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Faallo: Maxay kala yihiin wasiirrada cusub? + MAGACYADA GOLAHA WASIIRADA EE CUSUB

 

Sida ka muuqata liiska Wasiiradan waxaa ku jira xubno muddo ku soo jiray saaxada, iyo rag kale oo ku cusub masraxa siyaasada Soomaaliya.

Xubnaha la soo qaadan karo waxaa ka mid ah wasiiradii horey uga midka ahaa dowladdii ra'iisalwasaarihii la riday ee Cabdi Faarax Saacid Shridoon; sida faarax Cabdiqaadir iyo Cabdikariim Xuseen Guuleed oo mar kale ka mid noqday dowladan cusub.

Xubno kale oo horey wasiiro uga soo noqday dowladihii ku meelgaarka ahaa ayaa iyagana xilal cusub helay.

Waxaa ka mid ah Xuseen Cabdi Xalane oo maaliyada loo dhiibay, Mustafa Dhuxuloow oo warfaafinta Qabanaya, Cabdilaahi Goodax Bare oo arimaha gudaha iyo federaalismka wasiirka ka noqonaya iyo Khadiija Maxamed Diiriye oo noqotay wasiirka haweenka iyo xuquuqul insaanka.

Xubnaha daadka qaaday

Xubnaha uu daadku qaaday waxaa ka mid ah; Fowsiyo Yusuf Xaaji Adan, Maryam Qaasim iyo Cabdixakiim Fiqi.

Maxamuud Axmed Nur Tarsan oo Duqa Muqdisho ayaa golahan cusub wasiir ku xigeen ka ah. Isugeyn golaha wasiirada waa 54 xubnood waxayna u baahan yihiin inay ansixiyaan baarlamaanka ka dibna ay ka howlaglaan dal nabadiisa aysan cago badan ku taagnayn, dhaqaale ahaana liita.

Waxyaabaha la isweydiinayana waxaa ka mid ah tiradan badan iyo xitaa halka ku shirayaan. Ahmed Sheikh Mohammed (ahmed tiir) waxuu falanqeeyaa rimaha Xukuumada Fadaraalka Soomaaliya, mar wax aanu ka waydiinay magacaabista golaha wasiirada cusub wuxuu yiri "Tiradan badan ee wasiirada xitaa looma heli karo goob ay ku shiraan, sidoo kale dhaqaale ahaan wadanka ma qaadi karo 54 wasiir.

Wajiyada liiska ku cusub waxaa ka mid ah Cabdiraxman Ducaale Beyle oo Somaliland ka soo jeeda loona dhiibay jagadii ay horey u haysay Fowsiyo Yusuf Xaaji.

Maxamed Sheekh Xasana oo horay sirdoonka Soomaliya madax uga soo noqdayna waxaa loo magacaabay gaashaandhiga waxuuna ka soo jeedaa gobolka Baay.

Amniga qaranka iyo arimaha gudaha waxaa loo kala gooyay labo wasaaradood, Cabdikariim Xuseen oo madaxweynaha rafiiq weyn la ah ayaana loo dhiibay xilka amniga dalka.

Cabdikariim Faarax Guuleed waa markii labaad oo isagoo dalka ka maqan la magacaabo taasoo muujinaysa inuusan marnaba ka maqnaan doonin liiska wasiirrada dalka.

Dumarka ayaa tiro ahaan ku qatan dowladan waxayna heleen labo xubnood, marka loo eego xukuumadii hore waxba uma soo kordhin haweenka.

Golahan cusub ee dowladda ayaa lagu tilmaami karaa magacaabiddooda inay jiitantay, waxaana laga dareemi karaa inuu khilaaf jiray marka la eego mudada dheer ee la sugayay iyo welibo xilligii saqda dhexe ka dambaysay ee lagu dhawaaqay.

Balse aakhirkii xalayto ayay muuqatay in sadaxda mas'uul ee dalka ugu saraysa ee ilmo Sheekh (Xasan Sheekh, Cabdiweli Sheekh iyo Maxamed Sheekh Cismaan Jawaari) ku wada qanceen 54-ta xubnood ee xukuumadan.

HOOS KA AKHRISO MAGACYADA GOLAHA WASIIRADA EE CUSUB

Soma Oil and Gas receives $50 million investment

Private investment firm Winter Sky has made a $50 million equity investment in the UK-based Soma Oil and Gas Holdings Limited, which signed an agreement with the Somali government in August to conduct onshore and offshore surveys, the company announced Monday (January 13th).

"Securing this funding agreement is a significant step forward for Soma Oil and Gas as it will enable us to finalise a contract for the seismic survey programme," said the company's chief executive officer Robert Sheppard. "We are in advanced negotiations with a contractor and expect to be able to make a further announcement in this regard shortly."

Soma Oil and Gas Holdings Limited said the equity investment will also enable the company to meet its commitment to the Somali government under its exploration agreement.

AL-SHABAB: GUARDIANS OF SOMALI IDENTITY?

What are the reasons behind Al-Shabab survival in Somali politics?

Al-Shabab considers khat ‘haraam’ and has banned the use of the stimulant [AP]

By Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

British Channel 4 journalist Jamal Osman had an exclusive on al-Shabab that included a training and graduation ceremony. The picture that emerged was that al-Shabab is a sophisticated group which, more than others, grasped the duality of the state; one of brutal efficiency in employing force and in the second order, the ability to undertake state’s benign “soft” function: collecting garbage and ensuring pharmacies stock unexpired drugs.

In popular state formation theories what distinguishes or indeed makes a state a state, is its ability to project the use of force. By being the prominent purveyor of violence, the state increases the cost to anyone who wants to challenge it, and also provides an incentive for a group(s) to accept to be part of the state. Since its collapse, Somalia’s ability to function as a state and project the use of force has been outsourced to external actors. As a result – nature abhors a vacuum – al-Shabab or previously, warlords, filled in.

The group’s overarching understanding that the centre of gravity- for its survival- rests with the citizens, and not the state or external actors, explains their durability. As long as they can provide security – because they are the biggest source of violence anyway – and garbage is collected in areas that they control, it buys them legitimacy, albeit through fear.

While all external actors crave to be loved, al-Shabab thrives on fear. In understanding Somalis, one has to struggle with the paradox of being at once pastoral democrats – ready to negotiate some issues – and an unflinching republican, some relations like family are non-negotiable. Al-Shabab concentrated on the latter part. While Somalis can trenchantly disagree over their clan politics, however, when it comes to their sovereignty, both personal and collectively, they will never negotiate. They are unrepentant nationalists, and in the absence of a state, rhetorically and sometimes symbolically, al-Shabab acts as the vanguard and the only reliable guardian of Somali nationalism and identity.

This is further entrenched by the fact that the majority of the post-1991 governments have not been organically constituted – they have been externally midwifed, making al-Shabab a formidable custodian of the Somali identity.

While al-Shabab has that luxury, monopoly really, the Somali government has to juggle many contradicting and often competing interests – the Turks who would want to show Somalia as the testing ground for international Islamic brotherhood through a humanitarian lens, the Europeans and the Americans who have a mortal fear of the radicalisation of Somali youth immigrants, and the African Union that wants to prove the dictum African solutions to Africa’s problem.

Without any leverage, the Somali president/prime minister is left at the mercy of all these and many actors. All the while al-Shabab is capable of being run like a well-oiled machine. The Western countries have, by default, reduced their footprints and focus on counterterrorism. This is guided by rational calculations; limited footprint means limited domestic political consequences, inoculating themselves against accusation of invaders. But this singular focus on terrorism by the West is akin to attempting to address the symptoms rather than the cause of Somalia’s crisis – a classic Band-Aid solution.

African countries are enamoured by an African solution to Africa’s problems, but they suffer from naively thinking that since we are fellow Africans, Somalis will welcome us with flowers at the gates of Mogadishu. Just like any other modern intervention, the window between an intervention as liberation and invasion is small. In the case of the AMISOM, they need to grasp that reality urgently, otherwise, their genuine effort of winning over Afro-pessimists could be undone. In all, everyone is in Somalia for their own interests rather than the Somalis’, and that explains why al-Shabab succeeds where others fail.

Another group that most external actors could learn from is the khat distributors in Somalia. Since the collapse of the state in 1991, khat, also known as miraa – a mild stimulant popular in East Africa and grown in the Eastern part of Kenya – has been exported to Somalia during war and peace. It is distributed more efficiently than any food aid. This efficiency beats what any economist envisages when they speak about the virtues of the unseen hand of the market. This is despite al-Shabab banning khat as haraam - forbidden.

The group that has survived al-Shabab has an enduring lesson for all. Khat distribution networks and their resiliency is a case study on how to operate in a hostile environment. Maybe it is about time we undertake an unbiased study of al-Shabab and khat distributors on how to establish a state and an efficient distribution network of economic and public goods – the key prerequisites of a state.

Abdullahi Boru Halakhe is a security analyst on the Horn of Africa

Source: Al Jazeera

Somaliland: Marnaba Ka Laabmi Mayso Madaxbanaanideeda

Dalka Somaliland, oo hore ugu dhawaaqay inuu ka go’ay Soomaaliya inteeda kale, ayaa sheegay in aanay marnaba ka laaban doonin gooni istaagii ay ku dhawaaqeen.

Wasiirka Arimaha dibada Somaliland Dr. Biixi, oo ah ninka hogaaminaya wafdiga Xukuumada Somaliland u matalaya wadahadalada Ankara maanta ka furmay, ayaa sheegay in marnaba aanay ka tanaasuli doonin gooni istaagii ay ku dhawaaqeen 1991dii.

Dr. Biixi oo u warramayay idaacadda BBC-da ayaa xusay in go’aanka Somaliland ee gooni-isku-taagga Somaliland uu yahay mid ay go’aansadeen shacabka ku nool deegaannadaas oo aanan dib looga laaban doonin.

“Gooni-isku-taagga Somaliland waa mid muqaddas ah oo aan laga laaban doonin, balse waxaan walaaladeen aan la yeelan doonnaa wadahadallo miro-dhal ah,” ayuu yiri wasiirka arrimaha dibadda Somaliland.

Sidoo kale, wasiirku wuxuu sheegay inaysan fulin go’aannadii lagu gaaray shiirkii bishii July ee sannadkii hore aysan waxba ka fulin, isagoo tusaale u soo qaatay maamulka hawada Soomaaliya oo ay labada dhinac heshiis ka gaareen.

Wadahadallada oo furmay ayaa waxaa labada dhinac u saareen guddi gaar ah sidii ay u soo diyaarin lahaayeen ajanadayaasha looga hadlayo shirkan oo socon doona labada maalmood ee soo socota.

Dhanka kale, wasiirka arrimaha gudaha ee Soomaaliya, Cabdikariin Xuseen Guuleed oo wafdiga dowladda Soomaaliya ee shirka ka qaybgalay horkacaya ayaa sheegay inay kawada hadli doonaan iyaga iyo wafdiga Somailand sidii la isugu soo dhawaan lahaa loona heli lahaa Soomaaliya oo mid ah oo ay ka jirto nabad.

Waa markii afaraad ee dhinacyadaan ay kulmaan tan iyo markii ay wadahadallada bilawdeen sanadkii 2012-kii.

Kulankan ayaa waxa uu socon doonaa muddo Seddex maalmood ah oo dhinacyada shirkani ka qeyb galaya ay ka wada hadli doonaan ajeendaha shirka.

Gooni isu taagga

Somaliland ayaa horey u sheegtay in qodobka gooni isu taagga Somaliland lagu soo qaadi doono shirkan.

Balse Dowladda Federaalka ma xaqiijinin in arrintaas laga wadahadali doono.

Midnimada Soomaaliya

Labada dhinac ayaa si weyn isugu khilaafsan midnimada Soomaaliya iyo gooni isu taagga Somaliland.

Balse waxay horey u saxiixeen heshiis ku saabsan iskaashi dhanka ammaanka iyo dhaqaalaha ah.

Wafdiga dowladda federaalka waxaa hoggaaminaya sii hayaha xilka wasiirka arrimaha gudaha, halka wafdiga Somaliland uu hoggaaminayo Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibedda iyo Iskaashiga Caalamiga ah. 

9/11 MASTERMIND SAYS KORAN ‘FORBIDS’ VIOLENCE TO SPREAD ISLAM

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has released a manifesto claiming that the Koran forbids the use of violence to spread Islam.

The document, published Tuesday by The Huffington Post and Britain’s Channel 4 News, marks Mohammed’s first public communication since 2009, when the US government officially accused him of terrorism.

Mohammed, the most high-profile of the five men accused over the 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on US soil, has been held at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2006.

In a major departure from his previous position, Mohammed said that “the Holy Koran forbids us to use force as a means of converting!”

He also tried in the 36-page document to convince his American captors, prosecutors, lawyers and members of his military tribunal to convert to Islam.

“It is my religious duty in dealing with any non-Muslims such as the people in the court (the judge, the prosecution, attorneys, etc.) to invite them to embrace Islam,” Mohammed wrote

“I realize very well that you have heard about Islam and know much about it. But it is my own belief that Allah will ask me on the Day of Judgment why I did not invite these people to Islam?”

Mohammed said he was “very happy” in his cell, adding: “My spirit is free even while my body is being held captive.”

Mohammed said he has been “neither sad nor distressed” in his confinement “because I have been with the Only One True God.”

The document was declassified last month by military judge James Pohl.

Defense lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Source: AFP

Memorandum of understanding between Uganda and Somalia

The Uganda Police Force (UPF) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Somali National Police Force (SNPF) will among other enhance cooperation between them and add muscle to efforts to combat terrorism. The enhanced cooperation will pave way for capacity building by the forces through increased training, acquisition of equipment and intelligence information sharing, with the view the possibility of carrying out joint operations, with both sides benefitting.
Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday signed on behalf of the UPF while Brig. Gen. Abdihakim Dahir Sa’eed, the Somali police boss signed on behalf of SNPF at the function held at the Kampala Serena hotel. “The principle is we jointly build capacity. Where there is a weakness we rectify and where there is a strength we share,” Kayihura said. The benefits of signing of the MoU Kayihura said should also have profound effect on the fight against terrorism, with regard to information sharing.

The Somali Police has always wanted UPF to assist it train its personnel in the fields of Counter Terrorism (CT), crime investigations, community policing and information sharing. The two police have had a fairly long history of cooperation which has seen UPF training officers of the SNPF and sending some personnel to Mogadishu on peace keeping missions where they have been involved in carrying joint patrols.

According to Kayihura there are close to 400 Uganda police officers in Somalia. Speaking at the same function, Dahir hailed UPF for its role in Somalia particularly uplifting the standards of the SNPF through training and sending some personnel there to pacify the place. ‘The Uganda police is doing a great job in Somalia patrolling the city and the regions to make peace and enhance capacity building,” Dahir said.

Somalia has for long been known as a base and launch pad for terrorists, with the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab terror outfit using it as a base to launch attacks in Somalia and also export terrorism beyond its borders. The Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the July 2010 twin terror attacks in Uganda which claimed over 80 lives and left scores injured or maimed. It also claimed responsibility for the grisly September 2013 Westgate shopping mall incident in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that left over 60 dead and has since issued a series of threats against Uganda and several countries in the region.

Source: New Vision

Memorandum of understanding between Uganda and Somalia

The Uganda Police Force (UPF) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Somali National Police Force (SNPF) will among other enhance cooperation between them and add muscle to efforts to combat terrorism. The enhanced cooperation will pave way for capacity building by the forces through increased training, acquisition of equipment and intelligence information sharing, with the view the possibility of carrying out joint operations, with both sides benefitting.
Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday signed on behalf of the UPF while Brig. Gen. Abdihakim Dahir Sa’eed, the Somali police boss signed on behalf of SNPF at the function held at the Kampala Serena hotel. “The principle is we jointly build capacity. Where there is a weakness we rectify and where there is a strength we share,” Kayihura said. The benefits of signing of the MoU Kayihura said should also have profound effect on the fight against terrorism, with regard to information sharing.

The Somali Police has always wanted UPF to assist it train its personnel in the fields of Counter Terrorism (CT), crime investigations, community policing and information sharing. The two police have had a fairly long history of cooperation which has seen UPF training officers of the SNPF and sending some personnel to Mogadishu on peace keeping missions where they have been involved in carrying joint patrols.

According to Kayihura there are close to 400 Uganda police officers in Somalia. Speaking at the same function, Dahir hailed UPF for its role in Somalia particularly uplifting the standards of the SNPF through training and sending some personnel there to pacify the place. ‘The Uganda police is doing a great job in Somalia patrolling the city and the regions to make peace and enhance capacity building,” Dahir said.

Somalia has for long been known as a base and launch pad for terrorists, with the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab terror outfit using it as a base to launch attacks in Somalia and also export terrorism beyond its borders. The Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the July 2010 twin terror attacks in Uganda which claimed over 80 lives and left scores injured or maimed. It also claimed responsibility for the grisly September 2013 Westgate shopping mall incident in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that left over 60 dead and has since issued a series of threats against Uganda and several countries in the region.

Source: New Vision

Ciidanka Itoobiya ay ku biiraya Ciidamada Nabadilaalinta AMISOM ee Soomaaliya

Ururka Midowga Afrika oo sheegay in Itoobiya ay ku biirayso AMISOM

Ururka Midowga Afrika ayaa sheegay in ciidamada Itoobiya ay si rasmi ah uga mid noqon doonaan dhawaan howlgalka Midowga Afrika ee AMISOM, taasoo lagu sheegay in lagu kordhinayo tirada ciidamadan.

Guddoomiyaha guddiga nabadgalyada iyo Ammaanka Midowga Afrika, Smal Chergui ayaa kulan looga hadlayay ammaanka Afrika oo Addis Ababa ka dhacay ka sheegay in ciidamada Itoobiya lagu xoojinayo howlgalka Midowga Afrika AMISOM ee Soomaaliya ka socda.

“Qorshaheennu waa inaan tirada ciidamada AMISOM gaarsiinno 22,000 oo askari oo si howgalka Soomaaliya ka socda loo xoojiyo,” ayuu yiri Chergui oo intaas ku daray in go’aankoodu uu yahay in Soomaaliya ay nabad noqoto sannadaha soo socda.

Sidoo kale, Smal ayaa sheegay inay la shaqayn doonaan dowladda Somalia iyo ciidamadooda xoogga si ay ula dagaalamaan Xarakada AL-Shabaab lana abuuro jawi ay ku dhici karto doorashada madax-bannaan sannadka 2016-ka.

Kumannaan askarta Itoobiya ah ayaa ku sugan gudaha Soomaaliya, kuwaas oo aan qayb ka ahayn howgalka Midowga Afrika ee AMISOM, balse dhawaan ayuu ra’iisul wasaaraha Itoobiya sheegay inay ku biiri doonaan AMISOM.

Magaalada Baydhabo ee xarunta Midowga Afrika ayaa waxaa dhawaan soo gaaray cutubyo ka tirsan ciidamada Itoobiya oo la sheegay inay qayb ka yihiin kuwa loo diyaarinayo inay ka mid noqdaan howlgalka AMISOM.

Dowladda Soomaaliya ayaa horay u soo dhaweysay go’aanka Itoobiya ay uga mid noqonayso howlgalka Midowga Afrika ee AMISOM, iyadoo dowladdu ay sannadkan cusub ku sheegtay inuu noqon doono sannadkii lasoo afjari lahaa Al-shabaab.

Soomaali ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Oscar

Barkhad oo ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Oscar

Waxaa abaalmarinta Oscar ku guulaystay Filim laga jilay weerar ay burcad badeeddu ku qaadeen markab laga leeyahay dalka Maraykanka.

Barkhat cabdinaasir aw Cabdi ayaa ka mid ah dadka wax ka jilay filimkan oo looga hadlayay burcad badeed Soomali ah oo xoog kula wareegay markab laga lahaa dalka Maraykanka.

Markabka ayaa lagu magacaabaa Marska Allabama.

Filimka ayaa abaalmarin ku helay inuu ahaa filimka qaaday sawirrada muuqaal-ka ah ee ugu wanaagsanaa tartanka.

Markabkii ugu horrey

Markabka la afduubay ayaa ahaa markabkii ugu horrey oo laga lahaa dalka Maraykanka oo burcad badeed Soomaali ah qafaasheen.

Afar maalmood kaddib markii la haystay, ayuu madaxweynaha Maraykanka bixiyay amar ah in xoog lagu soo furto.

Waxaa halkaas lagu laayay burcad badeeddi, iyadoo uu ka badbaaday hal nin oo kaliye.

Filimkaas waxaa loo bixiyay magaca ah Captain Philip.