Having met the President of North East State of Somalia in Lasanod, Abdulqadir Ahmed Aw Ali Firdhiye yesterday was a good experience. He and his administration are dedicated to stabilise and develop the region.
@AdamNyc The people of Mogadishu have experienced so much strife, hardship and continuous ongoing slaughter that seeing this scene itself is so cathartic it deserves celebration.
It’s surreal.
In early 2023, I started, based on my long-term research as social anthropologist across northern Somalia (documented in many writings available e.g. here: https://t.co/Tfnp2ZIsso ), to comment on the war over Lasanod. I explained the background of the resistance of those living in the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) regions east of Burco against the Somaliland government, which had unleashed a brutal military attack on Lasanod, full of civilians, on 6 February 2023.
In the course of the exchanges online, especially on X, those defending Somaliland’s aggression became increasingly vicious, attacking me personally.
On 28 March 2023, @NimkoAli , CEO of @FiveFoundation and known women's rights activist, topped the attacks on me by engaging in libellous statements of the most horrendous kind. She supported the agression of the Somaliland government. She tried to shut me up as a critique of the violent politics she supported, which cost the lives of many in Lasanod and surroundings.
For a women’s rights defender, it was astonishing that she hurled around accusations like “paedophile” without proof. After a time of shock, pain and contemplation, I decided to hold her accountable. My lawyers filed a case against her in early 2024. It now, in mid-2026, concluded with her unreserved apology. She also is paying substantial compensation to me as part of the agreement we entered into.
Hopefully, Nimko learned her lesson and next time thinks twice before she, as a public figure (holding an OBE... 😉 ) with some responsibility for her words and reputation (from which she lives, as women’s rights campaigner), utters baseless accusations against someone. @SpotonSomalia@SheiknorQassim@M_H_Ingiriis@PeteChonka@Jethro_Norman@lhammondsoas@RVInews@UniLeipzig@declassifiedUK@standardnews@PenguinBooks@PenguinUKBooks@carrielbjohnson@BorisJohnson@SpeechUnion@guardian@AJEnglish@somalilandmfa@SomalisVoices@SomalilandChro1@somalilandusa@GavinWilliamson@SuleimanHashi@GaraadMukhtaar@afyare_elmi@EIshmael_@RAbdiAnalyst@agaraad@Fundji3@JewishChron@CUSocOfWomen@SexMattersOrg
@rizakmoe@certifiedamk23@OAbraar@rizakmoe politics and religion are different things??? Ok the country you are happy is recognizing your state claims that’s their land by God’s decree.
Israel is the most influential theocratic state
@SuldanMohamed_@SuldanMohamed_ with all due respect and with permission allow me to speak bluntly with you
My brother you can only discipline( fire , impose evisa restrictions) on those who will not destroy the fabric of unity if they are in error
In this volatile moment ego is of no use
@AJabaar04@inasarhaye You are absolutely wrong to use an ayah that Allah swt used about the kuffar of Quraysh and our Prophet Muhammad pbuh .
Waryaahe we are your brothers in Islam, language culture and history
Heerkaa yeesan kula gaarin
Subhannallah
What’s next لكم دينكم؟
@coolnow3466 @Abdimohaa19 @Abd_Rahman710 Comments go both ways . If they screenshot that response they would think all of us are like this
But then again why would I go against a wave of stupidity and ignorance
Libaax sidaa ku wad hore u soco
@Abdimohaa19 @Abd_Rahman710 You would go that far just because some random Palestinian who aint even in Gaza made fun of One of our cities on Twitter?
And yet post MVP enjoying his umrah because he’s Muslim
You cant be serious mate
@Ibrahim93750571 @SaedDalmar Excellent thanks for the information
Respond to my other points
Including did we conquer with those ships
Ship building and being a sea faring nation are different
@Ibrahim93750571 @SaedDalmar Im sorry bro
Dont let our love for our people blind you of our handicaps
And to dismiss craftsmanship and correlate it to tribalism is such a ridiculous claim its laughable
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Ibrahim93750571 @SaedDalmar Why aren’t their specific clan lands on average no different from other lands then?
Also are we not the people who have called the farsama yaqaan of our society low class and “tumaal” or midgaan because of their skills
Our problem isnt qabiil or qabyalad its technical
@Alaidin1434 @SaedDalmar Also why is your immediate default response to me filled with insults and derogatory remarks
“”Is it because of your qabiil?”
👆 that above is grounds for calling me a moron
Do you see the difference libaax
ii noolow walaa guul iyo hormar dulqaad yeelo jaale
@Alaidin1434 @SaedDalmar Physical so the skill behind artisans and craftsmanship is non existent miyaa.
Kindly appreciate how truly imbecilic what you wrote really is.
Call me a moron if I say something moronic thats fair
But to claim there is nothing called skills in construction is wild
@SaedDalmar The video is about technical skills qabiil and qabyalaad are inconsequential 😂
Average Somali lack technical skills even if they were to get rid of qabyaalad
Competency will not take its place just like that
Syrians are technical skillsman of course they can rebuild
@DWI_MImtiaz Paramedics aren’t Doctors. Also they’re not permitted to speak about prognosis . Their job is to get them to the hospital as stabe as possible.
No Oxygen mask 😷 present only one set of IV’s and the presence of a “ religious personality “
The guy was most likely dehydrated 😂