Haiti Earthquake Appeal

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How to login on Qarxis

A lot of people have been wondering how this website operates, how to register and how to login just like the previous Qarxis.com website.

Well, with this website we took a totally different approach by integrating it with Facebook’s API and allowing people to setup accounts by simply clicking the blue “Connect with Facebook” button on the sidebar which pops up a window where users can enter their Facebook login details and press connect.
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Somalia clashes kill 138 in two weeks

“At least 138 people died and 344 others were injured in the last two weeks’ fighting in central Somalia,” Ali Yasin Gedi, the vice chairman of the Elman human rights group, told Reuters.

“The recent fighting between Ahlu Sunna, and al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam on one side has also displaced 63,000 people from Galgadud and Hiiraan regions.”
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New Qarxis vision

After a lot of discussions and brainstorming sessions in between the Qarxis team we have agreed that Qarxis.com should go a slightly different direction, a more positive and productive one, where we will create a lot of the content ourselves and by this I mean Qarxis members (like you and me). A place where everyone who is able to contribute interesting articles, researches, reports, statistics, videos, images etc. all concerning the Somali people everywhere in the world.
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The axe-wielding Somali

As most of you know or to some degree heard about, the drawer behind the Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons, Kurt Westergaard, was on the first of January attacked by a 28-year-old Somali Muslim. Equipped with an axe, he managed to break in to the  house of the 74-year-old Dane. The Dane managed to get himself inside a safe room where he alerted the authorities. He was with his grandchild at the time, but only managed to get himself in the room and this is what he had to say about leaving the child:
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Africa Cup of Nations 2010

The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the 27th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football championship of Africa (CAF). It is being held in Angola, where it began on 10 January 2010 and will conclude on 31 January.

In the tournament, the hosts Angola were to be joined by 15 nations who successfully advanced from the qualification process that began in October 2007 and involved 53 African national teams. The withdrawal of Togo after a terrorist attack on their bus upon arriving for the tournament reduced the number of participating nations to 15, meaning Angola were joined by only 14 teams. A total of 29 games will be played.
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Avatar Review

“Amazing to look at. And the storytelling is never less than expert, but the yarn itself… Well, let’s start there, since Titanic director James Cameron and his team have been remarkably successful at keeping it under wraps.

The movie is set almost entirely on the planet Pandora in the year 2154. A marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthingon) is tasked with controlling an organic (but lab-grown) avatar in the physical form of the native population, the Na’vi, a jungle tribe of tall blue bipeds with simian tails and human features. When Jake is hooked up to his avatar it’s as if he becomes him. When the avatar sleeps, Jake returns to his own body and his own people.”
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Rival Somali Islamic Militias Clash in Power Struggle

“Fierce fighting has broken out in two towns in southern and central Somalia among three Islamist groups vying for power in the country. With the U.N.-backed transitional government unable to exert any influence in most areas of the country, various Islamist groups and factions are trying to fill the power vacuum.

After two days of clashes, a military commander for the Sufi militia, Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jamaa, says his forces have seized the town of Beledweyne in the Hiran region from Hizbul Islam rebels.”
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Its better in Somalia!

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And Somalia saved the day [Video]

MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — People here have one thing to thank Somali pirates for: Better fishing.

In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates.

“There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use because the international fishermen have been scared away by the pirates,” said Athman Seif, the director of the Malindi Marine Association.
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