making times. Literally. There is now "compelling evidence", according to an influential group of geologists, that humans have had such an impact on the planet that we are entering a new phase of geological time: the Anthropocene. Millions of years from now, they say, alien geologists would be able to make out a human-influenced stripe in the accumulated layers of rock, in the same way that we can see the imprint of dinosaurs in the Jurassic, or the explosion of life that marks the Cambrian. Now the scientists are pushing for the new epoch to be officially recognised. "We don't know what is going to happen in the Anthropocene," says geographer Professor Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland. "But we need to think differently and globally, to take ownership of the planet." Anthropocene, a term conceived in 2002 by Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, means "the Age of Man", recognising our species' ascent to a geophysical force on a par with Earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. Geologists predict that our geological footprint will be visible, for example, in radioactive material from the atomic bomb tests, plastic pollution, increased carbon dioxide levels and human-induced mass extinction. "Geologists and ecologists are already using the term 'Anthropocene', so it makes sense to have an accepted definition," says geologist Dr Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester. "But, in this unusual case, formal recognition of the epoch could have wider significance beyond the geology community. By officially accepting that human actions are having an effect on the makeup of the Earth, it may have an impact on, say, the law of the sea or on people's behaviour." In the past, geological changes on a scale big enough to merit a new epoch have been the result of events such as the eruption of a supervolcano or a catastrophic meteor strike – things a lawyer might describe as acts of God. Now, instead of being just another one of the millions of species on our planet, humans have become the determining factor – the guiding, controlling species – and many of our changes will leave a permanent mark in the rocks. The Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, which is the body charged with formally designating geological time periods, met at Burlington House, London, last month, to discuss evidence for the planet having crossed into a new geological epoch. The geological signal will be clear from industrial-scale mining, damming, deforestation and agriculture, as well as the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere and nitrates in the oceans. Even the presence of the first human-produced chemicals like PCBs, radioactive fallout and the humble plastic bag could be measured millions of years hence. Putting humans at the centre of our planet's activity represents a paradigm shift in the way geologists usually think of our species – as a mere blip on the long timescale of Earth. There have been seven epochs since the dinosaurs died out around 65m years ago. The last time we passed a geological boundary, entering the Holocene around 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, we were an insignificant species, just one of a couple of hominids struggling to survive in a world where so many of our cousins, like Homo erectus, had failed to make it. Now our effect on the climate and our fellow species is having a global impact. "The fossil record will reveal a massive loss of plant and animal species, and also the scale of invasive species – how we've distributed animals and plants across the globe," Zalasiewicz says. The working group still has some more evidence to gather before it presents its findings to the stratigraphy committee, "and then the real battle will commence", says Zalasiewicz. "These are slow, nit-picky debates, fraught with acrimony and issues of nationalism. Some members are very cautious and think it's premature to define the Anthropocene, because the Holocene has only been around for a short period in geological terms. Other epochs have lasted millions of years." Others feel that the new epoch is upon us and we should come to terms with its implications for the planet. "We broke it, we bought it, we own it," Ellis says. "Now we've got to take responsibility for it."
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ACUDU BILLAHI MINA SHEITANI RAJIIM. Now let's get back to the topic and away from your homo erotic fantasies. The Sharif Ahmed you support has been unable out of fear to travel to a single village in Somalia. Sharif Ahmed tried his best to sell the Domalinsea shelf to Kenya. He has not proposed a single policy that could unite the country. Also as I have told you before, more civilians have died, have been shelled and have been displaced since Sharif Hotel took over However you support himmfor one great reason.'
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^^^ Faroole already runs a much larger entity on his own. Thus running Villa Somalia with the support of 10,000 well armed African troops will not be a problem. However I have no doubt what so ever you will complain about civilian death if he becomes President as you did when Yey was and you don't currently.
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^^^lool@Liqaye, you never supported the TFG until your uncle Sharif Hotel became President. You was one of the Dayniile Mujahids back in the day. Now you are secular warrior since Fuad Shangoole & Abu Mansuur ousted your clan Mufti's. You were against the shelling of civilians by foreign Gaalo in Yey’s time. Yet now you sympathies with the plight of the Ugandans & Burundian brothers and forget the shelling and killings of civilians is even more now than in the past. According to human rights groups, more people have fled, been killed and more children displaced in the past 2 years than at anytime in Somali history. Yet you call it progress and want an extension. the arch angel of hypocrites much like Sharif Ahmed. Thus lets put this in perspective, if your militia are unable to capture Gedo now, how will they in a years time?