This is the exact model replica both Jubba Airways and Daallo Airlines use from Dubai to Xamar and other destinations. I don't see any modern about it. The problem is exacerbated by the fact they overhaul with business merchandizes and deliberately leave passengers' luggages out in Dubai for a week minimum or even worse, a month or sometimes even lost. I had seen at Jubba Airline's headquarters luggages collecting dust because dadkii lahaa long ago ka samray when they did not bring and got back wherever they were visiting from. Who knows they eventually iska qaataan those baggages. Mine? It took ten days, which forced me to wear only the two t-shirts I luckily had on the carry-on small bag. No barfuun; no deodorant; nothing. Without those and living, you can imagine, kuleelka Xamar.

Wasaarada Awqaafta iyo arrimaha diinta ee DF oo Muqdisho ka soo saartay wareegto lagu mamnuucayo furnaashaha goobaha ganacsiga xiliga salaada Jimcaha Muqdisho - August 15 - Wareegto maanta ka soo baxday wasaarada awqaafta iyo arrimaha diinta ee dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya ayaa lagu mamnuucay in goobaha ganacsigu ay furnaadaan inta lagu jiro tukashada salaada Jimcaha wixii ka bilowda Jimcaha fooda inagu soo haya ee taariiikhdu ku beegan tahay 17-ka bishan Ogost sanadka 2007-da. Sida ku xusan wareegtadan oo uu ku saxiixnaa agaasimaha guud ee wasaarada awqaafta iyo arimaha diinta ee xukuumada Soomaaliya Sheekh Cali Sheekh Max'uud (Sheekh Cali Dheere) go'aankan fulintiisa ayaa waxaa u xilsaaran ciidanka dowladda Hoose iyo kan booliskan ee ku kala sugan gobolada iyo degmooyinka guud ahaan dalka, waxaana looga codsaday shacabka Soomaaliyeed iney u dhega nugladaan go'aankaasi. "Go'aankan lagu mamnuucay iney furnaadaan goobaha ganacsiga xiliga la tukanayo Salaada Jimcaha maahan mid ay wasaaradu soo saartay ee mid uu horeyba ALLE ugu amray quraankiisa kariimka anaguna waxaanu nahay oo kaliya kuwo fulinaya awaamiirta ALLE" ayuu yiri agaasimaha guud ee wasaarada awqaafta iyo arimaha diinta ee xukuumada Soomaaliya Sheekh Cali Sheekh Max'uud (Sheekh Cali Dheere) oo ka hadlayey waregtadaasi ka soo baxday xafiiskiisa. Xigasho -------------- Sheekh Cali Dheere, ciyaal badan oo baahi wax u dhacay ama u xaday ayuu gacanta ka gooye in mid '90s in Waqooyiga Muqdisho oo xiligaas lahaa Shareecadda ayaa lagu dhaqmaa in uu maanta Xabasho wax ee soo dhoob dhoobtay u adeego, haddana leh Shareeco ayaan raacayaa, see wax ka noqotay ma'ogi sheekha. Ila qosol iga dheh. Mise waaba igu qosol?

Anybody who diyaaradaas qaraabka iyo qatiimka Ruushka raacay, both rakaabka iyo midka xaamuulkaba Eebbaa u maqan. Walaahi nafta ayaa afka kusoo istaageyso. I still remember middaan Xamar u raacay a few years ago by Jubba Airways. The freakin' thing's wing biyo ayaa ka socday. It was leaking water -- and we only knew it was water because it didn't dry fast, otherwise it could have been gas -- the whole flight. And when this shactiroole guy I asked with the seats asked the lone Soomaali [well, he had a Russian helper] 'flight attendant' what is going on. His reaction was, I still can't believe it indha adeygnimadiis: Nothing. And if it the leaking of the water bothers us, we should close the window. The Russian 'hostess' tried to reason finally, saying in English something like "maalintuu qofka tiisa soo gisho, none celin karo." Probably learned from many other islaamo that used the plane before. Oh, maan, the shactiroole guy majaajilo uuba galay. "Hadda lee soo aroosee see u dhimanaa? Maya, maya. Xataa hal jiil magaceey wato wali ma dhalan. Ma jirto, ma soconeyso." Those old airplanes are accidents waiting to happen. And I am sure the tolerance by the Emirate's authorities will be gone the day one crashes into sea, in Dubai or even in Soomaaliya. Soomaali iyo investment iskumaba fiicna. They can't even buy the darn thing, still leasing from the Russian [actually many of them are from the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, etc] pilots who still own the old planes.

Anybody who diyaaradaas qaraabka iyo qatiimka Ruushka raacay, both rakaabka iyo midka xaamuulkaba Eebbaa u maqan. Walaahi nafta ayaa afka kusoo istaageyso. I still remember middaan Xamar u raacay a few years ago by Jubba Airways. The freakin' thing's wing biyo ayaa ka socday. It was leaking water -- and we only knew it was water because it didn't dry fast, otherwise it could have been gas -- the whole flight. And when this shactiroole guy I shared seats with asked the lone Soomaali [well, he had a Russian helper] 'flight attendant' what is going on. His reaction was, I still can't believe indha adeygnimadiis: Nothing. And if the leaking of the water bothers us, we should close the window. The Russian 'hostess' tried to reason finally, saying in English something like "maalintuu qofka tiisa soo gisho, none celin karo." Probably learned from many other islaamo that used the plane before. Oh, maan, the shactiroole guy majaajilo uuba galay. "Hadda lee soo aroosee see u dhimanaa? Maya, maya. Xataa hal jiil magaceey wato wali ma dhalan. Ma jirto, ma soconeyso." Those old airplanes are accidents waiting to happen. And I am sure the tolerance by the Emirate's authorities will be gone the day one crashes into sea, in Dubai or even in Soomaaliya. Soomaali iyo investment iskumaba fiicna. They can't even buy the darn thing, still leasing from the Russian [actually many of them are from the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, etc] pilots who still own the old planes.

Who knows this woman maanakoobiyo kasoo fakatay? Your help is urgently needed and if you do know her, baliis call 1-800-Balaaya. Or 1-888-Ibtilo. Or 1-877-Qumayo. Buljiga qurxoon aa i dilay. Walaahi once again, time is indeed amazing.

An unfortunately misplaced ads at unintended places.

Maxee dhahooyaana Xabashiinta? Bahalka codbaahiyaha ayaa iga haleysan oo ma maqli kari codkooda.

According to credible information Washington is training, through a third country, five thousand strong naval forces for a landlocked Ethiopia! Since the latter lacks access to sea, its new navy must be earmarked to permanently remain and operate in Somali coast line territorial waters and its ports of call, which can also threaten Eritrea and other Red Sea littoral states. A so-called Ethiopian own merchant navy vessel (sic) has recently made its first test call at Berbera port in north Somalia, which has already come under de facto Ethiopian hegemony. Mudane Jaamac Max'ed Qaalib recently alleged that in an article. I believe Md. Jaamac's assertions wholeheartedly. I have to believe. Xabashi have had a long-term, sinister agenda about Soomaaliya for a long time, primarily it to remain a lot more weaker and for an easier access to the sea they can control ever since they've officially lost the Eritrean ports in 1993. It is more urgent now. And they have a huge chance to accomplish that today since they occupy the country, from gees to gees. Any Soomaali who doubts that wax aan ku dhaho ayaa iska yar. Only haka shaleyn maalintee rumowda. I don't even think some ka shaleyn doono, some will cheerfully u alalalaasi doono even if that happens because, believe it or not, they would, in one way or another, reason a distant stooge uncle of theirs will be the managing man of the port that Xabashi's navy will occupy. That will be enough for them, even if the whole country is a sold piece by piece.

She looks like gabadhaan, too. Maan, she had changed a lot.

This is a moderated forum. Again, isafxumeyn looma dulqaadan karo, gentlemen.

More.

The pictures are not photoshopped. They are authentic and real. The reason planes are so low is because the landing strip is short, especially for the larger superplanes. The more a bigger a plane is, the lower it gets at the beach before it lands. That particular beach is more known as plane watching, that is why the folks at the beach are always watching the planes with cameras ready and not in the water swimming. Thousands airplane enthuisiasts go to that world renown island [st. Maarten/St. Martin] just to watch planes landing so low and taking-off so steep. This is the landing strip pilots see shortly before they land their planes. As you can, it is very short, which requires a lot more manoeuvre for bigger jumbo planes. From inside the passengers' window.

On July 6, Puntland's minister of fisheries, Said Mohamed Rage, told parliament that Garowe has the authority to sign deals with "foreign partners" and that " Puntland owns its coastal resources " and will continue to do so until there is a " referendum on federalism ." Rage's comment marked an assertion of sovereignty that throws into doubt Puntland's commitment to reintegration with southern Somalia within the terms of a reconciliation process. :confused: :confused: :confused: Sir u degnayd uu qarxiye yaah atoorahaas?

Welkam, duqa, oo soo dhaaf. Shaah cab. How is Oslo? Baraf maa wali ka da'aayo? Someone should move this thread to the General section.

Waaba la daba qabsan kartaa diyaaradahaan ka warama. -------------- All these sawiro were taken in the tiny Caribbean island of St. Maarten [the Dutch part, Netherlands Antilles].

A Khaliiji -- especially an Iimaaraadi -- complaining about racism? Hundreds of thousands of Hindis, Bakistaanis and Reer Bangladesh in inta la keeno waaye haka dhiibtaan aragtidooda and overt racism, discrimination and intimidation in Iimaaraadka that they experience daily.

Front page Toronto Star ayuu ku yaalay today marxuumka. Eebba ha u wada naxariisto labadda marxuun mar labaad.

Chillin' banana. Bananaphone. Eeymoos.

Viking, then what we have is four homicides, not four suicides as authorities previously thought. Reportedly, an investigation is under way. Waa arkeynaa wixii kasoo baxo.

Waa magaalo madaxdaada Xabashi heysato. You, as every decent damiirnimo iyo daljecelnimo Soomaali ku jirto should be expected from, should prepare to do what you can to liberate Xamar, xuduntii Soomaaliyeed -- be it af, gacan or hanti. You should do that instead of asking su'aal jees jeesto ah.

LoL @ buruuko. I can't stand that thing. I am glad vast, overwhelming majority of beautiful Soomaalis ladies do not wear that ugly piece at all. Keep that natural hair beauty on.

Somalia: Brave new airwaves [The National - Feb. 17, 2004] Somalia is a country with no government, no apparent help from the outside world. The capital Mogadishu is ruled by warlords, freelance militia, and a lot of guns. But in this chaos is a voice of hope, make that many voices. They come from a nascent radio and television network created by a group of Somali Canadians. They believe giving voice to the people can make a world of difference. A reporter, a cameraman and a gun are the elements needed for a Somali television crew to head out for their day's work. There are a lot of stories to cover on the war-torn streets of Mogadishu and only one way to get the job done. Under the protection of private security forces, hired gunmen. It's a holiday in Somalia and the TV crew is assigned to go into the marketplace and gauge the public mood. This is a light story, but no one lets their guard or their gun down. While the reporter learns about bargains in men's shorts, someone else in the crowd expresses his opinion of the media-with a gunshot. The critic isn't sure he's got the message across, so he fires again. Trying to produce fair and objective media coverage in a country shattered by civil war and controlled by warlords seems almost impossible, but that's exactly what Horn Afrik Radio and Television is trying to do. It's the brainchild of three Somali Canadians who came home to give a voice to ordinary people. Operating out of a secure compound, Horn Afrik broadcasts over one television and two radio stations. It also transmits BBC and Voice of America programs. Ahmed Aden is the program director. He's one of three owners who launched Horn Afrik four years ago, believing the answer to conflict was communication. He went to Canada in 1989, fleeing the breakdown of Somalia. He found a good job working for the city of Ottawa. He bought a house and started to raise a family, but he couldn't forget his homeland. He says he was able to go back into the heart of the danger he had fled only because of the security Canada had given him. "If I was not able to adjust to the life in Ottawa or in Canada, I do not believe I would be able to come back here and do what I'm doing here," Aden says. "In fact, it is that confidence that you gain in Canada that allowed me to come back here and to do to take the level of risk and to do whatever I'm doing." He came home to be the news director in a media business with Canadian ideas. In defiance of Somalia's strict social codes, his employees come from all different clans and include a number of career women, something quite radical for this society. Reporters are dispatched to places where no one goes to help anymore, not even aid workers. On this morning, Horn Afrik investigates the story of a gang rape the night before in one of Mogadishu's many sprawling camps for displaced people. Women and children are consistently the victims of the chaos and anarchy in Somalia. Reporter Mohamed Hassan is one of the few people to ever ask the women what's happening. "She said that we are in fear. Sometimes they come here to rape, sometimes they loot our properties. We are in fear. There is nobody who's going to protect us," Hassan says of his assignment to interview the women. Horn Afrik is very ambitious. In a country without any government, its owners feel they have to do more than just cover the stories. They bring in community activists to help determine what collectively they could do to fix the problems exposed in the news. Ali Sharmarke is another founding owner. He had a good job in the federal Finance Department in Ottawa before he felt compelled to return here. "We see the media as a means to do a social change, and probably I can say now Horn Afrik is one of the best instruments for social change in Somalia ," Sharmarke says. This transmission tower was only half built when the all-powerful warlords tried to take it down. Ironically, it was with help from their own clan that Horn Afrik's owners resisted. But warlords and their gunmen have attacked several times. The most devastating occasion when gunmen murdered Horn Afrik's driver. "We are in the middle of chaotic environment, and all of us through our activities, we are at the risk of getting killed. That's the reality," Sharmarke says. Not everyone has a gun in Somalia, but just about everyone has access to a radio. Horn Afrik reaches a broad audience of Somalis with programs modelled on ones from Canada. "One idea that stuck very strong with me in Canada is the idea of people talking to each other over the radio by phone, people able to call. I listened to all sorts of programs from Rex Murphy to CounterSpin to people talking to each other and people calling," Aden says. Meet Somalia's Rex Murphy. Filistine Imam hosts one of the most popular shows in Mogadishu, an afternoon call-in program where people have the courage to criticize the militias and gunmen who terrorize them. The broadcast is nothing short of subversive. "The two things that work for militia leaders is misinformation and an isolation," Aden says. "So they put you into a group, a camp, and say you are different, you are unique. Your problem is only your problem, and I am the only person that can help you with that. Here you had people talking to each other from different parts of the city, talking about the same issues." In another room, Farah Usef is working the phones for his As It Happens-style program called Today's Events. He's trying to interview warlords to ask them why they are stalling the Somali peace talks. "The call is getting through, but mostly they don't answer. Even if they answer, mostly they speak in a very rude language," Usef says. Usef has all their numbers as he works through his warlord directory. He has only a few hours to put together the show all by himself. So far, no interviews. Aden is more surprised that many warlords do talk to Horn Afrik and some have actually come into the studio. It makes him optimistic. "I can see people's attitudes changing from things that they never thought of yesterday that is possible today, and to me, the most powerful change comes from the mind," Aden says. Technology gives Horn Afrik a reach and a scope that the primitive warmongers of Somalia can never have, but that technology depends on things over which Horn Afrik has no control. For Usef, one of the phone lines is dead, there's only one phone line left and 45 minutes before the show. In the TV studio, an arts and culture show is just ending. They strike the set quickly getting rid of the flowers and the fluff to make way for the evening newscast. Jaytaye Osman Jaytaye is a switcher. When he was a child, he saw his father gunned down. His mother moved him to Canada. He came back here on his own to learn about his country. He was shocked to see the anarchy and destruction here. Horn Afrik is the only place that gives him hope. "You have all these different clans that work, are friends in the same place. Everybody gets along, and that's how Somalia should be, like Horn Afrik, but it's not right now," Jaytaye says. Horn Afrik is the small enterprise with big dreams of infecting Somalia with the values its owners acquired a world away. "What is more important than the education we get from Canada and America is the culture, culture of tolerance," Sharmarke says. "If we, rather than pulling apart and destroying, if we try to bring it [somalia] together and build it, it's more than enough." For 12 years, Somalis have lived in anarchy and violence, a country forgotten and abandoned by the rest of the world. But on the strength of those with the courage to go back, there's hope to talk back the night. Farah Usef finally got his warlord accountability interview. His show made it to air. The night lights up with the free exchange of ideas and a glimmer of hope. The National - CBC

2002 Press Freedom Awards Winners Announced October 3, 2002 -- Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has chosen a Kazakh journalist whose daughter died in police custody and three Somali-Canadians credited with rebuilding an independent media voice in Somalia as winners of this year's International Press Freedom Awards. Ahmed Abdisalam Adan, Mohamed Elmi and Ali Sharmarke, HornAfrik Media Inc. The trio fled the Somali conflict to come to Canada as refugees, winning citizenship and building lives for themselves here - two worked for the Ottawa-Carleton municipal government and the third for the federal Department of Finance. When relative calm returned to Somalia, the trio decided to return to their homeland. In December, 1999, they opened HornAfrik, the first independent radio network in the country. Its journalists - from many clans - have faced constant intimidation and threats in a society where there is no one to protest to, and no protection of press freedom. Co-founder Mohamed Elmi's driver was killed on a trip to North Mogadishu to install transmitting equipment. While it is not confirmed that HornAfrik was a target, it is a nonetheless telling episode. Recently, two of its reporters were also detained. Extreme religious fundamentalists are critical of HornAfrik's international links, particularly its decision to air Somali-language programming from the BBC and Voice of America. Undaunted, HornAfrik continues to air a selection of outside programs. But its biggest contribution has been to create a series of call-in programs that have become immensely popular across the country; every one of the country's warlords has logged at least one appearance on HornAfrik. HornAfrik is a remarkable media-rebuilding success story. Radio Netherlands has reported that "almost everyone listens to HornAfrik ... the station enjoys huge popularity." Prior to the launch of HornAfrik, the only radio stations in Somalia were those owned and operated by individual warlords who used them to propagate their own viewpoints. CJFE

A prominent Somali Canadian journalist was one of two men killed in deliberate attacks in Mogadishu on Saturday, authorities said. Ali Iman Sharmarke, a Canadian citizen, and Mahad Ahmed Elmi, a Somali, had operated Horn Afrik Media Company, a station that has criticized both the government and Islamic militants in Somalia. Reports say Elmi, 30, was shot to death on his way to work. Sharmarke, who was 50, was killed by a remote-controlled landmine as he drove from Elmi's burial. Both men had lived in Ottawa and returned to their native Somalia in December 1999 to help build an independent press. "Sharmarke was returning from the funeral of one of his employees, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who had been shot dead at close range by two gunmen while on his way to work earlier in the day," the CBC's David McGuffin reported from Nairobi. Two other reporters — one working for Reuters, the other for Voice of America — were in the car with Sharmarke and suffered light injuries, Mohamed Ibrahim, a reporter in Mogadishu told the Associated Press. An editor at Sharmarke's radio station told reporters that Sharmarke died from shrapnel wounds to the head. Witnesses said the bomb appeared to target Sharmarke's vehicle, which was in the middle of a convoy. Sharmarke — whose wife and children still live in Ottawa — gave up a federal government job to return to his native Mogadishu , McGuffin said. His aim had been to help rebuild Somalia by developing a free press . "The station was popular for its phone-in shows, but unpopular with the new transitional government," McGuffin said. Horn Afrik has been shut down several times in the past few months over its coverage of violence that has devastated Mogadishu since the transitional government was put into power by the Ethiopian military in January. "Those who don't want peace for Somalia are behind these attacks," said the deputy police commissioner, Abdullahi Hassan Barise. He said the men were targeted because of their jobs at Horn Afrik. "I don't know who was specificially responsible," Mohamed Elmi, who works for Horn Afrik and who was a friend of the two men, told CBC News. "No specific group has claimed responsibility so far, he said. In 2002, the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression honoured both Mahad Elmi and Sharmarke for their work in Somalia. The CJFE noted the dangers facing the men, and all those associated with Horn Afrik. "Its journalists, from many clans, have faced constant intimidation and threats in a society where there is no one to protest to, and no protection of press freedom." Hundreds of thousands of Mogadishu residents have fled fighting in the city since the start of the year. So far this year six journalists have been killed in Somalia. CBC

Two Somali Canadian journalists slain MOGADISHU — Two respected Somali journalists – former refugees in Canada – were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday, the first shot dead outside his office and the other in a blast as he drove back from his slain colleague's funeral. Somali associates of the two HornAfrik journalists expressed outrage, saying both deaths were part of a deliberate campaign against the media. "This wave of killing and injuring media people is an intentionally organized mission to silence journalistic voices in Somalia," the National Union of Somali Journalists said. "We are entirely appalled by these acts." In the first attack, popular talk show host Mahad Ahmed Elmi was shot four times in the head at close range as he neared the door of his office at 7:15 am, colleagues said. "We were outside when four gunmen jumped out," said one colleague, too terrified to reveal his name. "They fired four shots against Mahad's head ... then they just fled," he said at the hospital where Mr. Elmi's body lay. Later, the founder and co-owner of HornAfrik – Ali Iman Sharmarke – died when his four-wheel drive hit an explosive device in the road on his way back from Elmi's funeral. The men came to Canada as refugees from the civil war in Somalia. After some calm returned to the African country, they opened HornAfrik, the first independent radio network in Somalia, in December of 1999. Reuters journalist Sahal Abdulle, next to Mr. Sharmarke at the time of the blast, was lightly injured in the head and face. "We heard a huge, huge explosion. There was smoke everywhere. Ali was in the front, I was sitting right behind him," Mr. Abdulle said of Mr. Sharmarke, who had just brought his wife and children from Canada to Kenya to be nearer to him. "Ali was a good friend. I have known him a long time. He was committed to getting the truth out. He came back from Canada to promote democracy and give Somalis a voice. Today, he paid the ultimate price," Mr. Abdulle added. The journalists' union said the vehicle was targeted. "The National Union of Somali Journalists is outraged by today's assassination of ... Ali Iman Sharmarke, after a vehicle he was riding in was blown up by a remote-controlled mine by unknown assailants," it said in a statement. Neither the union, nor any other Somali sources, pointed a specific finger of blame at either side in the war. Another journalist, Abdihakin Omar Jimale of Radio Mogadishu, was wounded in a gun attack on Friday, the union said, adding the bullet had struck him in the shoulder. Rights group Reporters Without Borders called on the government to urgently protect journalists. "Somalia is already this year the most deadly country in Africa for the media," it said in a statement on Saturday's deaths. The union said six local journalists had been killed in 2007. Mogadishu, one of the world's most violent cities along with Baghdad, is wracked by an Islamist-led insurgency against the Somali government and its Ethiopian military backers. One of the biggest private media houses in Somalia, HornAfrik was criticized both by the Islamists during their six-month rule of Mogadishu last year, and then by the government since taking over the city at the New Year. In a nation where only a few foreign journalists dare enter, and local reporters run daily risks of violence and harassment, HornAfrik is one of the main voices on Somalia to the world. It was shelled heavily in April, apparently from Ethiopian troop positions, prompting Mr. Sharmarke at the time to make a formal complaint to the government. Just hours before his death, Mr. Sharmarke had expressed sadness and anger at the murder of his employee Elmi. "It demonstrates the conditions that Somali reporters are working under," the media businessman told Reuters just before the funeral. "The perpetrators want to silence our voices in order to commit their crimes." Globe and Mail