r/Somalilanders

I never seen a group so hateful and war mongering than them. What makes it worse is that they all live in Western countries but love seeing our people get hurt while sipping their matchas comfortably. There is absolutely no discourse and anyone who opposes their opinion is considered a bot or even worse. Shameless individuals, but on the bright side i’ve been coming to your sub. You guys seem pretty chill and positive. Keep this attitude and wish you all nothing but the best.

Listen, I’m not here to complain, and I’m not here to criticize the government, but there are a lot of opportunities, and I’ve kept saying this over and over. I’ve been talking to a lot of people, reflecting, and researching this because one thing is really hard for me to accept: the government needs to hold itself accountable. There is a lot of wealthy diaspora, doctors, lawyers, business people, middle-class people, and diaspora from all different levels who would love to contribute to their country, Somaliland. But what most people do, because they feel obligated, is send money directly to their relatives. I talked about this a couple months ago: suppose the government opened an investment fund for the diaspora, and because people are patriotic and want to help, $50 million is raised within two months. What happens if there is no transparency, no auditing, and suddenly that $50 million disappears? I’m not saying this happened—this is completely hypothetical—but this is the concern I heard from people while I was in Somaliland. I was walking around, talking to locals and business people, asking genuine questions and doing it respectfully because I didn’t want to come in too strong. And that’s what makes this heartbreaking, especially now when the cost of living is skyrocketing and even bread is getting more expensive. I would genuinely love to donate $400,000 of my own money to my country. When I introduced myself in this subreddit back in May, I said I was a businessman, and I’m still a businessman today. If you scroll through this subreddit from May through late August, you’ll see all the posts I made and everything I was talking about. Coming from Somaliland gave me a completely new perspective on life, but at the same time, where can I donate my money and actually track it? What is going to be done with it? I really want to help our people, but this is exactly what I mean when I say the government needs to hold itself accountable. There are diaspora out there willing to give whatever they can—$5, $20, $100, or much more. I’m personally willing to put up $400,000, but I’m terrified that my money could end up being used to buy land or build another five-star hotel, because that seems to be what’s trending right now—everybody building hotels, with a bunch of copycats. And honestly, that is heartbreaking when there are so many other needs in Somaliland.

I’ve only been to hargeisa once in 2018 with my family and it was good. My parents never talked to me about qabil and I’ve only come to know about this as an adult. When I was in hargeisa I was getting treated good my grandfather uncles aunts all of my mums side was great. I don’t support what’s been happening with lascanood in the past few years but what would people think of me if I was to go to somaliland today. Back then there wasn’t as much issues between these two clans.

I know you take the clan from your father and somaliland is majority Isaaq I don’t if the mothers clan has any significance. I love both people and have no animosity to either side because at the end of the day we are all ethnically somali.

Does Dhulbahante get treated badly in somaliland regardless of the mother’s clan and I don’t want a sugarcoated answer. I was planning to go to hargeisa see family and also go lascanood as I have never been before.

As the war intensifies in Ethiopia, its most strategic lifeline is the port of Djibouti and the railway built that cuts directly through afar land.

Up until now Ethiopia has not utilised the port of Berbera for various reasons, and its yet to value its strategic asset. But as the war intensifies in Ethiopia somaliland should be building its leverage and pushing the narrative that this gate way through Djibouti is at a huge risk of attacks and potentially being seized by factions at war with the government, as this would cause a huge blow to the Abby regime.

This would in fact automatically reposition Berbera as the lifeline to Ethiopia, considering its buffer zone which is the Somali region, who are neutral in the ongoing conflict. Guaranteeing safety and security.

Personally think somaliland should be spending a lot of time and effort in creating this propaganda and trying to realign stakeholders into utilising Berbera, especially for humanitarian aid due to the ongoing conflict.

There’s no better time to take disrupt the monopoly Djibouti has over Ethiopia.

Are our leaders strategic enough to think like this? Let me know what you think guys.

Recently saw a tweet of a somali kid just make a racist comment and someone responded without even saying anything bad about somalis in return just calling out the lil guy and he responded with even worse racism and it genuinely bombed that tweet with an insane ratio of likes and people abusing that innocent girl, I genuinely thought to myself how can someone just summon an entire group of people while being in the wrong. No one genuinely has as much internet coordination as the blue somalis and wallahi thats why they always seem so adamant on bumping us to have bad reputations so they can pull us down with them which is why i always see them say some nonsensical shit when a lander corrects someone on geopolitics in somaliland, an example where ive seen someone's tweet get blitzed for correcting someone claiming laas geel is in mogadishu, when it was infact like 10 KM from hargeisa, they genuinely have such a massive internet infestation you could call it the only online country in the world