Again not sure why some are getting upset if Erdogan visits Puntland?

Carafaat;806231 wrote: Read my post Duke, its not about the oil drilling in Puntlad. It's about this little scheme you are propagating. As long as you are not against the current Oil drilling program in Puntland. As for the shares and the company that is your battle lad..

Carafaat;806229 wrote: Duke have you been hired by Burnt Notice as his spin docter. My interest is with the people of Somalia. This Oil project is great for Somalia. That is what I truly care about..

^^^Carafat you are clutching to straws lad. You are against the Oil drilling in Puntland because of clanish reasons and no more...

Carafaat;806232 wrote: that airport is a daily warzone just google Galkacyo and Airport. I would recommend the Turks to go to Eyl, its much safer there. You went from "who controls" the airport and "always changes hands" to "its a battle field"... You my boy have a rotten egg on your face.. Thanks for being on the record that you would not want Galkacyu to be developed. The Turks are going to Garowe as well as Bossaso so dont worry lad.

Again answer the question is there Oil drilling project being carried out in Puntland State of Somalia?

kingofkings;805901 wrote: provide a date the airport changed hands:confused: Don't worry about Carafat he losses his mind when ever he reads any good news regarding Puntland in general and Galkacyu City in particular. He is lashing out and getting angrier. Galkacyu airport has never been occupied by anyone since the SSDF took the city in 1993. While Hargaysa airport, Burco City and Berbera port changed hands many times after 1993 with the sub clan wars between Tuur & Egaal. Thus spare us the sniffling comments lad.

Is there drilling in Puntland State of Somalia?

Yes and Puntland State will not waste a day more to get the Oil out of the ground.

THe site reporting this is usually quite reliable and not a big supporter of Faroole admin by any means. What I am quite happy with is the Galkacyu airport, Bossaso port development that the Turks have promised.

Carafat stop talking nonsense. The Oil exploration is taking place in Puntland as we speak. Regardless of how you feel about Range Resources, you can not deny their tenacity and resourcefulness. Like the Texan company Hunt Oil with Yemen. Ponzi scheme in this instance means that nothing is being drilled. That's nonsense and the whole State is waiting anxiously for he results.

Hydrocarbon boom & exploration is taking place all across East Africa. This is not a phony project as much as some of you would like to believe.

Mario B;806204 wrote: We don't lack resources, the revenue from fishing alone is 100m a day from somali coast, if we can get a tenth of that it will be equivalent to 3 billion dollars a year for somalia economy. We know has been benifiting from our coast and it aint us. We dont have the capacity to protect our coastline as of yet. The Oil revenue will jump start the Somali economy and revive the Somali State. This is aN opportunity that insha Allah will not wait for anyone.

Puntland and it's coast is a huge area. It's difficult to coteol the whole coats specially remote areas. However Eyl and Garacad are clear and pirates have been fought hard by both the State & the public.

Your losing your mind boy. Today in East Africa it's he gold age for Oil exploration. Everyday new wells and reservoirs are being found in South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and as far as Mozambique. This is no laughing matter. You never even believed there was a rig or drilling. Then you disappeared when the forts pictures came out. Now you are foaming from the mouth, and repeating the same mistake. It's evident that this is big event, a transformative event.

^^^ Indeed it seems a former secessionists was confused as to why Qaw was the HQ for the piracy and talked a great deal about Eyl & Garacad. I want Carafat to let that secessionist and others that today both Eyl & Garacad are clear of piracy.

Our whole problem has been about lack of resources. We can't build anything because we lack the capacity to build anything tangible. Thus we beg and look for handouts and have become reliant on others. This Oil project has already transformed the narrative of what Somalia has to offer the world. Somalia is more than piracy, civil war, terrorists and poverty. Those who fear the Oil because of Puntland. In time will learn to love Puntland and what it means. Money has that effect on people. The future is bright, the future is Puntland State of Somalia. The future is covered in blue & white.

Burn notice, I thank you my friend. Keep updating us.

Incredible. Thanks for the update. I am hopefully this will be the transformative moment we have been waiting for all this time.

The SOL rules have always been not to advertise any forum or site for free. Also this site is run by some young individuals, sometimes they can be over the top, however it is quite harmless. Again let's respect SOL and it's rules people.

Like Robow Abu Mansuur and Godane, this man does not want to go to heaven straight with his shoes. Like Showgi stated his life is more precious and valuable to him then all the thousands of Muslims his group has killed.

Burn Notice;805447 wrote: Sure am...happy proud and excited Investor Thanks for the incoherent reply..now go back to school and learn how to construct a sentence that we can all comprehend Outch.

These fake clowns. Whats worse are the Somali ****** who believed in them..

Che -Guevara;805284 wrote: Now this is how politics should be. Proud of Maryooley getting ahead of the game and trying their best to put one of their own in there. It's a once in a decade opportunity. So far the Citizens Commitee for Fair Redistricting has done well to transform the prospects of the East African as well as other minority representation. Breathtaking is how one would describe this.

Immigrants draw lines for change in Minneapolis Article by: MAYA RAO , Star Tribune Updated: February 14, 2012 - 11:05 PM Activists and redistricting officials are drafting revised political wards in Minneapolis to consolidate and Abdulkadir Warsame, a local Somali-American, is working on a plan to reframe political wards to better reflect the neighborhoods they represent. The increasing influence of immigrants in Minneapolis shows up in the bustle of Latino plazas and Somali malls, from East Lake Street to Cedar-Riverside -- but not on the dais of the City Council, where two of 13 representatives are members of racial minorities. Ward boundaries divide two fast-growing groups, Latinos and East African immigrants, in ways that some redistricting officials and immigrant activists say dilute their voting power and lessen the likelihood that they will win election. Some see an opportunity to broaden political participation through the once-a-decade redistricting process underway in Minneapolis, where a 24-member group is studying how to revise ward lines to reflect demographic changes following the U.S. census. The panel's latest draft map -- to be presented at a meeting Wednesday -- would shift more blacks and Latinos into the Sixth Ward, which now spans Ventura Village, Phillips West, Whittier and Stevens Square-Loring Heights. The proposal increases the combined Latino and black population from 48 to 63 percent by expanding the ward to take in part of Cedar-Riverside, including Riverside Plaza, home to many of the city's Somali-Americans. It also adds Midtown Phillips and parts of East Phillips to boost the Hispanic population, while shifting a chunk of Whittier into another ward. The Redistricting Group wants "to increase opportunities for minority voters," member Andrea Rubinstein said at a meeting last week. "There have been enormous demographic changes in Minneapolis ... and this is a great opportunity for us to recognize those things." Minneapolis' population of 382,578 barely budged in the last decade. Yet as blacks increasingly left north and south Minneapolis, Latino and East African immigrants continued their influx into the city from the 1990s. Minneapolis is now 36 percent non-white, up about 1 percentage point in the past decade, and 15 percent of the population is foreign-born. Political representation has not kept pace. The City Council's only racial minorities are Robert Lilligren, an American Indian, and Don Samuels, who is black. "What would it do for our kids to have a council member from our community?" asked Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali-American who lives in Cedar-Riverside. "It would encourage them; it would get more people to participate in the process." After Somali-American Mohamud Noor lost the DFL primary in last year's special election in Senate District 59, Warsame and others who campaigned for him brainstormed about their next step. They consulted a former state demographer and formed a committee called Citizens for Fair Redistricting, then submitted a map proposing three wards with higher concentrations of minorities and immigrants. Most of Minnesota's 32,000 Somalis live in Minneapolis. And the number of the city's East African-born residents jumped 53 percent to 14,497 in the last decade. Terra Cole, a member of the redistricting panel, said that the group's proposal had influenced their approach. "We didn't see what they saw, and it got us to think differently," she said. The North Side's Fifth Ward is more than half black, but few of those residents are of East African descent. Redistricting Group Chairman Barry Clegg said it will be impossible to create an additional ward in which one minority group makes up more than 50 percent of the population; other parts of Minneapolis lack a similarly high concentration of one non-white community. All of these ideas are fluid, as the Redistricting Group meets over the next few weeks to continue refining a new map and hear from the public. The deadline is April 3. Hispanics have been less visible in redistricting hearings this year, even though their population in Minneapolis jumped 37 percent to about 40,000 since 2000. Efforts are underway to boost political participation in the community, which is mostly Mexican. Mariano Espinoza, a trainer for political leadership at Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network who lives in Powderhorn, said he is meeting with Latinos in south Minneapolis about redistricting and other public issues.