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2009-12-09T02:26:00.003-07:00

2009-07-27T00:17:00.001-06:00

The first I met you was the first time I realize happiness of this world
Ask my self where I met you first time
When you was with me it was full of happiness
In midnight I see your image in front of me
When I wake up look around there is nothing
During the day I search your step
Whenever I am walk in the alley I hear your name
When I see your tears it makes me dead
When I look back I don’t see you
The first I met you was the first time I realize happiness of this world

No lady has the beauty u got
Your smiles make me happy and rich
When you come close to me
I feel that I am in paradise
Your kiss is meaningful to me
When you said to me I love you
It makes me feel good
I waste my time for you
I fought everybody because of you
You are the only person I trust in this world
Every min your image is with me
You name is in my heart
The first I met you was the first time I realize happiness of this world

Life without you is good for nothing
Life Without your smile is nix
The last day you said to me I hate you
I became dead.
I was try make you happy every time but the time didn’t give chance
You are the only person I want in this world
The last day I sit with you was my last day in this planet
I can’t erase your name in my heart
I can’t forget your beautiful smile
Your sweet words
The way you used say to me I love you
When I miss u my life became empty
The first I met you was the first time I realize happiness of this world

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THE HELL IN WESTERN SOMALI PEOPLE

2009-05-13T13:28:00.000-06:00

The hell in Ogadenia region (western Somali people)

The Ogadenia war is the one of longest war in the Africa. Why the Ogadenia people are not getting freedom? The Ogadenia rebels were fighting for long time and they didn’t get freedom but the Ogadenia people have still hope that will get one nation day. Why every president of Somalia is ignoring the Ogadenia people. They are trying to solve the problem of Somali people but they don’t see where the main enemy of Somali lives. If the Somali people want to get one government then they have to come to ogaden region and fight with the JWXO rebels because if they start fight like 1977 then they will succeed for sure. The Ogadenia region is part of Somalia not Ethiopia because they citizen of Ogadenia region don’t like the Ethiopia government and Ogadenia region doesn’t belong to one Qabil but all Somali people belong this region, it is where the most famous Somali people came from. Somali people have to wake up kick out the word Qabil because wherever you go in the world you will not find Qabil so why are we using Qabil? Lets be brothers and sisters one Somali nation. There is some hope and the enemy becomes weaker and weaker. The Ogadenia region is like hell and there is no place like the region of ogadenia even Darfur is not same as Ogadenia region. The government of Ethiopia is just pretending to help the ogadenia but they are not helping them but they are trying to start war between the people of ogadenia while the some people don’t see this enemy. If you go ogadenia then you will see the reality in ogadenia. I travelled last summer in ogadenia and I saw that the people dying starvation likewise they can’t use any kind of communication to communicate their people; those who live outside of the region or inside of the region. The people can’t travelled inside of the region or outside of the region even the whole cities in ogadenia region don’t have electricity but if they have they can’t get regular electricity because they government of Ethiopia don’t want. The ogadenia region and the Oromo region are largest regions in Ethiopia but the majority of the people are illiteracy because they don’t have good education likewise the ogadenia region don’t have better medical services but if you go region where the PM came from is better than any region in Ethiopia. The ogadenia and the Oromo region are the worst region in Ethiopia in terms of schools, medical, transportation and communication. The governments are killing the innocent people because they are Somali ethnic. May ALLAH give peace the people of Somalia and Ogadenia Region

By abdi Mohamed dahir

Free Makhtal!!! Free Makhtal !!! Free Makhtal !!!

2009-05-13T12:36:00.003-06:00

Edmonton, AB — Free Makhtal-Working Coalition, a coalition of citizens, Human right, Civic Organization and residents of Canada, holding a town hall meeting to raise awareness about the plight of Bashir Makhtal, a Canadian Citizen who has been held in an Ethiopian prison for almost three years. Under the guise of the war on terror, Mr. Bashir Makhtal of Toronto, was illegally detained by the Kenyan Government in 2006 and without any court proceeding, was transferred to a military prison in Ethiopia.
Much of that time, Mr. Makhtal has not had access to legal representation nor have the charges against him ever been placed in front of a judge until early 2009. Canadian citizens and government must come to theaid of their fellow Canadian.
As Honourable Minister John Baird has noted, "the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been very involved in Bashir's case. Three consecutive Foreign Ministers, Peter Mackay, David Emerson, and Lawrence Cannon, have pressured Ethiopian officials on this matter", however unfortunately, Bashir is still behind bars, and the Ethiopian governments process is dragging on It is evident that the Canadiangovernment needs to exert more pressure and find new avenues to help bring Bashir home.
This type of extraordinary renditions where any country can imprison anyone at anytime with out any legal protection is against the laws and conventions of the international community. During his imprisonment inEthiopia, Mr. Makthal has informed us that he was repeatedly subjected to torture and cruel treatment from Ethiopian security personnel.
Please support this great cause and join the Free-Makhtal Working Coalition, in Edmonton, on Sunday May 10, 2009, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Stanley A. Milner Library, regarding Mr. Makhtal's plight andto get more information on how you can help. Distinguished Members of Parliament, human rights practitioners, noted professor, and other experts will lead the discussions and plan of implementation.
For questions or press information, please contactYassin Kassim at (780) 914-2226and jawaabo@yahoo.com

Poem in living Memory of Dr Dolaal

2009-05-03T15:59:00.003-06:00

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Poem in living Memory of Dr Dolaal, By Kambata Xoola, Sidama National

Halkan kadaawo sawiradii xuskii Dr M S. Doolaal

Dearest Brothers ONLF,

I really felt my heart broken. I know Dr Dolaal very well and had several discusions, various communications, telphone chats about the plights of our nations. His loss remains immessurable and his legacy lives with us forever. We raise his anthem and slogan untill we see our nations liberated.

Poem in living Memory of Dr Dolaal
By Kambata Xoola, Sidama National

O!! Ogadenia, O!! Ogadenia the land of heroes,
You’re dynamic land -whose people’s heroism,
Draws the attention of the global nations,
Whose resistance shaken barbaric Abyssinians,
Please listen to me your ears wide open!!

Tell me what tragedy has unfolded,
Explain to me why bad news has been rumoured,
Don’t hid from me if you have explanation,
Tell me why you have allowed this to happen,
To your ultimate hero a pride to his nation!!

O!! you hero; an icon of freedom struggle,
Whose principle was indefatigable,
Whose intellect was formidable,
Whose purpose was liberating its people,
You ultimate hero Ogaden Somali Dolaal,
Your enthusiasm was eternal and
remains between us active and alive!!

Though why, let me ask you why you hero?
Why death for you before you see your peoples freedom?
Why eternal rest for you before you achieve you Objectives?
Why death for you who’s inspiration to all?
Why have you decided to remain silent
While your people needs you more?
Why did you allow your enemies to rejoice?
Why didn’t say ‘no’ to the death angels?
Why did you make us feel in the middle of desert?
Why did you go away bearing the burden of the nation
at this needy time?

I know your indefatigability and heroism
I know your unshakable believe in your people’s liberty
That doesn’t surrender to defeatism!!

Yes, you have dreamt day and night seeing your people free
You have envisaged this in your decry
Yet you given-in before that all,
My heart goes with you forever dearest comrade Dolaal!!

Yet I believe that your fellow country men and women,
Will raise your slogan to free your land,
To uphold your undying courage and principles,
Your determination and heroic resistance spirits,
That’s shaken the foundation of the colonisers,
Until the enemy is made to learn appropriate lessons!

O!! Yes, O! Yes, I truly swear!
I remain appreciating your principles and values,
I announce your slogan to the global nations,
The sufferings of your nation and other peoples,
Under the Abyssinian brutal colonisers,
With strong conviction and courage
to continue to teach lessons the brutalisers!!

But, but still I argue unequivocally that,
Death is ultimate death for those who have already dead,
Death is curse for those who have already surrendered,
Death is eternal for those who torture defenceless,
Death is punishment for those who brutalise helpless!!

Yet, you have passed away to live eternally,
You left us with living memory and immortal legacy,
You thought us how to defend our freedom and liberty,
You have produced hundreds of millions to stand against brutalizers,
To punish those who torture and massacre your people,
To expose their hidden secrets and
Democracy decorated ugly faces,
You remain in every ones all round lives,
Although the shock about your sudden-rest forever reverberates!!

Therefore, Sincerely,
I send you a living greetings and swear not to surrender,
I solemnly promise to be your principles defender,
With your people and the others subjugated nations,
We shall bring an end for Abyssinian occupiers!!
We promise to keep your dream alive,
By making your spirit amongst us survive!!
By making you heroic resistance amongst us survive!!

With deepest Condolences in Living Memory of Dr Dolaal,
(On behalf of the Sidama nation)
By Kambata Xoola, Sidama National

We knew him as a true son of Ogaden and one of them is Dr. Dooolaal

2009-04-05T15:51:00.002-06:00

On Saturday, 17 January 2009, Dr. Mohammed Sirad Dolaal was killed by enemy fire while he was carrying out his duty: defending the people and the land he loved the most. The loss of freedom fighter is not new for our people as thousands of brave ogadenis, young, old, men and women, paid the highest price, their life, defending their dignity, freedom, families, communities, property and country throughout the last century. Many more thousand of our people, from all walks of life will sacrifice their life as long as Ethiopia’s occupation of our land continues. The loss of the great Dolaal is therefore no way surprise. The news about the loss of Dr. Dolaal, however, was neither easy to swallow nor digest for our people. It is understandable. Dr. Dolaal was one of the longest serving ONLF members in our struggle against the repression, humiliation, and occupation of Ogaden Somali people. As high ranking member of ONLF He left no stone unturned to liberate his people from the jaws of the brutal Ethiopian occupation. We knew him as a true son of our land. We knew him as a highly respected defender and mentor of our rightful cause. We knew him as a brave Somali son who did not compromise the freedom of the Somali people. His determination to see an independent Ogaden and a free Somali people was unshakeable.
Dr. Dolaal could live a comfortable life, with his beloved wife and kids, in London but chose to fight the injustice, killings, massacres, displacements and subjugation of our people.
As a citizen of that occupied land, as a member of that brutalized people who is denied all kind of God given rights, as a fellow brother of Dr Dolaal, I feel the same grief and sorrow, my fellow Somali people express over the loss of Dr. Dolaal. I, however, also feel stronger, more focused and determined than yesterday. I, dare, say this because I do know what Dolaal stood for: he was “a symbol for our resistance against Ethiopia’s occupation of our land”. His ideology was clear: “fight for what is yours and never give up” a point he succeeded to plant in the hearts of our people. Dr dolaal has prepared his people - us, to continue the struggle for our rightful existenceas as nation and as a free people in this planet. He sawed the valuable freedom seeds at every corner of our Ogadenland. He was with us throughout the long journey to make sure that we are at the right side of the history, to quote president Obama. Throughout human history, Colonisers and dictators like Melese Zenawi try to defend what is indefensible and justify the massacres of thousands of innocent civilians. The history, however, prove them wrong every time. Woyane regime is not going to be an exception; they will be the ugly losers of the fight between our freedom fighters and them. One such case happened just few weeks ago. Woyanes lost the fight against our Somali brothers in southern Somalia. They could no longer bear the heat and pressure of the fight demonstrated by our brave brothers. I am sure that we, too, will be the winners of this struggle.
To my people!
I am trying to reach you-my people, in every corner of the world. Raise your heads up! The fight for our right to self determination is not optional. We can not accept to be marginalized and harassed, by woyane or the next one, in our home land. Let us stand together as one people. Say no to Ethiopia’s aggression, no to colonisation, no to starvation. United we stand, divided we fall. Dr. dolaal sacrificed his life for all of us: Somali people. We are one people: Somali. Together we shall win our freedom and defeat the occupation. I blame no one for the killing of Dr. Dolaal but the enemy woyanes and their Collaborator Ilay and the likes. If any one of you doubt about what Dr. Dolaal wished last seconds of his life it was to defeat the century old injustice in Ogaden. My fellow citizens, let us make sure that the dream of Dr. Dolaal, our dream and tomorrow generations dream, too, become true. These dreams can only be achieved by standing up for our cause. Let us finish the house, Dr. Dolaal and the many thousands ogadenis sacrificed their precious life for. They built the foundation, erected all the walls and covered with a solid enemey-proof roof. They left the windows and doors to be fixed by us. Easy job: yes! But it will not be easy job if we are divided and do what the woyane want us do. Woyanne wants to divide us so that we never finish that house. Woyanes or the next aggressors do not need to fight us if we now let them achieve their goal. Please, Let us honour Dr. dolaal and our freedom fighters accomplishment by fixing the doors and windows of our family shelter- Ogadenland. if not, I am afraid that, the starvation, disease, wind, storm, rain, sun and cold will fight us instead of woyannes. Let us support our struggle and Contribute to the common cause of our people. Kill the clan virus and the mother of all fiasco. Alone, you are nothing. Together, we are everything; it is what is needed to be a free man!
Allah give us unity and strength !
Dr. Dolaal: rest in peace!
Long life ONLF heroes!

Ogaden heroes don’t die.
A poem for Dr. Dolaal
By Sadiq A. Abdirahman

Wake up Doc ones more prove them wrong,
I know you can hear me, tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

My head spins in sorrow disbelieve,
No human-being can dare parade a body in torment,
They are shallow animals awaiting termination,
Undignified of their callous exploit,

Wake up Doc ones more prove them wrong,
I know you can hear me, tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

Brave men like you are indispensable,
A whole nation is engulfed in your loss,
Our heart and soul are always with you,
Forever indebt to your service,

Wake up Doc ones more prove them wrong,
I know you can hear me, tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

Dead isn’t rare, it waits us all, but a few pass the test,
None can compare your life long mission, even,
Dying your way struggling for the best,

Wake up Doc ones more prove them wrong,
I know you can hear me, tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

You look so peaceful lying there,
Where your father Sirad Dolaal rest,
A hero as well, you followed his lead,
True to your passion like a father and son,

Wake up Doc ones more prove them wrong,
I know you can hear me, tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

Freedom solutes you,
Heaven treasures you deeply,
And I will miss you greatly,

“Hodeen” my friend, rest in peace,
Forever until end of time,

I will tell them Cowards,
Ogaden heroes don’t die,

2009-03-24T21:02:00.000-06:00

THE HISTORY OF ONE OF SOMALI HERO-Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

2009-03-19T16:04:00.005-06:00

Sayid Maxamad Cabdulle Xassan
(born 1856 - died 1921)

Waxaa Qormadan isku soo duba riday, mahadi ha ka gaadhee, Mudane Axmed F. Cali "Idaajaa":

Sayid Maxamad waxa uu dhashay 1856 Gu'gii la magac baxay "Gobaysane". Gu'gaas waxa uu ahaa Gu' Barwaaqo ah oo dad iyo duunoba wixii dhashay Hano Qaad noqdeen. Sayid ku waxa uu ku dhashay Baliga la yiraahdo "Sacmadeeqo" oo Todobo mayl (7miles) u jirta Buuhoodle, kana xiga dhanka waqooyi. Hooyadiis waxaa la oran jiray Carraseed Magan. Qur'aanka Kariimka ah waxa uu ku bartay gurigooda. Cilmiga Diinta waxa uu ka bartay xer daganayd Nugaal;oo xaruntoodu ahayd dooxada Casuura iyo Yaaheed. 1892 waxa uu u kacay Maka iyo Madiina waxayna is raaceen saddex iyo toban wadaad oo ay isku xer ahaayeen. Saddex sano ama labo Gu iyo dhowr xagaa ayay ku maqnaayeen kobtaas oo ay diinta ka baranayeen. 1895 ayuu Sayid Maxammad ku ka soo dagay Magaalada xeebta ah ee Berbera, oo markaas Ingiriisku gumaysanayay. Markuu sayidku ka soo degay doontii uu saarnaa ayaa Ingiriiskii waydiiyeen canshuur. Sayidku waxa uu ugu jawaabay adiga yaa kaa qaadey canshuurtii kolkaad timid halkan.

Intaasi aan ku soo koobno taariikhda Sayid Maxamed Abdulle Xassan dhalashadiisa ku saabsan.

Markana aynu u guda galno Taariikhda Soomaalidii uu Ingiriisku ku adeegan jiray & Sayid Maxamed cabdulle Xassan:

Ingiriiska iyo Soomaalidii uu ku adeegan jirey ee uu dagaalka Sayidka u soo kaxaysatay waxay in badan ku eedeeyeen inuu wadaadku dhiigyacab ahaa oo aan sokeeye iyo shisheeye u kala soocnayn. Ilaa maantana waxaa la helayaa dad badan oo soomaali ah oo ay weli maskaxdooda ku dambayso raadkii dacaayadda shisheeyaha iyo wadaaddadii Soomaalida ahaa ee sida tooska ah Sayidka ula muransanaa.

Maamulkii gumeysiga iyo Soomaalidii ay isbahaysteeni markay eedda caynkaas ah Sayidka iyo Daraawiishta saarayeen ma xusi jirin duullaammadii iyo weerarradii colka iyo gaadahaba lahaa ee madax iyo minjo toona aan loo kala sooci jirin, xarumaha Daraawiishtana lagu soo qaadi jirey. Ma ay xusi jirin raggii talada Sayidka la wadey ee maagga iyo sida gardarrada ah Fardhiddin iyo Jidbaale xabbadda loogu leefsiiyey, mana xusi jirin wixii ay xoolo dhaqeen ee Ingiriiska iyo dadkii ay wada socdeeni ay dhaca kula meeri jireen. Ma ay xusi jirin inta jeer ee ay Sayid Maxamed kaga oohiyeen, markay dhegta dhiigga u dareen boqollaal nin-door wada ah oo ay daraawiishi ku dhisnayd. Bal si ka-fiirsi leh u akhri meerisyadan kugu qasbaya inaad Sayidka la oydo oo aad dhankiisa ka soo jeesato:

Eebbow geyiga oo dhan waa nalaga guulaaye
Waa noo gedleeyaan dadkii gaalada ahaay
Eebbow Giriig kolay ku tahay nala gamuunneeye!
Go'na lagama qaadine dulmay nagu gelaayaane
Gabbaad kale hadday noo helaan waa gam'i lahayne
Eebbow waxay nagu gabreen diinta soo gala e!
Eebbow garka haddaan qabsaday gaaxshe nabaddiiye
Eebbow gammaan iyo waxaan gini-cas dhiibaayey
Eebbow garow kagama helin goolashadaan wadaye!
Ganbalaaligii bay warmaha nagu garraaxeene
Eebow waa gumaadeen raggii gaanaha ahaaye
Eebbow waxay gebawareen Gaaguf iyo Xayde!
Xirsigii garaaraha lahaa Gaarrufkii dile e
Geydhaale Aw-Aadan bay galawga taabteene
Eebow geesigii Ina-Dherey ugu guduudsheene
Guxushaaga Baynaxa ilmadu waa tan gabaxlayne
Gorroska Muuse-taaganaa wadnuhu ila gariiraaye
Eebbow ways gamaamaa markuu gaarka soo maro e!

Meerisyadaas aannu soo sheegnay waxay ku jiraan gabayada Sayidka kuwa loogu jecel yahay mid ka mid ah. Waa gabayga 'Gudban' amase 'Gaalo-leged' lagu magacaabo ee, aftahanimmada suugaaneed ka sokow, in badan inoo muujin karaya waayihii Daraawiishta iyo, xilligii isaga la tiriyey, welwelkii iyo hammigii hoggaamiyahooda. Waa meerisyo tusaale kaa siin kara dhibaatooyinkii Ingiriis iyo Soomaalidii horkacaysey ay Daraawiish u geysteen, rag wixii ay ka laayeen, gardarradii ay hadba ula iman jireen Soomaalidii uu had iyo goor xoolaha iyo lacagta ku miisi jirey siday ugu gacan-sayreen. Qalbi murugeysan isagoo wada ah oo Eebbe-weyne u cabanaya ayuu kuu tawaawacayaa:

"Eebbow, dhulkii aannu lahayn meel aan ka degno nalooga dhaarey. Eebbow gaalo iyo cawaankeed waa noo gooddiyaan. Eebbow, Giriigga aan aad u kala fog nahayba ha ku ahaatee, nin waliba birta naga aslay. Eebbow, eed kama aannu geline, waa gardarro waxa ay noo gumaadayaan. Eebbow, dhibaatooyinka ay nagu hayaan waan ka seexan kari lahayn, haddii utun aan ka qabnaa ay jiri lahayd. Eebbow, waa diinta ha la taageero oo jahaadka ha loo soo baxo. Eebbow, nabaddii iyo waanwaantii aan la ag-taagnaa la iga hoos-qaadi waa'.

"Eebbow, waxay ciriidda jiifiyeen Darwiishkii Xasan-Gaarruf Axmed iyo Xayd Aadan Gallaydh. Eebbow, Xirsi-waal Maxamuud ayay Jidbaale gaalo iyo cawaankeed ku mawtiyeen. Eebbow, Aw-Aadan Seed iyo Xaaji Maxamuud dheri ayay ugu shubeen. Eebbow, garcaddaaga gaboobey ee Baynaxa Aadan Gallaydh waa taa ay ilmadu dhabannadiisa qoysey, markii ay god-aakhiro u direen saddexdii Darwiish ee uu dhalay, goobtii Jidbaalena ruuxda lagu weysiiyey. Eebbow wadnahaygu waa gariiraa, markaan arko Muuse-taagane Jaamac oo keligii kolba murugo meel la taagan. Eebbow, ma eego e, wejiga ayaan ka dadbaa, markaan arko isaga oo naxdin la dalanbaabbiyaaya oo gocanaaya afartii Darwiish ee uu dhalay, Jidbaalena gaalo iyo Soomaalidii waddey ay ku makaleen'.

Wuxuu Ilaah u cawdo iyo wuxuu u ashtakoodaba, wuxuu dhibaatadii la soo gaarsiiyey tusaaleeyo oo waxa lagu falay gocdaba, ugu dambaystii wuxuu rabbi ka durraamanayaa inuu libinta u soo meeriyo oo laga gacan-sarraysiiyo dadka gaalada taabacay ee xaqii Daraawiisheed lagu ogaa, godobta badanna ka haya:

Eebbow goonji weyn iyo xaq bay naga gullaafteene
Guullow ma helayaan waxay nagu gubaayaane
Eebbow waxay naga gogtaan waa galoof-olole!
Eebbow sidii guun haween 'gii'du waa aniye
Eebbow nin goba baan ahoy guni rifaysaaye
Eebbow waxaa noo gurmaday gaayo-alifleeye!
Ma gereysni Eebbow waxaa guufanneyska ahe
Eebbow gabooddii dorraad waa ka gar-allayne
Eebbow markaan geyllamey guulmiyoo baqane!
Eebbow guddoonkii sharciga gooye nimankiiye
Eebbow kufriga gedeftaley gacanta haystaane
Eebbow anaa kugu gar lehe guusha ha i seejin!

Sida ay cadawyadiisii ka faafin jireen, Sayid Maxamad ma ahayn nin dhiigga dadka u oomman, dhaca xoolahoodana u jeelqaba. Wuxuu ahaa nin ay waddaniyad kululi beer-qaadday, hase ahaayee dadkii uu u danaynaayey ay la garan waayeen. Wuxuu ahaa nin isaga iyo xarunta Daraawiishtaba in badan sidii ifka looga tirtiri lahaa loo guulay, naftiisa la dooni jiray, hagar daamooyin badanna loo geystey.

Markuu fekarey oo habeenno aan tiro yarayn aayo-xumada Soomaalida lala maaggan yahay naftiisa kala dooday, dadkiina ay waanadiisii badnayd wax ku qaadan waayeen, weerar joogto ahina uu xagga Soomaalida kaga socdo ayay la ahaatay dadku laba qaybood uun inuu yahay: Qaybta hore oo ah Daraawiishta uu madaxda u yahay, dantooduna tahay Ingiriis, Talyaani iyo Xabashi inay dhulka Soomaaliyeed ka bedbaadiyaan oo dagaal hubaysan kaga saaraan. Qaybta labaadina waxay ahayd Soomaalida xoogaggaas shisheeyaha ah la soo safatay ee soo hormari jirtey, ceelasha tusi jirtey, dhabbeyaasha la qaado u kala tilmaami jirtey, awrta ka iibin jirtey ama ka ijaari jirtey, dabadeedna xarumaha Daraawiishta soo hor-dhoobi jirtay.

Labadaas qaybood inay Soomaalidu tahay markii uu ka badin waayey ayuu u qaatay, Daraawiishna dhacsiiyey murtida ah, "cadawgaa jaallihiis waa cadawgaa", sida uu Qamaan Bulxan ku gabyey markuu lahaa:

Daabaca ninkii kugu dhufta ee daabku kuu celiyey
iyo kii 'duleedshaay' ku yiri wax isma doorshaane!

Sayid Maxamad, aragtidaas iyada ah siyaasad qarsoon kama uu dhigin. Wax badan ayuu gabay ahaan iyo qoraal ahaanba ummadda u bandhigay, 'gaalada aan la dagaallamayno ninkii taageero u fidiyaa isna waa gaal' ayuu in door ah ku celceliyey. Masafo gaaban waa kii ku lahaa:

Nin aqdaamo Ferenjiya, maantiyo abuurriin
Ama aaladduu sida, ama awrta buu rara
Ama adhiga buu qada, ama laba ugaadhsada
Ama uba ilaalaa, ama uurka kala jira
Ashahaado beeniyo, islaamnimo ha lagu dhaqo
Ilaahayna nama oran, anna ma oggolaan karo!

Waa siyaasad cad oo uu degsaday, digniinna u ahayd nin kasta oo xagga gumeysiga u janjeerasada amaba taageero u fidiya, xilli dagaal iyo xilli nabadeed intaba. Hayeeshee, in kasta oo uu waranka Daraawiishtu si toos ah ugu jeeday ninkaas gaalo-raaca ah ee uu sayidku tilmaamay, haddana waxaa dhici jirtey dar aan dagaalkaba war ka haynini inay haasahaasaha iyo gulufka jidbaysan ee ciidammada sayidka ku le'an jireen, hantidoodana ku waayi jireen. Waxaad mooddaa inay Daraawiishtu marar badan ka ilduufi jireen tusaalaha iyo dardaaranka Sayidka, taas oo sabab u noqon jirtey kooxo badan oo xarunta u han-weynaa in ay ka fogaadaan.

Gefaf dhowr ah oo ay Daraawiishi gashay ayaa maanta la tiriyaa, hase ahaatee way yar yihiin markii la barbar-dhigo guulihii ay soo hooyeen iyo sidii ay magaca dalka iyo dadka Soomaalida ahba sare ugu qaadeen, in kasta oo, ciidan ahaan, ugu dambaystii looga adkaaday.

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Sayyīd Muhammad `Abd Allāh al-Hasan (somali: Sayid Maxamed Cabdille Xasan or Sayyid Mahammad Abdille Hasan) April 7, 1856 in the north of somalia – December 21,1920 in imi, ogaden) was a somali religious and nationalist leader (called The Mad Mullah by the British) who for 20 years led an armed resistance against British, Italianm, and ethiopia forces in Somalia.

Youth

Hassan, who belonged to the ogaden sub-clan of the Darod clan family, was born in 1856 in the valley of Sa'Madeeq. Some say he was born in Kirrit in northern Somalia. At the time, this part of Somalia was a protectorate of the United Kingdom. Between 1884 and 1960, the area was known as British somaliland .

Hassan was the eldest son of sheikh Abdille, an Ogaden somali. His mother, also a Somali, belonged to the dhulbahante clan. His great grandfather, Sheikh Ismaan of Bardee, was a pious man of great repute who left his homeland slightly north of qalaafo along the shebelle River valley in what is now the Ogaden and migrated southwards to settle with the religious Somali community at Barder along the Jubba river Jubba River. Hassan's grandfather, Hasan Nur, in turn left his home and moved closer to the Dhulbahante stronghold in north-eastern Somalia. There, he founded religious centres and devoted himself to the worship of God. Following the footsteps of Hasan Nur, Hassan's father Abdille also led a the religious life. Abdille married several Dhulbahante women by whom he had about 30 children of which Hassan was the eldest. Hassan's mother, Timiro Sade, came from the Ali Geri sublineage of the Dhulbahante clan, which was allied with the Ogaden.

Hassan grew up among the Dhulbahante pastoralists who were good herdsmen and warriors and who tended and used camels as well as horses. Young Hassan's hero was his maternal grandfather, Sade Mogan, who was a great warrior chief. In addition to being a good horseman, by the age of eleven, Hassan had learned the entire Qur'an by heart (he was a hafiz), and displayed all the qualities of a promising leader. He continued his religious education. In 1875, his grandfather died. Hassan was shocked by this loss. After 1875, he worked as a Qur'anic teacher for two years. His thirst for Islamic learning was so intense that he left his job and devoted about ten years to visiting many famous centres of Islamic learning including Harar and Mogadishu and even some centres in Sudan.

Hassan received education from as many as seventy-two Somali and Arab religious teachers. In 1891, returning to his home, he married an Ogadeni woman. Three years later, along with two of his uncles and eleven other companions some of whom were his maternal kin, he went to Mecca to perform Hajj. The party stayed there for a year and half and came under the charismatic influence of the newly developing Saalihiya order under the leadership of the great mystic Mohammed Salih who was a Sudanese. Hassan received initiation and very rigorous spiritual training under Salih.

Hassan emerged a changed man — a spiritually transformed man 'shaken and over-awed' but determined to spread the teachings of the Saalihiya order in Somalia.

Religion Mission

In 1895, Hassan returned to Berbera which was then considered by the British merely as 'Aden's butcher's shop', since they were interested only in getting regular supplies of meat from Somalia through this port for their British India outpost of Aden.

Taking advantage of British complacency and arrogance, Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia asked Ras Makonnen, the Governor of his newly conquered Hararghe Province, to send armed bands to plunder and occupy Ogaden politically. The British withdrew from this area of their territory in Somalia.

In Berbera, Hassan could not succeed in spreading the teaching of the Saalihiya order due to the hostility of the local Qadiriyyah inhabitants who did not like him criticising their eating khat and gorging on the fat of sheep's tail and for following their traditional Qadiriyyah order. In 1897, he left Berbera to be with his Dulbahante kinsmen. On the way, at a place called Daymoole, he met some Somalis who were being looked after by a Catholic Mission. When he asked them about their tribe and parents, the Somali orphans replied that they belonged to the "clan of the (Catholic) Fathers." This reply shook his conscience, for he felt that the "Christian Overlordship in his country was tantamount to the destruction of his people's faith."

In 1899, an unfortunate event took place. Some soldiers of the British armed forces met Hassan and sold him an official gun. When questioned about the loss of the gun, they told their superiors that Hassan had stolen the gun from them. On 29 March 1899, the British Vice Consul wrote a very insulting and stern letter to him asking him to return the gun immediately, which someone in Hassan's camp had reported stolen. This enraged Hassan and he sent a very brief and curt reply refuting the allegation.

While Hassan had really been against the Ethiopian imperialist plunderers of Somalia, this small incident made him clash with the British. The British and Ethiopian Emperor Menelek II joined together to crush the Dervish movement of Hassan and some antagonistic Somalis also cooperated with Menelek II against him.

Armed struggle

In several of his poems and speeches, Hassan emphasized that the British infidels "have destroyed our religion and made our children their children" and that the Christian Ethiopians in league with the British were bent upon plundering the political and religious freedom of the Somali nation. He soon emerged as "a champion of his country's political and religious freedom, defending it against all Christian invaders." He issued a religious ordinance that any Somali national who did not accept the goal of unity of Somalia and would not fight under his leadership would be considered as kafir or gaal. He acquired weapons from Turkey, Sudan, and other Islamic and/or Arabian countries. He appointed his ministers and advisers in charges of different areas or sectors of Somalia. He gave a clarion call for Somali unity and independence.

Hassan organized his follower-warriors. His 'Dervish' movement had essentially a military character and the Dervish state was fashioned on the model of a Saalihiya brotherhood. It had rigid hierarchy and rigid centralization.

Though Hassan threatened to drive the Christians into the sea, he committed the first attack by launching his first major military offensive with his 1500 Dervish equipped with 20 modem rifles on the British soldiers stationed in the region.

Hassan sent one of his men to Yemen in disguise for reconnaissance activities to report the new aeroplanes preparedness for attack. He sent his emissaries all over the country appealing for Somali people to join his movement and many responded to him enthusiastically.

Against Ethiopia, Britain and Italy

In 1900, an Ethiopian expedition which had been sent to arrest or kill Hassan, looted a large number of camels of the Mohammed Subeer tribe of Ogaden. In answer to his appeal, Hassan attacked the Ethiopian garrison at Jijiga on 4 March of that year and successfully recovered all the looted animals. This success emboldened Hassan and also enhanced his reputation.

In June, three months later, Hassan raided the British protected northern Somali clans of Eidagale and Isaaq and looted about 2,000 camels. He gained great prestige in recovering the looted stock from the Ethiopians and he used it along with his charisma and powers of oratory to improve his undisputed authority on the Ogaden. To harness Ogaden enthusiasm into final commitment, Hassan married the daughter of a prominent Ogaden chieftain and in return gave his own sister, Toohyar Sheikh Adbile, to Abdi Mohammed Waale, a notable Mohammed Subeer elder.

However, soon angered by his autocratic rule, Hussen Hirsi Dala Iljech' - a Mohammed Subeer chieftain plotted to kill him. The news of the plot leaked to Hassan. He escaped but his prime minister and friend, Aw 'Abbas, was killed in the plot. Some weeks later, Mohammed Subeer sent a peace delegation of 32 men to Hassan, but he had all the members of the delegation arrested and killed. Shocked by this heinous crime, Mohammed Subeer sought the help of the Ethiopians and the Dervish withdrew to Nugaal.

Hassan (by now better known by his honorific title of "Sayyid") patched up with the Dulbahante temporarily by paying huge blood monies. This frightened the British protected North Somali pastorals. Towards the end of 1900, Ethiopian Emperor Menelik proposed a joint action with the British against the Dervish. Accordingly, British Lt. Col. E.J. Swayne assembled a force of 1,500 Somali soldiers led by 21 European officers and started from Burco on 22 May 1901, while an Ethiopian army of 15,000 soldiers started from Harar to join the British forces, to crush the Dervish movement of about 20,000 Dervish (of whom 40 percent were cavalry).

During 1901 and 1904, the Dervish army inflicted heavy losses to their enemies - the Ethiopians and the British as well as the Italian forces. "His successes attracted to his banner even Somalis who did not follow his religious beliefs." On 9 January 1904 at the Jidaale (Jidballi) plain the British Commander, General Charles Egerton killed 7,000 Dervish. This defeat forced Sayyid and his remaining men to flee to Majeerteen country.

Around 1910, about 600 Dervish followers decided to stop follow Sayyid due to his high-handedness, in a secret meeting under a big tree later nicknamed "Anjeel-tale-waa" (The tree-of-Bad-Counsel). Their departure weakened, demoralized and angered Sayyid, and at this juncture he composed his most famous poem entitled. "The Tree of Bad Counsel".

Sayyid Mohamed's Push To The South

Marehan forces from the Hinterland in Northern Somalia to the length of the entire Jubba inside Somalia, from Serinley, near Bardera, to the coast, Sayyed Mohamed received enormous support from Marehan population for his push to gather fighting men in the south of Somalia.

Sayyid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan's own Ogaden clansmen weren't entirely on his side when the Marehan saw the importance of siding with nationalist leader on the mission of getting rid the colonial power. From Serinley onwards to Dolow, the second arm of the Marehan wasn't happy with new dynamics of giving the British a second front for confrontation. The peaceful communities between Bardera and Dolow to the Tana River in East Africa were long established before the late 19th century uprising of Sayyed Mohamed Abdulle Hassan.

The Marehan Rer Guri were content and basically wanted to herd their livestock from the grasslands of Jubba to Tana River peacefully, where they had settled at the time. The Marehan Galti from the north and central Somalia was in the struggle mood. Northern Gedo Sheikh of Ali Dheere, who was at the time in concert with the rer Guri, was content with the status quo in terms of not wanting to be part of armed struggle against the British and their proxy fighters, the East Africa Riflery.

Consolidation

Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's fort Taleh.

During 1910-1914, Sayyid's capital moved from Illig to Taleex in the heart of Nugaal where he built three garrison forts of massive stone work and a number of houses. He built a luxurious palace for himself and kept new guards for his palace drawn from outcast clans. By 1913, he had dominated the entire hinterland of the Somali peninsula by building forts at Jildali and Mirashi in Warsangali country, at Werder and Qorahy in the Ogaden and Belet-Weyn in southern Somalia. On 9 August 1913, at the Battle of Dul Madoba, a Dervish force raided the Habar Yoonis tribe near Burco and killed or wounded 57 members of the 110-man "Somaliland Camel Constabulary." The dead included the British officer who commanded the constabulary, Colonel Richard Corfield. Hassan memorialized this action in his poem simply entitled "The Death of Richard Corfield." In the same year, the Dervish attacked Berbera and looted and destroyed it. In 1914, the "Somaliland Camel Corps" was founded as an expanded and improved version of the constabulary.

By 1919, despite the British having built large stone forts to guard the passes to the hills, Hassan and his armed bands were at large, robbing and killing.

The Sayyed and his followers in Jubba vision was similar to that of people in Sudan and Egypt when Ottoman Sultanate was retreating from North and East Africa territories.

Defeat

Main article: 1920 conflict between British forces and Somaliland dervishes

In the beginning of 1920, the British struck the Dervish settlements with a well-coordinated air and land attack and inflicted a stunning defeat. The forts of Hassan were damaged and his army suffered great losses. They hastily fled to Ogaden. Here, again with the help of his patriotic poetry and charisma, he tried to rebuild his army and accomplish the coalition of Ogadeen clans which made him a power in the land once again. The British sent a peace delegation to him offering to give a government subsidy and a land grant in the west of the British Somaliland where he could settle with his followers, but he spurned the proposal. He even raided the returning delegation. Then smallpox and rinderpest broke out in Ogaden and about half of the Dervish died therefrom. Soon thereafter, a tribal raid under the leadership of Haaji Waraabe ("Haji the Hyena") armed and organized by the British killed the remaining Dervish and took away about 60,000 animals in loot but failed to catch Hassan. Along with some of his followers, he escaped to the Arsi Oromo in Ethiopia where he tried to contract marriages to stabilize his position.

Death

On 21 December 1920, Hassan died of influenza at the age of 64.

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SOMALI GEOGRAPHY

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SOMALIA
Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال transliteration: aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Republic of Somalia (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya, Arabic: جمهورية الصومال transliteration: Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordred by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west.

Italian Somaliland gained its independence from Italy on 1 July 1960. On the same day, it united with British Somaliland, which gained independence on 26 June 1960, to form the Somali republic. The Somali state currently exists largely in a de jure capacity; Somalia has a weak but largely recognised central government authority, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), but this is only the latest in a string of ineffectual, externally recognized governing authorities.

De facto control of the north of the country resides in the regional authorities. Of these, Puntland, Northland State, Maakhir, Galmudug, acknowledge the authority of the TFG and maintain their declaration of autonomy within a federated Somalia, while Central, Southern Somalia, and Kismayo the third largest city in Somalia, are in the control of the Islamic Courts Union and Al-Shabab. Baidoa is currently the seat of the TFG, and Somalia's commercial centre. On the other hand, the Somaliland region in the north, with its capital in Hargeisa, has declared independence and does not recognise the TFG as governing authority. Its self-declared independence is unrecognized internationally due in part to opposition from the TFG and other countries, such as neighboring Ethiopia, which fear ensuing secessionist movements.

Djibouti

Djibouti (Arabic: جيبوتي Jībūtī, Somali: Jabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. On the other side of the Red Sea, on the Arabian Peninsula, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the coast of Djibouti, is Yemen. Djibouti's size is just over 23,000 km² with an estimated population of under 500,000. Its capital is the city of Djibouti.The history of Djibouti is recorded in poetry and in songs of its nomadic people and goes back thousands of years to a time when Djiboutians traded hides and skins for the perfumes and spices of ancient Egypt, India, and China. Through close contacts with the Arabian peninsula for more than 1,000 years, the Somali and Afar ethnic groups in this region became among the first on the African continent to accept Islam.

French interest developed in the nineteenth century when the area was ruled by the sultan of Raheita, Tadjoura and Gobaad. The French bought the anchorage of Obock in 1862 and expanded it eventually to a colony called French Somaliland with essentially the current boundaries. In 1967 the area became the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas.

The Republic of Djibouti gained its independence from France on June 27, 1977. Djibouti is a Somali, Afar and Islamic country which regularly takes part in Islamic affairs as well as Arab meetings.

NORTH EASTER PROVINCE
The North Eastern Province is one of the seven administrative provinces in Kenya outside of Nairobi. The provincial capital is the town of Garissa, near Coast Province. The overall population is 962,143 (in 1999) and its land area is 126,902 km². Formerly known as the Northern Frontier District (NFD), the North Eastern Province covers most of northeastern Kenya. The region is and has historically been primarily inhabited by ethnic Somalis. NFD also has a number of large refugee camps with most refugees coming from Somalia. The Somali communities residing in the Isiolo, Garissa, Wajir, and Mandera towns of the NFD are typically from the Gugudhabe, Ogaden, Marehan of Sade,Garre,Degodi, Ajuran and Sheekhaal Somali clans. Other Somali clans found in urban centers include a small number of Majeerten, Habr Gedir, Abgaal and Isaaq Throughout much of the 20th century, the North Eastern Province used to be a part of British East Africa. However, after the dissolution of the former British colonies in East Africa, Britain granted administration of the region to Kenyan nationalists despite a) an informal plebiscite demonstrating the overwhelming desire of the region's population to join the newly-formed Somali Republic, and b) the fact that the NFD was and still is almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis. Led by the Northern Province People's Progressive Party (NPPPP), Somalis in the NFD vigorously sought union with the Somali Republic to the north. In response, the Kenyan government enacted a number of repressive measures designed to frustrate their efforts:
Somali leaders were routinely placed in preventive detention, where they remained well into the late 1970s. The North Eastern Province was closed to general access (along with other parts of Kenya) as a "scheduled" area (ostensibly closed to all outsiders, including members of parliament, as a means of protecting the nomadic inhabitants), and news from it was very difficult to obtain. A number of reports, however, accused the Kenyans of mass slaughters of entire villages of Somali citizens and of setting up large "protected villages" -- in effect concentration camps. The government refused to acknowledge the ethnically based irredentist motives of the Somalis, making constant reference in official statements to the shifta (bandit) problem in the area.
North Eastern Province is the third largest province in Kenya and has thirteen constituencies represented in the Kenya National Assembly.
The region is home to a rare type of antelope called the Hirola, which is classified as an endangered species. The NFD's pastoralists also possess livestock in excess of 2-3 millions.
The climate of the North Eastern Province is semi-arid and hot. Rain falls infrequently, usually only around April or October, and quite sporadically from year to year. Combined with hot temperatures and extreme evaporation, this makes the region best suited to nomadic pastoralism based around the Arabian camel, which is well adapted to surviving in hot, dry habitats.
There are no rivers of any significance in the region, though there are a few tributaries of the Jubba River near the Somali border, which very rarely have any water in them. Consequently, there is little or no possibility of irrigation-based development, and pastoralists rely exclusively on wells to water their stock and for domestic use.
60-70% of all livestock in Kenya comes from the North Eastern Province, and is sometimes exported to the Middle East as well as elsewhere in Asia.
The region is also abundant with wildlife, although figures show deteroriating trend regarding the endangered Hirola and Gazelles, Giraffe population.
The biggest airport in the area is the Wajir Airport, formerly used as a Military Airport.

OGADENIA PROVINCE
(pronounced and often spelled Ogadēn) is the international name of the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia. The inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Somali and Muslim. The title "Somali Galbeed", which means "Western Somalia," is often preferred by some clans.
The region, which is around 400,000 square kilometres, borders Djibouti, Kenya, and Somalia.[1] Important towns include Jigjiga, Kebri Beyah, Raaso, Degehabur, (Dhagaxbuur in Somali), Gode (Godey), Jijiga (Jigjiga), Kebri Dahar (Qabridahare), Shilavo (Shilaabo) and Werder (Wardheer).
The Ogaden is a plateau, with an elevation above sea level that ranges from 1,500 meters in the northwest, falling to about 300 meters along the southern limits and the Wabi Shebelle valley. The areas with altitudes between 1400 and 1600 meters are characterized as semi-arid, receiving as much as 500-600 mm of rainfall annually. More typical of the Ogaden is an average annual rainfall of 350 mm and less. The landscape consists of dense shrubland, bush grassland and bare hills. In more recent years, the Ogaden has suffered from increasingly erratic rainfall patterns, which has led to an increasing frequency of major droughts: in 1984-85; 1994; and most recently in 1999-2000, during which pastoralists claim to have lost 70-90 per cent of their cattle.

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