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The motherland (the Horn of Africa).

pawn89:
Dark clouds

www.nairaland.com/attachments/1831640_20140622174856_jpeg2b90154dee81cd654951e4a8b791a760

And we have a winner. Amazing!

Drake represents light skin guys now I'm gonna eat a big juicy L for breakfast.

Do women actually fuss about how light/dark their guy must be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbVT3wrOcc

napaj:
According to her, she was convinced and she had to confess to me on her own

Ok, how did she force you to marry her?

Tbh you are making it sound like she lied about having illegitimate kids before she married you or something similar to that. The way you've worded the title kinda tells me that this lie isn't the only thing wrong with your marriage.

denisfidha:
That mini-nation in somalia called putland is making so much progress behind the scenes- din't know they had a special forces unit

This is Alpha Group in the south.

https://i.imgur.com/ahoT1.jpg

The northern states of Somaliland and Puntland* are both doing well but the absence of the central government is a major problem for them.

napaj:
My wife confessed to me on her own recently that she had not gotten any educational qualification. That the ones i thought she has was forged. In this kind of situation, what can i do? the marriage is blessed with kids.

How did you find out and what was her excuse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjE9H8QlA4

Fulaman198:
Do you care if United States exists? Do you care if England/UK exists? Do you care if China and S. Korea exists? You should care if the country exists.

If Nigeria does well in the West African region, all countries will follow suit. As a region, West Africa needs to be stronger. Instead of laughing at another fellow West African nation, it's time we discuss ways we can help improve the situation in Burkina.

This same kind of selfish nonsensical mentality is why the new Ebola strand spread to other countries because of selfish behaviour. Ebola came from far West Africa (Libera, Guinea, Sierra Leone) and gradually spread into the Eastern part of West Africa (Nigeria) by way of Liberia. If we don't pay attention to what is happening in other nearby countries it eventually comes here. I can list so many examples.

Well said.

I'm happy they finally got rid of that corrupt dog. I hope he gets assassinated too which would serve as justice for when he backstabbed his friend and compatriot 27 years ago.

(Reuters) - Zambia's Guy Scott became Africa's first white head of state in 20 years on Wednesday after the president, "King Cobra" Michael Sata, died in a London hospital aged 77.

Scott, a Cambridge-educated economist born to Scottish parents, had been Sata's vice president. He will be interim leader until an election in three months, making him the first white African leader since South Africa's F.W. de Klerk lost to Nelson Mandela in the 1994 election that ended apartheid.

Scott, 70, is ineligible to run for the presidency in the election because of citizenship restrictions, leaving defense minister Edgar Lungu and finance minister Alexander Chikwanda the most likely contenders for the ruling Patriotic Front party's ticket, analysts say.

"Elections for the office of president will take place within 90 days. In the interim I am acting president," Scott said in a brief televised address.

"The period of national mourning will start today. We will miss our beloved president and comrade."

Many Zambians welcomed Scott's interim appointment.

Scott is a lively character who has caused diplomatic controversy in the past, describing South Africans as "backward" in an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper last year. "I like a lot of South Africans but they really think they're the bees' knees and actually they've been the cause of so much trouble in this part of the world," he said.

"He is a black man in a white man’s skin," said Nathan Phiri, a bus driver. "The very fact we accepted him as vice-president shows that we consider him as one of us."

Sata, who was nicknamed "King Cobra" because of his sharp tongue, died on Tuesday, the government said earlier. He had been president of Zambia, Africa's second-largest copper producer, since 2011.

The cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but Sata had been ill for some time. He was at London's King Edward VII hospital when he died, the website Zambian Watchdog reported.

"As you are aware, the president was receiving medical attention in London," cabinet secretary Roland Msiska announced on state television. "The head of state passed away on October 28. President Sata's demise is deeply regretted."

"DIVISIVE FIGURE"

Sata, whose populist platform included defending workers' rights, was often fiercely critical of the foreign mining companies operating in Zambia's copper belt. Analysts said his death could prompt a rise in investment in the country.

"President Sata has been a divisive figure for Zambia on the economic front, espousing increasingly authoritarian and ad hoc policy measures against the crucial mining sector in recent years, which has hampered investment," South African consultancy ETM said.

"The president's passing could make way for a more reformist administration and help to remove broader policy uncertainties."

Sata, whose varied CV included stints as a policeman, car assembly worker, trade unionist and platform sweeper at London's Victoria station, had left Zambia on Oct. 19 for medical treatment, accompanied by his wife and family members.

Defense Minister Lungu, secretary general of Sata's Patriotic Front party, had to lead celebrations last week of the 50th anniversary of Zambia's independence from Britain.

Concern over Sata's health had been mounting since June, when he disappeared from the public eye without explanation and was then reported to be receiving medical treatment in Israel.

He missed a scheduled speech at the U.N. General Assembly in September amid reports that he had fallen ill in his New York hotel. A few days before that, he had attended the opening of parliament in Lusaka, joking: "I am not dead."

It was a typically no-nonsense denial from a politician not known for diplomatic niceties.

"I haven't bloody lost so don't waste my time," he barked at a BBC reporter in 2008 after results showed he had indeed lost an election to his main rival, Rupiah Banda, by a narrow margin.

His nationalist, anti-Chinese rhetoric finally helped him oust Banda in a 2011 election.

A year ago, he threatened to remove the mining license of Konkola Copper mines (VED.L), Zambia's biggest private employer, because of plans to lay off 1,500 workers. During the row, the company's foreign chief executive had his work permit revoked.

The Zambian kwacha ZMW= fell 2 percent against the dollar after Sata's death was announced. Traders said it was unlikely to suffer any prolonged weakness because of the underlying health of an economy expected to grow 7 percent this year.

"Obviously, there will be a sentimental temptation to go long on dollars, but I'm also quite confident the central bank will do everything it can to protect the currency," one Lusaka-based trader said.

"In terms of the economy, everything should still be on track."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-zambia-sata-idUSKBN0II06S20141029

Your bar chart is based on the DNA results of only 5 people. Hardly reliable source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlJvMU-5NyA

vdGeist:
That's a paper about Y-chromosome haplogroups
what does that have to do with admixture?

Instead of completely avoiding my question, tell me where you got that bar chart from?

"In Somali males, 14 haplogroups were identified. The frequency of the clade E3b was 81.1%, including 77.6% of the haplogroup E3b1 defined by the M78 mutation. The Eurasian haplogroup K2 was found in 10.4%, and 3.0% of the Somali Y chromosomes belonged to the major clade J. Only 3.0% of the Somalis had the sub-Saharan African haplogroups A3, B and E3a*(xE3a4). Less than 2.0% of the Somalis belonged to the Northwest African E3b2 lineage".

stanley99a:
thats to ur understanding. Watch out till the end of the season. It not up to half of the season. I trust chealsea fans with their ranting when they experience bad days which will start coming soon. Just relax.

I'm not even a Chelsea fan but let's resume this at the end of the season mate.

vdGeist:
Before we continue, can you show me where you got the 10% from.

Have a good time reading this.

http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v13/n7/full/5201390a.html

stanley99a:
small club gave ur acclaimed best defence red card, small club posing wit 20 epl cup and 3 champions league. Small club with the highest revenue in epl. Guy man think

Guy man, united used to be good, they've fallen into a bottomless abyss along with AC Milan. Both are small clubs now

vdGeist:
Very true.

Here are bar plots from a scientific study showing the ancestry of the different north east African groups.

red = SSA
blue = West Asia

1. Where did you get this bar chart from? It looks like something I could make in 5 minutes.
2. There is no such thing as a Sub Saharan DNA.
3. The Eurasian percentage in Somali DNA is much lower; no more than 10%.

You forgot the annoying Brazilian Neymar fanboys who think Neymar is God.

United fans are celebrating this draw at Old Trafford like they won the game that's how you know they're a small club

vdGeist:
North East African are a mix of West Asians (Berber, Levant, Arab) and Sub Saharan Africans.

Not true.

MerhawiZG:
yes my father speak a little bit somali now but before he said he speak it like a somali person haha

mehri and darod are jeberti and they are related to eritrean jeberti

I see. Well nice to meet you Merhawi

I'll have to look into that further now lol.

MerhawiZG:
i have many somali friends and my father was a freedom fighter and he lived in mogadishu for 5 years
somalia helped my father and many eritrean fighters with the education weapon and somali passport for travel

brother no somali jeberti and eritrean jeberti are same

do you speak arabic? watch this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYlAWNz7IAY

5 years wow! Does your dad speak Somali?

I have watched this video before. I really don't know what to think. It's a bit farfetched for me, I mean someone would have said something by now. I don't think any of them have spoken about this. The only non Somalis claiming to be related to Darod are Mehri people from Yemen and Socotra island.

MerhawiZG:
brother i know many somali tribe like hawiya isa isaak ogaden

darod jeberti from somalia and jeberti from eritrea are same people

Who taught you?

I don't think they are the same bro. They only share the same name and from what I've heard Jabarta was a place in old Zeila region where the early Muslims in East Africa controlled. So everyone who became Muslim was named Jeberti.

MerhawiZG:
are you somali darod jeberti?

How do you know about Darod? And yes I am from that clan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw09tAcNB0Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAYvjOzh1ag

EnlightenedSoul:
It's just super unappealing tho. I cringe.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

EnlightenedSoul:
Or business-mindedly loll.

Well it is a lucrative business in HOA lol