When on 19 June 1940 Mussolini declared war on Britain and France, another theatre was quickly added to the war between the Allies and Axis powers: Africa. Although the main interest in Africa and the main battles were focused in the nortl1, on the coast of East Africa, at the other end of Red Sea, just across the sea from Aden another crisis arose as Italian troops in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland began their assault on British Somaliland. Italian troops quickly occupied Kassala and Galabat on the Egyptian-Sudan border on the 4th July and on the same day occupying Moyale on the Kenyan border. The Italian commander-in-chief Ethiopia, the Duke of Aosta, found himself presented with a small British territory surrounded on three sides by Italian and French possession and after the events of Mers-El-Kebir (Operation catapult), all were hostile to the British territory. The Italian forces should have had little trouble in expelling the British presence. In Ethiopia, the Italian force, commanded by General Nasi, had 26 Italian and colonial battalions, 2l batteries of artillery, several squadrons of tanks and armoured cars, and 5 groups of irregulars who might or might not fight, depending on their opportunities for looting. On 3rd August 1940, the Italian forces crossed the border in a trident formation, the left-hand column angled for Zeila, the central column for Hargeisa and the right-hand column for Odweina. All the forces’ objectives were reached with little opposition, but the main and right hands columns had now to pass through a pass between them and Berbera, the only port. The pass was called Tug Argan, and here the British commander had posted his only forces ; 5 infantry battalions four 3.7-inch howitzers and a 3-pounder saluting gun from HMAS Hobart. The ship itself was standing by to aid with the evacuation. Battle was joined on the afternoon of 1lth August, Major General A .R. Godwin-Austen who had hastily been sent down to take command, found all his forces engaged before he arrived. They held the Italian columns back for four days, but their positions were slowly outflanked, the ammunition for the artillery began to run out and the wounded were suffering in the searing heat. On l5th August, Godwin-Austen ordered the withdrawal, the troops pulling back through a screen of the Black Watch, then down into Berbera and onto the waiting ships, the British civilians having already been evacuated. British and Australian ships moved in to use their guns in the final perimeter battle, the last survivors were picked up at 1400 hours on 18th August and the ships moved away, apart from the HMAS Hobart which remained to pick up any last survivors and to greet the invading Italians with a final salvo as they entered the port. The defence of British Somaliland had cost the British 260 casualties, Mussolini triumphant news with which he claimed that his forces now exercised a total blockade of all British possessions in the Mediterranean and in Africa, all of which he said was owed to 2,052 dead or wounded.

I always welcome dhakhaha u know ,, lool

loooooooooooooooooooooooool@xaglajiifiye ,,,

loooooooooooooool ,, Now u want all SOLers to buy tickets ,,,

Alshabaab waa dhakho caadi ah oo isu tegey ,,,,

Tell Faroole about that ....

Even Russians are coming ,,,, Somaliland is the most strategic country in the horn.

So Robow is saying who is culimo and who is not ....... walee waa aduun rogmad ah

Condemning the continued flow of weapons that it said violated its arms embargoes on Somalia and Eritrea, the Security Council this afternoon extended for 12 months the mandate of the group monitoring those measures, expanding its mandate and giving it three additional experts. Unanimously adopting resolution 1916 (2010) under the Charter’s Chapter VII, the Council also condemned the misappropriation and politicization of humanitarian assistance by armed groups in Somalia and called upon all Member States and United Nations units to take all feasible steps to mitigate such practices. Through the resolution, in addition, the Council decided to ease some restrictions and obligations under the sanctions regime to enable the delivery of supplies and technical assistance by international, regional and subregional organizations and to ensure the timely delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance by the United Nations. The expanded mandate of the Monitoring Group includes oversight of the arms embargo on Eritrea and the designation of individuals subjected to a travel ban and asset freeze for violations, as set out in December 2009 by resolution 1907, which demanded that Eritrea cease its support for destabilizing elements in the region. The Council, by today’s action, reiterated its intention to consider further specific action to improve the implementation of the arms embargo, which was first imposed by resolution 733 in 1992 on arms destined for Somalia. The country has been without a functioning Government and beset by factional fighting since 1991.

Well, I thought it is my problem but it is someone else's biggest problem now ,,,

SOL enemies are the coolest people when they meet ,,,,,

I had a day with Sophist ,,,, loooooooooooool

And the job was done by others ,,,,, so it ended until further notice

I'm talking about now ......

“In Badan Ayaad Dibada Wareegayseen Oo Kolba Geed Ku Shirayseen Ummadiina Way Idinka Raysatay, Ninwalowba Gurigaagii Kaalay Ama Dibada Wareeg Fidmo Ninkii Abuura Ayey U Taalaa”

as long as there is bugland ,,,, we should not worry about khusuusi anymore ,,

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(Reuters) - A senior official of Somali insurgent group al Shabaab was shot dead on Friday in a rare assassination in the southern port of Kismayu, which is tightly controlled by the al Qaeda-linked rebels. Sheikh Daud Ali Hasan, a commander who has been leading fighting against rival insurgents in the town of Dhobley close to Kenya, was killed near al Shabaab's military base in Kismayu as he returned home on Friday night. "We are after running the killers. We have already arrested several suspects and we should bring them to the justice soon," Sheikh Abukar Ali Adan, al Shabaab's chairman in the area, told a news conference in Kismayu on Saturday. While al Shabaab and rebel group Hizbul Islam have fought together in the capital against the Western-backed government, the two insurgent movements have been at loggerheads for months in the south of the Horn of Africa nation. They have battled for control of Kismayu, the lucrative main port for rebel-held areas of southern Somalia, as well as the town of Dhobley on the main road linking the port to neighboring Kenya. Hizbul Islam denied having a hand in the killing, but said it would step up attacks on Dhobley after a raid on Friday night in which it said it killed a number of al Shabaab militants. Somalia has had no effective government for 19 years and Western nations and neighbors say the anarchic country is used as a shelter by militants intent on launching attacks in east Africa and further afield. At least 21,000 Somalis have been killed since the start of 2007, 1.5 million have been uprooted from their homes and nearly half a million are sheltering in other countries in the region.

Waar heedhe, i was always a peacemaker and i tell people to follow Somaliland's path for reconciliation laakiin when you have: Alshabab Hibul Islam Hassan Turki TFG Bugland galmudug raaskamboni and others All fighting each other ,, then it is difficult that they listen my call.

imagine someone shot you a bullet and before it even reaches you it dies on the way ? ,, Invitations ? ,, Not yet ,,

Not really ,,,,, just glad we did not waste time & resources ,,,

I knew this Khusuusi is just like the JNM thing ..... The Khusuusi thing is no more an existing thing ..... Someone else did the job for us and caused it to demolish. Good job Garaad Saleebaan ,,,,

Good job Somaliland ,,,,

Looks like it is Bugland's problem rather than the Somaliland government.

United Nationka ayaa diyaarineeyso sidii ay Somaliland ugu aqoonsan laheeyd Dowlad Madax banaan, iyadoo arintaan u ololeenayaa Dowladaha Mareeykanka iyo Ingiriiska. Warbixin lagu daabacay jaraa;idyada ka soo baxa Wadanka Ingiriiska ayaa beryahan danbe wadaan ololeeyn ah sidii ay ugu dhaadhicin lahaayeen Dowladaha Mareeykanka iyo Ingiriiska in Somaliland ay tahay Shacab aan la saan qaadi karin Konfurta Soomaliya, iyadoo ay ka jirto xasilooni iyi kala danbeeyn mudo ka badan 10 sanadood. Marka aad fiirisid warbixinada ay ka qoreeyn Hay’adaha la shaqeeya United Nationka ayaa ah mid ay ku doonayaan in ay kala go’do wadanka Soomaliya ayadoo mar waliba ay cambaareeyn u soo jeediyaan Koonfurta Soomaliya. Marc Braden waan la socotaan waligiisba waxaa uu raadiyaa dhibaatooyinka koofurta soomaliya ka jira asagoo Meel kasta u soo maraya si uu uga dhigo dad aan waxba aheyn waxna qabsan Karin wax kasta oo loo smaeeyan aan ka gun gaari Karin, dhinaca kane uu rabo in la aqoonsado gobolada kale ee Somaliland iyo Puntlanda taasna ay wada u xaarto kala go’a rasmiga ee Somaliya in ay Gobolbol noqoto aytahey danta uu ka leeyahay. Ugu danbeeyn waxaan leeyahay Umada Soomaliyeed hadii aysan gacmaha isqabsan uu wadankaan kala go;i doono iyadoo ay dhibaatada hada haaysata ay laba laabmi doonto.