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Siyaad Barre rotated the uses of Somali port every few years inorder to develop all the ports, Somalia had a small population but the largest coastline in Africa, for this reason, collaboration with foreign powers was used and abused to the max, Mogadishu, Kismaayo, Bosaso and Berbera were all build under the kacaan by using this strategy of limiting usage of one port, to force foreign allies to invest and build other ports so they can use them.

The jaahil is the gaal madow who thinks Siyaad Barre was dependent on Berbera

there is a reason why the soviet hated Siyaad Barre, he took elements from their ideology to suit his needs but never submitted to them, infact he used soviet to increase our power in Africa.

Siyaad Barre rotated the uses of Somali port every few years inorder to develop all the ports, Somalia had a small population but the largest coastline in Africa, for this reason, collaboration with foreign powers was used and abused to the max, Mogadishu, Kismaayo, Bosaso and Berbera were all build under the kacaan by using this strategy of limiting usage of one port, to force foreign allies to invest and build other ports so they can use them.

The jaahil is the gaal madow who thinks Siyaad Barre was dependent on Berbera

there is a reason why the soviet hated Siyaad Barre, he took elements from their ideology to suit his needs but never submitted to them, infact he used soviet to increase our power in Africa.

"built under the kacaan"

By whom? By imaginable boon marehan fairies?

Just see how blatant this boon marehan hunter-gatherer is with his lies. He is bragging that his aabe Afweyne begged foreign countries and received aid. No xishood, no karaamad.

Afweyne was a beggar. Everyone knew he was a beggar.

The fact of the matter is super powers of the day were interested in access to one port, namely Berbera. Just read the source above you boon marehan jaahil. To this day Berbera is the only relevant port in the region other than Djibouti.

Afweyne got military aid because of world interest in Berbera. He had nothing else of value to offer

Are you refuting the fact that Berbera, Bosaso, Mogadishu, Kismaayo ports were all constructed, refurbished and maintained at highest standards in the 21 years of the Kacaan. Soviets invested and build Berbera, US invested and build Kismaayo, we worked with world super powers who opposed each other, and Incorporated them in the development of our country to further our interest regardless of their opposing idealogy, even when they were at brink of war.

Today Berbera is not being build by super powers, it is being sold to Ethiopia and UAE, the two enemies of the Somali people, you and I are not that different, if they hate me, they hate you, but you bend over for them whereas I am more strategic and collaborate with a more powerful nation in fair deals, aka Turkey/Qatar.

face the music bro, waa lagaa caqli badan yahay, anyways you are gaal madow from baadiyaha, get your masters then come talk to me.

aflagaada waa lagu yaqaan maangaabkan

Talk to me when you have world power and you make lucrative deals and good relations with them, instead of being taken advantage off by UAE and Ethiopia lol

aflagaada waa lagu yaqaan maangaabkan

Talk to me when you have world power and you make lucrative deals and good relations with them, instead of being taken advantage off by UAE and Ethiopia lol

Ethiopia is in talks to acquire shares in a joint venture involving DP World Ltd. that will manage a port in northern Somalia, a Somali official said, a move that could give the fast-growing yet landlocked Horn of Africa economy its first stake in foreign docks.

Somaliland, a semi-autonomous territory that aspires to statehood, has agreed “in principle” to give Ethiopia a 19 percent share in the venture administering Berbera port, according to Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire. Somaliland’s government and Dubai-based DP World, which has a 30-year concession to manage and develop the facility, will be the majority shareholders in Somaliland-registered DPW Berbera, he said in an interview.

If Ethiopia takes its share, Somaliland will hold 30 percent of the company, while DP World will have 51 percent, according to Shire. Berbera sits on the Gulf of Aden, a waterway that leads to the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and is also where Somaliland says the United Arab Emirates is leasing a military airport that may be expanded into a naval facility.


Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, is pitching itself as an export-oriented manufacturing hub, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting economic growth of 7.5 percent this year, the fastest pace on the continent after Ivory Coast. Ethiopia’s transport and information ministers and Foreign Ministry spokesman didn’t respond to phone calls and text messages seeking comment on the Berbera share offer.

Share Structure
Shire said the venture is presently 65 percent owned by DP World, with Somaliland holding the rest, and nothing legally binding has yet been agreed with Ethiopia. DP World, which operates 78 terminals in 40 countries, announced it would hold 65 percent in the venture in September. It won’t comment on the share structure “for the time being,” spokesman Michael Vertigans said by email.

Shire said the Berbera facility will have a container terminal and be mainly used for container traffic as a transit hub for landlocked nations, particularly Ethiopia. Currently more than 90 percent of Ethiopia’s trade passes through another Red Sea neighbor, Djibouti, according to that country’s ports authority.

A new $4.2-billion, Chinese-built railway between Ethiopia and Djibouti is set to cut cargo-journey times to 12 hours, from three days by road. DP World has a 50-year concession to operate a container terminal in Djibouti, which the government unsuccessfully sought the rescission of at a London arbitration court, Dubai said in February.

Industrial Policy
Ethiopia’s industrial policy strategy sees the railway line transporting 7.5 million metric tons of cargo per year by 2020, and says one of the nation’s “major accomplishments” was its purchase of cargo ships that have enhanced the capacity of its maritime transport services. Somaliland is planning a 260-kilometer (162-mile) road from Berbera port to the Ethiopian border, according to Shire.

“A shareholding doesn’t necessarily mean recognition of Somaliland as a state,” said Mogus Tekle Michael, deputy director of the Ethiopian Foreign Relations Strategic Studies Institute and a former Foreign Ministry spokesman. Ethiopia would be “more than willing to grab any opportunity” to play a role in developing any port in the region, including Berbera, he said.

The planned U.A.E. military base in the Berbera area will “add value on the security side” to the use of Berbera port, Shire said. The use of Berbera, Somaliland’s only major harbor, to import materials for the construction of the U.A.E. facility is “just common sense,” he said. The U.A.E. hasn’t publicly commented on any of the plans for a base detailed by Shire.

DP World isn’t involved “in any way” with the base, “which is a matter for both governments,” Vertigans said.

Darod Is the same siyad barre general Adam gabyo xoosh kibray Darod have same culture they are United in isaaq hatret. I met all sort of darods they hate isaaq progress equally Somaliland progress equally even their qurjile wasakhgali. Wakab iyo xaarkeed. That dhulbajante faggot who said siyad bare my mother I midgaan. His mother was isaaq hy isxaaq. These people are filthy nasty people no nobility nothing. Xoosh kibray was insulting isaaq. His own wife was isaaq. Qudhun weye nijaas cancer. They brought south Africans bantus jareers . They made deal with mengistu just to defeat isaaq. Nasty qudhun weye daroodku cadaaabtanu kaga Daba tegeyna

Adali how old are you do you remember the civil war how old were you in 1988

Berbera port deal

Ethiopia is in talks to acquire shares in a joint venture involving DP World Ltd. that will manage a port in northern Somalia, a Somali official said, a move that could give the fast-growing yet landlocked Horn of Africa economy its first stake in foreign docks.

Somaliland, a semi-autonomous territory that aspires to statehood, has agreed “in principle” to give Ethiopia a 19 percent share in the venture administering Berbera port, according to Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire. Somaliland’s government and Dubai-based DP World, which has a 30-year concession to manage and develop the facility, will be the majority shareholders in Somaliland-registered DPW Berbera, he said in an interview.

If Ethiopia takes its share, Somaliland will hold 30 percent of the company, while DP World will have 51 percent, according to Shire. Berbera sits on the Gulf of Aden, a waterway that leads to the Red Sea and Suez Canal, and is also where Somaliland says the United Arab Emirates is leasing a military airport that may be expanded into a naval facility.


Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, is pitching itself as an export-oriented manufacturing hub, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting economic growth of 7.5 percent this year, the fastest pace on the continent after Ivory Coast. Ethiopia’s transport and information ministers and Foreign Ministry spokesman didn’t respond to phone calls and text messages seeking comment on the Berbera share offer.

Share Structure
Shire said the venture is presently 65 percent owned by DP World, with Somaliland holding the rest, and nothing legally binding has yet been agreed with Ethiopia. DP World, which operates 78 terminals in 40 countries, announced it would hold 65 percent in the venture in September. It won’t comment on the share structure “for the time being,” spokesman Michael Vertigans said by email.

Shire said the Berbera facility will have a container terminal and be mainly used for container traffic as a transit hub for landlocked nations, particularly Ethiopia. Currently more than 90 percent of Ethiopia’s trade passes through another Red Sea neighbor, Djibouti, according to that country’s ports authority.

A new $4.2-billion, Chinese-built railway between Ethiopia and Djibouti is set to cut cargo-journey times to 12 hours, from three days by road. DP World has a 50-year concession to operate a container terminal in Djibouti, which the government unsuccessfully sought the rescission of at a London arbitration court, Dubai said in February.

Industrial Policy
Ethiopia’s industrial policy strategy sees the railway line transporting 7.5 million metric tons of cargo per year by 2020, and says one of the nation’s “major accomplishments” was its purchase of cargo ships that have enhanced the capacity of its maritime transport services. Somaliland is planning a 260-kilometer (162-mile) road from Berbera port to the Ethiopian border, according to Shire.

“A shareholding doesn’t necessarily mean recognition of Somaliland as a state,” said Mogus Tekle Michael, deputy director of the Ethiopian Foreign Relations Strategic Studies Institute and a former Foreign Ministry spokesman. Ethiopia would be “more than willing to grab any opportunity” to play a role in developing any port in the region, including Berbera, he said.

The planned U.A.E. military base in the Berbera area will “add value on the security side” to the use of Berbera port, Shire said. The use of Berbera, Somaliland’s only major harbor, to import materials for the construction of the U.A.E. facility is “just common sense,” he said. The U.A.E. hasn’t publicly commented on any of the plans for a base detailed by Shire.

DP World isn’t involved “in any way” with the base, “which is a matter for both governments,” Vertigans said.

let me enlighten you this is actual begging, not the Kacaan who made a lucrative deal with little concession to the soviets.