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?

Considering the mass human migration over millennia, I think it's legitimate question to ask the origins of the people in the horn.

^LoooooooooooooooL...I have never seen a Somali groupie. Youtube comments are funnier-poor kid.

^Insult-noh, he's doing his civic duty and he brought the whole family along. No habar was left behind (no pun intended) I don't support men but movement.

^The inherent contradiction haye-this is what happens to preachers (they come in all forms).

Odagaan cajuuska ah ma,asaa waxkale waqti uhaaya. He's cleaning after Riyaale

^Yes, only if we see Siraanyo prancing around in Wardhiigley.

^So two individuals outsmarted and duped everyone else?

^That said, I don't condone carnage Duke-You are beginning to lose it-giving these secessionists more than they are actually worth.Get grip mate

^I'm afriad y'all mistaken-given the opportunity, Godane will blow up Hargeysa on any given day. He has no love for the Tigray vassal provinces.

d/p

^LoooooooL.

Peace Action-How about I suggest you use the derogatory name Sodomland for your secessionist friends.

Brazil President-elect Rousseff pledges gender equality The woman elected to be Brazil's first female president has promised to make gender equality a priority. Dilma Rousseff said she wanted parents to be able to tell their daughters: "Yes, a woman can." Ms Rousseff also promised to fight poverty and maintain continuity with her highly popular predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. She won Sunday's presidential run-off election with 56% of the vote to rival Jose Serra's 44%. Ms Rousseff takes office on 1 January next year when President Lula steps down after completing the constitutional limit of two consecutive terms. Hunger pledge Her election as the country's first female leader was a sign of the democratic progress Brazil had made, Ms Rousseff said in her victory speech in the capital, Brasilia. "So I am here stating my first post-election commitment: to honour Brazilian women so that this fact - unprecedented until now - becomes something normal and can be repeated and expanded in companies, public institutions, and organisations that are representative of our entire society." She continued: "I would like very much today for fathers and mothers of daughters to look in their eyes and tell them: 'Yes, a woman can.'" Ms Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel who was imprisoned for three years in the early 1970s for resisting military rule, promised to protect freedom of expression and worship, and to honour the constitution. read more

How do you know where they are from?

Bombs tip-off 'came from former al-Qaeda member' The crucial tip-off that led to the discovery of parcel bombs on two cargo planes came from a repentant al-Qaeda member, UK officials say. Jabr al-Faifi handed himself in to authorities in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago, the officials told the BBC. The US says its main suspect in the failed bomb plot is the chief bombmaker for al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch. Yemeni officials said 14 suspected al-Qaeda members had surrendered in the restive southern province of Abyan. Abyan's governor said five senior figures were among those who had handed themselves in, and more fighters were expected to surrender in the coming days. Yemen is facing mounting multi-national pressure to battle al-Qaeda, says the BBC's Lina Sinjab in Sanaa, but some doubt its ability to do so as it faces social, economic and political problems at home. bbc

Yemeni police release woman arrested over East Midlands Airport bomb find N the women protesting were Ms.Hanan's schoolmates.