Pure Somalinimo thats what its all about

[Khalid Ali]

Somaliland in first humanitarian mission to Mogadishu


03 Oct 2011 15:25
Source: Content Partner // IRIN

HARGEISA, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - A humanitarian delegation from the Republic of Somaliland donated relief aid for 9,000 drought-displaced families in the Somalia capital, Mogadishu, during a visit on 30 September, the first such visit since the region declared unilateral independence from the rest of the country in 1991.

"We plan to distribute food for 9,000 families and medicine for four hospitals," said Hasan Abdi Awed, chairman of Somaliland's Chamber of Commerce and leader of the eight-member delegation. "The food we are distributing will last the beneficiary families for one month."

Awed said the Somaliland government had announced in late August that it would participate in the international efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Somalia, which has been hit by famine and drought across most of its south-central regions.

Mohamed Shugri Jama, a spokesman for the delegation, told a news conference in Hargeisa before the visit: "We collected about US$700,000 donated by the people and the government of Somaliland, and we have split into two delegations, one will be in Mogadishu distributing the food aid there, while another will go to the refugee camps [in Dadaab] in Kenya."

Receiving the Somaliland delegation at the Mogadishu international airport, the governor and mayor of Mogadishu, Mohamed Ahmed Nur Tarsan, said: "We are glad to receive the delegation from Somaliland, which is here in response to the humanitarian crisis. It is not the amount of their contribution that matters but their empathy is more important."

Somaliland [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=89706 ], in the north of the country, is a former British protectorate that joined Italian Somaliland to form the Republic of Somalia in 1960. In 1991, the northwestern region declared its independence from the rest of Somalia and has enjoyed relative stability and peace unknown in Mogadishu.

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[Beenaale_No1]

Half of Somaliland probably have relatives or in-laws down in Mogadishu, or Southern Somalia in general

[Lamagoodle]

I don't think this issue is newsworthy. This famine has really caught the attention of all somalis irrespective of where they hail from. The diaspora has responded well. Very impressive.

[Coeus]

Such disgusting act by the thread opener to politicise the humanitarian aid.

Thanks for showing a brotherly gesture to the southerners. But there is no dividing of Somalia. Jeez.

[TheblueNwhite]

I don't think this issue is newsworthy. This famine has really caught the attention of all somalis irrespective of where they hail from. The diaspora has responded well. Very impressive.

So true, the diaspora has done us proud.
Every corner in the world, Somalis have put their differences aside and buckled up to aid the drought stricken Somalis.
May Allah reward all for their deeds.

[Lamagoodle]

TheblueNwhite,
Walaahi, I have never in my life witnessed the response of diaspora somalis. In my small town, somali kids and women were the most active. They knocked doors, they baked, they organised and they collected. The youth in my town even sent someone to Daadab refugee camp. There was not clan hebel or clan hebel. It is the time of the century that you feel proud to be a somali. Let us just hope that the money goes to the needy.

Maybe, we needed a famine of this magnitude to remind us who we really are; somalis who share common enemy; hunger.

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khalid ali

shame on you.

[TheblueNwhite]

Lamagoodle, my little niece put together a bake sale and raised $700 for the drought, I couldn't believe it, she is not even 10 years old.

A lot of the young people have really stepped up for their country men and women who are suffering in ways that their parents and their grandparents never did.

I know highschoolers who stayed up all night making samosas to raise money, ones that walked 200 plus Miles, others who washed cars etc. Wallahi this time, Somali parents can truly say "we got great return on our investment", the investment of their kind, selfless and generous children.

[Lamagoodle]

Lamagoodle, my little niece put together a bake sale and raised $700 for the drought, I couldn't believe it, she is not even 10 years old.

A lot of the young people have really stepped up for their country men and women who are suffering in ways that their parents and their grandparents never did.

I know highschoolers who stayed up all night making samosas to raise money, ones that walked 200 plus Miles, others who washed cars etc. Wallahi this time, Somali parents can truly say "we got great return on our investment", the investment of their kind, selfless and generous children.

I hope this spirit continous. I am really impressed by the youth and women.

[TheblueNwhite]

It's a start of a new chapter in Somalia.

[Lamagoodle]

Blueandwhite, any news about the rest of somalia? Is aid reaching other regions? I read somewhere a number of weeks ago that the US was planing to feed people under Al-sheydhan control.

[TheblueNwhite]

I couldn't tell you bro. The news coming from UN agencies is not trustworthy and full of horseradish. Those who can't reach Mogadisho, Dadaab or other feeding camps are doomed. If it doesn't rain in the next couple of months, we will witness more devastation.

[anilweyne]

This is the time you wonder how come no one is using this term"SOMALIDIID"- This is directed to kambuli and co.

[fatimazahra]