There's time and place for everything!

I'm in no mood to argue but if you care, help your people.

Hadal badan haan ma buuxiyeey ama dadka ama iska aamus.

An estimated 10 million people have been affected by the drought in east Africa The United Nations has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region suffers the worst drought in more than half a century. The UN said the humanitarian situation in southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle had deteriorated rapidly. It is the first time that the country has seen famine in 19 years. Meanwhile, the UN and US have said aid agencies need further safety guarantees from armed groups in Somalia to allow staff to reach those in need. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in its territories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access. Read

Naxar....I'm not sure who's being hateful. Alpha....When all else fails, play clannish card. If it makes feel any better, the story of the other Arab Sheikh that came and impregnate local Somali women is ridiculous as well. These so called Sheikhs coming to native lands is recurring stories all over the Muslim world that has little base in reality. Perhaps due in time, gene mapping and research into the origins of Somali will dispel these fairy stories.

Somali-Beyond me, how grown people believe these loony stories.

^How dare you?

Nothing else to say really, hope the woman heals, best of luck to her.

I think our energy will be spent saving the lives of those dying today in front of us! Just an advice.

^It wasn't really question, more like an assumption that needs to be reinforced.

What do Somali men have to do with this story?

Somalis and their mythical ancestors-fairy tales,

You are welcomed chubacka

It's girls that are filling the room. Alive

Young Somalis seeking dialogue Assimilation, stereotypes are forum topics Shadiyo Hussain of Portland, Maine (left) and Amal Ahmed of Charlestown spoke at the conference yesterday of their experiences growing up in New England. (Wendy Maeda/ Globe Staff) By Ben Wolford Globe Correspondent / July 17, 2011 While media attention on Somalia seldom strays from terrorism, piracy, and a 20-year-old civil war, those problems are among the least pressing for young Somali-Americans, according to participants in a weekend conference in Boston. The issues most relevant to them, they said, don’t make headlines: the strain between Americanized youths and their Somali parents, the barriers of access to American society, and the stereotypes that plague them as black Muslims. “The goal is to get the Somali youth galvanized and get them to take a hold of their futures,’’ said Abdinasser Egal, 32, of Cambridge, who helped bring the Somalia Diaspora Youth Conference to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury this weekend. “We’re trying to identify the next group of leaders that come out of Somalia because it’s obvious the older ones have failed,’’ he said, referring to the 1991 civil war that continues to ravage the country. The conference is being broadcast over the Internet today. It includes topics ranging from learning from the past to breakdowns in intergenerational communications. Shadiyo Hussain, 18, of Portland, Maine, said such discussions are rare and welcome. “Where I’m from, Maine, we don’t have an organization or a community where we have interaction between the old generation and the new generation,’’ she said. Hussain said she wants to start a chapter of the Somali Diaspora Youth in Maine to spark a dialogue. The sponsor of the gathering, Somalia Diaspora Youth, is a loose association of community activists based in Virginia, Ohio, and Ottawa, the Canadian capital. They seek to maintain ties among Somalis living abroad, scattered as refugees. About 6,000 Somalis live in the Boston area, Egal estimated. “We have a joke that wherever you go, you won’t need a hotel,’’ said Egal, whose sister moved to Canada while he fled to America. The far-flung population, fearful of losing traditions, has tried to raise children as Somalis, but young Somali-Americans yesterday said keeping a solely African identity is not so simple. “The older generation likes to stay together, but my generation likes to assimilate,’’ said Huda Yusuf, 31, a chemist at Boston Scientific Corp. who lives in Shrewsbury. Having arrived in Canada at age 11, knowing almost no English and having more or less formed her Somali identity, Yusuf said she straddles both generations, insisting that “you have to be respectful of both.’’ Amal Ahmed, 18, is firmly in the new generation. She never used to wear a hijab, the traditional Muslim women’s head scarf, because in high school in South Boston, wearing it was too great a risk, she said. Now, as a second-year education and medicine student at Northeastern University, she wears it proudly. “The older I get, the more interested I get in the Somali community,’’ said Ahmed, who has lived in Charlestown since her family fled Somalia 15 years ago. “I think it’s important to be educated about your community back home, because that’s home.’’ But loyalty to tradition has a price when you live in the United States - particularly where the Department of Homeland Security is involved, Ahmed and others said. “I was at the airport in Minneapolis yesterday, and even though I passed through the metal detector, they pulled me aside to check my scarf,’’ she said. “I got into an argument with her: ‘If you don’t trust your metal detector, why do you put it there?’ ’’ Stereotypes in the United States are fanned, they said, by news about Al Shabab, a Somali terrorist group, and worries about recruitment efforts within this country. And last year, when Governor Deval Patrick pledged to Boston’s Muslim community his support in combating prejudice, then state-treasurer Timothy Cahill accused him of “playing politics with terrorism.’’ But terrorism is a nonissue, said Somalis yesterday in Roxbury. “We’re part of this community now,’’ Egal said. “We want it to do better, too. We gain nothing by seeing something bad happen. Our kids are born here now.’’ Ben Wolford can be reached at bwolford@globe.com. © Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company.

Thanks Blessed.

which brother? Are you talking about www.baramabaro.us ?

You can ask live questions.

Watch the 3rd Annual Somali Diaspora Youth Conference LIVE! Watch

^Don't dampen the excitement:D It doesn't bode well for the future when one goes to the federal authorities to settle Somali tribal wars. Someone in Boston went to the FBI only to have eggs on his face. What's worse they don't realize the larger implications for all Somalis. FBI literally make house visits now when something happens that deemed suspicious.

^Malaa XX shirka gurigiisa hortiis in lagu qabtoo rabaa:D

loooooool@Nina Fox....I think I might know couple of people there if they were students at Yaasin Cusmaan during Saciida Koofe years.

Good stuff

Somalia and Somalis are facing greater threat today than secessionists. Two thousand people are arriving everyday in Dadaab and half of children that are arrive in the camps die within days despite urgent care and not mention those are lost along the way. This is extreme contrast to my last visit to Dadaab where only thousand or so arrived weekly, most of whom were from O-Gaden. So my dear Somalis, waste your time in helping your people and leave these boys to themselves. Contact ICRC, the Red Crestent, UNCHR, OXFAM, and Islamic Relief and see how you can help. Lobby your local Rep and Senator, and of course raise funds.

Jeremy Scahill The Nation July 12, 2011 Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners. Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport. The site, which airport officials and Somali intelligence sources say was completed four months ago, is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted “combat” operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda. As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu. While the underground prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners. The existence of both facilities and the CIA role was uncovered by The Nation during an extensive on-the-ground investigation in Mogadishu. Among the sources who provided information for this story are senior Somali intelligence officials; senior members of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG); former prisoners held at the underground prison; and several well-connected Somali analysts and militia leaders, some of whom have worked with US agents, including those from the CIA. A US official, who confirmed the existence of both sites, told The Nation, “It makes complete sense to have a strong counterterrorism partnership” with the Somali government. The CIA presence in Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counterterrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special Operations forces, drone attacks and expanded surveillance operations. The US agents “are here full time,” a senior Somali intelligence official told me. At times, he said, there are as many as thirty of them in Mogadishu, but he stressed that those working with the Somali NSA do not conduct operations; rather, they advise and train Somali agents. “In this environment, it’s very tricky. They want to help us, but the situation is not allowing them to do [it] however they want. They are not in control of the politics, they are not in control of the security,” he adds. “They are not controlling the environment like Afghanistan and Iraq. In Somalia, the situation is fluid, the situation is changing, personalities changing.” Guji