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Abdullahi Yusuf chooses to resign before overthrown!

The former warlord who was turned into Somalia’s selected president chose to vacate the presidency and quickly exited Baidao, the town his parliament and government seated. Abdullah Yusuf was welcomed as failed man in Garowe, the town he ruled on iron grip before he was hand picked by his Ethiopian ally to serve as Somalia’s 'stooge' president for Ethiopia.

Abdullahi Yusuf, a 75-year old former SSDF leader and warlord, admitted in his farewell speech that with support of Ethiopia-and-Western-backed his transitional government had failed to defeat the strengthening Somali Islamists controlling most of Somalia’s southern parts.

“Then the army disintegrated, unable to fight the extremists,” he told transitional parliament members in Baidoa.

“I had promised to return the power if I failed to bring peace, stability where people can elect their leaders,” the outgoing president told the anxiously listening parliamentarians.

The ailing president was forced to resign not only by the pressure mounted on him by Ethiopia and Western powers who supported his government in fighting against Islamists ruling Somalia’s capitol, Mogadishu, but also the Alshabab hardliners who now poised to capture Baidoa and Mogadishu, the only two major cities his government controlled with the help of Ethiopian and AU military power.

Reports even suggest Ethiopian troops were ready to overthrow him and his cronies, which they blame for the failure in Somalia after they ousted UIC from Mogadishu two years ago.

Somalis are closely watching where Abdullahi Yusuf will end up and whether his career of politics mixed with military dictatorship tactics will end there or his resignation and home coming, to Garowe-Puntland -can be safely described as ‘chickens come home to roost,’ as the people of Garowe uneasily wonder what their old leader had in mind by returning to their town.

Xogtamaanta staff

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Gobolka Sool oo Isduwangalinta Doorashoyinka SL ay ka Socoto

(Xogtamaanta-Hargeysa, SL. 04.01.09) - Diwaangelinta codbixiyayaasha a

yaa saaka si rasmi ah ay uga bilaabantay Gobolka Sool oo noqonaya Gobolkii lixaad ee Somaliland ee is-diwaangeliyaanta lagu soo gunaanado.

Waxaa aroornimadii hore markay saacadu ahayd 6:00 subaxnimo ka bilaamantay Magalada Laascaanood, ee Xarunta Gobolka Sool is-diiwaangelinta codbixiyayaasha Somaliland, iyada oo ay shaqaynayaan dhamaan goobihii 160-ka ahaa ee loogu talo-galay inay diwaangelintu ka qabsoonto..

Goob jooge madax banaan ayaa noo sheegay "Mar aan saaka soo maray goobo ka mida goobaha diwaangelinta ayaa waxaan soo arkay meelo badan oo ay dadku safaf dhaadheer ugu jiraan, iyo hawshii diwaangelinta oo si habsami ah u socota

Sidoo kale, goobaha ka baxsan Magaalada Laascaanood ee dibada ka ah ee Degmooyinka Gobolka ayaa iyana la yeesheegayaa inay goobo badan ka bilaamantay is-diwaangelintu walow hadana ay jiraan goobo ay ku yimaadeen dib-u-dhac yar oo ay ka dib dhaceenn waqtigii loogu tallo-galay inay ka bilaabanto hawshaasi".

Si kastaba ha haatee, diwaangelinta codbixiyayaasha ayaa ilaa imika u socota si habsami ah oo nabad galyo ku dheehantahay lamana sheegin wax dhibaato ah ama rabshado ah oo ka dhacay inta laga warqabo goobaha ay diwaangalintu ka socoto

Goobaha loo qorsheeyey inay diwaangelinta Codbixiyaashu ka dhacdo Gobolka Sool ayaa gabi ahaantood waxay dhan yihiin 160 Goobood, kuwaasi ku kala yaala gudaha Magaalada Laas-caanood, Degmooyinka iyo Tuulooyinka uu ka kooban yahay Gobolku

Ugu dambayntii dadwaynaha Gobolka ayaa si wanaagsan u soo dhaweeyey hawl-wadeenada Diiwaangelinta oo Shalay soo gaadhay Magaalada iyadoo ay dadku imika u muuqato inay aad u danaynayaan hawshan diiwaangelinta oo arrinku aanay ahayn sidii ay dad badani ku sheegayeen, taasina waxaa loo aanaynayaa dadweynaha oo hada fahmay muhiimada qaadashada kaadhadhkan markay arkeen Gobolada kale sida ay uga fushay hawshaasi iyo waliba wacyi-galino badan oo ay sameeyen masuuliyiinta Gobolka iyo Komishinka.

Dhinaca kale, Waxa Magaalada Laascaanood shalay Gaadhay Madax-wayne ku xigeen Somaliland mudane Axmed Yusuf Yaasiin iyo Guddoomiyayaasha labada Xisbi Mucaarid ee KULMIYE iyo UCID Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud [Siilaanyo] Iyo Eng. Faysal Cali Waraabe, iyo komiishanka doorashooyinka si ay dadka reer Sool ugala qeybgalaan diwaangelinta codbixiyayaasha, isla markaana bulshada ugu dhiiri-geliyaan inay qataan labada kaadh ee codbixinta iyo ka muwaadininimada.

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