" If you want to be a government, you have to behave like a government " Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times JOWHAR, Somalia -- Five months old and weighing less than 10 pounds, Shukri Mohammed stretched her tiny mouth to scream Tuesday when a health worker measured her limp arm for malnutrition. But scarcely a sound escaped from the baby’s throat, and she sank back exhausted into her mother’s arms. It’s been a struggle since the day Shukri was born. The next morning, her mother walked three days to escape shelling in Mogadishu that recently had killed her husband. Now settled with her mother in a displacement camp in Jowhar, north of Mogadishu, Shukri is likely to die quickly unless admitted to a hospital. As attention focuses on the Darfur region of Sudan, Somalia is quietly disintegrating into Africa’s worst humanitarian emergency, according to experts. Last week, United Nations Emergency Coordinator John Holmes said that conditions in Somalia had eclipsed those in Darfur and Chad as the most pressing African humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition and disease are soaring here amid political insecurity and a string of natural disasters, including flooding and drought. With many Western charities afraid to work in the dangerous country, the transitional government is struggling to cope but lacks experience and funding. Recently, aid groups complain, the government exacerbated the crisis by attempting to tax incoming humanitarian assistance, setting up roadblocks that hinder food deliveries and even intimidating charities and the displaced by accusing them of supporting terrorists. About 350,000 Somalis remain refugees from fighting earlier this year in Mogadishu between government soldiers, supported by thousands of Ethiopian troops, and an insurgency consisting of anti-government clans and Islamist fighters. About 1.5 million people require humanitarian aid, an increase of 50 percent in recent months. Malnutrition rates are skyrocketing. About 17 percent of children nationwide, or 83,000, are malnourished, according to UNICEF. Some 13,500 children, including Shukri, are so severely malnourished they are at risk of starvation. After 16 years of civil war and clan fighting, Somalis are accustomed to hardship. There hasn’t been a fully functioning government since 1991. But the displacement crisis and natural disasters are pushing the emergency to a new level and into new areas. Jowhar had long been an island of stability and agricultural prosperity in southern Somalia. Now, the nation’s breadbasket requires food assistance itself for the first time since a nationwide famine from 1991 to 1993. Nearly 8,700 children are at risk of starvation, according to UNICEF. “Around here we’ve never seen this,” said Owliyo Moalim, 44, a mother of five, as she lined up Monday with hundreds of other local woman to receive a World Food Program distribution of corn, beans and oil. Her family used to harvest crops every three months. But consecutive floods have prevented harvesting since October 2005, she said. Somalia is also paying the price of years of anarchy, some residents said. In the village of Boodle, south of Jowhar, children escaped the heat Tuesday by splashing in a giant lake. But the newly created lake sits atop the flooded ruins of the town’s crops, immersed two months ago when the banks of the Shabelle River overflowed after years of neglect and erosion. “We tried to maintain the banks, but it requires bulldozers and tractors,” said Hamdi Musei Osman, chief of the village. “When we had a government, they would do it. But we can’t do it ourselves.” More than 22 villages, with about 8,000 people, have been affected . With food running out, many children show early signs of malnutrition, including swollen limbs and orange-tinted hair. Fifteen have been hospitalized in the past month for malnutrition, Osman said. The stagnant water is also causing a surge in malaria, which has killed nine villagers in the past two months. Government officials say they are overwhelmed. After seizing control of Mogadishu in December from an alliance of Islamist leaders, officials have struggled to maintain control. Though regional administrations and federal ministries have been established, they lack funding, equipment and experience. “We don’t have the power and the resources to manage this kind of crisis,” said Qamar Adan Ali, Somalia’s health minister. “We even depend on foreign donors for our salaries.” Critics accuse some government officials of aggravating the problem through such soundly criticized ideas as the tax on humanitarian aid, which was dropped early this year amid protests. Nonetheless, scores of government checkpoints still dot the roads, often charging $500 before allowing food truck or aid vehicles to pass . In recent months, government officials, including Mogadishu’s mayor, were quoted in the local media as complaining that some local charities and aid groups had links to Islamist fighters. Even refugees from Mogadishu’s violence were dismissed as supporting terrorists. After complaints from U.N. officials and a letter from the U.S. E mbassy, Somali officials have softened their rhetoric. But experts say the government must do more to welcome and accommodate foreign aid groups. “ If you want to be a government, you have to behave like a government ,” said John Yates, the U.S. special envoy to Somalia. The U.S. has provided $120 million in humanitarian aid to Somalia over the past 12 months. Foreign aid groups also have been slow to respond, according to UNICEF’s Somalia representative Christian Balslev-Olesen. Several well-known charities, both from Western countries and the Arab world, do not maintain operations in Somalia, largely because of the ongoing violence. Last week, a driver for the Somali Red Crescent Society was shot during a hijack by three gunmen. But Balslev-Olesen said the need for additional international aid agencies is critical. “If you had this level of malnutrition in Darfur or anywhere else in the world,” he said, “you would be seeing dozens of (aid groups) all around town.” Back at the displacement camp, UNICEF nutrition coordinator James Kingori gingerly handed Shukri back to her mother and stressed that the baby should be taken immediately to the local hospital. Later he worried whether the mother, who said she had four other children at home, would heed his advice. Attending to a hospitalized infant can sometimes come at a price to the rest of the family, he said. “Sometimes they just wait and hope the baby gets better,” he said. “These are the kinds of choices mothers are having to make.”

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Originally posted by Tagsiile: LOL Everyone in here are a bunch of goody-goody's. I've tried almost everything under the sun(before I became Muslim, of course) and I think that's part of what turned me away from khat. I was told "Have you ever tried this stuff? It's great!! It keeps you up all night and you want to talk more, and it gives you more energy, and blah blah blah.... and to top it all off, it's Halal!!!!! ". So finally the day came when i found out a friend of ours had some jaad, and he invited us over. I was like "All right!! I'm gonna get mirqaan!!! I was all excited because I'd never tried this thing before. But I was extremely disappointed when I tried it. It was disgusting, and I didn't really feel anything(I thought I was gonna get high or something LOL). But it turned out I was chewing it wrong and I was swallowing it as well, not supposed to do that, apparently. But I didn't learn my lesson because I did it about 6 or 7 times after that. Oh well, at least I never had to pay for it...... I think you need a little background about jaad and its effects. Jaad, unlike other drugs, needs certain time span to be consumed or chewed or otherwise the leaves' juice will try out within days. A one who chews the leaves when it is few days old does not experience the same effect the one who did chew when it was fresh off from the soil. That is why the banana peels are wrapped on it, to prolong its freshness. The jaad that gets into Kanada or Mareykanka [uS] is usually certain days old, some even upto ten days old, after passing its routes from Holland, then to UK and then its secret travelling to North America. That is where your bitter taste and least effect you got it from since it was probably some days old. Jaad also has three kinds: Laari, gisa and gaangeeti. Gisa is the most expensive, the shortest and with the most juice. I know this, despite and although growing up a household where my abtis and older brothers and other male relatives chewed jaad almost daily in Nairobi in the idle days of sponsor-waiting of early '90s, yet it had never occured to me to taste one leaf, even when I saw my childhood friends from Xamar who started chewing it in Nairobi in their early teenhoods. About jaad being 'xalaal," I don't think any sane Soomaali believes that. It is a drug after all, as mild as it is. However, some Soomaalis at the same time do think jaad is a social habit, just a little rank above sigaar. Comparing jaad to cannabis or marijuana or xashiish, it is unfortunate. Jaad is not that advanced drug. It may give to those who chew a mild euphoria or it might shut the talkative, while it looses up the quiet one -- still jaad iyo marijuana iskuma dhawo. Jaad never fully alters one's mind, the maanka. The chewer is always aware his surroundings. Some say balwad waa loo dhashaa ee la iskama dhigo; I think I might believe it since jaad, sigaar, clubbing, et cetera, never attracted to me in my boyhood and I don't think it will into my adulthood now. I have lived here Kanada and Mareykanka more than a decade, I have yet to set a foot at a club, especially considering I was a teen when I came to North America.

10th Day.

The last editorial cartoon by Amiin Caamir needs that famous soundtrack from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly's one of its film scores. Dharara dhararan dhararaaaaaaaaaaan Dhiriri dhii dhiid dhiiiiiiiin We have both the 'ugly' and the 'bad' in that political cartoon. Kalint Istuud's the 'good' is missing, though.

I remembered another speech at the United Nations last year this time around. Where were the Xabashi stooge's speechwriters when he was at the Qaramadda Midooway last year where the old stooge embarrassingly pronounced the words such as nature as "natuur" [as a Soomaali-sound]? They should have helped him by inserting Soomaali pronunciations as a transliteration "neyjar," as that American buffoon seems quite helped at. Natuur kulahaa, balaayo ku tuurtay. He also embarrassed himself again at the Jaamacadda Carabta [Carab League] meeting last year, where he opened his speech in his halting Ingiriis, which was an ultimate political faux pas. There were dumbfounded looks around. Siyaad Barre's Carabi, in those kinds of meeting, was not that good either, but he had helpers who transliterated the Carabi words into Soomaali, so one can easily read and Carab heads of states present would never know.

Bush's UN Speech Full of Fone-eh-tick Pronunciations for World Leaders Never before has the White House released a draft version of the President's speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly. But this year, a glimpse of how the President sees his speeches was accidentally placed on the UN website along with the speechwriters' cell phone numbers. Pronunciations for President Bush's friend French President Sarkozy "[sar-KOzee]" appeared in draft #20 on the UN website. Other pronunciations included the Mugabe "[moo-GAHbee] regime" and pronunciations for countries "Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan]" and "Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]." Most leaders submit a text in advance, especially to help the many translators who simultaneously turn the speeches into more than half a dozen languages. The teleprompter also needs to be loaded with a copy of the President's words so it will appear on glass screens in front of the lectern. The Bush White House is unaccustomed to providing advanced texts suitable for reporters to publish before he actually speaks. During an afternoon briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said, "there was an error made in trying to make sure that interpreters had what they needed. I don't know how the draft of the speech -- it was not final -- was posted, but it was, and it was taken down." Perino said it was "not unusual" to include phonetic spellings for various countries in the speech though when asked if the president had a hard time pronouncing some of those country names Perino declined comment saying, "I think that's an offensive question." The White House also added that no one has called the speech writers' cell phones. ABC News

Compare the stooges to C/qaasin, who is eligible. ------------ Who is up for Africa's $5m prize? Mark Doyle BBC News The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is next month due to award over $5m to the former African head of state adjudged to have demonstrated exemplary leadership. The presidential prize is aimed at encouraging best practice. The lucky recipient of what the organisers call "the world's biggest prize" will be named on 22 October. The winner will then be paid the $5m in tranches over a period of 10 years, with a further $200,000 for life thereafter. The international panel of judges includes former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, former Irish President Mary Robinson and the respected ex-Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. All 13 African heads of state or government who left office between 2004 and 2006 are eligible for the cash prize - including, perhaps surprisingly, the former transitional president of war-torn Somalia . Others in the running include the former presidents of: Benin - Mathieu Kerekou Mozambique - Joaquim Chissano Tanzania - Benjamin Mkapa Seychelles - France-Albert Rene These candidates could advance a claim to have behaved well. Mr Kerekou, for example, was the first mainland African head of state to have allowed free multiparty elections - and to have then stood down when he lost. Mr Chissano played a key role in ending the war in Mozambique. Mr Mkapa kept Tanzania on a relatively stable political course despite unrest in neighbouring countries. And Mr Rene also looks a strong contender, with Seychelles ranked as one of Africa's best governed states. Tempation Curiously, the late military strongman of Togo, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who died in office, is also on the list of possible recipients. A spokesman for the Mo Ibrahim Foundation stressed that the list was a "long list" of all the former heads of state or government and not a "shortlist" chosen by the prize committee. One of the men named in the "long list", former President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi, told me through a trusted contact that he did not think he qualified for the prize because he does not want to be an "ex-president". Mr Muluzi intends to stand for office again - and is currently engaged in a controversial political and legal battle to do so. A senior diplomat posted to Malawi told me Mr Maluzi's new bid for power had caused "political deadlock". He speculated that the prize raises the fascinating possibility that it could end that deadlock by tempting Mr Muluzi into retirement with a handsome pension.

Ma kuwaanaa dowlad ah. I said it before and I will write it again: kuwaan magac dowladeed ayee ku ciyaareen that those stooges are no near anything resembling a dowlad and an institution, whatsoever. Xataa the military junta that rules Burma ayaaba dhaamo, iskaba dhaaf Afgaanistaan, Heyti [Haiti] and Ciraaq, to list a few from those in Soomaaliya's league.

Day 9.

Why did you leave the last paragraph of the article? Is that why you don't sometimes like giving sources? Kamoon. Here is the last paragraph you left out: "Some analysts say Somaliland does not want stability in Mogadishu but without a proper referendum it is highly improbable that Somaliland can gain recognition. Yet with the transitional government in Mogadishu being dominated by Puntland supporters, Somaliland does not expect neutrality and negotiation to come from Mogadishu TFG officials." You didn't like some words in there, I see.

Didn't know Kashafa in uu ahaa nin shirba. Haddaaba fahantay geeraarkaan nin halis Afsoomaaligiis loo gali karin ayaa tahay.

Originally posted by -: Kaalaya sheeko aroos kama dhaashiin miyaa? The whole forum is inundated with threads about kusbands, wives, relationships,marriage,etc. What's about the end of summer that got everyone excited? Some are still in qooq season nooh, hence the constant threads about those subjects. Markana summer too wali ma dhamaan ee dhaaf dadka hakaa baashaalaan. I had never seen in a late Siteember days being this hot as it was today.

Oobis, I didn't realize she did edit. Raali noqo, Keyf. I should edit mine. Kuusha, gabadha wey xishooday ee ka daba daa waxaa ka daba wadid. Not many of us are that brave to publically admit the vanities of youth some did. I did give that to our sister, Keyf.

Ciidamada Itoobiya iyo kuwa dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya ayaa maanta [siteember 24] baaritaan ku saameeyey xarunta Jaamacada Muqdisho oo ku taala inta u dhexeysa qabuuraha Barakaat iyo iyo Isgoyska Carafaat ee wadada warshadaha xilli ay halkaasi waxbarasho uga socotay arday aad u fara badan oo duruus kala duwan halkaasi ku qaadaneysay. Ciidamada DF oo iyagu ku hormaray gelitaanka gudaha Jaamacada Muqdisho ayaa galay fasalada iyo qeybaha kala duwan ee Jaamacadaasi ay ka kooban tahay oo xiligaasi ay ku sugnaayeen arday aad u fara badan iyo xubno ka tirsan maamulka Jaamacadaasi, waxayna ciidamada oo circa u ridayey rasaas argagax gelisay ardayda jaamacadaasi ee gudaha ku jirtay oo waxbarashadoodii ay hakad gashay maanta intii uu howlgalkaasi socday, waxayna amar ku bixinayeen in loo furo meel walba oo xiran taasoo keentay in la jebiyo qolal ka mid ah xarunta Jaamacadaasi oo xirnaa furayaashoodana ay hayeen xubno xiligaasi ka maqnaa oo ka tirsan maamulka Jaamacadda. Ciidamada DF ayaa ardayda Jaamacadaasi ku sugneyd ka urursaday telefoono mobile ah oo ay heysteen iyo qalab kale, kuwaasoo ay ka buuxsadeen kiishash ay wateen, waxaana arinta la yaabka leh ee halkaasi ka dhacday ay aheyd markii ciidamada DF ay ka baxeen Jaamacadda ayaa ciidamadii Itoobiyaanka ahaa ee dibeda joogay ay ka soo qaadeen telefoonadii iyo alaabadii kale, iyagoo dibna ugu soo celiyey ardaydii laheyd ee gudaha ku jirtay taasoo ka yaabisay ardayda . Sii wado aqriska ------------- Mooryaaan aan xishood, damiir bini'aadenimo iyo ixtiraam toona lahayn kii u dhiibtay inay wax maamulaan ka gardaran. Xataa heer Xabashadii ka xishoodsiiyaan gaareen. Xabashadii ayaaba la yaaban. Waxaas ayaa Soomaali sheeganaayo. Disgusted.

Where is 'art'? Mention Range Resources in a thread and 'art' will be there in a supersonic speed. It also seems on SOL, a certain other individual will only surface out from the lurking, in order just to defend the indefensible Cadde Muuse. It seems a bit tad of being a cult worship. He doesn't care whatever else happens in Bari or Soomaaliya, but the corrupt Cadde Muuse u daran difaacidiisa.

Originally posted by Keyf: :eek: :eek: :eek: -------------- Originally posted by Kool_Kat: Me too... I never tired it... You never got tired of jaad? WaaaW. Meeqa marduuf ayaa cuntaana maalintii? Just pulling your leg, I know it was a typo. So, who else is going to admit something? Well, let me confess as well nooh. I once tried eating cambuulo with caanoboore.

They stole my brother's shoes in Dubai airport's masaajid last week. He slept in that little masaajid while he was waiting his flight. Haka saarto, dacas uu ugu degay garoonka diyaaradaha ee Copenhagen ee Denmark on his way back.

I am deeply saddened by hearing this. Of all capable, choosing Indhamadoowe and of all posts, giving him the senior and prominent post of "difaaca/gaashaandhiga" very unfortuante. I thought by now the leadership in Maxkamadaha have learned a valuable lesson. The influence, it seems, is two-fold: Boiling pressure by Korneel Daahir Aweys behind the closed doors and Indhamadoowe's supposed presence in Muqdisho. He is assumed to be in Xamar and in charge qaraxyadda ka dhacaaya meeshaas, along with Ceyroow. Many capable men are available and were -- and still are -- at their disposal, men the likes of Korneel Cumar Xaashi Aaden or even Jen. Jaamac Max'ed Qaalib. They are at least military experienced men and much less controversial. They are also eloquent speakers and political mature men aan hadalka ku deg degin. All those isqabqabsi ka socday meeshaas the last couple days must have related to Indhamadoowe. I am sure many kasoo horjeeday his nomination meesha joogay. If they had the need to satisfy Indhamadoowe's sub-clan tol, they could have had many capable men from that tol, I am sure. Heck, give it to Jen. Galaal.

Don't call Max'uud Axmediinajad a nut, crackpot, Rudy. He says as he sees. And I like him in that style of his, same with Chavez of Venezuela. I got and watched a partial part before I went to work today at his speech at Columbia University live on Aljasiira English today; it was much interesting. Tough questions were they asking him, but not giving what they wanted to hear, even some getting frustrated and booing. Many others applaused incessantly and cheered his jokes and evading answers.

Acuudi bilaahi ... Ma Soomaali ayaa saan wax u qoraayo? Such a fiery hatred and ardent animosity. Bisinka iyo murdaha. Eebboow. Waxaa laga dhadhansan karaa qoraalka oo isleedahay dadkaan -- waa kan qoray suu Soomaalida isdileyso u arkee -- waa dadka kala jaad iyo isir ah, oo naceyb weyn qarniyaal jiray inay ka dhaxeyso, not dad isdhalay, isla dhashay, isku af, diin iyo dhaqan ah. Falastiin iyo Yahuudba saan mar mar iskuma necba. Shuud.

The 8th Day of Shabeelle being off the air.

Cutubyo ka tirsan ciidamada DF oo xalay fariisimo cusub ka sameystay meelo ka mid ah Muqdisho iyo qaar dadkii ay soo ag dageen ka mid ah oo bilaabay iney barakacaan Ciidamo ka tirsan dowladda federaallka Soomaaliya oo wata noocyada kala duwan ee gaadiidka dagaalka iyo tuute isugu jira milateri iyo boolis ayaa fiidnimadii xalay fariisimo cusub ka sameystay qeybo ka mid ah magaalada caasimada ah ee Muqdisho, iyadoo qaar ka mid ah dadkii degenaa xaafadihii ay soo ag dageena ay bilaabeen iney guryahooda ka barakacaan. Goobaha ay xalay fariisimida ka sameysteen ciidamada DF ayaa waxaa ka mid ah meel u dhexeysa Isgoyska Aadan cadde iyo xarunta madaxtooyada Vila Somalia ee magaalada Muqdisho, gaar ahaan agagaarka halka loo yaqaano Suuq Sacuudi ee degmada Wardhiigley, waxaana ciidamadaasi ay ku faafeen xaafadaha iyagoo gaaray ilaa Geed Jaceyl iyo nawaaxiga masaajidka Cabdalla iyo Cowreere ee isla degmadaasi. Sidoo kale, Ciidamada dowladda federaalka ayaa fariisin cusub ka sameystay gudaha Ex-xaruntti taliska ciidanka Cirka Soomaaliyeed (Afisiyooni) oo ku taala degmada Waaberi ee magaalada Muqdisho, kuwaasoo soo galay, isla markaana xalay gaaf wareegayey qeybo mid ah degmadaasi gaar ahaan wadada Via Liberia oo iyadu ah goob habeenkii si aad ah loo soo camiro uuna ka jiro dhaqdhaqaaq ganacsi oo aad u xoog badan, waxaana dadkii halkaas joogay iyo kuwii kale ee meheradaha ganacsi ku lahaa oo aan arki jirin ciidamadan faraha badan ay bilaabeen iney dhaqso goobahasi ka kala tagaan, waxaana qaar ka mid ah dadkan deegaankaasi ay sheegeen in falal isugu jira dhac iyo baarashaba ay kula kaceen ciidamadan, ayna ka qaateen waxyaabo kala duwan sida Mobilo iyo lacago yar yar oo ay jeebka ku siteen. Ciidamadan fariisimada ka sameystay qeybo ka mid ah degmooyinka Waaberi iuyo Wardhiigley ee magaalada Muqdisho ayaa khal khal iyo cabsi fara badan ku abuuray dadka ku dhaqan goobaha ay soo dageen, kuwaasoo qaarkood bilaabay saaka iney ka barakacaan goobahaasi, iyagoo ka cabsi qaba iney waxyeelo ka soo gaarto haddii ciidamadaasi ay soo weeraraan kooxaha ka soo horjeeda oo had iyo jeer bartilmamaeedsada ciidamada, lamana oga ilaa hadda sababaha rasmiga ah ee keenay in ciidamadan ay goobahaasi degaan, iyadoo aysan jirin wax war ah oo arintaasi ku saabsan oo ka soo baxay Dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya. Tixraac ------------- They are cancer virus ah waliba. Meeshee u dhawaadaanba, fariisimo ka dhigtaanba, maasaakiinta u agdhaw ka cararaayo, ka qaxaayo.

What is the first post about? News article? Editorial piece? Opinion comment?

Everything, ka ahayn cibaadaadda, is useless in this ever-obsessed, ever-increasing materialist world. At the end of the day, godkaas ayaa ku sugaayo: Adiga iyo Eebbahaaga. Higher, postsecondary educations in Western society has become a business -- the more enrolment a university or a college has, the better the tuition or government-funding or grants are for the institution. Dad badan ayaa nool jaamacadaad waligood cag dhigin, and doing much, much better than dad badan aan arkay jaamacadooda kasoo baxay, with debts Eebba knows see ku bixin doonaan, plus the ribadda ku socoto.