Waraabe is out?

Have you become his travel secretary Xaaji.

Apo....wrong thread?

This is rich, Carafaat warning about Woyanes and their lackeys.

^Do you employee associations be along religious or ethnic lines? when I was in the financial sector, the big corporations had associations that would push for employee friendly privileges, including prayer rooms. Of course, this was the boom years when the employers had more resources and were flexible. With wadhu, the feet is obvious trouble. What bothered me most, is I used to miss Friday prayers. I find out that there is church that Muslims pray on Fridays and Muslim students at my Alma mater have their congregation. The school has prayer and wadhu corner, thanks to rich Arab alumni.

Luckily, my work does prayer room and universities around us all have prayer rooms, some have wadhu areas.

lol@guys holding hands. I forget people back home do that.

Why would Ethiopia Somalia build any institution, seriously folks?

Juxa.....breakfast starts at 10 for me and ends at 3.

Is there free morning buffet at troll corner today? Hello all,

Dear Alpha, let us know how hell feels like.

^Kind wondered what kind parent would I be, tough job! Some for reason this came to mind, "I think God gives us children so that death won't come as such a disappointment." - Evelyn Harper,

Fire that reduced millions to ashes Thursday, November 29, 2012 By Abdikadir Sugow Smoke from Garissa's main market after it was set on fire “We are destitute,” a trader at Garissa Town’s only open-air market says as his toe digs into the debris after the market was razed down recently. The market was burnt after days of military operation to flush out criminals who had killed three soldiers as they were changing a flat tyre on November 19. This operation sparked off riots by locals, who said the community was being unfairly accused of harbouring criminals associated with the Somalia Al Shabaab militia. When the operation ended, two people were dead and several others injured. The market that was gushing with activity was smouldering. The market, Suuq-Muqdi or ‘the unlighted market’, was a source of livelihood for many. Haretho Abdi Bare, who is nursing bullet wounds at the Garissa General Hospital after she was shot on her left thigh, had a large silo of fresh farm produce. Usually she directly bought the produce from local farmers and sold wholesale to other traders. It went up in flames alongside other businesses at the market. Start from zero When her physical pain is over and she is discharged from hospital, Haretho will have to start from zero to rebuild her business. Haretho’s son, Salah Yakub Farah, says his mother lost business worth Sh2.5 million, which included the structure holding her merchandise. She is not the only one counting losses. Staff at the mill say they pleaded with the arsonists, whom they claim were military officers, to spare their business in vain. “They burnt all our products. We will sue the Government for compensation,” says Ali Noor Issack, whose fast food kiosk was was reduced to ashes. Ali, who was operating a fast food kiosk, says he lost capital base of Sh315,000. Ali says he did not salvage anything, as the fire was too fierce to get closer. It is not exactly clear who burnt the market. Some eyewitnesses accuse the military claiming they lobbed fire canisters into the market, which caused the fire at midday while others claim a certain politician set the place ablaze long after the operation was over. Yet, there are also claims of business rivals having lit the market and used the ongoing operation as a cover up. However, the military has denied being behind the arson. Spokesman Col Cyrus Oguna termed the accusation as malicious and lies crafted to taint the credibility of the force. “Allegations suggesting KDF committed atrocities in Garissa are false and must cease,”said Col Oguna. Whoever caused the fire at the market pierced locals’ hearts as the market was the centre of business in the town. People bought their foodstuff there and it was a source of employment for many others. Some traders don’t bank their money. Instead, they keep it at the market. Burnt in safe One trader acted as a ‘banker’ who held money in custody for other traders. Market chairman, Paul Chege says Sh150,000 was burnt in her ‘safe’. Several have reported reported that their national IDs were burnt in the fire, which raged for two days. It destroyed the market structure which is estimated to be worth more than Sh200 million. According to Chege, some 1,800 traders were adversely affected. Most of them ran fresh farm produce, groceries, cereals, clothes, electronics and restaurant businesses. Chege, who has done business at the market for 15 years, says there is no sign that the Government is willing to help these traders rebuild their lives despite PM Raila Odinga visiting the affected last Friday and asking ministry for Special Programmes to compensate the traders. The following day, the minister for Special Programmes Esther Murugi said the Government has no policy to compensate victims of riots and clashes. Garissa mayor, Ismail Mohamed Garat Korio whose elective ward includes the burnt market, said the locals are still waiting for justice.

^True and he doesn't blame them alone. Here's a bit about himself. “I bought into the fashionable philosophy of not interfering; letting the children find themselves. When they were getting into trouble -- at school, or later with their relationships -- I would just bite my lip and tell myself, ‘Don’t butt in, it’s their lives.’ I was trying to express my frustration at these wonderful grown-ups who had yet to make the best of what they had. They have read the criticism, but not seen the enduring love through the lines.... I haven’t done well as a father, have I?”

^I wouldn't expect you to, I was talking in general terms.

^I probably wouldn't have red the poem, so I guess that works for both us. Keep smiling:-)

I don't understand this blaming Somalis for one's personal choice? Marry ajnabi because you want to, not because Somalis are this or that. Narniah.....I am not sure what country you live in, but 50% of all marriages in the States end up in divorce. The number of people living together and married get higher every year. So the chances of anyone having lasting marriage decreases every year. That said, what bad area do you live in every Somali mother or most is/are single?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/nick-crews-email-disappointed-dad_n_2198135.html

Dear All Three With last evening's crop of whinges and tidings of more rotten news for which you seem to treat your mother like a cess-pit, I feel it is time to come off my perch. It is obvious that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment each of you has in your own way dished out to us. We are seeing the miserable death throes of the fourth of your collective marriages at the same time we see the advent of a fifth. We are constantly regaled with chapter and verse of the happy, successful lives of the families of our friends and relatives and being asked of news of our own children and grandchildren. I wonder if you realise how we feel — we have nothing to say which reflects any credit on you or us. We don't ask for your sympathy or understanding — Mum and I have been used to taking our own misfortunes on the chin, and making our own effort to bash our little paths through life without being a burden to others. Having done our best — probably misguidedly — to provide for our children, we naturally hoped to see them in turn take up their own banners and provide happy and stable homes for their own children. Fulfilling careers based on your educations would have helped — but as yet none of you is what I would confidently term properly self-supporting. Which of you, with or without a spouse, can support your families, finance your home and provide a pension for your old age? Each of you is well able to earn a comfortable living and provide for your children, yet each of you has contrived to avoid even moderate achievement. Far from your children being able to rely on your provision, they are faced with needing to survive their introduction to life with you as parents. So we witness the introduction to this life of six beautiful children — soon to be seven — none of whose parents have had the maturity and sound judgment to make a reasonable fist at making essential threshold decisions. None of these decisions were made with any pretence to ask for our advice. In each case we have been expected to acquiesce with mostly hasty, but always in our view, badly judged decisions. None of you has done yourself, or given to us, the basic courtesy to ask us what we think while there was still time finally to think things through. The predictable result has been a decade of deep unhappiness over the fates of our grandchildren. If it wasn't for them, Mum and I would not be too concerned, as each of you consciously, and with eyes wide open, crashes from one cock-up to the next. It makes us weak that so many of these events are copulation-driven, and then helplessly to see these lovely little people being so woefully let down by you, their parents. I can now tell you that I for one, and I sense Mum feels the same, have had enough of being forced to live through the never-ending bad dream of our children's underachievement and domestic ineptitudes. I want to hear no more from any of you until, if you feel inclined, you have a success or an achievement or a REALISTIC plan for the support and happiness of your children to tell me about. I don't want to see your mother burdened any more with your miserable woes - it's not as if any of the advice she strives to give you has ever been listened to with good grace - far less acted upon. So I ask you to spare her further unhappiness. If you think I have been unfair in what I have said, by all means try to persuade me to change my mind. But you won't do it by simply whingeing and saying you don't like it. You'll have to come up with meaty reasons to demolish my points and build a case for yourself. If that isn't possible, or you simply can't be bothered, then I rest my case. I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed. Dad

Ten more arrested over KDF murder Wednesday, November 28, 2012 By Cyrus Ombati Ten more suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of three Kenya Defense Forces soldiers in Garissa in a police operation. The ten have also been linked to the killing of six other police officers who have been killed in ambushes in Garissa Town in the past three months. They were arrested in the on-going police hunt for terror suspects in the region. Police have been combing the town in search for suspects who have been linked to a series of attacks in Garissa and its environs. Officials holding the suspects say some have confessed they are part of a larger network that had been sent from Somalia by the Al-Shabaab militants to “deal” with security agents over the military operations in their country. “They are part of a larger gang of foreigners who have been behind these attacks,” said an officer aware of the case. Another official said the suspects were named by an accomplice arrested on Saturday over the killing of the three soldiers on November 19. Ibrahim Jelle Belle was charged in court however not required to plead to the murder charges as the prosecution pleaded for more time to conclude investigations. Belle was arraigned before Principal Magistrate John Onyiego who remanded him at the Garissa police station. The prosecution said they were likely to also charge him with the murder of the three police officers killed prior to the murder of the murder of the soldiers. While applying for more time, the prosecution told the court that two soldiers who survived the shootings had positively identified the suspect as part of the gunmen who attacked them. The suspect who is a Somali national was arrested on Saturday in Hulugho area near the Somalia-Kenya border as he tried to flee, police said. But Belle said he was Kenyan from Ijara District and had never committed any crime against any government officer. He told the Magistrate that he read politics and demanded that two chiefs and a police sergeant in Hulugho where he was arrested be available during his prosecution. The case will be mentioned on December 9th at the Garissa High court. Other sources said the suspect is among many Somalis who illegally obtained Kenyan documents and that a major investigation into the incident and others has been launched. The killing of the soldiers prompted a police operation and sparked protests and riots in the town leaving property being destroyed. A parliamentary group is investigating the incident and reaction to the same. KDF has denied claims they harassed residents of Garissa and burnt property while hunting down assailants who had killed the soldiers.

Chimera..I think we are talking about their different things. A person should pursue his aspirations including marriage to whoever but to say community loyalty is meaningless is a bit over of the top.

^Charcoal traders like traders in Somalia will cut a deal with who ever is controlling the area. The more durable assets in Kismayo are the ports and that's ultimate goal of the warlords like Madoobe and Hiiraale, but it's fair the charcoal trade has an impact on the way the conflict unfolds. Zack iyo rag kale xamaasad qabiil baa qaade. They use to condemn the likes of Duke for the very thing they are doing today.

^You could love whoever, just your bit about community seems dramatic.

^Avoid using the words like never!

^ A bit dramatic ain't?