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@UGSP2 @sittiHorizon stop blaming everyone but yourself

@sittiHorizon Every problem has a solution.

Somalis got the same problem

@XirsiJJ99 another low IQ tweet, thanks for the laugh

This is why I believe wahabism is a western creation funded by Arab elites who’s blackmailed by Epstein.

@Hiraabniimo @XirsiJJ99 How is Sharaa and Al Shabaab linked firstly? Youre so delusional lol

@XirsiJJ99 @LookAtY00 He loves em

The guy was an ISIS leader, who used to preach jihad and extremist ideology to his sheep followers and today his getting welcomed and praised by the same kaffir he hated. Alshabab, boko haram and ISIS were all created by the west and serve the west and are pawns of the west

@CivicPulseh6nc if these idiots wanted to go camping they couldve done it in yemen or wherever theyre from 🤦🏾

#Calmiskaad | Footage recovered by Puntland forces from the mobile phone of an ISIS fighter killed in yesterday’s clashes. Puntland forces later burned the bodies of the two fighters in the video.

@thekingofkangz @soakkedrice You only speak English and still type like youre ESL 😭✌🏾

@LookAtY00 @soakkedrice Cry don’t be a bich Somali who defends euros and Africans

@experzvibes @XirsiJJ99 wallahi these ppl are so shameless. modern day illuminati weirdos

@XirsiJJ99 “Alshabab, boko haram and ISIS were all created by the west Alshabab, boko haram and ISIS were all created by the west and serve the west and are pawns of the west”

@thekingofkangz @soakkedrice you are beyond low iq

@soakkedrice Lol ur Somali and ur trying to impress Zinjdani?

@HoehneVirgil @kabdiadow @NimkoAli yidhi** for these guys 🤣🤣🤣

@kabdiadow @NimkoAli You seem to confuse UK-based legal process with "ina adeerkayga baa yiri...".

I started researching on conflict and identity in northern Somalia, in Somaliland (northwest), Puntland (northeast) and in-between, in 2002. Criss-crossing the region extensively for years, I realized various “political identities” (Mamdani 2001) emerging which were based on genealogical ties, but also on certain interpretations of regional history and biographical experiences (Hoehne 2006). Those political identities were in important regards opposed to each other. While, as a rule, people in the centre of Somaliland positioned themselves as “Somalilanders”, claiming independence from Somalia, people in the east, especially in the area between Buuhoodle, Lasanod and Badhan, typically adhered to Somali unity against Somaliland secessionism. My research documented the expressions (and continuous developments) of these identities in different ways, over years. Yet, for long, luckily, no political leader tried to enforce such visions (secessionism or unionism) across the region. This changed in 2023, when the government of Somaliland reacted to a popular uprising in Lasanod by attacking the town. Within days, hundreds of people were injured or killed, many of them civilians. In this context I became active on twitter/X. Initially my aim was to put the conflict into perspective, based on my earlier research. Then, as the fighting and especially the shelling of Lasanod by the Somaliland forces went on, I focussed on collecting information on victims in town. By this, I made myself the “ally” of one side and the “enemy” of the other, in an area in which, in the past, I had very good and warm contacts on all sides (to the degree that some colleagues perceived me as “Somaliland-scholar”). Now, how to engage ethically in such a situation? In my view, I had to stay true to my sources, especially my ethnography from the early 2000s, which showed that people in the eastern peripheries of “Somaliland” had rejected secession decades ago. This would also not change, in my assessment, through violently attacking them, as the Somaliland government did in 2023. I thus advocated against the violent politics of Somaliland. I also engaged those on twitter/X who legitimated the attacks on Lasanod by (falsely) claiming that “terrorists” were behind the anti-Somaliland uprising. My own, older data showed that the opposition by people e.g. in Lasanod and Buuhoodle, long pre-dated the founding of Al Shabaab (which is the major “terrorist” group in the Somali territories). Besides, the insurgents in Lasanod in 2023 received some military and logistic support from the Puntland administration in the northeast (to which people in Lasanod also had close genealogical ties) and from parts of the Somali government in Mogadishu; both of these supporting parties were actively fighting Al Shabaab in their respective areas of influence. In this context, @NimkoAli, a known anti-FGM and women’s rights campaigner based in the UK, CEO of the Five Foundation (defending women and girls especially in the Horn of Africa), friends with Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie, commentator on the London Evening Standard and book author, and bearer of an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her activism, appeared on X (where she had some 50.000 followers then), posting in late March 2023: “So this @HoehneVirgil [my twitter handle] is a paedophile who was kicked out of Somaliland for abusing girls. Please let's stop engaging with this disgusting man.” From her other tweets it could be easily seen that @NimkoAli was a strong Somaliland supporter, who was justifying the attacks on Lasanod in her tweets and fully endorsed the (clearly wrong) “terrorist” narrative mentioned above. She even criticised the UK government for calling upon Somaliland for a cessation of hostilities. Her statement against me clearly aimed at shutting me up as critical voice. Nimko Ali’s allegations caused a massive reaction, and many who, like her, sided with Somaliland (regardless of moral concerns about civilian lives in Lasanod) used them to attack me online. Some even went so far to directly contact my (then) university in Leipzig, Germany outlining, sometimes in pornographic style, my alleged “misconduct” during my earlier field research. These were clear attempts to ruin my reputation and to destroy my livelihood as academic. Given the gravity of the allegations, I decided to take legal action against @NimkoAli in early 2024. @NimkoAli tried to delay and divert the case. Eventually she had to agree on mediation, which ended in a formal and legally binding agreement. As part of this, she agreed to publish the following statement on Monday, 29 June 2026: "In a series of Tweets on 28 March 2023 I published gravely defamatory allegations about Dr Markus Höhne (@HoehneVirgil) who is a social anthropologist specialising in Somali affairs. I alleged that Dr Höhne was a paedophile who was kicked out of Somaliland for abusing girls. At the time of the tweets, I had been misinformed by third parties about these allegations, which I now accept are entirely false. Dr Höhne is not guilty of the conduct I alleged against him, and was not expelled from Somaliland for any such conduct. I wish to apologise unreservedly to Dr Höhne for the serious reputational damage and distress which my Tweets have caused him. I have agreed to pay him substantial compensation." To conclude, this episode shows at least two things: First, it is notable that a defender of women’s and girls’ rights who indeed, also works to raise awareness about “child abuse”, weaponized the accusation “pedophile” without solid proof, in a public debate in which her personal political opinion about Somaliland clashed with the opinion of a known foreign Somali-ethnographer. Why damage your own credibility as rights-activist by engaging in libel, even if Nimko Ali, as she claimed, was “mislead by others”? Could she not cross-check her sources? If someone like me, with a visible profile on Somali issues, would have engaged in such a horrendous crime and would have been deported for that, as Nimko Ali tweeted in March 2023, would there not be traces of that somewhere, in some news archives, about such a scandal? Second, regarding anthropological activism, the episode illustrates that morals and ethics are not only conceptually separate, with morals, largely, concerning the everyday encounters e.g. during field research, and ethics touching on more abstract principles of doing research and dealing with its outcomes. In my case, outlined above, morals and ethics clearly collided. In my view, it was morally correct to speak out on the conflict dynamics in northern Somalia in 2023 based on my long-term research. How could I not have done so, in the face of the brutal attacks of military forces on one of my long-standing field sites? Ethically, however, the dilemma was that the basic provision that the obligations to participants are primary could not be fulfilled. Even just by relativizing the propaganda of those justifying Somaliland’s attack on Lasanod and documenting casualties, I became an “enemy” of many of my (former) interlocutors, some of whom I previously had considered close friends over many years. In their view I worked against them, while I – morally correct, I would suggest – called out the violence of “their” army against people in Lasanod, where I also had close research partners and friends. @RVInews @UniLeipzig @AfricaIai @ROAPEjournal @SozKultAnthro @allegra_lab

@MuhammedBishaar @litodakarbasher Im a diaspora leaving a comment about the reality for most diaspora. I dont have beef with anyone and my fams from gaalkacyo which has many tribes🤦🏾🤣 I will die in my clan tuulo (canada) i didnt expect you to care it was just adding to the convo ✌🏾

@LookAtY00 @litodakarbasher You can go to Jigjiga but want nothing to do with Xamar after 91. I can just feel the qabyalad and cuqdad seething from that comment. Then never come and die in your clan tuulos. Who cares.

Add - qoraxay- dghbour - jigjijiga - hargeisa - gabiley in 25 days! Summer 26 lit alr. Inshallah I’ll see my ppl asw 🥰

@MuhammedBishaar @litodakarbasher Nobody in my fam wants anything to do with xamar after 91 and theyve lived there for a long time. Diaspora only go to where their family is realistically speaking and maybe a city like jigjiga

@litodakarbasher I can connect you with a trusted guide bro. Nothing to be afraid of there. No one will tell you apart from the rest. As a Somali, you shouldn't worry about that at all. Dont go back without vsisting Xamar.

@HyuuSenpai @CodecDetection @Hesamation bro what slop are you making 😭

@CodecDetection @Hesamation Fact. This mf just codes everything that you need in like 2 prompts. We've created a monster.

Meta burns $2.65B a year on AI tokens. at $300K for a Meta engineer, that's enough to pay ~9,000 engineers for a full year. now ask yourself: since the layoffs, has Meta shipped anything that feels like 9,000 engineers’ worth of output?

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@WyllytheEGOIST @tarzaned 😭😭😭✌🏾

@tarzaned Tarzaned as impostor: but why the fuck is this retard camping cams and ghosting me does he have cancer

looking for friend group/ppl to play games like among us with.. dm me

@CivicPulseh6nc Bargaal????? That makes no sense to me

🚨 BREAKING: Heavy fighting has erupted in the town of Baargaal between Federal Government forces and Puntland Police forces, with military casualties confirmed. The clashes remain ongoing, and the full extent of the casualties and the outcome of the fighting are not yet clear.

@Camel3nthusiast @ColorismM @CR7Suuu @bramsmdn “Somalia’s biggest threat is SL and other states” You proved you dont know whats going on in Somalia at all

@NubiaEmirate @ColorismM @CR7Suuu @bramsmdn Respectfully this is just cope. Somalia biggest threat is Somaliland and other states trying to break away not Al Shabaab. Here is the two map depicting the current situation in both countries. The black part is areas controlled by terrorists.

That would be such a funny anime 😭

@NubiaEmirate Muslim population? Of the 3 countries depicted Sudan and Eritrea are a lot closer to each other than Somalia, so idk what the issue is to begin with

@LookAtY00 We just hate AIDSthiopians, that's the only commonality

Zoodanis try not to beg for East African approval

@FergieBallFan the white version of the nigerian guy looks like haaland

I just did this to a selfie Im fuckin howling

@Fcb__Chris @MoodyKnowsNada obviously not 😭

@MoodyKnowsNada Is this even a true story 😭

And with that a new legend for Nigerian social media was born