Relief after woman stranded in Nairobi fingerprinted A Toronto woman facing jail in Kenya says she feels relieved after Canadian officials finally took her fingerprints to help settle her identity. "I feel a lot better," Suaad Hagi Mohamud said yesterday by phone from Nairobi, where she has been stranded for seven weeks, eight days of that time in jail. "I really want to come back home." Canadian consular officials, who for six weeks refused to have anything to do with the woman, took her prints and asked her such questions as where she lives, who her boss is at the ATS courier plant in Etobicoke and who is looking after her 12-year-old son in Toronto. But they did not indicate when they might match her prints with those on her original Somali refugee application made 10 years ago. "They said they would get back to me," she said. Mohamud, 31, was about to leave Kenya on May 17 after a short visit when airport officials stopped her for not looking like her Canadian passport photo – a common ruse for soliciting a bribe, she says. The Kenyans jailed her. She was released eight days later on $2,500 (U.S.) bail, pending trial. On May 21, the Kenyans notified the Canadian high commission of the arrest. A week later, a Canadian consular official wrote Kenyan immigration to say "conclusive investigations" confirm the arrested woman was an imposter. The official sent them the voided passport to help with their prosecution. For weeks, Mohamud – or the woman posing as Mohamud – begged the Canadians to take her fingerprints but they refused to return her calls. "That's all we're asking," family spokesperson and Toronto radio host Kawnayn Hussein said on hearing the prints had been taken. "It's somehow encouraging for us," said Mohamed Dalmar of Ottawa's Catholic Settlement Centre, who has worked for three years on a similar case. Koronto Star

One more reason I love this:

Come to think of it, no. I had seen quite a few mataano sisters, but never males. What is even more surprising is that we have the name 'mataan' for male twins, but not its equivalent in female twin sisters.

Waabsi.com Federalism did not work in '50s. C/qaadir Soobe ka daalay suu meel walba ula taagnaa in '60s, too. And now it won't work. Soomaaliya dal federal lagu dhaqi karo ma'aha. Federal dad kala jaan ayaa iskugu yimaado, not Soomaalis.

Qarxiska ka dhaaf igaarka. By the way, Iitob (Etob) restaurant ma tagtay wali?

Read this on the paper the other day. On the newspaper, qofta sawiradeeda driver licence, healthcardka and citizenshipka ku dhaganaa. In a way isku muuqaal jiro uma eko. Probably leenka walaasheed ama qaraabo kale soo siisay baasaboorka ku qarxay u maleynaa, and now the real "Sucaad" dacwoonoyso. Probably. It is sad, though. Is woman held in Kenya who she says she is? If a passport, driver's licence, OHIP card and citizenship certificate are not enough, Suaad Hagi Mohamud is ready to give fingerprints to prove who she is. The Toronto woman jailed in Kenya after being told she no longer looks like her four-year-old passport photo says proving her identity is easy. "When I applied for Canadian citizenship, they took my fingerprints," the Somali-born woman said yesterday by phone from Nairobi, where she is out on bail pending trial. "They can match them." She has already tried to prove her identity using all her other photo ID, plus credit and bank cards as well as a Humber River Regional Hospital user card. Her ex-husband, 12-year-old son, dozens of neighbours and her local MP – former immigration minister Joe Volpe – have all vouched for her in Toronto. But the Canadian government does not believe her. Last week, Ottawa issued a single terse sentence: "Following an extensive investigation, officials at the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi have determined that the individual arrested by Kenyan authorities is not Ms. Suaad Mohamud Hagi." For reasons stubbornly not explained, a doubt raised by a Kenyan airport official as the woman prepared to fly home after a visit has somehow escalated into Canada's rejection of her identity. Canadian officials have refused to answer questions central to the mystery: Is the real Suaad Mohamud missing? Who is the arrested woman? Why does Canada disbelieve her story? Why can't fingerprints be taken? In the sole departure from the official line, Canadian High Commission first secretary Liliane Khadour last night requested a meeting tomorrow, Mohamud phoned yesterday to report, though the purpose of the meeting was not explained. The stranded woman was preparing to leave Kenya on May 17 after a two-week visit with her mother. Airport officials stopped her, jailed her and after eight days released her when a friend posted $2,500 (U.S.) bail. African-born travellers commonly offer airport officials money to avoid hassles, a practice that might explain her problems, Mohamud said in one of several phone interviews this week. "I am Canadian and I refused." But Nairobi police also stop people on the street to inspect identification papers, expecting a bribe, she said. "Since I got out of jail, I have been stopped seven times and I have paid every time." Frustration among Toronto Somali immigrants over the case is mounting, said Kawnayn Hussein, host of the popular Somali-language weekly radio show Midnimo (Unity) on AM530. "I told my listeners, `This could happen to you.'" Toronto friends recognize the phone voice from Nairobi as genuine and fear either jail in Kenya or deportation to Somalia, said Shukri Abdi, a neighbour who agreed to look after Mohamud's son for two weeks and is still caring for him after nine weeks. "I can bring together 50 people to identify her," Abdi said. "She is outgoing. She has a job (at an ATS courier warehouse). Everybody knows her." Kenyan high commission officials in Ottawa did not return repeated calls over two days. Toronto Star

Any war ka bilowdo "ma dhabaa..." badanaaba sheeko kutiri kuteen waaye.

Wixii dhanba waa soo aruurisee, waxba ma u reebin. Banaanka hala iskeeno ama anaa ku keenaayo mee maroysaa sheekada?

Eternal Moonwalk is one such cool site dedicated to him.

Mar mar waxaa isdhaheysaa Soomaalida ku fiicneyd inay xad la wadaagaan dal Shiinaha camal ah. Markaas ogaan lahaayeen micnaha dal iyo dad madaxbanaan qiimaha ee leedahay. Dadkaan iyo kuwa lamid ah ee dal madaxbanaan la'aanta heyso, sida Tamils, Tibetans, Reer Kurdish and Karen people of Myanmar ayaa og qiimaha dalkaaga iyo dadkaaga xoriyadooda wada dhameystiran leedahay. I like their flag. It is the closest flag to ours.

Dugsigaas la dhisaayo asagaa ka qeyb lahaa qaaraan aruurintiisa, oo dadaal ugu jirayba. Soomaali wax walba si meel kale u micneeyaan, una badalaan. Runtiis waaye sida aan u maleeyo sababta u diiday loogu magacdaro ugu wacan tahay in uu yahay qof nool. Badanaa adduunka meelaha looguma magacdaro dadka nool, dadka tagay ayaa loogu magacdaraa heybad ahaan. Kaliya dadka xukunka jecel kaligiitaliyaasha isku magacaabo ama iskugu waco meelaha iyagoo nool. Waxa magaalada Ottawa habeenimadii Jimcaha ee taariikhdu aheyd 21 Nofeembar (ee) 2008 ka dhacay kulan kaalmo (fundraising) loogu ururinayay dugsi ay wax ku bartaan ardey ka soo jeeda beelaha la heybsooco oo ku yaala magaalada Hargeysa . Kulanka oo uu marti ku ahaa kuna yimi codsi dadweyne awgii halabuurka caanka ah ee Soomaaliyeed Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame Hadraawi ayaa waxa ka soo qeybgalay qeybaha kala gedisan ee bulshada Soomaaliyeed ee ku dhaqan magaalada Ottawa ee caasimada dalka Canada. Xigasho

Ninka qoray buuggaan hebel Oromo ayaa la dhahaa u maleynaa. Maxaa ka jiro, inteena iska galaan dadkaas, koley naaneys wax ka dambeyso jirtee.

Aboow aboow, Wiilo wadaad noqotay miyaana qoftaan. Ar soo mood abaayadiis. Xaa noo keentay hadiyad ah? Califalaaxyo?

You left out Abdi Qaybdiid and many others? Cabdi Cawaale Qeybdiid ma degno Ingiriiska, sharcina kuma laha xagaas. See camal idinka. Abwaan iyo Bilan, kala gambista aqiyaarta see waaye. Ismaandhaaf iyo isafgaranwaa waa dhacaa.

Oromadii iyo xulafadooda Soomaali Aboow (Boorana iyo Reer Diinle) dhan dhulkooda laga booday. NFD saas uma balaarneen qaarad dhul ahaan.

...overfilled, clogged with qashin, more qashin and qashin in the city's garbage bins. Qashin collectors are in shaqojoojin, striking since Juun 22nd. Darn, magaaladii qorxooneyd qashin aan la arki jirin laga arkaa, especially downtown area.

Abwaan, the sister waxee kugu heysataa you mentioned on the first post those characters who came or rose on the political scene after 2006. However, she didn't get the reason of your naming them -- that those named men live in Ingiriiska and do carry British passports, which this new law might or might not apply to.

Libertarians' dream come true.

Daddy is here maa tiri. Waraa Reer Kanada waa u gaftay.

Soomaaliya ha noolaato. Since the thread is directionless, let everything be so, too.

Bilaal, I know brother. What is even more sad was this fact: our correspondent had to turn back from the town of Wajid this week because, within, a man was being beheaded. A day later, a clan leader was shot dead. This clan leader lost a lug, his leg, the result of '77 war with Xabashis. He was a man who fought and sacrificed for his country and this is what he got from some probably who were born after that war. It is symbolical part that is even more sadder.

Maba quraacan xataa, dagaal lasoo toosay yariisoowgaas. Cadeygiisa meesha ku sitaa afka. Qaabkooda dhan ayaaba ah qaab mööryaan, which they probably were. Wax diin naxariisnimaba kama muuqato qaarkood.

They covered because of the dust iyo busta iyo boorka meesha ee ku noolaayeen, mainly dhulka Carabta oo wada saxarlada ahaa. Same with daraawiisthii Sayidka. Not with those wadaad ku sheega ee Dhalinta la baxay. Last time I knew Xamar bus iyo waxaas kuma arki jirin. Again, those who covered then foolkooda ma qarin jirin.