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@JamesMelville Some communities in countries like Burkina Faso have been doing this quite succesfully for years. Ethiopia has increased its forest cover from 4% to 15% in 20 years.

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@MwangiMaina_ Ruto is not the 'Climate Change' purse holder. No point in meeting him.

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@inacawl @athenogenes The selfishness of Western elites who have coal, gas and diesel running through their veins condemning Africans to poverty and darkness, because they no longer like the stuff that made them healthy, wealthy and wise, is one of the greatest philosophical hypocrisies of our time.

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@ColinRobinsonNZ "She is representing the interests of Somalis in the United States". Really? I thought that was the job of Somalia's ambassador to the US.

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@RAbdiAnalyst One of the most shocking acts of individual barbarity in the whole Tigray war was the execution of the former Ethiopian FM Seyoum Mesfin. There is something seriously awry with any culture that could look a 71 year old man in the eye, and shoots him in the head.

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An Ethiopian singer was called to a pro-govt mass rally in Addis today. he was expected so to rouse the crowds into a warmongering frenzy. He went off-script and called for peace instead. What a hero. #Tarikugankisi #Ethiopia #Tigray #TigrayGenocide #TigrayMassArrests

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@RazanSpeaks @rimaanabtawi You may not mean it, but this comes across as sheer ingratitude. Anything is better than nothing

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An exhausted firefighter after almost 40 hours battling the mega blaze. The caption simply says "self sacrifice" #HargeisaFire

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Naftii hure.

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@AyoCaesar I like Ash but this is nastiness bordering on incitement.

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@Telegraph We knew as much. Racism is not a barrier to success in this open, generous country. But facts won't sway the victimology merchants.

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I have no time for fellow Africans who whine about the 'disparity of sympathies' shown to African victims of war and aggression, to that of Europeans. We as Africans do not show sympathy and solidarity to our own. #TigrayGenocide is a case in point.

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@BreeNewsome Complete abolition of the police and all central State authority actually happened in Somalia in 91 - 2006. All I can say is good luck with that. You have no idea what you are wishing for. All the best

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Instead of blocking and spoiling the #UNSC efforts to stop the bleeding in #Tigray , why don't #Russia use its long and historic links with #Ethiopia to mediate a settlement? It could include a role for the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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@bwdn2008 @AfricanHub_ Every West African should apologise to you for the pain inflicted on your ancestor. Whites were terrified of the African interior and stayed on the coast. Africans captured other Africans and brought them to the slave traders. It is an African shame, as much as white shame.

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Somaliland's deputy FM, Amb. Rhoda chooses 'Saharla' ("The Unblemished") a song from a 1972 play by Hadrawi, to send a telling message. It is a song about the virtue of patience, but bursting with promises of good things to come. Interesting.

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Patience is key to all things #Somaliland

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@RAbdiAnalyst @SomalilandScoop @JustAwHirsi In every war and conflict and aggression, you stand with the weak, the under-dog and the dispossed. You stood with Tigray against Addis; people against governments; Somaliland against unjust world order. If you were after money you were for sure looking for it in the wrong places

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@NickKristof I had the misfortune of living under three different totalitarian regimes for 26 years and I can confirm they hated and feared mocking right next to popular insurrection. One of them even introduced a bylaw called "Mocking an officer who stumbled". It was mocked, mercilessly

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The last Somalia leader to visit #Hargeisa was Siyad Barre, in 1986. He was toppled a few years later. His predecessor visited Somaliland in 1969 and promptly got shot in the head. No #Somalia politician set foot in Somaliland again. And yet they claim 'sovereignty' over us.

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@AmbJohnBolton Minor detail: It was their money.

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#Somaliland is not invited to the #AU meeting, but it does not mean we should not go. Hire a whole hotel wing. Hold dinners and parties for leaders, their wives, and mistresses. Invite influential people from selected countries. Make yourself heard. That is how causes are sold.

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#Djibouti hosts military naval bases for France, China, US, Japan and Italy. And yet is fighting tooth and nail to deny #Ethiopia creating a base in nearby #Somaliland . Why do Africans always despise fellow Africans while bosom hugging every Ferenji and Arab going?

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4 years

Berbera needs one world class hotel. A Hilton, Kampinski, Sheraton, Melia, Novotel etc. Why not invite them all; offer them a plot of land and show them the potential? Someone tell Ciddin how to do this.

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@RAbdiAnalyst Just about the most ridicolous political spin strategies ever invented. Massacring your own people and inviting a nasty neighbour to help you in the butchery and depicting the whole as a fight against America and Europe.

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Dr Edna lost her country to Somalia in 1960. Lost her husband to Somalia in 1969. Lost her family to Somalia in 1988. Lost her city to Somalia in 89 and her home in 90. Somalia is still trying to destroy the little country she rebuilt. Most human beings would understand her anger

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@TheNorfolkLion @ShehabKhan I think most 'Turkish' asylum seeker are actually Kurds and Armenians, two of the most persecuted populations in world history.

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Looks like #Egypt decided to fight Ethiopia to the last Somali.

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3 years

@RAbdiAnalyst Hitler nevet explicitly ordered the Shoa in his speeches. Interahamwe knew what Radio Soleil's 'cutting tall grasses' meant. General Morgan's 'Letter of Death' merely says 'replace' Isaqs with others. Genocidspeak is a language of nudges, winks and dog whistles

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@matthewsyed There is racism in Britain. Subtle and overt. As a black immigrant, I faced both. Including physical attacks by lowlifes on two occassions. But these things happen all over the world. Overall, Britain is simply one of the most tolerant places in the world for people of all races

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@RAbdiAnalyst Tigray will be a study in how NOT to conduct a 'Law Enforcement' expedition.

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3 years

Any update on @RAbdiAnalyst ? Have twitter @verified his account? If not why not? They 'verify' dictators, racists, killers, climate-change deniers and other assorted dodgies so why do they deny this degree of SM respectability to one of Africa's most principled Analysts?

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If the stories of #Rwanda accepting to process asylum seekers to #UK is true, it is an inspired arrangement from both sides. #Rwanda has been welcoming African refugees brutalised in Libya for years, so why not refugees from other countries and continents? Proud of #Rwanda

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#Somaliland govt has deported hundreds of people from Somalia over the last few days. Most of them were rounded up in Las Anod, a regional capital bordering #Somalia Some of the deportees have been given less than a day to collect their belongings and leave 1/5

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@RAbdiAnalyst There is something almost unethical in the kind of 'neutrality' toed by Western govts and their establishment NGOs including their media houses over African conflicts. To describe it as 'bothsidism' probably dignifies an attitude that is closer to 'plague on both their houses'

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@YolandeMakolo I watched that @AJEnglish discussion and you won it, hands down. It was interesting the only other African on the panel agreed with you while the two non-Africans pretended they really knew what was happening in #Rwanda

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Not a fan of Pres. Bihi, but this the first time a Somaliland leader carried out an act of 'disruption' that kicked some dust in the 'international order' that has been used as a knee on our neck for 33 years. More of this. We have nothing to lose.

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All those who support or sympathise with #Somaliland please request @elonmusk to add #Somaliland flag on X @haadka please start the campaign.

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@ayusuf009 @Salim8Said @RAbdiAnalyst @alihwarsame @MohamoudGaildon @ProfHusseinWar @faisalroble19 @Abukar_Arman @AxmedAssad @AhmedSixty Horrifying indeed. Dehumanisation of a group by calling them 'vermin', 'pests' etc is always a precursor to genocide. Africa must speak up. Now. @PaulKagame

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@RAbdiAnalyst The real question is, why is there not a single African country to make such statement? Waiting for America and the West to take a lead on our affairs painfully illustrates how Africa failed to manage its affairs.

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@AsstSecStateAF Landers should not be concerned by the standard diplomatic qualification about 'single Somalia'. Make no mistake, this is a huge policy shift by US in favour of Somaliland.

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Are @KagutaMuseveni and Uhuru Kenyatta's 'African solutions for African problems' agenda helping the situation or merely giving the international community a license to ignore the impending genocide? #Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #TigrayMassArrests @ForeignOfficeKE @RAbdiAnalyst

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@RAbdiAnalyst Turkey is in denial of the genocide it committed 100 years ago. It is unlikely to be concerned about genocide of an African race it knows nothing about.

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Siyad Barre will be looking down on him from hell and saying "Well done son! Even I did not have the cojones to sack a Hawiye in Mogadishu.."

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Inammo yaryar oo Hawiye ah ayaa maanta yidhi dhul Isaaq 'unuka leh' oo waxaa na siiyay nin la yidhaa sofaranty oo qabiilkiisana lagu sheegay reer la yidhaa taratoriyal intigaraty.

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@KemiBadenoch Well said. 'White privilege' is as racist as it is meaningless: I know whole white comnunities with not one 'O' level between them while 30% of Britain's Doctors are Asian.

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#Hargeisa has no roads, no parks, no green spaces, no civic facilities, no transport arteries and no sewage systems. But it does have a map, and a plan, of exactly where all should be, when time comes. You can't beat hope. #Somaliland #SomalilandVotes #Somalilandelections2021

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Somaliland's success is not only about creating a noisy, vibrant, grassroots democracy but the flowering of arts and literature. More books were published here in the last five years than all books published in a century. World literature is being translated at astonishing speed.

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Why Somaliland will never rejoin Somalia: They removed every door, door frame, window, window frame from every home, school, mosque and office building in bombed out towns and cities. They then mined the ruins.

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The rage Somalia leaders reacted to #Somaliland #Ethiopia deal is not about true Pan-Somali nationalism but a single-minded hatred for Somaliland and it's people. Some of them are the same socio-political forces that conducted the genocide against Somaliland between 1982-91

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Interesting that Ethiopia is mobilising a peasant army to fight in Tigray but have not as yet recalled it's 6000 strong force in UN peacekeeping missions or its forces in Somalia. Any views on this? @RAbdiAnalyst @martinplaut @wdavison10

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@premierleague Sounds Orwellian. Stick to football please. And money. 'Cash is our strength'. Much more honest.

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Today marks one of the darkest days in Somaliland's history. This day 60 years ago, a referendum was held to ratify the Union with Somalia. Landers have by then realised what horrific mistake they made and wanted out. They also knew Somalia will cheat so our main parties...1/2

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The man on the loudspeaker is a market trader in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He is declaring that lost property in the form of US dollars has been found in the market in early July. No claim has been made, so he is giving out a number for the owner to contact. Honesty still alive

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Nin suuqa Hargeysa makrifoon la dhex maraya oo dadweynaha ogeysiinaya lacag doolar ah oo laga dhex helay bacadlaha iyo telfoonka uu qofki lacagtaas lahaa cidda hadda haysa kala xidhiidhi karo .

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Somalis on Somaliland: "bomb them! Kill them all! Bradha Egypt and Bradha Tukri helps us annihilate them!" Same Somalis on Gaza "boo hooo wooo Muslim bradha Israel killing them! Muslim umma allah save them.." Apparently both reactions make perfect sense to the Somali

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Recognising Somaliland is good for Somalia. It may just realise that the world is getting tired of baby-sitting the most failed State in modern for 30 years, and paying for it by the Billion.

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Just in: Puntland is proposing to join Somaliland. New capital Buhotle. National Anthem "We hate each other, we hate each other, ...but we hate Mogadishu even more... " Istaqfurullah

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@RT_com @docglobalnomad Well said Mr President. Fantastic to see the world still has leaders who dare speak the truth! #Russia #Kremlin

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Somalia's elites are at each other's throats on everything from clan, god, faith and food aid looting. But they all unite on hating #Somaliland . Glad we could be of some help to our neighbours

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@PaulKagame Rwanda took principled risks by joining the Commonwealth. It is great to see those risks bearing fruit today, with Kigali hosting the #CHOGM2022

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#Somalilandis30 today. I can't believe it! Feels like yesterday when we returned to cities that looked like WW2 Dresdens in the desert. And to see it shine and fizz with life and noisy, dusty robust democracy... what a miracle! Happy days #Somaliland #SomalilandElections2021

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Somaliland enemies are rejoicing because of limited peaceful demos organised by some activists in Borame and Burao. They fail to understand that this is how democracies are supposed to behave: Different opinions; all respected. #Somaliland #Ethiopia

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@RAbdiAnalyst Ethiopia had a 'soft landing' in 91. Lets hope and pray it gets another break

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Just read this excellent piece by @Alexdewaal . It is about the Sudan Ethiopia fallout over Fashaga and so much more. It gives an insight into @AbiyAhmedAli naïve politicking lost Ethiopia allies and alienated friends.

Viewpoint: Why Ethiopia and Sudan have fallen out over al-Fashaga

A border dispute has led to armed clashes, deepening fears about insecurity in the region.

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Ethiopia should've recognised #Somaliland unconditionally and THEN negotiated access to the sea. Making the latter conditional on the former made the arrangement look grubby, and helped Somalia milk the victimhood card that serves it so well. But we are where we are. Stand firm.

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Accusations of Landers supposedly 'attacking' other Somalis in foreign countries like Kenya and America are utter camelwash. These individuals attacked Somaliland first, for no reason at all. Some Landers hit back to defend their besieged country. Corporal Jones was right.

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The 'peace, stability, democracy' mantra can get tiresome, but 'born free' does capture something of the soul of Somaliland. From the easy cultural self-confidence of its nomads to the mad house social egalitarianism to the natural democaracy of its politics. Born Free indeed

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@PaulKagame @DrTedros @WHO We know Rwanda will control it. Can you spare a medical unit to help Italy or Spain? Africa needs to help the world and not be perpetually recipients of help. Great leaders know this. The late Haile Sellassie sent shipments of food aid and coffee to England during floods of 1952

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@RAbdiAnalyst Ethiopians are civilised, soft-spoken people, a rare characteristic in Africa and the ME. But their leaders do have a tendency for petulant and melodramatic language, almost as bad that of Arab leaders. Is this statement one of those, or something altogether more sinister?

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@RAbdiAnalyst Arab delight and Africa's shame. A poor little carribbean Island, bullied and besieged and starved for 60 years by the biggest empire the world has ever known, has produced a vaccine while Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa could not produce a vial of placebo between them.

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@catielila Taiwan offers us hope of survival. Landers are an optimistic lot and they have been singing themselves into sleep with lullabies of recognition coming for 30 years. But on the darkest of moments we always say "Look at Taiwan; it survived and thrived despite facing a huge bully"

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I want someone in Somaliland to re-introduce cricket. The game was widely played before the failed union. Lets re-discover our commonwealth heritage. I am sure Indian cricket board will help us with training. Anyone wants to take up the challenge? #CricketTwitter #Somaliland

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@RAbdiAnalyst Some in the leadership seems to want it that way. Instead of showing magnanimity in victory and seeking reconciliation, they are posting bounties like Wild West sheriffs; profiling ordinary tigrayans, allowing Afwerki's men to loot and holding disturbing graduation ceremonies.

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@RAbdiAnalyst Fantastic to hear this from one of Africa's greatest intellects. Blaming our failures on long gone colonialism implies we have no agency of our own and no control over our destiny. Worst of all it lets our venal and failed post independence leaders off the hook. It needs to stop

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Will America's unprincipled and ill-informed condemnation of #TDF 's advance give greenlight to Asmara to invade #Tigray again thus making the war more bloody and more genocidal than it already is? What was @SecBlinken thinking? @SecDef @USAmbUN @TiborPNagyJr

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Somalia claims Somaliland had been part of Somalia for 62 years. In that time Somalia had 12 presidents, none of them a Lander. Only two of the 12 ever set foot in Somaliland. One was shot in the head the moment he Landed. The other ended up dying in Nigeria after trying genocide

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This grainy photo is of Asha 'Halgan' whose nom de guerre means 'Struggle' one of the few female SNM fighters who took part in the liberation of Somaliland in 1988 -91. Her unit were in the thick of the fighting in the battle for Hargeisa in May 1988. We remember them

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Gabadhani waa Caasha Halgan oo ka mid ahayd haweenkii ka tirsanaa Mujaahidiintii SNM ee dalka Somaliland u soo halgamay. Caasha Halgan ayaa waxa ay ka tirsanayd Guutadii Sancaani ee Hargeysa soo galay.

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This is a clear call to genocide. Is Africa and the world going to wait and watch for another Rwanda to happen?

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After losing conventional war, Amhara extremists stepping up messages calling for genocide against Tigrayans. Real danger extremists may use defeat to turn on Tigrayans. A Facebook post by one extremist, Dejene Assefa, accurately translated by @timnitGebru , illustrates threat:

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@DAmdebrhan @RAbdiAnalyst Once peace returns, #Tigray could make billions by promoting its ancient ties to early Islam. Hundreds of millions of Muslim would pay to follow in the first footsteps of the early Hijra Muslims. It is astonishing Ethiopia never promoted its Islamic heritage before.

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Somalia's Darodists should reflect before inflaming conflict in Somaliland. Darod rule Puntland, Jubbaland, DDS and half of Southwest. They are either President or PM in Mogadishu. They run NFD. And yet they are gunning for Las Anod. War hoy kibirka waa lagu kufaa ka halla ogaado

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@manenbu @Somaliland26jun It is called Daallo and it is a mountainous area in Somaliland that gets a bit more rain than the desert around it. It is so remote that it has endemic succulents and many believe huge varieties of plants unknown to botany.

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@KatyFBrand I have just been to place they have similar problem with rich black men thinking they are entitled to do whatever they want: Somaliland. Please tell them, on behalf of the people of Somaliland, to eff off!

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@RAbdiAnalyst Western media traditionally reported on African conflicts in a dismissive, pitying and patronising way. It depicted them as 'incomprehensible' 'tribal bush wars'. Not so with the Ethiopian conflict. They seem to get it; see an aggressor and victim and report it accordingly

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If Ethiopia has been bullied into abandoning the MoU by a middling Islamist Eurasian power like Turkey, it will be a huge loss of prestige for Ethiopia, the oldest nation in the black world.

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How is it OK for #Somalia to recognise Eritrea but not OK for Ethiopia to recognise #Somaliland ? This is the question @AbiyAhmedAli should ask the Somalia President next time they meet.

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@RAbdiAnalyst How did @AbiyAhmedAli end up with Eritrea and Somalia as his only 'allies' in the region, when these are precisely the two countries whose national strategic interest is to weaken and divide Ethiopia? How did that happen? Who is advising him?

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Fed-up with British media's use of black families as canvasses to paint their pity and poverty agenda. Watch any news item about poverty and misery and the chances are black faces will be wheeled out first. Just watched @BBCNews about laptop poverty. All black @TrevorPTweets

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@RAbdiAnalyst The TPLF did not behave with much dignity or grace when they lost national power three years ago, but both them and TDF have been remarkable in their restraint and civility throughout this genocidal war conduced against their people.

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Somaliland Person of The Decade. my nominees in no particular order: 1. Edna Adan 2. Jama Muse Jama 3. Dr. Sada Mire 4. Ismail Ahmed ( WorldRemit) 5. Ayan Mohamoud 6. Jonathan Starr 7. Prof. Suleiman Guled 8. Prof. Samatar Add as you please

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Our #Somalia neighbours claim we should be one country because "we share culture, religion etc". Here is a fact: Hargeisa is culturally, physically and ethnically closer to Diredawa and Jijiga than it is to Mogadishu and Kismayo. Shall we join #Ethiopia ? Dont think so.

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#Somaliland media is probably the freest in the world. And among the worst. Untrained journalists write whatever they like. No libel laws or any other checks and balances. Equally unprofessional police get fed up with their antics and arrest them. #Somaliland image gets tarnished

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Lasanod conflict showed how robust Somaliland democracy is. MP's disagreed, and some even supported the uprising. Civil society rallied to help the displaced. Everyone expressed their views in complete freedom. Debates raged and discussions heated. No one got arrested.

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Here is my wish list from tomorrow's Presidential address to the nation and the world: 1. Announce the expulsion of Somalia-branded organisations 2. Create Somaliland Airforce 3. Name a woman to the vacant FM position What are yours? #Somalilandis30 @musebiihi

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An independent, prosperous Somaliland is politically, economically and strategically beneficial for Somalia, Djibouti and Ogaden. I challenge any analyst, strategist or visionary leader to study this and come to any other conclusion @IsmailOguelleh @RAbdiAnalyst @adancabdulle

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This is the Ethiopian Prime Minister sending a message of solidarity to the victims of the #HargeisaFire . It will be great to receive offers of support from other African leaders, particularly from @PaulKagame Rwanda is the only country that takes urban H&S seriously

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3 years

Waxaan aad uga naxay, kana tiiraanyooday dabka ka kacay Suuq-weynaha badhtamaha Hargeysa, kaas oo khasaare ballaadhan u geystay hantidii Shacabka. Hadda lama qiyaasi karo Khasaarahaas. Waxaannu Shacabka Somaliland La qaybsanaynaa murugada dhibkaas ku yimid.

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@ForeignOfficeKE @AbabuNamwamba The two have great deal in common. They are the only democracies in the region and share historic links going back at least a century. They shared everything from currency to national curriculum for 50 years and Somaliland Kenyan community has deep roots in Kenya

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@RAbdiAnalyst And it looks his ally and mentor Mr Afwerki has abandoned Abiy to his fate, having masterfully achieved his strategic goal of weakening Ethiopia so fundamentally that it poses no threat to his country for the forseeable future.

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Worst case scenario: 1. Egypt and Turkey pour arms to Somalia 2. It buys more from North Korea and China 3. West does nothing 4. Somaliland gets forced to seek support from Russia and Iran 4. Bab-el Mandab gets shut 5. Egypt's economy sinks; prices inflation goes up across Europe

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@BBCAfrica @Kadarnouh Isnt it wonderful to hear a positive story about Africa, in this time of panic and fear? Well done Beeb. For once.

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@GuidoFawkes @JamesDuddridge Starmer's nightmare is back.

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Ethiopia sent its highest level delegation to Somaliland in 30 years. Ministers of Transport and Finance attended the inauguration of the first phase of the enlargement of Berbera port by @DP_World . Has Addis at last recognised the strategic importance of Berbera and Somaliland?

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@shariahaisha @Ayaanle_bdi I am with the women on this one. The State has no business telling women how to dress.

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