Top officials in Somalia’s interim government are in Nairobi for a regional meeting to discuss piracy along the coast and a potential ceasefire between opposing forces in the war-torn country. Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein and scores of Somali MPs will attend a summit hosted by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional body comprising seven African states. The summit, which takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, will feature high-level meetings as well as a special banquet hosted by President Kibaki. According to IGAD spokesman Brazille Musumba, “peace and security in Somalia are at the top of the agenda.” Precise topics of discussion will be decided on Tuesday morning during a meeting of ministers. Kenya's Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula on Monday said the summit will “audit” the efforts of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to bring law and consensus to the war-torn country since its establishment four years ago. “We have only nine months left until the end of the Transitional Federal Charter,” he said at a Press conference, referring to a five-year plan that was signed in February 2004 in Nairobi. The document called for a new constitution, the formation of political parties and the drawing of internal boundaries. Even though the summit will feature a special session for IGAD heads of state, it is not clear that all of them will attend. Reports from Sudan have indicated its top officials, including President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, will skip the conference in protest of Kenya’s alleged involvement in the supply of arms to southern Sudan. These allegations followed the hijacking of the mv Faina, a Ukranian vessel that was transporting more than 30 T-72 tanks to the Mombasa port. “I do not know whether the Sudanese head of state will attend,” Mr Wetang’ula said. “I do not know at what level they will be represented.” The minister again repeated Nairobi's insistence that the tanks belong to Kenya and were not bound for southern Sudan, which would have been illegal. “There are no shipments to Sudan,” he argued. Piracy will be high on the agenda at the IGAD summit. On Saturday, Mr Awad Ahmed Ashareh the chairman of Somalia’s Parliamentary Committee for Information, Culture, Public Awareness and Heritage, told the Daily Nation that piracy has become an international threat. Mr Ashareh said his country has already allowed Russia and the United States to use its waters to confront pirates who hijacked the mv Faina, but he noted that the move has yet to be approved by the Somali parliament. The legislator, a former Religious Affairs Minister, said Somalia welcomes efforts by all nations to fight piracy but cautioned that this should be done through proper legal channels in order to "protect the sovereignty and marine resources of Somalia.” He suggested that countries surrounding the Horn of Africa should sign a collective agreement about how to fight piracy. IGAD was created in 1986 and is comprised of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Eritrea. Its wide-ranging vision is to bring economic development, food security, investment, peace and stability to the region.

Welcome back ,, Waxba isma bedelin ,, ciidamadu halkoodii uun bay kala fadhiyaan weli ,,

Reer kismaayo hala iska dhaafo .... dadkaas they are busy maalmahan ,,

This is how romantic it is: The oday and the islaanta sitting under a tree goor barqo libaax ah ,, she waxay tidcaysaa xadhig and he is sipping his cuppa tea watching the Adhi and the xoolaha kele ,,, kids are playing around on and under a tree where the odayga and islaanta are sitting. There is a hadhuub there filled with caano ciir ah ,, each one is taking his/her sip ,,, Waar bal ila eega Ilaah baan idinku dhaarshee ,,

...... Alla muxuu mid faashka ku qabtay so caawa uun baad ka dayn then habeen dambe everything is gonna be found for free ,,,hehehe To tell you the truth, Hargeisa way waalatay.

Heart Breaking .........

loooooooooooooooool@responses ,,,,, I'm just joking ladies and gentlemen ,, just joking. Actually they look good.

looooooooooooool I would stalk them but they're PHAT ,, not my type

loooooooooooool@over-sized shoes ,,,,

I know his background ninkaas but i don't want to qarxis him ,,,,, the motives are so external and far from this issue. War jiraaba cakaaruu iman ,,,,,

looooooooooool@A&T ,,, That so called Sheekh is just a qabiilist and his likes has to be eliminated from the earth if they cannot be rehabilitated. Rayaale did not come by force, he is an elected president and he will only go by vote. It is the power of the people but the likes of this one will just give him an excuse to stay. Now, i think i should just go to the mountains and assassinate the damn fool.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL@Sheekh .... Sheekhnimoy b'a .... Xalku wuxuu noqonayaa dadkan dhulkooda ha looga tago, hadii looga tegi waayana xaalku wuu xumaanayaa. Afwaynaan u badheedhay duhur cad 1988-kii, kii ku ka xun ayaa waddanka haysta, waana la wada ogyahay, adigaagan weriyaha ah baa og

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loooooooooooooooooool@since they were born ,,, Anyway good luck with your tuulo lakin expect there is no place that is clean these days .... looool

Barry Blitt “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda. The endorsement left the McCain campaign sputtering, and noting helplessly that Hamas appears to prefer Barack Obama. Al Qaeda’s apparent enthusiasm for Mr. McCain is manifestly not reciprocated. “The transcendent challenge of our time [is] the threat of radical Islamic terrorism,” Senator McCain said in a major foreign policy speech this year, adding, “Any president who does not regard this threat as transcending all others does not deserve to sit in the White House.” That’s a widespread conservative belief. Mitt Romney compared the threat of militant Islam to that from Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Some conservative groups even marked “Islamofascism Awareness Week” earlier this month. Yet the endorsement of Mr. McCain by a Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn’t a surprise to security specialists. Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days to tip the election to him. “From their perspective, a continuation of Bush policies is best for recruiting,” said Professor Nye, adding that Mr. McCain is far more likely to continue those policies. An American president who keeps troops in Iraq indefinitely, fulminates about Islamic terrorism, inclines toward military solutions and antagonizes other nations is an excellent recruiting tool. In contrast, an African-American president with a Muslim grandfather and a penchant for building bridges rather than blowing them up would give Al Qaeda recruiters fits. During the cold war, the American ideological fear of communism led us to mistake every muddle-headed leftist for a Soviet pawn. Our myopia helped lead to catastrophe in Vietnam. In the same way today, an exaggerated fear of “Islamofascism” elides a complex reality and leads us to overreact and damage our own interests. Perhaps the best example is one of the least-known failures in Bush administration foreign policy: Somalia. Today, Somalia is the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster, worse even than Darfur or Congo. The crisis has complex roots, and Somali warlords bear primary blame. But Bush administration paranoia about Islamic radicals contributed to the disaster. Somalia has been in chaos for many years, but in 2006 an umbrella movement called the Islamic Courts Union seemed close to uniting the country. The movement included both moderates and extremists, but it constituted the best hope for putting Somalia together again. Somalis were ecstatic at the prospect of having a functional government again. Bush administration officials, however, were aghast at the rise of an Islamist movement that they feared would be uncooperative in the war on terror. So they gave Ethiopia, a longtime rival in the region, the green light to invade, and Somalia’s best hope for peace collapsed. “A movement that looked as if it might end this long national nightmare was derailed, in part because of American and Ethiopian actions,” said Ken Menkhaus, a Somalia expert at Davidson College. As a result, Islamic militancy and anti-Americanism have surged, partly because Somalis blame Washington for the brutality of the Ethiopian occupiers. “There’s a level of anti-Americanism in Somalia today like nothing I’ve seen over the last 20 years,” Professor Menkhaus said. “Somalis are furious with us for backing the Ethiopian intervention and occupation, provoking this huge humanitarian crisis.” Patrick Duplat, an expert on Somalia at Refugees International, the Washington-based advocacy group, says that during his last visit to Somalia, earlier this year, a local mosque was calling for jihad against America — something he had never heard when he lived peacefully in Somalia during the rise of the Islamic Courts Union. “The situation has dramatically taken a turn for the worse,” he said. “The U.S. chose a very confrontational route early on. Who knows what would have happened if the U.S. had reached out to moderates? But that might have averted the disaster we’re in today.” The greatest catastrophe is the one endured by ordinary Somalis who now must watch their children starve. But America’s own strategic interests have also been gravely damaged. The only winner has been Islamic militancy. That’s probably the core reason why Al Qaeda militants prefer a McCain presidency: four more years of blindness to nuance in the Muslim world would be a tragedy for Americans and virtually everyone else, but a boon for radical groups trying to recruit suicide bombers.

Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms — some with a reputation for being quick on the trigger in Iraq — are joining the battle against pirates plaguing one of the world's most important shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia. The growing interest among merchant fleets to hire their own firepower is encouraged by the U.S. Navy and represents a new and potential lucrative market for security firms scaling back operations in Iraq. But some maritime organizations told The Associated Press that armed guards may increase the danger to ships' crews or that overzealous contractors might accidentally fire on fishermen. The record in Iraq of security companies like Blackwater, which is being investigated for its role in the fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007, raises concerns about unregulated activity and possible legal wrangles. "Security companies haven't always had the lightest of touches in Iraq, and I think Somalia is a pretty delicate situation," said Roger Middleton, who wrote a recent report on piracy in Somalia for Chatham House, a think tank in London. web page

Haa ,, wax kele waan hayaa ,,, and that is ,, There are similar and sometimes worse stories in the Miyiga too ......

Waar bal get me one of those niyow .....

But after your story of Hargisa, I'm scared of you damn people. I am going miyiga, where everyone is nice and clean. That is what you've just said ......... learned eh ?? Well, there is a difference between Tawakal and Tawaakul .. - You look for Info, take precautions and work hard putting your faith in Allah ... that is right and called TAWAKAL. - You don't do anything, just sit there and go somewhere blindly saying you put your faith in Allah ,,, that is called TAWAAKUL and is wrong. Imagine someone laying down in the middle of a street where hundreds of cars are running saying he put his faith in Allah ,,,

Naah ,, i just like them to finish their stories , ,, just call me lucky by getting those stories for free ,,, I never tell anyone to stop ,, i let it go ,,, just let it go and let the person feel less pressure so that he will not explode later .... Now you better admit that you've learn something you never new before .... i don't want you to fall in traps thinking it is all save and good while it is not.

Ibti, here bodyguards are only askar. We don't have private bodyguards and/or investigators aka detectives that are working privately. That is what i'm gonna do when i'm elected as the President .... hehe Sure qof waliba wuxuu raadiyo ayuu helaa ,,,, Lakin ma raadinayno, the just come to us ,,

I Love China ,,,,,,

looooooooooooooooooooooooool ...... How come you know everyone in miyiga is nice and clean ,, you thought so about Hargeisa before few days when i posted that story ,,, i think i've to pay a visit to miyiga and write some stories about them ,,,,,, There is no sign of that guy ..... he is askari so he is either transferred to other locations or he is dead by now ,,,, loooool

Bugbugta hore baroor xumida dambay kaga dareen ,,,

- The Conference in Nairobi - The other meeting in Djibouti - And the other one by the Arab league in Cairo about Somalia ???????????????????????????