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sovereignty retweeted
Apr 16
رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِي أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَالِدَيَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَالِحًا تَرْضَاهُ وَأَدْخِلْنِي بِرَحْمَتِكَ فِي عِبَادِكَ الصَّالِحِينَ
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really important thread on the environmental impact of illegal mining in Somalia which is pretty much undeterred.
“illegal mining isn't just theft of minerals. The community is left with land they can't farm and water they can't drink, for a generation.”
Let's go deeper on the chemistry. Most illegal mining operations target gold, and gold extraction needs a chemical leaching agent. That's where cyanide and mercury enter the picture — and where the real damage starts. This picture is Sabayo, Puntland 🧵
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sovereignty retweeted
This is the part that doesn't get said enough: illegal mining isn't just theft of minerals. It's a permanent liability left on someone else's land. The criminals leave with the gold. The community is left with land they can't farm and water they can't drink, for a generation.
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Livestock drink from the same wells. Heavy metals bioaccumulate — they build up in an animal's tissue over its lifetime, then pass to whoever eats that animal. In a pastoral economy this means the contamination doesn't stay at the well. It enters the entire food chain.
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Now the wells. Without a lined containment pit, cyanide and mercury-laced runoff seeps straight down through the soil. In porous or sandy ground — common across the Somali plateau — that seepage reaches the water table in months, not years.
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Cyanide leaching: crushed ore gets piled up or dumped in tanks, then sprayed or soaked with a cyanide solution. The cyanide bonds with gold particles, separating them from rock. It's the standard method in legal mining too — the difference is what happens to it after.
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sovereignty retweeted
Let's go deeper on the chemistry. Most illegal mining operations target gold, and gold extraction needs a chemical leaching agent. That's where cyanide and mercury enter the picture — and where the real damage starts. This picture is Sabayo, Puntland 🧵
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They tryna make kadaloobsi an Asian thing when this is very common in Africa. I mean, how do you think people would relieve themselves in nature or on those squat toilets still in use in many places 🤔
BBC journalists try to do the 'Asian squat', a resting position frequently used by people in places like China, Japan, and much of Asia.
🎧 Click for more on cultural traditions around the world bbc.in/4vNYZgP
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For the first time since the U.S. government began collecting the data, young Black men are dying by suicide at a higher rate than young white men capitalbnews.org/young-black…
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The damage to local communities is permanent. No chemical runoff management means cyanide and mercury enter the water supply. In Somalia water is survival. Contaminated wells = dead livestock, sick children, destroyed livelihoods. The land doesn't recover.
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There's a type of criminal operation most people have never heard of. Not a small crew with shovels. An entire functioning town — built on land that isn't theirs, extracting resources that aren't theirs. I found one in Somalia. With tanks. 🧵
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Feb 28
there's a limit to how much you can carry, but no limit to how much you can surrender
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5 Aug 2025
contemplating disability n its symbol of powerlessness, n how important it is to surrender the depths of one's weakness to Allaah so as to not unconsciously be sucked into a shame-led schema prompting one to constantly overcompensate n 'atone' for what is no sin; inability
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Jun 16
old, ancient wounds impede trust in Allaah and i keep telling them,
كلا إن معي ربي سيهدين
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The Plein Air Painters — Frithjof Smith-Hald, 1872, Oil on canvas
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Jun 15
Visited this two gorgeous Acacia trees outside Wadajir District in Mogadishu. I know their days are numbered as the city continue to cut down trees to make way for concrete jungle. This indigenous trees are extinction threatened across the Somali Peninsula.
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sovereignty retweeted
Jun 15
Dear @MoECC_Somalia is the ministry doing anything to protects the massive slaughter of trees in ans around Mogadishu. This city will be unlivable if the current rate of trees fellings continues.
Jun 15
Visited this two gorgeous Acacia trees outside Wadajir District in Mogadishu. I know their days are numbered as the city continue to cut down trees to make way for concrete jungle. This indigenous trees are extinction threatened across the Somali Peninsula.
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Jun 16
I say this so often, even the end of my attahiyat before taslim. it's been transformative for my psyche, offloading for my body that would house so many concerns, tensions, responsibilities to figure it all out, worst case scenarios that i tried get leverage over by pre-empting..
Jun 15
Return to this du'ā often. It's a key to divine openings, and its secret lies in one's humility & brokenness before Allāh. A servant who comes to Him emptied of hope in his own self & in others is never left empty; he is brought near & enriched from the vastness of Allāh's grace.
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Jun 16
Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as dollar brand):
-south african pianist n composer
-given early support by duke ellington
-he came to Islam in '68
-made hajj
-made the anti-apartheid anthem
'mannenberg'
below is the track 'adhan & Allah-o-akbar'
may Allaah be to him merciful
Jun 15
South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim dies at 91 bbc.in/3S0QSiu
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