u/Electrical-Mud-712

Somaliland released a statement regarding Somalia president's recent Al Jazeera interview

I like how much they used "Somalian" in the statement kkkk.

We eating well tonight 😄

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 12 days ago

Iconic photograph

SNM fighter shoots portrait of afweyne in saylac.

photograph was taken by Alexander Joe for AFP in October 1989.

Edit: The portrait is Husein Kulmiye afrah, Afweyne's chief of police

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 13 days ago

Short somali story published in the Somaliland protectorate press in 1953 by Muse galal (AUN) using the latin script he devised

One of the features galal introduced at this point was the double vowel which is an important part of the Somali script today.

Galal's research was labelled "a foreign ploy against islam" by the people in Hargeisa. Which led to him moving to muqdisho in the 1950s but syl would also opt to use the Arabic script as well.

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 13 days ago

Prehistoric shellfish feast off the coast of berbera 3500 years ago.

Every dot in this picture is a mollusk shell consumed 3500 years ago on this site off the coast of berbera across 4.5 KMs. These sites have been revealed by the movement of the sand dunes by the wind

Imagine what else remains hidden under the sand dunes

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 13 days ago

Xiis Sanaag

Where Africa met Europe and asia 2000 years ago. The Greeks knew xiis as mundus and it was a trade hub along with avalites ( zeila or buloxar) and malao (berbera)

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 14 days ago

Hargeisa Debates Platform

If you're in Hargeisa and want to contribute to our national dialogue you can join the Hargeisa debate group. It's non governmental, non political and non profit organization. They host various somali / foreign academicians too.

https://www.hargeisadebates.com/

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 24 days ago

Somaliland constitution regarding religou beliefs.

You have freedom of beliefs as long as you don't renounce your default beliefs 😀

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 30 days ago

Last night's interview was an embarrassment

Cirro was not prepared at all. His team failed him. We need to elect educated people, we can't continue like this with these old heads.

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u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 1 month ago

Houthis seize yemeni port of Mocha.

Iran's proxies are closing in on completely blockading the bab al mandeb connecting it to iran's strategic leverage in the region.

This will be negative for SL economically but it enhances our strategic position. The potential of us becoming a military deterrence that safeguards the bab al madeb in the future is 📈📈

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u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 1 month ago

Gaariye said it best (AUN)

Rough translation:

"Whatever race/ancestry he might have, he is nevertheless my kin/ally so long as we share an outlook and are united by a single purpose"

No amount of fake ethno nationalism cries from our neighboring country will change that🫡🫡

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 1 month ago

Any time i feel like reminding myself why we'll never be part of somalia i visit r/somalia

They always have the daily “let’s ridicule Somaliland and its people” post.

What do you guys say? Should we make it a tradition too? We all know how embarrassing Somalians on TikTok are. I wouldn’t mind posting one video to laugh at per day. But we’ll have to turn the other cheek as usual.

They post about us significantly more than we do. Should we change that?

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 1 month ago

Horseback driveby training

We have a long equestrian 🐎 tradition in Somaliland. Many of the clans in Somaliland had historically renowned cavalries by the end of the 1800s. When the British encountered us in the 19th century most clans kept a standing cavalry of 100-200 horses.

Video Credit to @garboole🐪 on YouTube. He posts authentic videos of life in the miyi. Lets support him he has 40k subs

u/Electrical-Mud-712 — 1 month ago