Pr. Rashid A.A.

Professor of Accounting @hargeisaunivers & @GollisUniv|International Affairs Analyst| Edu: @uob_edu_ly|Footballer

[Eng.Mahmood @engmahmoudsl]

هرجيسا في احتفالات واسعة اليوم مع قرب الاعتراف الدولي , و تصريحات الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد #ترامب ♥️

قوة الشعوب تكمن في تكاتفها و وحدتها و إيمانها ببلدها و قضيتها , صوماليلاند اليوم تقتطف ثمار جهودها و نتائج صبرها الطويل .

[roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס @kaisos1987]

הרגרייסה כמרקחה: בסומלילנד באקסטזה בעקבות האמירה של טראמפ שעשתה הבחנה בין סומליה לסומלילנד: "תודה דונלד!"

[Qanta Ahmed @MissDiagnosis]

We note @POTUS distinguished Somaliland from Somalia, recognizing distinct values. This is hugely strategic at this time. @kilmeade @FoxNews

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Hargeisa, Capital of Somaliland right now. Lol.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Celebrations Break Out in Somaliland with Trump’s Image Emblazoned on Buildings as President Acknowledged It ‘as a Distinct Country’ | Elizabeth Weibel, Breitbart

The Republic of Somaliland praised President Donald Trump for his remarks acknowledging the nation-state located inside Somalia as “a distinct country” that has nothing to do with Somalia.

In a press release, Somaliland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation explained that Somaliland “has its own internationally defined border,” and the nation-state “has its own constitution, democratically elected government and foreign relations.” The press release comes after Trump acknowledged that Somaliland was “a totally different country” from Somalia, while speaking at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio.

“The Government of the Republic of Somaliland warmly welcomes US President Donald J. Trump’s acknowledgement of the Republic of Somaliland as a distinct country,” the press release said. “His remarks affirm a longstanding reality: the Republic of Somaliland has its own internationally defined border, inherited at independence and consistent with the African Union’s principle of respect for borders existing at independence.”

“It has its own constitution, democratically elected government and foreign relations, and has governed itself for more than three decades,” the press release continued.

The press continued to state that the government of Somaliland is “committed to peaceful relations with its neighbours and to resolving differences through respectful dialogue.”

“It expresses its gratitude to President Trump for acknowledging the reality of the Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign, independent country,” the press release said. “This affirmation comes alongside the Republic of Somaliland’s formal recognition by Israel and its established partnership with Taiwan. The Government looks forward to working with President Trump’s Administration to deepen constructive engagement between the two sides.”

Trump’s remarks about Somaliland come after Somaliland President Abdiraham Mohamed Abdullahi spoke to Breitbart News exclusively and described Trump as a “great man” who could “make more history” if he recognized Somaliland as its own country.

“Well, I think President Trump is a great man,” Abdullahi said to Breitbart News. “He made history, and he could make more history by recognizing a new country called Somaliland, which will cooperate unconditionally in the fight against terrorism, in the fight against piracy, in the fight for marine security, and safer world trade routes as well, in a strategic, very important location.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to Trump’s remarks on Somaliland, stating that it is “well past time” that the United States recognizes it.

“President Trump is exactly right,” Cruz wrote in a post on X. “Somaliland is not Somalia. Well past time for the United States to formally recognize it.”

Video footage posted to X showed the U.S. flag “shining” on a building in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.

https://t.co/27ntLSUoxU

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Never forget: Ilhan Omar’s family didn’t flee Somalia as the oppressed. They fled because her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a senior colonel in the Somali National Army of the genocidal communist dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, the regime that systematically slaughtered up to 200,000 people, mostly Isaaq civilians, in one of the worst genocides in modern African history.

Her father wasn’t some low-level nobody or a teacher who just happened to be around. He was an esteemed senior officer who commanded a regiment, trained in the Soviet Union, and stayed in the military hierarchy of that brutal Marxist-Leninist dictatorship for years.

When the regime finally collapsed under the weight of its own mass murder, famine, and civil war in 1991, the family ran, not as victims of the dictatorship, but as people tied to the apparatus that had just spent years bombing cities, executing civilians, and turning northern Somalia into a killing field.

Now this same family is in the US, where Omar stands up and lectures Americans about justice, accountability, morality, and “genocide.” The hypocrisy is sickening. A daughter of a colonel from the regime that carried out the Isaaq genocide has the gall to moralize to the country that took her in after her father’s side lost power.

Her father came to the U.S. as a “refugee,” just like Yusuf Abdi Ali, who was accused of war crimes and later found liable for torture in a U.S. civil court. Yet, as far as publicly available information shows, her father never faced comparable scrutiny or accountability. Consider this: Ali was deported from the US only two years ago, after a survivor pursued justice through the courts. It took a survivor’s determination to bring his abuses before a judge and jury.

That’s the record.

[Tibor Nagy @TiborPNagyJr]

So this is big. President Trump finally distinguishes between Somalia (failed state) and Somaliland (The Little Country that Can!) at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. This will lead to US treating two nations separately at long last!
https://t.co/NIKmjmUyQv

[Eng.Mahmood @engmahmoudsl]

الامارات و صوماليلاند 🖤

[Somalilanders @Somaalilanders]

Yesterday, Alex de Waal was interviewed by Dhaxalreeb, a Somalian online media outlet. What makes his interview so interesting is that he previously worked alongside Rakiya Omaar, a Somalilander and former director of Africa Watch, where they documented much of the destruction and atrocities committed against Somalilanders during the war in 1998/90. Rakiya authored the famous Africa Watch report, "Somalia: A Government War on Its Own People" 1990. I hope that one day #Somaliland media will interview Prof Alex de Waal to explore what he, Rakiya Omaar, and Africa Watch documented during the 1988–1991 Somaliland's liberation war.

For context, Alex de Waal is a prominent British researcher, academic, and expert on humanitarian crises, famine, human rights, and the Horn of Africa. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He earned his DPhil in Social Anthropology from Nuffield College, Oxford, focusing his research on how rural populations in #Sudan coped with famine.

Interview Hamish Wilson will also be so interesting: Hamish Wilson served as an embedded journalist with the Somali National Movement (SNM) during the Somaliland liberation war. Notably, he was the sole Western journalist to witness the conflict, the subsequent peace process, and the historic declaration on May 18, 1991, announcing Somaliland’s withdrawal from the union. Appointed by President Muse Bihi as Director of the Somaliland National Museum, Wilson has extensive expertise on the conflict 1988–1991 and its aftermath in Somaliland.

[Pr. Rashid A.A. @double_pr]

There is a huge difference between Somaliland and Somalia that cannot be hidden.

[joof @IIDOORps2p]

Reer sheikh isaxaaq waxay fahman ama gartaan soomalida kale waxay fahman 30 ka dib bal ila arag adigu video

Goobto waa boorama abwaankuna waa muuse cali faruur

Gabayguna wuxu ka hadlaya waxa maanta jooga ila arag adoo

[Pr. Rashid A.A. @double_pr]

https://t.co/ZrbDVChgVx

[Pr. Rashid A.A. @double_pr]

Waxaan u mahad celinayaa Ismail libaax Salaan oo soo abaabulay kulankan qiimaha badan.
https://t.co/m6mXxNtcTS

[Somalilanders @Somaalilanders]

When three former U.S. Assistant Secretaries of State for Africa, along with a former U.S. Ambassador and Envoy to the Sahel and Great Lakes regions of Africa, call on the U.S. government to recognise Somaliland, it says it all. @CohenOnAfrica @JendayiFrazer @TiborPNagyJr @DrJPPham

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

Somaliland is seeking to deepen security cooperation with Israel, including by obtaining air-defense systems, amid Turkey's growing military presence in Somalia, a senior Somaliland official said in an interview with Middle East Eye.
https://t.co/5AoWEcSzwo

[Step News Agency - وكالة ستيب نيوز @Step_Agency]

رفضت حكومة #صوماليلاند تصريحات الرئيس الصومالي المنتهية ولايته حسن شيخ محمود خلال مقابلة مع «الجزيرة»، مؤكدة أن صوماليلاند و #الصومال دولتان منفصلتان، وأن مقديشو لا تملك سلطة تحديد علاقاتها الخارجية أو التحدث باسم شعبها.

وشددت خارجية صوماليلاند على أن علاقاتها الدبلوماسية مع #إسرائيل تعكس قرارات سيادية، نافيةً الادعاءات بشأن استخدام ميناء بربرة منصة لشن هجمات على دول أخرى، ومؤكدة تمسكها بالتفاهمات مع إثيوبيا ورفض أي تدخل في شؤونها الداخلية.

[easttowestt 🌍 @westtoeastt]

@HillelNeuer of @UNWatch spoke out yesterday at the United Nations for the six Somalilanders kidnapped and tortured by Somalia. He also spoke out for the human rights of 6.5 million Somalilanders.

As has been the case for decades, the United Nations brushed off his concerns and urged all speakers to erase Somaliland from the discussion and stick to their Mogadishu focused agenda.

In the 1980s, the UN used the confidential 1503 procedure to discuss the crimes against humanity and genocide committed against the Isaaq people, instead of sounding the alarm as the Israeli mission at the United Nations had done.

In the 1990s, after the discovery of mass graves, a UN report confirmed that genocide had been committed by Somalia. Yet this brought no further action from the United Nations despite the pleas from Somaliland human rights organizations and the highest office due to the fact that many of perpetrators were spread out across western nations.

On September 11, 2001, the independent human rights
expert for Somalia sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan requesting a war crimes commission like those for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; the request was ignored.

The bureaucrats at the United Nations would much prefer that the people and the Republic of Somaliland cease to exist, but that will never happen, despite their best efforts.

[Pr. Rashid A.A. @double_pr]

@JosueJarpa @Somaalilanders Thank u so much Mr Josue JA

[Josué Jarpa Aruquipa @JosueJarpa]

My decision regarding my support for Somaliland has already been made.

So, my unconditional support to Somaliland and its people.

My greetings to the people of Somaliland. 💚🤍🖤🤍❤️

Long Live Somaliland! 💚🤍🖤🤍❤️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷