The leader of Al Shabaab is from Somaliland thus there might be a link and validity to this story, who knows where Al Shabaab gets their funds from now days?

Originally posted by Thankful: You guys take off members? What dead person did I talk about?? Well no point in trying to have any meaningful discussion with you. lol. Thankfull dont you know that paranoia is a hell of a thing.. This dude after all is the man who claims his clan liberated Galkacyu on others behalf but could not liberate Galinsoor on their behalf.

^^^lool. You seem to like making up weird stories dont you? Dolow Somalia is under Al Shabaab control, as is Hiiraale's mothers farm. Dolow across the border is were your uncle has been housed for over two years under the protection of Ethiopian Corporals.... and I quote... Maleeshiyooyin Col. Barre Hiiraale uu ku damacsan yahay weerar ka dhan ah Kismaayo oo saaka tababar looga furayo degmada Doolow Sept,14,2008 (Dolow:Saylac.com)-Tababar ayaa maanta lagu wadaa inuu uga furmo degmada Doolow ee xadka kala qeybiya dalalka Soomaaliya iyo Ethiopia maleeshiyo uu wato Xildhibaan Barre Hiiraale oo iyagu halkaasi gaaray kaddib markii ay ka soo ambabaxeen degmada B/xaawo ee gobolka Gedo. Xiliga uu soconayo tababarkaasi ayaan si rasmi ah loo xadidin, balse waxay wararku sheegayaan in maleeshiyadaasi la siin doono tababarro la xiriira sida loo weerar tago iyo sida laysu difaaco, waxaana marka uu tababarka u soo idlaado kaddib la sheegayaa inay u jiheysan doonaan dhinaca gobollada Jubbooyinka. Saraakiil Ethiopiaan ah ayaa lagu wadaa inay tababarkaasi u furaan maleeshiyada Xildhibaanka, kuwaasoo loo diyaarinayo duulaan ka dhan xoogagga ka soo horjeeda joogitaanka ciidamada Ethiopia iyo dawladda federalka ee dagaalka kala wareegay magaalada Kismaayo. Col. Barre Aadan Shire Barre oo isagu qudhiisa ku sugan degmada Doolow ayaa sheegay in haatan wixii ka dambeeya uu diyaar u yahay inuu duulaan ku qaado magaalada Kismaayo ...[two years] , wuxuuna digniin u jeediyay odayasha iyo waxgaradka ka soo jeeda beesha ****** oo kulan ay yeesheen ka soo saaray bayaan ay uga soo horjeesteen dhaq-dhaqaaqyada uu wado Xildhibaan Barre Hiiraale ee ka dhanka ah magaalada Kismaayo Max'ed Ibraahin Raage saylac.com Col. Barre Hiiraale ayaa sheegay in Alshabaab ay weerar ku qaadeen Beertaas ku taal deegaanka Muuri, isla markaana ay ka qaateen agabyo fara badan oo uu sheegay in loogu shaqeynayay eheladiisa sida uu hadalka u dhigay. "War nimaankaan Alshabaab la yiraah waxay galeen Beer ku taal Deegaanka Muuri, oo ay deganeyd Hooyadey, waxayna ka boobeen wixii agab ah ee meesha yiilay, sida Matooro, alaabo meesha yiil iyo wax walba oo beerta looga shaqeynayay" ayuu yiri Xildhibaan Barre Hiiraale oo saaka la soo xiriiray mid ka mid ah Idaacadaha ku yaal Magaalada Muqdisho. Xildhibaanka ayaa sheegay in tallaabadaas ay tahay mid dulmi, isla markaana lagu boobay hantidii qoyskiisa, waxaana uu sheegay in arrintaas uu u arkayo mid lagu baabi'inayo hantida iyo maalka ay leeyihiin qoyskiisa ku nool Gobolka Gedo. "Xildhibaanka ayaa sheegay in tallaabadaas ay tahay mid dulmi," what goes around comes around.....

Faroole visiting the wounded soldiers is a good move, it is showing that he care's and appreciates their sacrifices. Indeed, any pics of Al Shabaab agent Attam visiting any wounded, any pics of him at all? Thats the difference, aside from fiction there is no proof of this groups claims. Puntland State on the other hand provides, pics,audios and evidance on the ground..

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Gaalkacyo:Booliska gobolka Mudug oo Howgalo Baaxad weyn sameeyey. 6. september 2010 APL Gaalkacyo:(Allpuntland)-Ciidamada Amaanka ee gobolka Mudug dawlada Puntland ee Soomaaliyeed ayaa 24-kii saac ee lasoo dhaafay Howlgalo baaxadweyn kasameeyey gudaha magaalada Gaalkacyo,waxaana warar hoose oo Howlgaladaas kasoo baxaya ay sheegeen in Tobonaan Ruux xabsiga la dhigay islamarkaasna ay Booliska la xiriirinayaan Falal Amnidaro oo dhawaan kadhacay gudaha magaalada Gaalkacyo. Howlgaladan ayaa si weyn looga dareemay gudaha magaalada Gaalkacyo,waxaana fulinayey Ciidamo Lugta isticmaalaya islamarkaasna baaritaano xoogan ka samaynayey goobaha sida gaarka ah looga shakisanyahay oo ay ku dhuumaalaystaan dad Danbiyada dalalka ah kasameeya gudaha magaalada Gaalkacyo. Taliska Qeybta Booliska ee gobolka mudug ayaa ka gaabsaday ina warbixin kasameeyaan baaritaanadan ay ciidamada Amaanku wadaan,waxaana Saraakiisha Booliska ee gobolka Mudug ay sheegeen in Ciidamadu ay weli wadaan baaritaanada,islamarkaasna ay Warbaahinta usoo bandhigi doonaan dhamaan Howlgaladan & sida ay ugu guuleystaan Ciidamada Amaanku. Dhinaca kale Sarkaal u hadlay Ciidanka Galmudug oo APL lasoo xiriirey ayaa sheegey in Eedaysanayaal ku eedaysan inay danbi kasoo galeen Waqooyiga magaalada Gaalkacyo ay u gacan galiyeen ciidanka Booliska gobolka Mudug ee dawlada Puntland,waxaana ay talaabadani tahay midi ugu balaarnayd oo labada dhinac dhexmarta. Cabdiqani Xayir Allpuntland

GENEVA, September 7 (UNHCR) – UNHCR said Tuesday it was alarmed by the further deterioration in the security situation in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, where fighting between government forces and the Al-Shabaab militia has left more than 230 civilians dead and at least 400 wounded in the past fortnight. UNHCR's chief spokesperson, Melissa Fleming, added that 23,000 people were displaced by the conflict during the same period. "So far this year over 200,000 civilians are estimated to have fled their homes," she told journalists in Geneva. "People who have been able to reach northern Somalia and neighbouring countries are mostly arriving on foot and by small buses and travelling without shelter. They tell our staff that the streets of Mogadishu are completely deserted and that people are too afraid to leave their houses," Fleming said. "In these dangerous and difficult conditions, aid distributions are becoming rare and those who venture out are risking their lives." Making matters worse is that fleeing Mogadishu has become more dangerous. People are giving away their remaining possessions for a seat on a bus out of the city. As they leave the city they face new risks and difficulties en route to Somalia's Puntland in the north or Ethiopia and Kenya to the west and south. With some 7,300 people having reached Yemen by boat this year, the number of Somali arrivals has halved in comparison to the same period last year. Refugees say they have had to pass numerous checkpoints manned by armed groups in Somalia before reaching the towns and villages along Somalia's Gulf of Aden coast, where they board smugglers' boats. "Meanwhile in Kenya, some 37,000 Somali refugees have arrived so far this year. This is down by roughly a third in comparison to the first eight months of 2009," Fleming said. However, UNHCR registered 6,500 new Somali refugees in August – the highest monthly total since June last year. Those who make it to the Kenyan border and register at the Dadaab refugee complex say that many people are staying in makeshift camps for internally displaced people in Somalia as they fear forced recruitment and abuse by militias operating in southern Somalia. In addition, when there is transport, many cannot afford the trip to the border. In many areas, heavy rains have also made roads impassable. Ethiopia is the only country in the region showing a continuing increase in the rate of Somali arrivals. More than 20,000 Somalis have sought safety and shelter there this year, bringing the total Somali refugee population to almost 76,000. Most have either family or clan links in this neighbouring country. Overall, almost 68,000 Somalis have fled this year to countries in the region. After Afghanistan and Iraq, Somalia generates the largest number of refugees in the world. As of the end of August, there were more than 614,000 Somali refugees and over 1.4 million displaced within the country. The collapse of the state, spiraling violence and anarchy, compounded by poverty, has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and unacceptable suffering of the civilian population. Source: UNHCR

^^^Yes of course lad keep clunching on to straws..

Iyadoo Deegaanada Puntland ay ka socdaan Hawgalo baaxad leh oo Dawladu ay ku sugayso Amniga Guud ee Puntland kadib Narkii ay soo Cusboonaadeen Dhacdooyin la xirira Amniga ayaa Wasiirka Amniga Dawlada Puntland yuusuf Axmed khayr wuxuu ka Warbixiyay Natiijada ka timid hawgalada Ciidamada Amniga. Wasiirkuw wuxuu sheegay Hawgalada Ciidamadu in ay Noqonayaan Kuwa Isdabajoog ah oo Socon Doona, wuxuuna Carabaabay Hawgaladu in ay u badan yihiin Magaalada Boosaaso kuwa laga samaynayo, wuxuuna sheegay Hawgaaladaasi Dawladu in ay ka keentay Natiijooyin rasmi ah oo ku salaysan Dhacdooyinka Deegaanadan ka dhaca iyo Cida Amni darada ka shaqaysa. Wasiirka ayaa sheegay Magaalada Boosaaso in ay Xilligan ka socdaan Hawgalada Amniga lagu Xaqiijinayo wuxuuna Wasiirku sheegay in ay Jiraan Dad badan oo Ciidmadu ay u soo qabteen Tuhumo iyo Dambiyo rasmi ah oo la xirira Dhacdyyinka Magaalada Boosaaso. Wasiirku wuxuu sheegay in ay sidoo kale jiraan Dad Magaalada boosaaso lagu Maxkamadeeyay oo Dambiyadoodu ay ku salaysnaayeen Dilal iyo Qaraxyo ka dhacay Magaalada Boosaaso, Sidoo kalan wasiirku wuxuu xaqiijiyay in ay Jiraan Dad kale oo Mar daw maxkamada la horkenayo. Dhinaca kale wasiirku wuxuu sheegay magaalooyinka Gaalkacyo iyo garowe in ay Hawgalada kala simanyihiin Magaalada boosaaso, wuxuuna Wasiirku xaqiijiyay Dawladu in aysan Aqbali doonin in Amniga la khalkhaliyo. Waa Markii ugu horaysay ee Wasiirka Amnigu uu ka warbixiyo Xaalada Amnig iyo Hawgalada Ciidamada Dawlada mudo dhawr isbuuc oo ay socdeen hawgalada ugu badan ee Dhinaca Amniga waxana Wali Socda Hawlgalada Arrinkaasi la xirira ee Dawladu ay wado. Cumar Afguduud Allidamaale.com Gaalkacyo

Decentralization The government should also decentralize the political power. In addition to horizontal separation of powers, the power of the Puntland state should also be vertically divided. The idea of decentralization is to establish different hierarchical levels and to distribute the power of the state in a way that creates mutual dependence. By sharing the legislative and enforcement powers with lower levels of government, decentralization will also reduce the pressure on the government to deliver and will allow it to deflect criticism. By decentralizing, the people in Garowe are not only sharing the power with lower level groups but also the responsibility and the blame that comes with it. It makes no sense that the director of Galkayo hospital or the Banderbeila District Commissioner are appointed from Garowe. Their blunder will be the government’s responsibility. A Cautionary Note The formation of Puntland should have created substantive outcomes for the people of Puntland. It should have offered all the relevant forces real opportunities to improve their material and moral well-being. The biggest enemy of Puntland as a political entity is a performance failure. If it can’t deliver, it might not be worth having it.

Economic Policy Another important thing that will affect the success of any government is the quality of the government’s economic policies. I will address the effect of fiscal, monetary and trade policies in Puntland’s transition to democracy. Fiscal, monetary and trade policies will affect the economic environment in which economic activity takes place. One of the fiscal factors that have been considered to have a major impact on economic growth is the size of the government. It is therefore necessary to reduce government bureaucracy. This will minimize the habit of the people depending the government for the things that they can do for themselves. The government should cut the size of the unnecessary expenditure for the 7000 police force that can’t guarantee a safe passage between Bossasso and Qardo. They need a small but efficient government. If you create a government big enough to give you everything you need, it would be a government big enough to take everything you have. The Puntland administration should not fall into the trap that the size of your bureaucracy is a reflection of your power. If your seven thousands police force can’t defend Las Anod or bring southern Galkayo under the Puntland administration, what is the point of paying them? The government should also open the Puntland economy and fully engage in international trade. It should work hard to seek markets for its livestock and the other natural resources to eliminate the foreign exchange bottleneck of depending on few Arab sheikhs for your livelihood. In terms of monetary policy, the most important thing that it can do is to protect the value of the people’s money. I do not want the government to be disadvantaged by not printing money and not receiving signiorage but overdoing it will create unforeseen economic consequences. Excessive money supply is the most significant factor of economic instability. Credibility and Transparency The government of Puntland should be credible and transparent. You can provide credibility not by decree but by enforcing the law of the land and abiding by it. In other words, you earn credibility when a government enforces the rule of law and is bound by it. You have to earn credibility; the biggest obstacle to political credibility is a presidency with excessive discretionary powers. The president and the members of his administration should be frugal with their discretionary powers. The government should also be transparent, and to be transparent, it should allow the full freedom of the press and the mass media. Transparency allows the government to sustain its political future. It will allow the government to build a power-base not on the basis of clients and individuals but on the basis of grass-root support. Freedom and good economic policies coupled with transparency and political credibility will guarantee a political success and acceptance from the masses.

Institutions Let me start with the importance of institutions and stress the fundamental role that institutions play in a country’s economic development and its social change. Differences in institutions and economic policies will produce different outcomes. The institutional setting in which economic policies are undertaken are of crucial importance and the quality of these institutions can be a primary source of the difference between economic development and economic stagnation. One of the biggest damages that Siad Barre regime did was to undermine state and legal institutions and build a state based on personality cult. No country in the world with poor institutions such as an unreliable legal system, corrupt government, and insecure property rights succeeded economically. Many people in Puntland lost their property in the South. It is therefore imperative that the government of Puntland establish institutions that discourage banditry, and encourage law and order. Good institutions include the supremacy of the rule of law, protection of private property, efficient bureaucracy and effective judiciary. Freedom The most important thing that a government can give to its people is to restore their God-given freedom. Although most of the people would emphasize political freedom and civil liberty, I give more weight to economic freedom. The fundamental concepts of political freedom and civil liberties include freedom to organize political parties; freedom of the press and religion; and the freedom of assembly and demonstrations. However, freedom should be defined more broadly and include economic dimensions as well as the freedom to own and dispose of private property, the freedom to exchange and trade, and so on. The government of Puntland should allow the citizens of Puntland a real voice in public policy and should protect individual political rights and civil liberties.

Somalia: Good Institutions and Good Policies are the Bedrock of Puntland’s Development 7 Sep 7, 2010 - 10:54:00 AM by Abdiweli M. Ali, Ph.D. It is very likely that the transition of Puntland state from civil war, and the collapse of the state structure to democracy will coincide with severe economic hardships. What is worth noting here is the attitude of Puntlanders themselves towards their homeland. The false perception of Puntland as an inhabitable, isolated desert was perpetuated by the policy of neglect and indifference of its politicians and intellectuals. Therefore, I will gear my discussion towards the goal of improving the economic and social living standards of the people of Puntland. Although many factors outside Puntland’s control will affect its future outcome, I will emphasize those institutions and economic policies, which I think are under the purview of the government and which, I think, will contribute to the consolidation of the transition to good economic performance. Chief among these are: political freedom and civil liberty, economic freedom, political credibility, stable economic policies, transparent political system, decentralization of power and accountable state institutions.

^^^Ade Muse & King Kong? One was a President of Puntland now residing and doing well in the city of Qardho, capital of Karkar region, the other is the current King of your clan, thus whats the point again?

Again the desperate man is trying to scape. Galad, you must think my name is Barre Hiirale and that I am stuck in Dolow under Ethiopian protection? This is no laughing matter, Puntland has never claimed nor coveted any others land. For a man who's kinsmen so easily lost Galinsoor, Dhusa Mareb and now Gedo and who in all of Somalia can not build a single functioning admin to shade themselves from the ever hot Sun, to speak to me or waste his energy in make belief and fiction is truly amusing. Like I told you in an earlier thread if this Gen you mentioned could save anyone it would have been his hero who was exiled on a Donkey. Or the towns in Galgaduud which were cleansed of your clans men. Now you can come here and claim that you freed Galkacyu for me, while you could not free Galinsoor for yourself. what madness, what magic potion have have you been drinking?[ That only makes sense to mad men or individuals who are so envious and full of hate they paste maps they did not read and talk about cities they have not visited.

How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge By Binyavanga Wainaina Novelists, NGO workers, rock musicians, conservationists, students, and travel writers track down my email, asking: Would you please comment on my homework assignment / pamphlet / short story / funding proposal / haiku / adopted child / photograph of genuine African mother-in-law? All of the people who do this are white. Nobody from China asks, nobody from Cuba, nobody black, blackish, brown, beige, coffee, cappuccino, mulatte. I wrote “How to Write about Africa” as a piss-job, a venting of steam; it was never supposed to see the light of day. Now people write to ask me for permission to write about Africa. They want me to tell them what I think, how they did. Be frank, they say, be candid. Tell it like it is. I have considered investing in a rubber stamp. I have imagined myself standing at the virtual borders of Africa, a black minuteman with a rubber stamp, processing applications — where YES means “Pass go, pay one hundred dollars,” and NO means “Tie ’em up and deport ’em.” It’s almost a sexual thing. They come crawling out of the unlikeliest places, looking to be whipped. I am bad, Master Binya, beat me. Oh! Beat me harder. Oo! They seem quite disappointed when I don’t. Once in a while I do, and it feels both good and bad, like too much wasabi. Bono sent a book of poems. Someone wrote an essay, “How to Write about Afghanistan.” I shook hands with, not one, but two European presidents, who read my text and shook their heads: How bad, how very bad. I shared a cigarette in Frankfurt with the bodyguards of Yar Adua, the Nigerian president, who said they don’t like gyms back in Abuja because the wives of the big men come onto them and cause all kinds of trouble. They preferred hotel gyms in Europe. But German cigarettes were not as good as Nigerian cigarettes. German vegetables were not as good as Nigerian vegetables. German beer was, when you really looked, deep into the foam, not nearly as light and golden as Nigerian beer. When all is said and done, they said, stamping out their cigarettes and smelling of fine French cologne, Nigeria is the best place. Have you been to Abuja, they asked? No, I said. Abuja is ultramodern, they said, and we all looked out at the wet, gray, old, stained buildings in front of us. — One day a man I know called me in some agitation. He had just read “How to Write about Africa” and wanted to know why I would write about him as I’d done. I had said, “After celebrity activists and aid workers, conservationists are Africa’s most important people. Do not offend them.” I had offended him. I had not mentioned anyone by name, but he was personally affronted. Yes, he’s a conservationist, and, yes, he has hosted a celebrity or two — but he didn’t trade in game animals, and he paid his workers well. Sure, I said. It’s beyond the pale, he said. I have never really understood what that means, where that is, the pale, and why such a mild-seeming phrase promises interpersonal Armageddon. — “How to Write about Africa” grew out of an email. In a fit of anger, maybe even low blood sugar — it runs in the family — I spent a few hours one night at my graduate student flat in Norwich, England, writing to the editor of Granta. I was responding to its “Africa” issue, which was populated by every literary bogeyman that any African has ever known, a sort of “Greatest Hits of Hearts of ****edness.” It wasn’t the grimness that got to me, it was the *********. There was nothing new, no insight, but lots of “reportage” — Oh, gosh, wow, look, golly ooo — as if Africa and Africans were not part of the conversation, were not indeed living in England across the road from the Granta office. No, we were “over there,” where brave people in khaki could come and bear witness. **** that. So I wrote a long — truly long — rambling email to the editor. To my surprise, Granta wrote back right away. The editor, Ian Jack, disavowed the “Africa” issue — that was before his time, he said. A year or so later, another Granta editor called. They were doing a new “Africa” issue, and they wanted my perspective. Sure, sure, I said. And then forgot. And then remembered, felt guilty, felt the weight of a continent on my back. I was blocked and more blocked. I drank a Tusker. Finally I wrote something about Bob Geldof. It was shit, said the editor — not his words, but he meant to say that, and he was right. So I went back to work. The deadline came. The deadline went. I was busy working on a short story, busy working on my novel. A cold Tusker. The new Kwani. The beach, in Lamu. The editor called with an idea — why don’t we publish your long crazy email? An extract, that is. Sure, I said, absentmindedly. He sent me a draft. Phew, I thought, absentmindedly. Cut, paste, cut, paste. A few flourishes here or there. Send. It took an hour. The issue came out, my article went online. It became the mostforwarded story in Granta history. I started hearing from friends, from strangers; started getting my own words forwarded to me with a cheerful heading, as something I might be interested in, as though I hadn’t written it. I went viral; I became spam. I started getting invitations — to conferences, meetings, think tanks. I started getting mail. Now I am “that guy,” the conscience of Africa: I will admonish you and give you absolution. If I was smart, I would have waited a few years and made an iPhone app: a little satirical story about how to write about Africa every day, interactive and adaptable, for ninety-nine cents. **** Granta… thanks, Granta. I was busy working on my novel. Then I was drinking chili-flavored vodka with the editor of this magazine, and before I knew it I had agreed to write a sequel to “How to Write about Africa.” Okay, I said, absentmindedly. So, here we are.

How to Write about Africa Binyavanga Wainaina Always use the word 'Africa' or 'Darkness' or 'Safari' in your title. Subtitles may include thewords 'Zanzibar', 'Masai', 'Zulu', 'Zambezi', 'Congo', 'Nile', 'Big', 'Sky', 'Shadow', 'Drum', 'Sun' or 'Bygone'. Also useful are words such as 'Guerrillas', 'Timeless', 'Primordial' and 'Tribal'. Note that 'People' means Africans who are not black, while 'The People' means black Africans. Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress. In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don't get bogged down with precise descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn't care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular. Make sure you show how Africans have music and rhythm deep in their souls, and eat things no other humans eat. Do not mention rice and beef and wheat; monkey-brain is an African's cuisine of choice, along with goat, snake, worms and grubs and all manner of game meat. Make sure you show that you are able to eat such food without flinching, and describe how you learn to enjoy it—because you care. Taboo subjects: ordinary domestic scenes, love between Africans (unless a death is involved), references to African writers or intellectuals, mention of school-going children who are not suffering from yaws or Ebola fever or female genital mutilation. Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice, in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on that your liberalism is impeccable, and mention near the beginning how much you love Africa, how you fell in love with the place and can't live without her. Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. If you are a man, thrust yourself into her warm virgin forests. If you are a woman, treat Africa as a man who wears a bush jacket and disappears off into the sunset. Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed. Your African characters may include naked warriors, loyal servants, diviners and seers, ancient wise men living in hermitic splendour. Or corrupt politicians, inept polygamous travel-guides, and prostitutes you have slept with. The Loyal Servant always behaves like a seven-year-old and needs a firm hand; he is scared of snakes, good with children, and always involving you in his complex domestic dramas. The Ancient Wise Man always comes from a noble tribe (not the money-grubbing tribes like the Gikuyu, the Igbo or the Shona). He has rheumy eyes and is close to the Earth. The Modern African is a fat man who steals and works in the visa office, refusing to give work permits to qualified Westerners who really care about Africa. He is an enemy of development, always using his government job to make it difficult for pragmatic and good-hearted expats to set up NGOs or Legal Conservation Areas. Or he is an Oxford-educated intellectual turned serial-killing politician in a Savile Row suit. He is a cannibal who likes Cristal champagne, and his mother is a rich witch-doctor who really runs the country. Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West. Her children have flies on their eyelids and pot bellies, and her breasts are flat and empty. She must look utterly helpless. She can have no past, no history; such diversions ruin the dramatic moment. Moans are good. She must never say anything about herself in the dialogue except to speak of her (unspeakable) suffering. Also be sure to include a warm and motherly woman who has a rolling laugh and who is concerned for your well-being. Just call her Mama. Her children are all delinquent. These characters should buzz around your main hero, making him look good. Your hero can teach them, bathe them, feed them; he carries lots of babies and has seen Death. Your hero is you (if reportage), or a beautiful, tragic international celebrity/aristocrat who now cares for animals (if fiction). Bad Western characters may include children of Tory cabinet ministers, Afrikaners, employees of the World Bank. When talking about exploitation by foreigners mention the Chinese and Indian traders. Blame the West for Africa's situation. But do not be too specific. Broad brushstrokes throughout are good. Avoid having the African characters laugh, or struggle to educate their kids, or just make do in mundane circumstances. Have them illuminate something about Europe or America in Africa. African characters should be colourful, exotic, larger than life—but empty inside, with no dialogue, no conflicts or resolutions in their stories, no depth or quirks to confuse the cause. Describe, in detail, naked breasts (young, old, conservative, recently raped, big, small) or mutilated genitals, or enhanced genitals. Or any kind of genitals. And dead bodies. Or, better, naked dead bodies. And especially rotting naked dead bodies. Remember, any work you submit in which people look filthy and miserable will be referred to as the 'real Africa', and you want that on your dust jacket. Do not feel queasy about this: you are trying to help them to get aid from the West. The biggest taboo in writing about Africa is to describe or show dead or suffering white people. Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters. They speak (or grunt while tossing their manes proudly) and have names, ambitions and desires. They also have family values: see how lions teach their children? Elephants are caring, and are good feminists or dignified patriarchs. So are gorillas. Never, ever say anything negative about an elephant or a gorilla. Elephants may attack people's property, destroy their crops, and even kill them. Always take the side of the elephant. Big cats have public-school accents. Hyenas are fair game and have vaguely Middle Eastern accents. Any short Africans who live in the jungle or desert may be portrayed with good humour (unless they are in conflict with an elephant or chimpanzee or gorilla, in which case they are pure evil). After celebrity activists and aid workers, conservationists are Africa's most important people. Do not offend them. You need them to invite you to their 30,000-acre game ranch or 'conservation area', and this is the only way you will get to interview the celebrity activist. Often a book cover with a heroic-looking conservationist on it works magic for sales. Anybody white, tanned and wearing khaki who once had a pet antelope or a farm is a conservationist, one who is preserving Africa's rich heritage. When interviewing him or her, do not ask how much funding they have; do not ask how much money they make off their game. Never ask how much they pay their employees. Readers will be put off if you don't mention the light in Africa. And sunsets, the African sunset is a must. It is always big and red. There is always a big sky. Wide empty spaces and game are critical—Africa is the Land of Wide Empty Spaces. When writing about the plight of flora and fauna, make sure you mention that Africa is overpopulated. When your main character is in a desert or jungle living with indigenous peoples (anybody short) it is okay to mention that Africa has been severely depopulated by Aids and War (use caps). You'll also need a nightclub called Tropicana, where mercenaries, evil nouveau riche Africans and prostitutes and guerrillas and expats hang out. Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

^^^You are right, I think the whole thing is a set up so Somalia does not get on its feet ever again.

^^^This is good for all of Somalia, every Somali will benefit insha Allah.

Originally posted by Thierry Henry: When did Puntland control Las anood or even South Galkacyo? I support Puntland claims on the whole SSC regions, but I don't think the TS's map is based on reality Theiry adeer, Puntland does control Galkacyu since the 1993 peace accord between the SSDF & the USC. This had been a fact since the states inception, Puntland controls the entire organs, including the airport, this is in no doubt. As for LA, Puntland only lost that a few years back and it will come back to the fold soon enough.

Ufain, Puntland Somalia Where the largest Oil expolration in Somali history will take place soon insha Allah.

230-qof ku dhintay dagaalada Muqdisho: Hey'ada UNHCR 7 Sep 7, 2010 - 7:54:40 AM Hay'ada UNCR ayaa warbixin ay dagaalada Muqdisho kasoo saartay ku sheegtay in 230-qof oo rayid ah ay ku dhinteen dagaalo laba toddobaad ka badan ku dhexmaryay Muqdisho ciidamada DF oo kaashanaya kuwa AMISOM iyo Al-shabaab. Afhayeenadda UNCHR Melissa Fleming oo saxaafadda la hadashay ayaa sheegtay in xalaada Somalia ay aad u xun tahay, iyadoo sheegtay in dad badan ay dagaalada socda ku qasbeen inay guryahooda ka barakacaan. "Waxaan si cod dheer ah u sheegaynaa in xaalad xun ay ka taagan tahay Muqdisho, taasoo aan weligeed soo marin" ayay tiri Fleming, oo intaas ku dartay: "Dagaallada todobaadyadii lasoo dhaafay socday waxaa ku dhintay 230-qof". Sarkaaladdan waxay sheegtay in 400-qof ay ku dhaawacmeen dagaalada, sidoo kalena ay guryahooda uga barkaceen in ka badan 23,000-qof, kuwaasoo ku biiray dadkii horay ugu sugnaa duuleedyada Muqdisho, halka kuwo kalena ay ka baxeen dalka oo dhan. Daganaasho la'aanta ka taagan Muqdisho waxay sababeen in 200,000-qof ay si khasab ah uga saaraan guryahooda sanadkan oo qura, kuwaasoo qaarkood qoxooti ahaan u galay xeryo ku yaala dalalka Kenya iyo Ethiopia. "Xaaladda amaan ee Muqdisho waa mid aad u xun xiligaan, sidoo kalena waxaa is-hortaag lagu sameeyay howlaha gargaarka caalamiga ah, kuwaasoo si aad u yar uga socda Muqdisho" ayay hadalkeeda ku dartay Fleming. Afhayeenada UNCHR, waxay sheegtay in kumanaanka kun ee ka qaxay Muqdisho aysan qaarkood wadan wax agab ah, kuwo yar oo ka mid ahna ay si dirqi ah ula baxeen joodariyaal ay ku seexdaan iyo alaabo aad u yar. Hay'adu waxay ku eedeysay dhinacyada dagaalamaya inay ka dhigeen Muqdisho meel lama dagaan ah oo aanu qofna ku noolaan karin, sidoo kalena ay duqeymo culus u geystaan dhinacyada ay magaalada kaga sugan yihiin. GAROWE ONLINE

^^^Nonsense adeer you don’t even read what you post. Give it a break the map is unfair because it gives my cousins[Makhir] only a very small area up NW, let alone any in Bari region which is the largets in Somalia, and one which you have been claiming. This "evidance" you present works against the stance which you held for so long, which is interesting.. Unlike you no one is claiming villages adeer, Mudug’s territory is clear, Puntland controls, Galkacyu [one of the largest cities in Somalia], Goldogob[a growing city] and everything North including all the main arteries of the city of Galkacyu both entry points and Airport.

Wacaal Daray ah ~ Gen. Yusuf Axmed Khayr, wasiirka amniga ee Puntland oo warbixiyey hawlgalladii ugu dambeeyey ee Bossaso & qorshaha dawlada ee adkaynta amniga. audio

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