It seems there will be soem sort of action targeting Iran. It will be simmilar to the firts war with Iraq, the Europeans coming on board is the most telling sign. France under Sarko has changed and distanced itself from the anti-War anti American stance. There is already a proxy war between the British-US forces in Iraq and Iranian fighters. If there is any action, it will be massive air strikes, a replica of Kosovo & Iraq 1. It will be all of Nato. We need to watch things closely.

Against this background, The Asmara group is “clutching sand” (bacaad eey ku dhagganyihiin), to use a Somali idiom. That backdrop should raise a red flag because they have not articulated why it is that they want Power, what would they do with this Power, and how are they different from the cannibalistic African Guerrillas movements mentioned above. Their shrill assertion that Ethiopia is an occupying force in Somalia is not enough as it has fallen on deaf ears since the world community views Ethiopia as engaged in essentially what Nigeria has done in Sierra Leone and Liberia, that is, to contribute to the regional security of the Horn Africa by helping reconstitute a strong Somali state that can secure its borders from international terrorism, piracy, civil wars etc. This pragmatic policy has been a corner stone of IGAD member states ( with the exception perhaps of the rogue state of Eritrea which has recently recused itself from any IGAD deliberations on Somalia) since January 2007. Additionally, the USA Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Madam Jendayi Frazer underscored this point last week when she stated in unequivocal terms that the International community will not let Ethiopia withdraw its support unless replacement peace keeping forces are ready to take over this essential responsibility. Add to this, the fact that the Saudi Kingdom has on September 18, 2007, on principle accepted the Somali Reconciliation Conference held in Mogadishu between July 15 to August 30, 2007 to be a legitimate peace making conference among the Somali clans that warrants diplomatic backing. It also chastised the Asmara rebels as being bereft of any political solution to the Somali conundrum and for being part of the radical Islamist agendas now wreaking social havoc in Muslim and Arabic countries.

To all the misled, confused groups chasing after the "liberation" of an indepedent and soverign Somalia. Try broadening your reading, away from lies. But even if the Asmara rebels suddenly found a meeting of the mind and converged their disparate interests, they will not advance beyond their Asmara hotels as their project was stillborn from the beginning because Almighty History is not on their side. The Asmara group is operating in a geopolitical barren landscape, if you will, in that it does not have the fortune and benefit of the Cold War which could have easily guaranteed it political and military benefactors to help it fulfill its agendas, if at all it has any discernible agenda. But even if it could find powerful benefactors, the fact remains that the world has changed and this group does not appreciate that fact. The era of liberation movements with legitimate discernable values and causes and with moral clarity is part of history in so far as Africa is concerned and therefore no longer relevant. The last great legitimate African liberation struggle was the anti-apartheid struggle of South Africa which gracefully ended with the vindication of Nelson Mandela as an alleged terrorist and his coronation as the first democratically elected leader of that great country. That struggle was genuine, had an unambiguous moral clarity and had also a certain gravitas. read this article by Hosh Jibril . The Asmara Project

further complication that makes any closing of the gap of the divergent personal, emotional, business, political, and religious interests of these rebels is the fact that a significant number of the leading personalities of the Asmara group are notoriously deficient in the trust department in that they have in the past been known to betray their political colleagues, and also renege on their promises: At least two leading personalities in this group betrayed friends and colleagues both in Arta and also in the TFG; Another is a notorious back stabber even if one does not take his emotional instability into account; The former Speaker, Sharif Hassan does not need any elaboration as he is remembered for betraying the TFG and the Somali public in favor of his criminal business partners in Mogadishu as well as his personal pecuniary interests; Yusuf Dheeg was the Ethiopian spy master inside the cabinet of the Arta regime in 2001 and his handler was the late Ethiopian Ambassador Abdulmajid; The good Shiekh, Shiekh Sharif Ahmed was on the phone with the Americans and plausibly the Ethiopians in December 2006 while his brainwashed, forcefully conscripted child-soldier Mujahiddiin were being annihilated by the Ethiopian killing machine, a machine he personally provoked to engage in combat. Would one buy a used car from any member of this lot, let alone negotiate with? Not likely!

The Asmara Project: An Abysmal Failure Avv. Abdurahman Hosh Jibril September 17, 2007 The Asmara gatherings had all the fanfares of a political confab; the hotels, the number of the conference attendees, the political rhetoric emanating from leading figures, delivered with the solemnity of a religious sermon, not to mention the flag waving and chest thumbing of the attendees who have wrapped themselves with the Somali flag; A good party, yes, but below the radar, it is obvious that this gathering has already ended up in an abysmal failure for several reasons. For any political agenda to advance beyond its conceptual state, the agenda setters must be united to move the agenda beyond the concept and coalesce into a concretized platform that becomes a basis for implementation. Not so in Asmara and there is no chance that the motley crew that has met in Asmara would ever see eye to eye on many fundamental issues. The Asmara group are in a big tent, and in that tent, you will find radical fundamentalists Muslims who will never settle for anything less than Sharia Law as the basis for a governance model; you will also find in the tent, remnants of the criminal business enterprises of Somalia that hankers back for the good old days of the cannibalistic monopoly of the illegal businesses of Mogadishu and elsewhere, and this group is not interested in governance; rather it is interested in the restoration of the Frontier capitalism under which they flourished and the attendant anarchy of that era. The tent also includes professional peace conference attendees who have been ubiquitously present in every peace conference for the last 16 years.( it is interesting and ironic that some members of this group are loudly highlighting the fact that all the peace conferences of the last 16 years ended up in failure without looking themselves in the mirror and pointing the finger at the mirror); the big tent further includes former parliamentarians of the TFG who became disenchanted with the TFG simply because they did not make it to the TFG cabinet and that is only because under the 4.5 formula which they signed onto in 2004, only shared cabinet quota posts prorated under that formula went to individual clans. In a sane world, these parliamentarians would admit that they are only envious of the individuals whom their respective clans passed them over for cabinet, but true to their form, they are now dishonestly couching their envy and anger in nationalist, anti-TFG and anti-Ethiopian sentiments. The most despicable group in the tent is the Arta faction, which has no agenda per se, other than a strong desire to see the TFG fail because it harbors a feeling of Schadenfreude towards the TFG. A further complication that makes any closing of the gap of the divergent personal, emotional, business, political, and religious interests of these rebels is the fact that a significant number of the leading personalities of the Asmara group are notoriously deficient in the trust department in that they have in the past been known to betray their political colleagues, and also renege on their promises: At least two leading personalities in this group betrayed friends and colleagues both in Arta and also in the TFG; Another is a notorious back stabber even if one does not take his emotional instability into account; The former Speaker, Sharif Hassan does not need any elaboration as he is remembered for betraying the TFG and the Somali public in favor of his criminal business partners in Mogadishu as well as his personal pecuniary interests; Yusuf Dheeg was the Ethiopian spy master inside the cabinet of the Arta regime in 2001 and his handler was the late Ethiopian Ambassador Abdulmajid; The good Shiekh, Shiekh Sharif Ahmed was on the phone with the Americans and plausibly the Ethiopians in December 2006 while his brainwashed, forcefully conscripted child-soldier Mujahiddiin were being annihilated by the Ethiopian killing machine, a machine he personally provoked to engage in combat. Would one buy a used car from any member of this lot, let alone negotiate with? Not likely! But even if the Asmara rebels suddenly found a meeting of the mind and converged their disparate interests, they will not advance beyond their Asmara hotels as their project was stillborn from the beginning because Almighty History is not on their side. The Asmara group is operating in a geopolitical barren landscape, if you will, in that it does not have the fortune and benefit of the Cold War which could have easily guaranteed it political and military benefactors to help it fulfill its agendas, if at all it has any discernible agenda. But even if it could find powerful benefactors, the fact remains that the world has changed and this group does not appreciate that fact. The era of liberation movements with legitimate discernable values and causes and with moral clarity is part of history in so far as Africa is concerned and therefore no longer relevant. The last great legitimate African liberation struggle was the anti-apartheid struggle of South Africa which gracefully ended with the vindication of Nelson Mandela as an alleged terrorist and his coronation as the first democratically elected leader of that great country. That struggle was genuine, had an unambiguous moral clarity and had also a certain gravitas. After that great struggle, numerous armed charlatan groups began falsely and perhaps ignorantly using the lingo and rhetoric of liberation while they carried out their brutal fratricidal campaigns and the human and political implications of the mayhem and suffering caused by these wannabe Mandela/Che’ should be a required history course for future African children. Where does one begin?. Charles Taylor of Liberia, Foday Sonkah of Sierra Leone, Laurent Kablia, of Congo, the Warlords of Somalia, The Lords Resistance Army of Uganda etc. Sadly, the most salient feature of the “struggle” of these wannabe revolutionaries was that they all engaged in killing thousands of their country men, women, and children and irresponsibly destroyed the public infrastructure and private properties of their countries and held the populace hostage to the extent that the African victims in these man-made conflicts have since become inured to suffering and accepted it as the “new Normal” in life. They also helped destabilize the respective regions in which they waged their delusional “struggle”. Against this background, The Asmara group is “clutching sand” (bacaad eey ku dhagganyihiin), to use a Somali idiom. That backdrop should raise a red flag because they have not articulated why it is that they want Power, what would they do with this Power, and how are they different from the cannibalistic African Guerrillas movements mentioned above. Their shrill assertion that Ethiopia is an occupying force in Somalia is not enough as it has fallen on deaf ears since the world community views Ethiopia as engaged in essentially what Nigeria has done in Sierra Leone and Liberia, that is, to contribute to the regional security of the Horn Africa by helping reconstitute a strong Somali state that can secure its borders from international terrorism, piracy, civil wars etc. This pragmatic policy has been a corner stone of IGAD member states ( with the exception perhaps of the rogue state of Eritrea which has recently recused itself from any IGAD deliberations on Somalia) since January 2007. Additionally, the USA Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Madam Jendayi Frazer underscored this point last week when she stated in unequivocal terms that the International community will not let Ethiopia withdraw its support unless replacement peace keeping forces are ready to take over this essential responsibility. Add to this, the fact that the Saudi Kingdom has on September 18, 2007, on principle accepted the Somali Reconciliation Conference held in Mogadishu between July 15 to August 30, 2007 to be a legitimate peace making conference among the Somali clans that warrants diplomatic backing. It also chastised the Asmara rebels as being bereft of any political solution to the Somali conundrum and for being part of the radical Islamist agendas now wreaking social havoc in Muslim and Arabic countries. Of course, it does not also help that these rebels are hosts to one of the most notorious dictators Africa has known since the early 1990s. President Issias Afeworke and his regime have squandered the idealism steeped in rich history of the revolutionary struggle and ingenuity of the EPLF’s Shabia movement, and have turned it into a cult of personality that revolves around Afeworke and that has reduced the Eritrean nation into a police state and its public to abject poverty. It is therefore beguiling for the former Somali parliamentarian rebels in Asmara to call themselves ‘The Free and Independent Parliamentarians’ when there is no parliament in Eritrea and the country is ruled by presidential decrees and edicts, when there is no free press, where as many 20 former cabinet ministers are either in prison, dead or have simply disappeared, where Pentecostal and Jehova Witness religious adherents have been banned to practice their religion, where all the brightest citizens and entrepreneurs, some of them veterans of the Eritrean Shabia movement have fled the country and opened up shop elsewhere in Africa, Europe and North America. The afeworke regime has also become a Pariah state in the region as it has, in its short reign, sparked so many regional wars in Sudan, in Yemen, in Ethiopia and now in Somalia. Moreover, Afeworke does not care an iota about peace in Somalia but is only using these Somali rebels as a bargaining chip to secure a stronger hand in the stalled negotiations regarding the God forsaken windswept town of Bademe which he lost in his war with Ethiopia. Also Pariah states are known to host conferences and international symposiums simply to stay politically relevant since they are not taken seriously in all the international arenas that really matter. All this do not augur well for the Asmara rebels and that is why they are an abysmal failure and will remain Qurbojoog (exiles) for quite sometime. For that reason, the TFGistas should not negotiate with this group. A die hard Canadian TFGista, Mr. Ismail Gaafow put it succinctly to me the other day when he said, “ If the TFG negotiates with this rebel group, it would set a uniquely immoral precedent by rewarding bad behavior”. I concur with him. Why negotiate with a non-entity that cannot deliver the goods that the TFG wants to trade with, namely, Peace and stability.

^^^Its a marked change from, "he will never arrive in Mogadishu", "He ran away from Mogadishu", to "he will not stay safely". Progress indeed, next it will be "his trees will not grow in the garden"..

The TFG is making progress everyday.

^^Ok adeer, its a great story, but we have heard of such tales before.

^^^I say good luck to those who try to make division between the clans of Puntland. Will it work, no, wishfull thinking? Yes will Somaliland gain anything from this? I doubt it. The people of SOOL, SANAG, CAYN have always been for the blue flag and unity.

^^Adeer your reasoning does not make sense. As for taking you or anybody else on, it would be a waste of time. You just proved a point, why make it personal? Too emotive if you ask me. Also its Ramadan, lets just concentrate on the news.. Thank you

Warkan oo carabi ah waxaa uu u soo baxay Sidan السعودية ترحب بما تم التوصل اليه بموءتمر المصالحة الوطنيه فى الصومال بتاريخ: 18/09/2007 جدة فى 18 سبتمبر / رحبت المملكة العربية السعودية بعقد موءتمر المصالحة الوطنية فى الصومال فى المملكة لاتمام وانجاز ما تم التوصل اليه من اتفاق واستضافة ورعاية مراسم توقيعه وباركت هذا الانجاز المهم وتأمل أن تنضم اليه كافة الفصائل الصومالية وأن تدعمه كل الدول التى تجمعها الحدود والمصالح المشتركة بالصومال. وأوضح وزير الثقافة والاعلام السيد اياد بن أمين مدنى لوكالة الانباء السعودية عقب الجلسة مجلس الوزراء التى ترأسها خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز أن المجلس أكد فى هذا السياق أن هذا الاتفاق من شأنه أن يضع الصومال على طريق الاستقرار والامن والوحدة وأن يعيد للشعب الصومالى قدرته على أن يتوجه لبناء بلده ومجتمعه ويوءدى دوره عضوا مهما وفاعلا فى المنطقة. كما أن ذلك من شأنه أن يخلص الصومال وأرضه من أى محاولات للجماعات الارهابية أن تستغل أوضاع الاقتتال والفرقة لتجعل من الصومال موطئ قدم لها. HorseedNet.com

One understands your point adeer, as one does all the defeated groups and the ever emotional individuals who make up such entities and their ever laughable causes.

^^Oh my, I dont mind what stance you take dear brother. Just showing concern thats all.

Javier Solana” aad baan usoo dhaweyneynaa heshiiskii madaxda Soomaaliya iyo hoggaamiye yaasha dhaqanku ay ku saxiixeen magaalada Jeddah” Masuulka ugu sarreeya ee Midowga Yurub ee ugu qaabilsan siyaasadda arrimaha dibadda iyo amaanka Mr Javier Solana ayaa muunjiyay Sida uu ugu niyad san yahay heshiiskii madxda Soomaaliya iyo hoggaamiye yaasha dhaqanku ay maalin ka hor ku saxiixeen dalka Sacuudiga ”aad baan usoo dhaweyneynaa heshiiskii madaxda Soomaaliya iyo hoggaamiye yaasha dhaqanku ay ku saxiixeen magaalada Jeddah”ayuu yiri Solana oo sheegay in uu ku kalsoonyahay in heshiiskaasi uu wax badan ka badali doono xaaladaha haatan ka taagan dalka Soomaaliya. Mr. Solana oo ay soo xiganeysay wakaaladda wararka u faafisa dalka Shiinaha ee Xinhua news ayaa sheegay in heshiikaasi uu bog cusub u furayo Soomaaliya markana ay rajadu ahay mid muujineysa in mashaakilaadka siyaasadeed ee Soomaaliya ay soo dhamaan doonaan. Waxaa uu Solana intaa ku daray in uu aaminsan yahay in heshiiskii lagu saxiixay magaalada Jeddah uu wax weyn kusoo kor dhin doono isku dayada ku aadan in la xaqiijiyo nabad waarta oo saldhigata dalka Soomaaliya,waxana uu amaanay dadaalada ay haatan waddo dowladda Soomaaliya ee arrinkaa ku aadan. Aduun weynaha ayuu sarkaalkani ka codsday in uu sii laba jibbaaro gacan siinta Soomaaliya oo haatan kasoo baxaysa marxalad adag oo dalka iyo dadkuba ay soo mareen muddo dheer oo lasoo dhaafay. “Boqorka sacuudiga Cabdalla iyo dhaxalsugaha dalkaasi Amiir Sacuud Waxan iyagana ku amaanayaa wax qabadkooda ku aadan Soomaaliya,waxaana ku bogaadinayaa in ayan ka harin howsha ay wadaan oo ay ku xaqiijinayaan nabadda Soomaaliya”ayuu yiri wakiilka EU ee siyaasada dibadda iyo amaanka Solana. Xafiiska warqabadka shabaakdda wararka carmooyin.com ee Mqudisho. Contact:carmooyin@hotmail.com OR Carmoyin@gmail.com

Ciidamada Gobolka Banaadir oo maanta howlgalo ballaaran ka fuliyay Bakaaraha { 18 Sep 2007} waxaa la daabacay Tue 18 Sep 2007 09: 51: 39 Howlgal saakay ay ka fuliyeen ciidamada Booliska wadada labaad ee suuqa Bakaaraha ayaa mid dhaliyay rabshado iyo qaraxyo ka dhacay halkaasi kadibna Booliska ay rasaas ku fureen goobaha laga soo tuurayey banbooyinka kaas oo uu ku dhaawacmay mid ka mid ah shaqaalaha shirkadda Xawaaladda Qaran iyadoo ay gabi ahaanba xerneem goobihii ganacsiga. Holwgalka ayaa sidoo kale dhaliyay in albaabada loo laabo xarunta shirkadda Ineternet-ka Gobol oo lagu amray in qadka la damiyo albaabadana loo laabo shirkadda iyadoo guud ahaan dibada loo soo saaray shaqaalihii ka howlgalayey shirkadda, taasoo keentay iney hakad galaan macaamiishii ku xerneyd qadka shirkadaas oo howlahoodii dib u dhac uu ku yimid ilaa Sagaalkii galabnimo ee maanta. Sidoo kale sarkaal u hadlay Booliska ayaa sheegay in ciidamada ay xereen xaruntii Raadiyo Shabeelle kaasoo uu sheegay in ay diideen shaqaalahaasi amaawiirta Booliska oo ay albaabka gudaha ka xerteen taasoo keentay in ay Booliska jabiyaan iridka laga galo xarunta Shabeelle kuwaasoo amray in la damiyo idaacadda dibadana ay u soo baxaan shaqaalaha. Sarkaalku wuxuu sheegay in dhawaan bam gacmeed laga soo tuuray dhismaha idaacadda oo lala beegsaday boolis halkaa ka howlgalayey taasoo maanta dhalisay in laga shakiyo kadib markii albaabka ay xerteen dadkii ku sugnaa goobta ciidamaduna ay rasaas kor u rideen ayna jabiyeen iridka idaacadda taasoo uu sarkaalkan sheegay iney tahay waajib saran Booliska marka laga dhega adeegay horayna uu sheegay in looga soo tuuray bam ay sidaa yeelaan. Howlgalkaasi wuxuu kaloo sababay inuu xermo wadada dheer ee wadnaha kaasoo baabuurtu aysan mareyn iyagoo isticmaalayey xaafadaha jidadka dhex mara oo masaafo dheer ay u maraan goobo ku dhow dhow, sidoo kalena shirkaddihii ka howlgalayey nawaaxigaasi ayaa albaabada la isugu dhuftay si ay dadka ka hwolgala aysan dhib uga soo gaarin howlgaladaas keenay in bam lagu tuuro Booliska iyagana ay rasaas ku jawaabaan. Email: admin@gobolkabanaadir.com Gobolkabanaadir.com

Masare Iyo Midowga Yurub Oo Soo Dhaweeyay Heshiiskii Ka Dahacay Dalka Sacuudi Carabiya . Posted to the MOL September 18, 2007, 9:02 am Ururka Midowga Yurub Iyo dowlada Masar ayaa si weyn u soo dhaweeyay heshiiskii dhawaan ka dhacay magaalada Jiddah ee Dalka sacuudi Carabiya . Javier Solona oo ah sarkaalka Midowga Yurub u qaabilsan arimaha dibada ayaa sheegay in heshiiskaasi ay gaareen madaxda sare ee dowlada iyo ergadii ka qeyb gashay shirkii dib u heshiisiinta Muqdisho uu yahay mid hor mar dalka ugu spoo horseedaya heshiis waara. Waxa uuna ugu baaqay madaxda Sacuudi in ay muujiyaan dulqaad ayna sii wadaan dadaalada dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliya si dalkaasi u helo nabad iyo barwaaqo. Dowlada Masar ayaa dhankeeda ku tilmaantay heshiiskaasi mid lagu riyaaqo isla markaana horseedaya nabad iyo kala dambeyn. Madaxweynaha Masar Maxamed Xusni Mubaarak ayaa laga soo xigtay in dowlada Sacuudi Carabiya loo xilsaaray arinta Soomaaliya ayna ku amaanan tahay xaaladda iminka sida ay u waddo. Qeybaha bulshada Soomaaliya ayaa dhankooda ku tilamamay hishiiskii Jiddah mid dhanka hormarka laga gaaray Soomaaliyaaa uu nabad u horseedayo. Mudugonline.com

NGOONG, will try to keep up old man. Causes of the groups you meant, pardon yesterday was a slow day.

Muqdisho: Ciidamada dowladda oo jaray khadka shirkadda Internet-ka Global iyo Howlgalada maanta ee Bakaaro 18. september 2007 Muqdisho(AllPuntland)- Ciidamada dowladda oo maanta howlgal ballaaran ka fuliyay wadada labaad ee suuqa Bakaaraha ayaa gudaha u galay xarunta shirkadda Internet-ka Globalsom kuwaasoo shaqaalaha iyo maamulka shirkadda ku amray in ay damiyaan qadka internet-ka ayna albaabada u laabaan xarunta shirkadda ciddii ka dhega adeegtana ciqaab adag la kulmi doonto sida uu sheegay mid ka mid ah howl-wadeenada shirkadda oo codsaday in magaciisa aan la shaacin. Waxaa saameyn ballaaran ay tallaabadaasi ku yeelatay macaamiishii isticmaali jirtay khadka Internet-ka shirkadda Global oo saakay hawada ka baxday dibna u soo laabatay abaaro 3-dii galabnimo iyadoo aan la ogeyn sababta loo soo fasaxay qadka iyadoo Taliye ku xigeenka howlgalada Booliska uu sheegay inuusan la socon amarka lagu xeray shirkadda Global. Saameynta ku dhacday qeybaha isticmaala qadka internet-ka Global ayuu dib u dhac ku yimid iyadoo awalba dhib ku qabay culeyska isticmaaalka qadka iyo xiliyada qaar oo uu iska go’o taasoo aan la ogeyn iney tahay mid ku tala gal ah iyo mid aqoonta farsamada oo yar ay keentay. Dhinaca kale ciidamada dowladda ayaa albaabada isugu dhuftay xaruntii idaacaddii Shabeelle taasoo hawada ka baxday kadib markii Boolisku ay jabiyeen albaabka xarunta Idaacadda oo ay gudaha ka xerteen shaqaalihii ku jiray markii ay diideen in ay furaan albaabka kadibna loo jebiyay. Tallaabadan ayaa ah midi labaad oo horay ciidamada dowladda ay ku eedeeyeen in dhismaha Idaacaddaas laga soo tuuray bam gacmeed lala tiigsanayey ciidamada Booliska ee howlgalka ka waday wadada Aadan Cadde iyadoo maantana ay diideen in la baaro sida uu sheegay mid ka mid ah saraakiisha Booliska oo ku eedeeyay in Idaacaddaasi ay awalba aheyd mid ku shaqeysa hadafka kooxaha ka horjeeda dowladda waa sida uu hadalka u dhigaye. Gabagabadii waxaa weli xeran wadada labaad ee Suuqa Bakaaraha halkaasoo maanta uu ka dhacay howlgal ballaaran oo hakad geliyay howlihii adeega bulshada ilaa iyo xiligana 3:00 galabnimo uu yahay mid haawanaya oo laga maqlayo rasaas teel teel ah. Cali Muxiyaddiin Cali AllPuntland, Muqdisho

EU welcomes reconciliation deal on Somalia BRUSSELS, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solona on Monday welcomed Sunday's reconciliation agreement on Somalia signed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Solana said that the agreement would provide for a new phase in the efforts to achieve reconciliation among all the Somali people in a time frame, which he said should be as short as possible. He called on the international community to continue to follow Somalia closely at a time when Africa is advancing along the road to peace. The EU foreign policy chief also paid tribute to Saudi King Abdullah and Prince Saud Al-Faisal, whose patient and determined efforts led to the conclusion of the substantive agreement on Somalia. Leaders of Somalia's transitional government Sunday signed a reconciliation agreement in Jeddah, following up on an inconclusive conference in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in August. Soucer: Xinhua

Masar oo soo dhoweysay daadaalka Sacuudiga Dowladda dalka Masar ayaa sheegtay inay si weyn ugu riyaaqday heshiiskii ay Soomaalida ku saxiixeen magaalada Jidda ee dalka boqortooyada Sacuudi Areebiya. War laga soo xigtay aqalka madaxtooyada ee magaalada Qaahira ayaa tibaaxaya in madaxweynaha dalka Masar Maxamed Xusni Mubaarak uu telefoonka kula xiriiray boqorka dalka Sacuudiga Cabdalla Bin Cabdulcasiis isla markaana u sheegay sida uu u taageersan yahay shirkaasi ka dhacay magaalada Jidda. Madaxweyne Xusni Mubaarak wuxuu sheegay in boqortooyada Sacuudiga ay hayso hogaanka Jaamacadda Carabta ee sanadkan isla markaana ay wakiil ka tahay dalalka Carabta. Boqolaal Ergo ah oo uu horkacayo madaxweynaha Soomaaliya C/laahi Yuusuf Axmed ayaa magaalada Jidda ee dalka Sacuudiga ku sugan ka dib markii uu ku martiqaaday boqorka dalka Sacuudi Areebiya Cabdalla bin Cabdulcasiis. C/qaadir Nuunow SBC

Jaamacada Carabta oo ka hadashey dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida ee Sacuudigu.. Ururka Jaamacada Carabta ee ay Soomaaliya ka tahay xubinta ayaa hadal uu soo saarey wuuxuu ku soo dhaqeeyey qorshaha dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida ee ay wado Boqortooyada Sacuudiga. Mas’uul u hadlay Ururka Jaamacadda Carabta, shaaca ka qaadey in Dawlada Sacuudiga loogu xilsaarey arimaha Soomaaliya shirkii19-aad ee ay ku yeesheen wadanka Sacuudiga wadamada Carbeed, wuxuuna sheegay in Sacuudigu uu haatan wado dadaal wanaagsan oo ku aadan arimaha dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida. Masuulkan ka tirsan Ururka Jaamacada Carabta ayaa wuxuu farta ku fiiqey in Ururka Jaamacada Carabta uu aaminsan yahay in dhamaan kooxaha ay khuseyso arimaha Soomaaliya meel la isugu keeno, si ay gacan uga geystaan arimaha dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida. SBC News Desk

Midowga Yurub oo soo dhaweeyey dadaalka Sacuudiga ee Somaliya ku.... Ururka Midowga Yurub ayaa muujiyey inay soo dhaweynayaan dadaalka Boqortooyada Sacuudiga ee ku aadan dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliya. Ergayga Gaarka ee Ururka Midowga Yurub ugu qaabilsan arrimaha dalka Somalia, George Marc Andre, ayaa sheegay inay taageersan yihiin dadaalka uu Boqorka dalka Sacuudiga, Boqor Cabdalla Bin C/casiis ugu jiro sidii xal loogu heli lahaa xiisadaha murugsan ee dalka Soomaaliya ka aloosan xiligan. George Marc Andre, waxa uu hadalkaasi ku sheegay wareysi khaas ah oo uu siiyey Wargeyska Asharqal-awsad ee ka soo baxa magaalladda London, wuxuuna xusay inay jiraan Wada-tashiyo u socda Madaxda Ururka Midowga Europe iyo Dowladda Sacyydiga, sidii wax looga qaban lahaa dalka Somalia oo ay colaadaha sokeeye ku burburay. Ergeyga gaarka ee Miwoga Yurub ee Soomaaliya wuxuu socdaal ku tegay magaalladda Jeddah ee dalka Sacuudiga, ayaa waxa uu ka qeyb galay Xafladdii lagu maamusayey Heshiiska ay Madaxda Sare ee Dawlada Federaalka KMG ah ee Soomaaliya iyo Hoggaamiyahaasha Dhaqanka ay ku saxiixeen Natiijooyinkii ka soo baxay Shirweynihii Dib-u-heshiisiinta Beelaha Soomaalida ee dabayaaqadii bishii hore lagu soo gebagebeeyey magaaladda Muqdishu. Ergayga Gaarka ee Ururka Midowga Yurub ugu qaabilsan arrimaha dalka Soomaaliya wuxuu sheegay in dadaalka siyaasadeed ee Dowladda Sacuudiga ugu jirto xal-u-helidda arrimaha wadanka Soomaaliya ay tahay tallaabo wanaagsan u tahay sidii loo sii ambaqaadi lahaa Geeddiga Hawlaha dib u heshiisiinta. SBC News Desk

Horn, this is a great step forward. NN, you are correct its a selection, but should lead to an all out election in 2009.

Somalia: Conference in Gedo region to elect new governor 17 Sep 17, 2007 - 6:47:48 PM GARBAHAREY, Somalia Sep 17 (Garowe Online) - A conference in southwestern Somalia is intended to elect a new governor for Gedo region after months of quarrel between two government-appointed contestants for the post. Hundreds of delegates from all districts in Gedo are attending the conference in the provincial capital Garbaharey, including government officials, clan elders, intellectuals and community leaders. The Garbaharey conference has not officially opened yet, but yesterday delegates listened to brief addresses from senior officials running for office. One insider told Garowe Online the delegates would appoint a 24-member committee selected according to clan and district balance. That committee would in turn elect the governor of Gedo from a pool of two candidates. Each candidate is claiming to be the "legitimate" governor. Hussein Sheikh Abdi was appointed from Mogadishu first but the federal government named another man, Adan Ibrahim O'Hersi, to the post of governor under a state of emergency law earlier this year. The conference partially arose out of a need to reach final settlement on the matter, according to those familiar with the ongoing process. The Garbaharey conference represents a grassroots approach to local governance, said one intellectual attending the conference. He likened the ongoing process in Gedo to a process that recently completed in nearby Bakool region where locals successfully elected a governor in a unique blend of democratic and customary practices. Source: Garowe Online

NGOONGE, I was rather enjoying your attempt at consoling this group, however one point I will like to correct you. The Duke does not belive this group is in the right, that would be contrary to everything I support. Fake atatcks on Ethiopia, and ever faker claims of occupation in defence of clan hegomony and ati-governemnt stance is not in my opinion the route to the moral highground.