Actually, Ali America should just have stayed out of it,

Let's hope he doesn't greet with bacaaaac

Salaam all, Good to hear inaad nabad tagtay Juxa. Is safe to go my xaafad Bilaajo? Abu-Salman must be Jibouti's tourist minister? Serenity...Masoo luntay maanta?

Apophis;887189 wrote: Yes, your melancholic comments are indeed predictable. Yours most predictable.

An Avalanche On Bullsh*t Mountain' (VIDEO)

Raula....Yay indeed. Uncle Joe is fun guy, the kid is simply full of himself. Anyway, the infighting starts with republic. We need to appeal to minorities vs we are not extreme enough, Blue....If he does couple of things he said he will do, I will be OK.

So close, yet so far in Kismayo Sometimes as a reporter, you can feel out on a limb, isolated both physically and in the way you understand a story. And so it is here in Kismayo – the hot, dry port city in southern Somalia, where the afternoon breezes whip up gritty red dust that gets into your teeth. We’re told that Kismayo is a beautiful city. I'll have to take their word for it, because it looks as though we are not going to see it. Kismayo has been an elusive story, ever since the Kenyan military successfully pushed al-Shabab out, just over a month ago. The town is the heart of the south – the economic hub that connects southern Somalia with neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia. It has a devilishly complex mix of clans with a history of conflict. An increasingly rancorous argument over who should control the port threatens to shatter the fragile peace that settled in here after al-Shabab left. On top of it, there is the charcoal – a multi-million dollar stockpile that I wrote about previously that has become the focus of a row between the Kismayo business community, neighbouring states and Mogadishu. All those problems have made the town an icon of the wider crisis facing Somalia, which is why it is so fascinating for journalists covering the country. But from the outset, access has been almost impossible. The Kenyan military, fighting in African Union helmets, have been in control of "Sector 2" – the southern portion of the country – for much of the past year. You can’t get in or out of Kismayo without their say-so. Land, sea and air routes are all theirs. That makes independent travel impossible. Believe me – we have considered everything from chartering our own aircraft to getting on a local fishing trawler to get in, and not one is likely to get us past the edge of town. So, official visits are the only option, and we have had no less than five false starts. For reasons that have never fully been explained, every time we have been invited on one, it has been cancelled. In the absence of any clear answers, it has been increasingly hard to escape the conclusion that someone is trying to hide things. So when the opportunity finally came to join a special presidential task force on a visit to Kismayo, it seemed that at last our luck had changed. Surely, a high-level delegation sent from the president himself to investigate charcoal, would be able to move through all the parts of town that we were interested in – the charcoal stockpiles, the port, the business community... What could go wrong? Plenty, it turns out. Just before the task force was due to board the aircraft along with a group of journalists, we here told the flight had been cancelled due to "security concerns" that were never fully explained. Two days later, we finally flew in, but on arrival, the sector commander anounced that Ahmed Madobe – the commander of the Ras Kamboni militia that has been working with the Kenyans to oust al-Shabab – had declined to see anyone with the group. While the Kenyans control access to town, Madobe controls its centre, so without his say-so, movement is impossible. And worse, he warned he couldn’t guarantee security if anyone left the airport compound. To the delegates, that sounded like a thinly veiled threat, and the Kenyans seemed to be more prepared to do Madobe’s bidding than the president’s. So, what is really going on in Kismayo? We still don’t know. The charcoal task force was put on a plane straight back to Mogadishu, well short of the three days they had planned to spend in the town. And the journalists are still stuck. There is no plane to take us out, and Madobe won’t let us go in. We are so close, and yet so far… http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/africa/so-close-yet-so-far-kismayo

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I questioned your motive not them; keep it straight.

Agah

Realism, not wishy washy stuff.

Very predictable..lol

The article and his message seems disjointed.

Whatever makes sleep?

You will have no say either!

By the way if you see Puntland promoting D bloc agenda in the Jubba, it's simply cuz they want piece of the pie not cuz they really care about the bloc. They share this behavior with reer Galmudug. They both yell D and H respectively when they need something but otherwise they will throw you under the bus.

Kenya needs reliable stooges and the leadership of this particular family is best suited for this purpose. Macalin is simply harmonizing the differences among this family's leaderdship across the three borders while securing Kenya's interest, alleviating Ethiopia's fears and fattening his own wallet. Mogadishu will only spoil this grand plan should they get involved and assert some control. The only way to rebuff Xamar is to portray President Hassan,whose election was being celebrated just a month ago by everyone on SOL,as arm of his tribal elite and present warlords like Madoobe as savior of his block Puntland is simply pissed at the realities on the ground. They have no real power and say in Kismayo. It's like SOls Eng Cadde thinking his tribe can dedicate anything in Kismayo. The war changed demographics.

I guess this is called picnic in Hargeysa.

The struggle in Kismayo is simply about resources, access to lucrative ports and booming charcoal business. To achieve this goal and realize personal ambitions, so called leaders understand it's easy to incite tribes and create discord; essentially saying this tribe is here to grab your land. As we are who we are, we fall for this and even the most sane soler will believe there's tribal agenda. And of course, there's no accountability and your tribal warlord can get away because he has your support and you will support him to the gates of hell. Even I think it's humiliating to turn away the delegation from Xamar specially in the presence of foreign occupier. Those who rant against AS will do everything to undermine the very government that can bring back Somalia from the brink.

XX.....It's inconvenient truth. There were arguing before AS was here, are arguing now, and will be arguing long after it's gone.

^He was and is, and is more interested in selling crabs to Kenya and exporting charcoal to the Gulf. In any case, Somali politics is fractious as ever and those who oppose AS have no agenda beyond protecting their turf. Just see SOL and those who yell they want Somalia to rise but wouldn't agree anything. Walaalkiis.....Agreed. One could only wish for these factions have common goal instead of inciting tribal hatred just to maintain their power.

Apophis...So, you share Khalid's sentiment? Those seeking access to Kismayos's lucrative ports have most to benefit from this incident which essentially humiliated members of Somali government; something I actually distaste considering the foreign presence. This is about resources and warlords like Madoobe and Hiiraale use tribes to ensure their loot. Unfortunately, Somalis stricken with tribalism fall for these stunts and the leadership in Mogadishu lacks the wisdom or the willingness to confront these men in manner that separates them from their tribes while establishing proper administration which answers to Xamar. P.s. I honestly do wish those opposed to AS would agree on other things as well. The only thing they have in common is their opposition to AS.

khalid abuukar maxamed;886853 wrote: Hawiiye Action Group You are paranoid.

^lool....you have just proven my point. Aight then, AS it's.

What's HAG?