Mahe Dir relationship?
Mahe Dir relationship?
Joke aside, I think it would've been best if they fully resettled amongst y'all in the North after the civil war era and moved away from Hawiye and Darood.
Do you personally believe you're Dir? I've come across many GX who believe that.Yh that and SSNM
Nah they should hold onto to their lands in Koonfur and even expand them. A branch of Surre already live in Waqooyi, the Cabaas Muuse i think
It will be hard for 50 dir qoys to expand in hiran fertile lands they are surrounded every corner why don’t all surre join biimal in marka being 50 qoys every region is not good strategy to expand
Pretty sure they are more than 50 qoys, but anyway they are still capable of fighting and expanding. If I am correct, you are Xawaadle. Surre have given you a run for your money many times.
ok if you’re right where can they expand to?
That's up to them, but you are at a disadvantage if you keep urbanising and expanding elsewhere.
don’t be silly now you are way out of your depth in koonfur business isaaqow
So that means the Surre that live with Harti and insult them can finally move and be with their brothers?
they live as guests
It is older than the 90s. It has more to do with the fact that they left the Dir heartland before these subclans came into existence and continued identifying with the macro clan. We have to stop using sub sub subclans and create some sort of Surre Xeer where we only use Surre to create unity around one identity.
You forgot Bandarjadid and the farming land in Lower Jubba.
Also, you have Qubeys Geeljires in Eastern Hiiraan who inhabit Dhaah. They are not urbanised hence why you don't hear much of them and are only starting to build their land.
After the Civil War Qubeys started settling in Golweyn where they run banana plantations, Jeylani mainly owns them. Population is mainly Bantu though.
Tbh, I don't see the point in urbanising around many small towns because investment will be limited as only one or two Juufos live in any one town. Better to pool resources in one continuous territory and create a couple of large towns with enlarged facilities such as hospitals etc. Apart from the farming settlements, I reckon more than 70 percent of us are still nomadic. Take Towfiiq District, for example, the Saleebaan Cabdalla are 90 percent Galleries where even teenage boys carry firearms instead of going to school. The Qurbajoog Reer Magaals whose grandfather's hail from there ain't interested in investing there, they prefer to build in cosmopolitan cities. For instance, the Hargeysa project to build hundreds of homes for Qurbajoog Surre thanks to cheap land offered to them by Isaaq landowners:
Reer Towfiiq have the largest land among the Central Dir Surres because the Ximan area and adjacent coastal areas is mainly theirs. This Sheekhaal writer travelled through Eastern Mudug in search of Sheekhal ancestral graves and highlighted how this grazing plain is now mainly settled by us after the Civil War and the demarcation of clan borders in Eastern Mudug.
What is the point of some Saleebaan Cabdallas staying in Galgadud and building a town in Lajiide when it is better to just build Towfiiq District? The other SAs should all relocate to Towfiiq District too as it can accommodate them in one central area allowing a decent sized urban town to develop with access to the coast for those willing to diversify into fishing. Furthermore, our Ximan grazing land can support a larger population. Even the Qubeys Mirjicley should have invested in the already existing urban towns but I gotta give it to them in that they are making more progress developing an urban town than the Geeljire Reer Towfiiq for instance.
Looking ahead, I think it is better if we concentrate our population in one Southern region. My preference is Central Surres to move to land we settle in Bandarjadid LJ adjacent to the Biimaal and Jubba riverine areas near the Ethiopian border. My cousin bought farmland ten years ago in our area of Luuq District for less around 10k, now it's worth 50k.
Across the border in Ethiopia, land is even cheaper in our riverine territory in Doolobay district. I was thinking about purchasing cheap Tolka riverside land for 4k but needed to get my Ethiopian papers first. The Surres there don't even farm apart from some Qubeys in Kolo and are only now starting to take up the opportunities being next to Jubba river brings.
