^^^I did not expect reer Burco to tell us we could not marry their girls, which we have been doing for a century or so.

Lets be civil people and stop insulting clans.

^^^thanks for the correction, though its Cowke/Juje who keeps making gaffe's here.

^^^Whats wrong with them?

S*S: Adeer you act like an infatuated little girl with Yey & Galkacyu, thus act like a man, thats all. You aint getting no points insulting your own kin in SOL..

^^^Lool adeer I knew you would change names, now be a good boy and post more Pic of Yey meeting the Kings of UAE..

^^^Yeah right adeer, Yey is my uncle and today he is meeting with Kings in the UAE, stop acting like a little girl sweetheart..

Puntland & Somaliland have done little to address the drought, stop talking breez lad.

^^^Juje, adeer stop waffling, no one talked about Galkacyu nor about Yusuf coming back. His detractors included you who used to talk all sorts of Jazz, but now are confused and impotent to do anything STUCK you are. Yey is a Somali icon, why else would the eladers above meet him?

^^^Paragon, I think Ibti is our new dave Chappelle. She cant be right. I know from experince her clan wont say anything to mine, but we can pretend here can we not. S*S, adeer no one doubts you will say, Yey is my uncle, since a few of these folks ever heard of Jama Ali Jama and his bravery.

Ibti my dear, I think every Somali parent wants their daughter/son to stay within the family. There is an old Somali saying "Marry who you know, you will have children you know" the point is not that your families dont prefer their own, even sub clans within your groups prefer their own. But the fact that if I wanted to marry a Northern dyme, her parents would not object too loudly. Thats the point of the issue. They would not object too loudly to the big clans. The minority is a tottaly different story the North holds them in even more contempt than most North Eastern/Southerners do.

The legend is having a nice time, while his detractors are stuck unable to do anything. Long live Yusuf Yey..

^^^Me too, your dwelling is not as nice as my city of Galkacyu, just an observation adeer.

wrong headline..

Che, stop with the insults..Our cities are not dusty nor the people there any worse than the clans you claim or the one you actually hail from. Ibti: is saying that the girls from her family dont marry southernes in London. Which I find most ammsuing, cause I am from bloody London and know better.

Dear Ibti, maybe the London I left a few years ago has changed beyond recognition or you are a sheltered person. First of all Somali’s of the Northen clans have married each other for generations, thus even in Puntland our current President’s wife is from Hargaysa and he married her 40 years ago while living in Hargaysa. Thus there is no issue between our North folks. Now if one wants to talk about the mixing in London, I have been to weddings, many where men from the deep south married their sweethearts who happened to be from Burco or Berbera and the familes where all there, there was no issues. Again my dear, you can speak for yourself, and I know you are expensive as hell but don’t say in London of all places there is no mixing of the clans in the love department.

^^^S*S made some sense there, though a bit long..

^^^Ibtisam, again you either cant read or you just like me. Stop saying my name dear. As for Northern girls, I grew up in London at a time when every girl , you met was from either Burco or Hargaysa, beautiful ladies the best I would say..And trust me they did not mind Southern lads, nor did Southern girls mind Northern lads, so I dont know what world you live in dear sis.

I agree with Blessed, the whole Nasab issue is not the same as the way we mistreat our own clans..

Somaliland and Abkhazia have existed for almost 20 years, with little indication that widespread recognition is imminent. Indeed, the rare successful cases these days of countries making the leap from troubled enclave to independent nation have pretty much bypassed Limbo entirely. Think East Timor and Kosovo, which jumped from brutal occupation to U.N. administration to independence to become two of the first new countries of the 2000s. The Limbo countries tend to start with violence and then get stuck in the next stage: a path that leads on and on and on, apparently to nowhere. Secessionists need a new idea..

Good to see Xudedi back, the song is great, this is just the beggining lads so dont make snide comments.

Bloody hell, the topic is hijacked by the usual suspects. This is not about Burco or Hobyo loving each other people, we know that is a fact. To Ibti & NGOONGE, I once overheard a few old men talking in Coffee shop in Mile End, most of the men where from Burco & Siilanyo clan if we need to be specefic. The old men where in a heated argument, they discussed the latest marriage trends of their community, and noted how most of the girls of the family where marrying men from clans they never heard from, reer this, reer that who all happened to be from Mogadishu & Baidoa sub clans. An old man explained, what is happening today? Did Siyad Barre have these people literally by the balls and now they are free to marry our girls? The fact is the girls from Burco that I knew did love southern folks, mine in particular but they liked the reer Xamar way of speaking and easy going manner. So lets not get side tracked & get back to the topic.

They are all hypocrites, those who sent the mortars and the Sharif Hotel who used to defend the actions of Al Kebaab. The only question is who is worse?

The police think it was an e ecution and not a robbery. What have we become?

The comments thus far have been as expected. The parens thing I am not to sure, I had an independt minded mother who trully did not care and had close school freinds from those families. However I understand that some parents are scared of losing face, they don't want their Mohamed or Ifrax to be the talk of the town. The problem here is with the high divorce rate in the west, the abusive marriages and uneducated masses. If a suitable indivdual, educated, and hard working were found why would you be an obsticle as a parent? It does not make sense to me. However i would not encourage such marriage if it did not come from the individuals themselves.