When: Saturday, 20 Feb. 2010 at 3pm Where: Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH

Book launch: Weerane –The Mourning Tree: the autobiography of Mohamed Barud Ali The former president of Somalia: “Hargeysa is gone, Burao is gone and the national army is gone”. When: Saturday, 20 Feb. 2010 at 3pm Where: Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH Kayd Somali Arts and Culture in collaboration with redsea-online. com is proudly inviting you to the presentation of new book: 'Weerane: autobiography by Mohamed Barud Ali’. Join us to discuss this new autobiography with the author and also mark and commemorate with us, the student protest, 20 Feb 1981, erupted 28 years ago in Hargeysa demanding justice and the release of UFFA members. We expect you on Saturday, 20 Feb. 2010 at 3pm at Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH . Weer is a Somali word for a piece of cloth wrapped around one’s head to show that a grievance was been committed. At the same time, it is a sign of courage that you are willing to take revenge for the injustice and the pain inflicted on you. It is the name of the tree that Mahamed Barud Ali was born under into a pastoral nomadic Somali community in Somaliland . In this nomadic society, dignity is the single most important state of being. Weerane is a record of an injustice being done to a whole community and is being told in a dignified manner by Mahamed Barud Ali. This prison memoir will not only give first-hand information of the experience of the brutalities of Siyad Barre’s Somalia but also of the life of a nomad child who is brought to the city to live with his aunt because there was no work for him due to the fact that his father did not own any camels to be looked after. In the city while growing up, hunger was never far away. That motivated Mahamed to perform well at school which gave him the opportunity to go to the United Kingdom. After he earned his university degree, he went back to his home town Hargeysa where he met young professionals’ like him. They decided to volunteer for their community, what became to be known by the international community as Hargeysa Self-help group and locally as UFFO. For their noble acts, Mahamed and his colleagues were imprisoned and what followed were eight long lonely years, where the studying of insects was the main entertainment of the day. The reasons why they were freed, while at the same time the rest of their community had been destroyed, were as strange and surprising as the reasons why they were jailed in the first place were bizarre. There was no time in Mohamed’s life to get depressed or discouraged when he and his group were freed as the reconstruction of the country had to start immediately. Mahamed Barud Ali is civil right and humanity activist, Hero to some, the prisoner of conscience under the brutal regime of Somalia ; he lives in Hargeysa, with his wife and children and works on issues relating to human rights and civil liberties.

Another Friday is gone and there is nothing about the "series" ,,,

He is expected to Arrive today from a long trip ... some said was success and others said it was a treason ... All Hargeisa is moving to the Airport right now ,,,, Some are ready to demonstrate against him ,,,, Some are there wo make a great welcome of the Man ,,,, Let's see ..........

Missing ??

Now where is Norf ???

Waa marka meel aad uu socoto iyo meel aad ka socoto midna aanad garanayn ......... xataa ninkii ku dilay aanad sheegi karin ..... Caku ninku oohin xumaa ....

Haduu hadlo meeshuu joogo ayaa la maqlayaa dee oo madfac baa lala soo eeganayaa ,,,

Adigana "mee" bay kaaga dhegtay ........ madfaca shabaab buu ka dhuumanayaa deee

loooooooooooooooooooooool@House of Lords ,,,

Somalia needs no one ,,, it needs itself

Aamiin

Booqashadii Zenawi ee Jigjiga ka waran ?

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ,,, The Good Old Days

Not yet waaryaa ,,,,,, you should make the announcement once you're done with your research badow yahow ,,

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According to Yemeni Interior Ministry, Somaliland forces have helped in releasing a Yemeni-flagged container ship held by Somali pirates for nearly three weeks Somaliland forces have helped in releasing a Yemeni-flagged container ship held by Somali pirates for nearly three weeks, Yemeni Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Al-Mahmoud ship, carrying 15 crew members on board, was freed from Somali pirates on Friday with the help of the Somaliland naval forces, said the Interior Ministry in a statement posted on its website. "The Al-Mahmoud ship left Aden port on Dec. 18 and was hijacked during its sail through the Arqabah area in Gulf of Aden," the Yemeni coastguard was quoted as saying in the statement. The ministry provided no details about the casualties, but said the ship is expected to arrive in the city harbor of Al-Mukalla in Hadramout Province in south Yemen on Sunday. Despite international warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, piracy is still rampant in one of the world's most important and busiest shipping lanes. According to statistics released by the Yemeni coastguard, 41 cargo vessels along with 521 sailors of different nationalities were seized by hijackers in 2009.

SNM nightmares ........... walee nimanku rag rag ka tegey bay ahaayeen ,,, weli waa lagu riyoonayaa

and they know how to run when they face Israelis ....

I think this is the whole purpose: To liaise with agencies that can provide professional help and support for gays & lesbians living in the UK.

Did you see their objectives ? ,,, : Our main objectives are: * To provide and share information regarding homosexuality in general and more specifically in relation to Somalian culture and religion. * To create an accepting support network within the Somalian gay community. * To provide a space for Somalian gay & lesbians to meet, share experiences and socialise. * Initiate an honest and open discussion about homosexuality within the Somali community. * Promote positive images of Somalian gay and lesbians in Somali communities. * To liaise with agencies that can provide professional help and support for gays & lesbians living in the UK.

On a serious note, only one person can set up a website and call it "Gay Community" ,,, it doesn't even take one to be Somali but after all it is the Internet. I can now have my own website and call it "Saudi Gay Community" ...... no one can be so sure unless they are known and have public events.

and where is the series ??