Somaliland ,,,

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Great success indeed ,,,,, you can feel it when you see old men going to school and young ones competing for education ,,, this is exactly what is happening here ,, the wonders of the world aka Somaliland ,,,

Somali pirates in Puntland seized food aid trucks and their drivers to obtain the release of detained comrades, officials said Friday, in a rare land attack by the sea bandits. The five trucks had been contracted by the UN’s World Food Programme and had finished delivering food aid in the Galkayo area, in the semi-autonomous northern Somali state of Puntland, which harbours several major pirate lairs. They were on their way back to Berbera, the main port in the neighbouring breakaway state of Somaliland, when a gang of pirates intercepted them on Thursday. “The pirates hijacked five trucks with nine people onboard and took them to their base in Garaad. They are demanding the release of their colleagues arrested recently by the Somaliland security forces,” Abdullahi Mohamed, a security official in Galkayo, said by phone. “We heard pirates took civilians from Somaliland region as hostages and we are still investigating the incident,” police officer Colonel Dahir Jama said. The Somaliland authorities have arrested and jailed dozens of pirates from Puntland in the Gulf of Aden recently. “We are treating the hostages well here in Garaad and our aim is to get our friends in the jails of Somaliland freed. We are not demanding anything else. When our friends are free and back home we will free the drivers and the trucks,” Abdi Jamal, a pirate, said by phone from Garaad. Dozens of other trucks transporting food aid in the same region are stranded in Galkayo, their drivers afraid to continue. “There are many trucks from Somaliland still here in Galkayo, too afraid to return, but we will give them escorts,” Jamal said.

Originally posted by Sacad *Ducaale: dee^^^^^ waxa magacabay mamuulka sanaag-somaliland. Hmmm ,, Okey. Warqadaasi way kala dhiman tahaye bal ku noqo sxb

gudiga yaa magacaabay ??

Originally posted by Alien13: I want to confirm from you Somalidiids that Jidbaale.com is a reliable source... There is no denial of this news but the fact here is who is quoting this news from jidbaale. Since when it became your source of news??? Hypocrite at its best yaa JB. Did i say it is reliable ??? ,,,, I just brought "the unwanted" news from "your own trusted" site ....

Well, look at the distance sxb and ask the economists. You need only one big port for the area that is functioning perfectly. We also don't have the capacity to create many ports. That believe me will turn into clan thing and you will have more than you expected.

Don't look today Sacadow ,,, I'm talking strategically sxb. Laasqoray has all the criteria for the main port in the eastern part of the country. Oodweyne, sxb i know but one step at a time. This time we don't need a totally new port started from scratch but we have to strengthen the existing ones then step by step do more of them.

Lasqoray is already the second port for Somaliland. That is where we need to invest.

maxaad naga waydiinaysa hadaad iska garanayso

meeshan waa lagu dhan yahay baan ku idhi ,,

Well, i don't have to ,,,, not here ,,

Something is fishy here ,,,,,,,,, The second main port should be Laasqoray. Instead of building new one we need to invest in that one of Laasqoray to expand it.

Very desperate thread .......... Soomaaliyeey toosoo Toosoo isku tiirsada eey Aniguba waan qaadaa taas and it has nothing to do with the "unity" .....

apology my **** ,,,,,,,,, I have a problem with someone and there is no other solution than cleaning him from the existence ... I took my gun and shot him on the head ,,, well, he is gone and i can resume my whatever he was blocking from me ,,,, later on i simply went to the family and said loudly "I apologize the crime. I shouldn't to that" ,,, i then left to continue my stuff ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Does it help ??

In 1993, as a Minister of the Republic of Somaliland, “I was given the same office that the National Security Service interrogated me in the first night I was arrested [in 1982]. What can I say? All the demons have been exorcised from my life”. So ends, in characteristic modesty and generosity of spirit, the memoirs of Mohamed Barud Ali. The memoirs titled “The Mourning Tree – An Autobiography and Prison Memoirs” were launched on 20th February – an eventful date for the author and one which has since been commemorated in the Republic of Somaliland. The memoirs which have been published as the well chosen first book in a series titled “men and women” of Somaliland, is not just the story of a man, but also reflect the tale of a nation. Born, in British Somaliland of the 1950s, under a tree (the Mourning Tree of the title) which was steeped in clan folklore, Barud attended one of the few elementary schools in Somaliland and joined the successive generations which left nomadic life. After independence, Barud attended the prestigious Sheikh Secondary School which was still staffed by redoubtable British teachers, and then, as one of the brightest pupils, he came to the United Kingdom for university education. With a keen eye for detail, Barud narrates amusing vignettes about the inevitable but innocent culture clashes and about the invidious racism of the 1970s seaside town “skinheads” who had never faced before young Somalis jealously guarding their honour. I can attest to the fact that the curious incident of the “black magic” (hot pepper) powder which reduced the tough Brighton “bovver boys” into sopping jellies has gone down in the annals of UK Somaliland students’ folklore! Unlike many other Somaliland students completing their overseas studies abroad in the 1970s, Barud returned to the Somali “Democratic” Republic, as the country was known then, at the end of 1978. By then the so called “bloodless” military coup of General Siyad Barre has already shed much blood. On his return, Barud had no choice but to go to Mogadishu “because it was the only place where there was an opportunity for employment in the country”. In 1980, however, he was lucky enough to find employment in his home town, Hargeisa, and soon a new chapter of his life unfolded. Barud and other young professionals were concerned about the dire state of the British built Hargeisa Group Hospital. With no adequate electricity supplies, relatives of expectant mothers were asked to switch on the headlights of their cars so that midwives and doctors can deliver the babies. A voluntary committee started to improve the state of the hospital and the streets and kept the local officials apprised of their work. The dictator’s extensive security apparatus could neither countenance any voluntary welfare activities that might be seen as highlighting the government’s failings nor would it allow any meetings or gatherings of such volunteers. The dictatorship’s idea of voluntary self help “iskaa wax u qabso” was neither organised by volunteers nor undertaken voluntarily. Barud is very characteristically modest about his role and that of his colleagues, but both the nature and symbolism of their actions to the regime, on the one side, and to the long suffering “Somalileyn” people, on the other, set in train the events that followed and are narrated in the remainder of the memoirs. It started with a portentous nock on the door late at night in November 1981. Five fully armed National Security Service soldiers took Barud away from his home. They reassured his anxious wife “with disarming civility” that he will be back home within the hour – an hour that stretched to eight and half years! 28 other Hargeisa professionals were arrested during the ensuing months. Barud describes the torture and the inhumane treatment to which he was subjected over a period of four months. This included indiscriminate and repeated beatings, various water torture, sensual deprivation, and hunger. In their continual efforts to extract confessions, the teams of interrogators even tried to condemn Barud and the others for absurd inferences drawn for their traditional names – Barud (gunpowder in Somali); Olad (struggle); Abby (defence) and Dagal (war)! Barud retorted by pointing their other names, such as Warsame (glad tidings), Dualeh (blessed) and Madar (nourishing rain)! On 19 February 1982, Barud was served, for the first time, with a charge sheet alleging that he committed offences under Siyad Barre’s Security Law, which were punishable by death. Barud already knew that the people accused of serious offences were executed promptly with or without short “trials” in special security courts and states that this was indeed the worst week of his life. On the following day (20th February 1982), Barud heard from his prison cell gun fire that continued spasmodically for three days. This was the regime suppressing and killing unarmed students and young people who came on the streets when they learnt that Barud and 28 other detainees were to be sentenced by the dreaded National Security Court. Young students (and others) in Hargeisa and other cities came out into streets in defiance of the might of the dictatorship, and their stones and pebbles were answered with a hail of bullets, and reportedly some artillery fire. 45 were killed and a considerable number were arrested. The ensuing show trial of Barud and the other 28 men took only 10 hours, including a break of one hour for lunch. The lawyers brought for them from Mogadishu two days.

ma inaad dhuumataad diyaar u tahay durba ?

Originally posted by 'Dalmar': What happen? now, Jidbaale is your most trusted news website Maxaa ku dhacay website yadii somalidiidka/snmta,ee beenta badnaa? ma beentoodii baa nacday Coz it is your own site sxb ,,,,,, now don't tell me they're writing rubbish ,,, I'm sure you wouldn't listen from Jamhuuriya or Haatuf ,,,,,,, now you have your own trusted one reporting this ,,,,,, U can't swallow can u ???

Garoowe(Jidbaale.com):-Kulan maanta ka dhacay madaxtooyada Pntland ee magaalada Garoowe oo guddoominayey madaxdweynaha Puntland C/raxmaan Faroole ayaa waxa lagu soo qaaday xaaladaha deegaanku ay ku jireen intuu safarka ku maqnaa C/raxmaan Faroole. Kulankan oo ahaa kulan ay ka soo qayb galeen dhamaan golaha wasiirada, guddoonka Golaha wakiilada iyo xeer ilaaliyaha guud ayaa waxa lagaga hadlay nabad galyada Puntland iyo go,aamadii ka soo baxay shirkii Buurawadal. Madaxweynaha Puntland ayaa ku dhaliilay Madax dhaqameedka Sool, Sanaag Iyo Cayn go,aamadii ka soo baxay shirka Buurawadal isaga oo sheegay in ay ahaayeen go,aamo la mid ah kuwii Nairobi, laguna doonayo in lagu dhiso maamul kale, wuxuuna sheegay sida ay xaqiijiyeen ilo xog ogaal ahi in ay keeneen go,aamadaasi in golayaasha maamulku la kala saftaan oo noqdaan kuwo go,aamadaas diidan iyo kuwo ogol. C/raxmaan Faroole waxa kale oo uu sheegay in aan maanta loo baahnahayn in Maamulka Hargeysa lagula xisaabtamo deegaanka Laascaanood xaalado jiro awgood, wuxuuna soo jeediyey in aan loo ololayn sidii Laascaanood hadda ciidan loogu ururin lahaa. Madxaweynaha Puntland wuxuu ku canaantay madaxdii dalka ku sugnayd intuu maqnaa kaalintii ay ka qaateen arrimaha shirka Buurawadal oo uu ku tilmaamay Go,aamo khatar ku ah xukuumada Puntland ee xilligan. Dhacdooyinkii Holhol iyo Tukaraq ka dhacay ee salka ku hayey shirqoolada ayaa xubno ka tirsan Golaha wasiiradu u soo jeediyeen in wax laga qabto hasa yeeshee Madaxweyne C.raxmaan Faroole wuxuu ku tilmaamay dhacdooyinkaas kuwo aan raad ku yeelan doonin xukuumadiisa isaga oo ka gaabsaday in uu wax tafaasiil ah ka bixiyo, waxaana xubno ka tirsan golaha wasiiradu goobta ka sheegin in ay tahay arrin u taala madaxweynuhu in uu sida u dhakhsaha badan wax uga qabto dhacdooyinkii Holhol Iyo Tukaraq ee lagu eedeeyey xubno ka tirsan golaha wasiirada iyo golaha wakiiladu in ay ka danbeeyeen. Dhinaca kale nabad galyada Puntland ayaa lagu soo qaaday shirkan iyada oo aad looga dooday dhibaatooyinka ka taagan Boosaaso oo muddooyinkii ugu danbeeyey qalaalse xoogani ka taagnaa.

it is still being built ,,,,, not sure if it will be completed that soon...... it is huge man ,,

You need to finish one in order to start another ....... silly

and what did i say many times ?/ or you don't even read what i say niyow ? IT IS THE BEGINNING .................... now that is in capital letters ,,

Originally posted by Thankful: Castro, like I said the Supreme court will decide if he is immune or not, they are not looking at the facts of the case. They are just deciding if he can be prosecuted or not! Hadaa maxaad la cabaaadaysaa ??