^Rageh was spot on but you think him being Somali renders him less reliable-I would recommend you read the Crisis Caravan by Linda Polman !

^There needs to be devolution of power-highly centralized government with Mogadishu in firm control of everything is not option.

same guy on SNL This is spot on.

Will Ferrel and his Landlady

They should put these guys on exercise regiment.

Nina.....Soon they will us we call Dhuusomareeb duusomareeb.Oo Qowdhan hadii laba daqiiqad lasheekeysatid madax xanuun aas ku qabanaaya carabkana muruq aas kaagalaaya.

Originally posted by Libaahe*: Well Atleast Siilaanyo is the first somali leader for a while to not go to addis straight but to another Somali nation (Djibouti) compared to sheikh dalxis & faroole who straight away went to addis when they got elected. Atleast you have some appreciation for the predicaments Somalis find themselves. LoooL@Nina..balayaa nagu wada habsatey

Seriously---? You couldn't leave it as him being a Somali?

Originally posted by Suldaanka: That is what Qabiil-based regional governments end up to - breaking into mini-me qabiil lands. A case of the pot calling the kettle black.

You mean she wasn't a Muslim-dam it

^There's no such thing called soolian in Somali or English. Adaa waalan-miyirka in lagugo soo celiyo waaye ama mingis kuhaya lagaa tumo.

^Magaca dadka ha,uga ciyaarin qandho xuumoo fildaraney.

LoooooooooooL@Duke

What f*ck is Soolian?

Originally posted by Xaji_Xunjuf: quote:Originally posted by RedSea: so u can't say 'widhwidh' but you're Abwaan. funnyyyy Koonfuriansku xarfaha qaar ma karran. wa wax naturkooda ku beeraan. Aduunyo Q@ldaan wiririf meeshaan qararac nalasoo fareestey.

Fellas, curb your emotions and dig a little deeper analytically-so it's only Amistad that's looking this objectively.

Odaga waa soo xajayaa-a pilgrimage for Adis is must.

Originally posted by *Ibtisam: $1 for coffeee? What is it? MAde of gold? Maybe they take 1 buck piss.

There's general feeling among the Yankee foriegn policy makers and certain part of the establishment that this POOR nation has repeatedly thumbed its nose against the States. There are important junctures in history where the Yanks and Somalis have crossed paths.On every occasion, Yanks felt Somalis have opposed or impede their interests in the Horn of Africa.Needless to say, every time the two crossed, things didn't turn well for the Somalis.

^Both deserves same relevance and attention-may God bless them.

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: Barakaad used to do think like that, and it firmly had on the thread the few competitors it had faced then. Dahabshiil was second and far behind it. Ah, if the owner of Dababshiil would love to thank anyone, it would have to be Bush Jr., precisely his dire actions of closing down Barakaad and its subsidiaries, exactly nine years ago this time. The game is now even more competitive, and if I was a Dahabshiil executive, I wouldn't sit comfortably. I felt bad for Barakaat and in the end, they were exonerated but they never recovered.

Marlooyeey...looool..waxee ka qatanyihiin ceyn ama faan ula fadhiyaan

By Kisiangani Emmanuel Tuesday, November 02, 201 Somalia has, over the past two decades, deteriorated into one of the world’s worst security and humanitarian challenges. Characterised by insidious conflict, political fragmentation, and an informal economy, Somalia represents the archetypal failed state. Unfortunately, the international community, Kenya included, have in their policy strategies focused on Somalia mainly in terms of threats to their own security instead of acting decisively and in a non-partisan manner to help establish a government that is acceptable to most Somalis. The upshot is that more often than not, viable “Somali solutions” to the Somali problem have been ignored or overlooked. It is no wonder that the international community’s primary preoccupation with ideology and symptoms, including the war against terror and the piracy scourge, which though critical to international security, has removed the needs and aspirations of Somalis from the agenda. Consider the piracy problem, for instance. It has its roots in state failure, encroachment on Somali waters, and poor living conditions of the Somalis. They are aware that foreign countries are profiting from their country’s “misery” and this has served to increase the popularity of pirates as ransom payments are viewed by Somalis ashore as legitimate taxation. Yet, what does the international community do? It invests resources in deterrence at sea. In all likelihood, the international community would achieve better results if it were to devote the time and resources it is using on its naval forces and protecting its commercial interests to reconstructing Somalia. Indeed, the actions of the international community since the ouster of Siad Barre in 1991 have failed to rein in warlords and insurgent groups. It is time to change tack and accept to work with the government that emerges in Somalia, regardless of its ideological affiliation. It is important to realise that Somalia is more complex than just a “failed state”. Since 1991, what was formerly the Somali Democratic Republic has disintegrated into numerous factions. Somalia is, therefore, more of a “them” than an “it”. Somalia’s problems are a confluence of internal and external factors. Internally, clannism and clan cleavages have been exploited by different factions to gain political leverage and profiteer from the country’s informal economy. Externally, it is the international community’s current and previous policies on the war against terror and attempts to impose a government, that have served to reinforce the historic mistrust of the West and to buttress Somalia’s political weakness, including strengthening of religious extremism. While the problems in Somalia are too complex for a quick solution, without a government acceptable to the majority of Somalis, achieving lasting peace remains unlikely. While there are war profiteers who are keen to maintain the status quo, the misery and despair of the majority of Somalis will continue to push, especially young people into criminal activities. The only time in the past two decades when Somalia assumed a semblance of peace was in 2006 during the six months rule of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). During this period, crime levels, including, piracy, subsided. The ICU was able to keep at bay warlords and militia groups because they enjoyed popular support and were seen as a legitimate authority. But they were considered by sections of the international community as having links with al Qaeda. The moderate Islamic Transitional Federal Government (TFG), that was seen as the best prospect for stability when it took over in early 2009, looks like a Western proxy imposed upon the people and has, thus, failed to assert its authority over Somalia’s territory. The international community should not fear the possibility of an al Shabaab government. It should, instead, accept an Islamist authority and work with it while discouraging extremist tendencies. Unless there is a decisive change in the international community’s involvement in Somalia, continued external meddling will only prolong and worsen the conflict and further radicalise the population. source

The words black or African as race are interchangeable. Why would one ask if someone is black if skin color is black?