#Somalia: "The Arab/Muslim world must save Somalia."
#Somalia: "The Arab/Muslim world must save Somalia.": Somalia has had a real year of "Change" with the election of the new parliament and the Election of a new President and Prime Minis...
#Somalia: The Somali-Kenyan dispute on Jubbaland maybe solve...
#Somalia: The Somali-Kenyan dispute on Jubbaland maybe solve...: The last three days may well augur well for the Somalis of the Somali Republic but it looks as usual the Tigre regime of Ethiopia have ot...
The Somali-Kenyan dispute on Jubbaland maybe solved.
The last three days may well augur well for the Somalis of the Somali Republic but it looks as usual the Tigre regime of Ethiopia have other ideas. Let me start that the Somali refugees and business community(from Somalia) who are one of the richest groups in Kenya had a very troublesome last three weeks.There were acts of terrorism in Eastleigh and the Kenya government fed up with that declared that Somali refugees must be repatriated without any agreement with the UNHCR.The arrival of the President of the Somali federal Republic Mr. Hassan Sheik and the subsequent rapprochement between the two countries( read the following article) have brought back the Somalis from an economic crisis and emigration/refugee crisis which was engulfing the mind and activities of the Somalis.The two government have decided to collaborate on various issues including the issues of refugees and other pressing issues like the stay of the Kenyan Armies in Somalia and the fight against Al-Shabaab etc.The most important is the issues of Kismayo ( Lower region) and I believe the Kenyans have came to realize the policies of IGAD and Ethiopia were counter-productive in the long run for the stability,peace and development of the region as a whole. Kenya is going to have its "own input" in the border region of Jubbaland but not as the Ethiopians wonted to have a vassal state in the Jubbaland region of Somalia.I hope things went as I am thinking and would like.The President of Somalia has thanked the Government of Kenya for their assistance and giving the Somalis the opportunity to prosper as business community in Kenya. The other issues I would write are about the new "game plan" of the Tigre Regime of Ethiopia and how I see the "the entourage" and some of the things the President has said here in Nairobi at a Lunch for the Business and Somali Elites here in Nairobi.
The president is a "good"person well mannered and with a clear vision for the future of the Somali Republic and how the peoples of the region and government interact.He already put in writings his ideas which are the "guiding' principles" of the policies of his government.But the problem in Somalia there is a gap between what he is saying and wants to achieve and the overall architecture of the institutions of the State in Somalia and the personnel heading them.I mean those people of his "entourage" who call themselves the security apparatus of the Somali Republic.First they do not have any military training and secondly they have been nominated by the former president by being as him trained in Sudan and good friends of Ethiopia. The are plenty of Somali officers which had good training at Siad Barre era governments which can do this jobs and are not tainted with human rights abuses.The other group of the entourage is what I call the "Ceel Macaan" Al-Ittixad Business cartels( Ceel Macaan is a port in north Mogadishu which was used by this groups for almost 20 years instead of the Mogadishu port).This group is mostly concerned of having the monopoly of the economy and control of the political system.They were allied with the I.C.U and together with the former president they became allied with the Ethiopians in 2009.From that time they also expanded their control on the political spheres and in the four years of the two Sheriffs reign( former president and former speaker) become the most powerful in the Somali elites.They have also links with the Chinese government and business community and they would like to control the Somali national resources like Oil and Gas for their own benefit.They are still in power and the president must find a method to tell them that the government is a product of the Will of the people and their individual and Wahabist-Salafist agendas cannot control the Somali national resources or in general the Somali Nation-hood or the National interest of the Somali Federal Republic.He must find the strategy to tell this business conglomerates who are against anything public that if they wont to survive and be part of the economic structure of the country they must change their agendas and be just one group of the overall economic and political spheres not the only one.Secondly they cannot have foreign policies which are against the Somali national interests.Period. The other thing is as usual they offer money to any government which came to power and in that way corrupt the system and have undue influence in the making and application of economic policies.This groups have never paid taxes of any type to any Somali government and by paying so- called charitable huge amounts of money to the government they avoid to have any tax or accountable system to know their finances and "have a "not failed state" which is part of the economic system.The other big story is the Ethiopians having failed in the diplomatic spheres against the Somali government when it came to the Sovereignty to administer the regions of Somalia they have reverted to the Old system of dividing the Somali puppet leaders.The former speaker of the parliament who every body knows is pro-Iranian,China-man and best puppet leader of Ethiopia is in this days with a group of so-called parliamentarian in Addis-Abeba to plan with the Ethiopians how to stop the plans of the new President and bring back the Old Agenda of sub-dividing the Somali Republic in vassal states.I think unless the West and the Islamic,Arab world tells Ethiopia that their meddling in the internal affairs of Somalia and treating Somalia their own backyard to be colonized I believe Somalis will never have peace and Stability and Al-Shabaab fight will be endagered.Wait and see.
The president is a "good"person well mannered and with a clear vision for the future of the Somali Republic and how the peoples of the region and government interact.He already put in writings his ideas which are the "guiding' principles" of the policies of his government.But the problem in Somalia there is a gap between what he is saying and wants to achieve and the overall architecture of the institutions of the State in Somalia and the personnel heading them.I mean those people of his "entourage" who call themselves the security apparatus of the Somali Republic.First they do not have any military training and secondly they have been nominated by the former president by being as him trained in Sudan and good friends of Ethiopia. The are plenty of Somali officers which had good training at Siad Barre era governments which can do this jobs and are not tainted with human rights abuses.The other group of the entourage is what I call the "Ceel Macaan" Al-Ittixad Business cartels( Ceel Macaan is a port in north Mogadishu which was used by this groups for almost 20 years instead of the Mogadishu port).This group is mostly concerned of having the monopoly of the economy and control of the political system.They were allied with the I.C.U and together with the former president they became allied with the Ethiopians in 2009.From that time they also expanded their control on the political spheres and in the four years of the two Sheriffs reign( former president and former speaker) become the most powerful in the Somali elites.They have also links with the Chinese government and business community and they would like to control the Somali national resources like Oil and Gas for their own benefit.They are still in power and the president must find a method to tell them that the government is a product of the Will of the people and their individual and Wahabist-Salafist agendas cannot control the Somali national resources or in general the Somali Nation-hood or the National interest of the Somali Federal Republic.He must find the strategy to tell this business conglomerates who are against anything public that if they wont to survive and be part of the economic structure of the country they must change their agendas and be just one group of the overall economic and political spheres not the only one.Secondly they cannot have foreign policies which are against the Somali national interests.Period. The other thing is as usual they offer money to any government which came to power and in that way corrupt the system and have undue influence in the making and application of economic policies.This groups have never paid taxes of any type to any Somali government and by paying so- called charitable huge amounts of money to the government they avoid to have any tax or accountable system to know their finances and "have a "not failed state" which is part of the economic system.The other big story is the Ethiopians having failed in the diplomatic spheres against the Somali government when it came to the Sovereignty to administer the regions of Somalia they have reverted to the Old system of dividing the Somali puppet leaders.The former speaker of the parliament who every body knows is pro-Iranian,China-man and best puppet leader of Ethiopia is in this days with a group of so-called parliamentarian in Addis-Abeba to plan with the Ethiopians how to stop the plans of the new President and bring back the Old Agenda of sub-dividing the Somali Republic in vassal states.I think unless the West and the Islamic,Arab world tells Ethiopia that their meddling in the internal affairs of Somalia and treating Somalia their own backyard to be colonized I believe Somalis will never have peace and Stability and Al-Shabaab fight will be endagered.Wait and see.
#Somalia: Who owns Somalia?Al-shabaab or Ethiopia-IGAD?Not S...
#Somalia: Who owns Somalia?Al-shabaab or Ethiopia-IGAD?Not S...: Fight against al Shabaab instructive model for future: U.S. general www.hiiraan.com (Reuters) - The African Union war against al Shaba...
Who owns Somalia?Al-shabaab or Ethiopia-IGAD?Not Somali people-citizens.
Fight against al Shabaab instructive model for future: U.S. general
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(Reuters)
- The African Union war against al Shabaab in Somalia this past year
has left the Islamist group "largely in a survival mode" and is
instructive for confronting the......
History of the alliance between Ethiopia and Al-ittixad political movement.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-Ittixad political movement.Wait and see.
Its quasi reasonable analysis of the Turkey role in Somalia. What I know is our friends Turkey one time has close contacts and business dealings Al-Ittixad business cartels which are allied with Ethiopia and Al-Shabaab. Somali politics
is very complicated for those which are new comers and at first-sight if you think in black and white you will never understand it. Myself who has being involved in it for a very long time as a human rights lawyer and activist and lately as a blogger it took me a very long time to understand it and came to know how the Islamist of Al-Ittixad business cartels could be allied with States like Ethiopia, China, Iran, and France. First was about the hegemony of Ethiopia of the Somali territories but it became from the 90’ about the Oil and Gas of Somalia. For this reasons atheist State like China and Islamist-radicals like All-Ittixad business cartels are allied. The masterminds of this alliance were Somali elites warlords-drug-barons linked to All-Ittixad political movement and in the same time members of the so-called movement-oppositions based in Ethiopia in the late
80".Later during the first conference for Somalia to reestablish a transitional government in Nairobi from 2004 the alliances was remade
and strengthened including some”‘Ruling elites" of IGAD( Ethiopia,Uganda,Kenya,Tanzania,Sudan, Professional Elites in politics, business, professionals in media-print and TV and Organized crimes groups of those countries.) and the governments of China, Iran, France, Italy, Russia. From 2004 the main agenda was to outsmart the Americans, The Arab world, the Islamic world and have total control of all Somalia with sub-clans groups who call themselves autonomous regions-breakaway States and at the end have a Confederation of Somali States with names like Somaliland,Puntland,Jubbaland,Hiiraanland,Bay/Bakol land,Benadir land etc.In that way there is not anymore the Somali Republic but new states with new sovereignty and then the spoils would be divided between this international groups and Al-ittixad business Cartels who would control the economies of this new satellites states while the Ethiopians and IGAD will install leaders of their liking.
In the 80” when this quasi inhuman agenda was hatched the Regime of Menghiste needed to control Somalia by subdividing it in sub-clan based States. The two main leaders of the U.S.C- Manifesto group who said no to the Ethiopian hegemony were assassinated in Italy, masterminded by Somali Ittixad leaders’ members of the U.S.C and the Ethiopians, with the complicity of Italian mafia and the Italian intelligence services in April and July1990. The two were my late father Ali Mohamed Ossoble who was one time vice-president of The S.N.M(1984-1987) and later president of the U.S.C Roma( 1989-1990) and DR. Ismail Giumale Ossoble who started the Manifesto group(1990). After
the assassination of these two leaders the U.S.C was taken over in Ethiopia-Nairobi by pro-Ethiopian groups and in Mogadishu by the All-Ittixad political movement members masquerading as U.S.C leaders. That is main reason instead of fighting against the Siad Barre regime for" regime change" the U.S.C started a civil war and the total destruction of the State infrastructures in Mogadishu and all over Somalia. The Militia of the U.S.C in Mogadishu and the S.N.M( in the north) and S.S.D.F in (northeast) were looting and destroying every system connected with the Somali state and started as a policy to have sub-Clan Based regions-areas.
The other policy of Al-Ittixad is to take over the economies of all regions of Somalia specially the Trade, Communication Hawilaad/money-remittances,the education systems starting from the madrasa to the universities. The policy of the Ethiopians to subdivide the Somalis in sub-clans groups which are fighting each other,have borders between themselves and ruled by Warlords/puppet leaders was made the main agenda. The ittixad Movement accepted this model agreed with the Ethiopian and conceal any accusation that they were controlling the political spheres in all regions and central government.
(To bee continued)-next piece the will be about(1) Organized crimes,(2)How the Ethiopians made the alliance with All_ittixad business Cartels(3)The economic expansion of the All-ittixad business cartels and their connection with International companies and Organized crimes.
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#Somalia: Last U.N Security Council resolution for Somalia.T...
#Somalia: Last U.N Security Council resolution for Somalia.T...: Security Council SC/10806 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York Security Council 6854th Meeting...
Last U.N Security Council resolution for Somalia.There is not any "powers" to make any administration for:Kismayo.
Security Council
SC/10806
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Security Council
6854th Meeting (AM)
Security Council, Adopting Resolution, Extends by Four Months
African Union Mission in Somalia, Adds Civilian Personnel
The Security Council this morning reauthorized the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to maintain its deployment for four months, until 7 March 2013, while deciding to expand the United Nations support package for the Mission to additional civilian personnel.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2073 (2012), the Council authorized AMISOM to maintain its presence in the areas set out in its strategic concept of January 2012 for countering the threat still posed by Al-Shabaab and other armed opposition groups in coordination with Somali national security forces, in order to establish secure conditions for legitimate governance, reconciliation and the provision of humanitarian assistance across Somalia, which, the Council said in a resolution of 18 September, had recently made great strides in security and governance but still faced great challenges in both areas (See Press Release SC/10768).
Today’s move came exactly one week after the Council met under “unusual circumstances” in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which had ripped through New York, paralysing the city and forcing an unprecedented three-day shut-down of United Nations Headquarters. With AMISOM’s mandate set to expire at midnight on 31 October, the Council had quickly adopted resolution 2072 (2012), which had authorized a short-term extension of the Mission — 7 days — under the terms of its existing mandate (See Press Release SC/10804).
With the current text, the Council decided to extend the logistical support package to a further 50 civilian personnel for a period to be determined by assessment and “on an exceptional basis and owing to the unique character of the mission”, underlining the importance of swiftly deploying them to areas recently liberated from Al-Shabaab in line with a request from the African Union. In line with previous resolutions, it also requested the Secretary-General to continue to provide support to 17,731 uniformed personnel until the end of the authorization period, along with providing advice to the African Union on implementation of the Mission’s strategic concept.
In his most recent report on AMISOM (document S/2012/764), the Secretary-General recommended a four-month continuation of the current support package, with slight adjustments, awaiting the results of a thorough assessment of the Mission in view of the challenges ahead, to be conducted by the African Union working together with the United Nations.
Following the vote, the representative of the United Kingdom, which sponsored the resolution, welcomed its adoption, commending AMISOM and its troop contributing countries in their role in helping to “free Somalis from the dark shadow of Al-Shabaab,” and helping to restore their faith in governmental structures. He said that today’s attack on the Somali Parliament showed the difficulties that remained in that context, but he firmly told the armed groups: “You will not succeed.”
The Council, he added, must now re-examine some of its positions, including those on the arms embargo and the charcoal embargo in Kismayu, in consultation with the Somali Government and other partners, to give the Government the space to make progress on key priorities. The review of AMISOM would allow the Council to set clear divisions of responsibilities and further readjust support. The Council must do all it could to turn Somali hope into reality, he stressed.
Also welcoming the adoption and commending AMISOM and its troop contributing countries, the representatives of South Africa, Germany, Guatemala and India, regretted, however, that a more sustained extension of the support package was not approved through the text, and that the resolution did not address support for a maritime component of the Mission, as requested by the African Union, which they said was important for countering Al-Shabaab and piracy off the coast of Somalia. They awaited the results of the assessment and work on the next resolution on Somalia to address such issues.
South Africa’s delegate, in addition, regretted that the lifting of the arms embargo, as it affected Somali national security forces, was not addressed. Germany’s representative added that he would have preferred more sustainable funding be provided for AMISOM and that the proposed guard force for officials be addressed.
The representative of Somalia, finally, took the floor to stress the country’s progress in governance in recent months, including the appointment of an inclusive cabinet which included a woman as Foreign Minister. All such progress had been achieved with the unfailing support of AMISOM and the Ethiopian forces, supported by the Security Council and the international community. Now nation-building must begin for a country that had had no effective Government for over two decades. He, therefore, welcomed the strengthening of AMISOM and additional support. He had hoped, however, that the authorization and support would have been approved for one year, to better support the Government’s efforts, but nevertheless looked forward to working together with the Council on meeting future challenges.
The meeting began at 10:12 a.m. and ended at 10:35 a.m.
Resolution
The full text of resolution 2073 (2012) reads as follows:
“The Security Council,
“Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation in Somalia, in particular resolution 1772 (2007),
“Reaffirming its respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and unity of Somalia and reiterating its commitment to a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the situation in Somalia,
“Recalling its decision in resolution 2036 (2012) to expand the logistical support package for AMISOM to include the reimbursement of certain contingent owned equipment including force enablers and multipliers,
“Determining that the situation in Somalia continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region,
“Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
“1. Decides to authorise the Member States of the African Union to maintain the deployment until 7 March 2013 of AMISOM, which shall be authorized to take all necessary measures, in compliance with applicable international humanitarian and human rights law, and in full respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and unity of Somalia, to carry out the following tasks:
(a) To maintain a presence in the four sectors set out in the AMISOM Strategic Concept of 5 January 2012, and in those sectors, in coordination with the SNSF, reduce the threat posed by Al-Shabaab and other armed opposition groups in order to establish conditions for effective and legitimate governance across Somalia;
(b) To support dialogue and reconciliation in Somalia by assisting with the free movement, safe passage and protection of all those involved with the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia;
(c) To provide, as appropriate, protection to the Somali authorities to help them carry out their functions of government, and security for key infrastructure;
(d) To assist, within its capabilities, and in coordination with other parties, with implementation of the National Security and Stabilization Plan, in particular the effective re-establishment and training of all-inclusive SNSF;
(e) To contribute, as may be requested and within capabilities, to the creation of the necessary security conditions for the provision of humanitarian assistance;
(f) To protect its personnel, facilities, installations, equipment and mission, and to ensure the security and freedom of movement of its personnel, as well as of United Nations personnel carrying out functions mandated by the Security Council;
“2. Decides on an exceptional basis and owing to the unique character of the mission to extend the United Nations logistical support package for AMISOM civilian personnel for a further 50 civilian personnel, on a temporary basis to be reviewed in light of the upcoming AU and United Nations strategic reviews, underlines the importance of these civilians deploying swiftly to areas recently liberated from Al-Shabaab, in line with the letter dated 18th October from the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to the United Nations Secretary-General;
“3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide technical, management and expert advice to the African Union in the planning and deployment of AMISOM, through the United Nations Office to the African Union, including on the implementation of the AMISOM Strategic Concept and the AMISOM Concept of Operations;
“4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide a logistical support package for AMISOM referred to in paragraphs 10 and 11 of resolution 2010 (2011) and paragraphs 4 and 6 of resolution 2036 (2012) for a maximum of 17,731 uniformed personnel until 7 March 2013, ensuring the accountability and transparency of expenditure of the United Nations funds as set out in paragraph 4 of resolution 1910 (2010);
“5. Requests the African Union to keep the Security Council regularly informed, through the Secretary-General, on the implementation of AMISOM’s mandate, and report to the Council, through the provision of written reports, 60 days after the date of this resolution;
“6. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.”
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SC/10806
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Security Council
6854th Meeting (AM)
Security Council, Adopting Resolution, Extends by Four Months
African Union Mission in Somalia, Adds Civilian Personnel
The Security Council this morning reauthorized the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to maintain its deployment for four months, until 7 March 2013, while deciding to expand the United Nations support package for the Mission to additional civilian personnel.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2073 (2012), the Council authorized AMISOM to maintain its presence in the areas set out in its strategic concept of January 2012 for countering the threat still posed by Al-Shabaab and other armed opposition groups in coordination with Somali national security forces, in order to establish secure conditions for legitimate governance, reconciliation and the provision of humanitarian assistance across Somalia, which, the Council said in a resolution of 18 September, had recently made great strides in security and governance but still faced great challenges in both areas (See Press Release SC/10768).
Today’s move came exactly one week after the Council met under “unusual circumstances” in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which had ripped through New York, paralysing the city and forcing an unprecedented three-day shut-down of United Nations Headquarters. With AMISOM’s mandate set to expire at midnight on 31 October, the Council had quickly adopted resolution 2072 (2012), which had authorized a short-term extension of the Mission — 7 days — under the terms of its existing mandate (See Press Release SC/10804).
With the current text, the Council decided to extend the logistical support package to a further 50 civilian personnel for a period to be determined by assessment and “on an exceptional basis and owing to the unique character of the mission”, underlining the importance of swiftly deploying them to areas recently liberated from Al-Shabaab in line with a request from the African Union. In line with previous resolutions, it also requested the Secretary-General to continue to provide support to 17,731 uniformed personnel until the end of the authorization period, along with providing advice to the African Union on implementation of the Mission’s strategic concept.
In his most recent report on AMISOM (document S/2012/764), the Secretary-General recommended a four-month continuation of the current support package, with slight adjustments, awaiting the results of a thorough assessment of the Mission in view of the challenges ahead, to be conducted by the African Union working together with the United Nations.
Following the vote, the representative of the United Kingdom, which sponsored the resolution, welcomed its adoption, commending AMISOM and its troop contributing countries in their role in helping to “free Somalis from the dark shadow of Al-Shabaab,” and helping to restore their faith in governmental structures. He said that today’s attack on the Somali Parliament showed the difficulties that remained in that context, but he firmly told the armed groups: “You will not succeed.”
The Council, he added, must now re-examine some of its positions, including those on the arms embargo and the charcoal embargo in Kismayu, in consultation with the Somali Government and other partners, to give the Government the space to make progress on key priorities. The review of AMISOM would allow the Council to set clear divisions of responsibilities and further readjust support. The Council must do all it could to turn Somali hope into reality, he stressed.
Also welcoming the adoption and commending AMISOM and its troop contributing countries, the representatives of South Africa, Germany, Guatemala and India, regretted, however, that a more sustained extension of the support package was not approved through the text, and that the resolution did not address support for a maritime component of the Mission, as requested by the African Union, which they said was important for countering Al-Shabaab and piracy off the coast of Somalia. They awaited the results of the assessment and work on the next resolution on Somalia to address such issues.
South Africa’s delegate, in addition, regretted that the lifting of the arms embargo, as it affected Somali national security forces, was not addressed. Germany’s representative added that he would have preferred more sustainable funding be provided for AMISOM and that the proposed guard force for officials be addressed.
The representative of Somalia, finally, took the floor to stress the country’s progress in governance in recent months, including the appointment of an inclusive cabinet which included a woman as Foreign Minister. All such progress had been achieved with the unfailing support of AMISOM and the Ethiopian forces, supported by the Security Council and the international community. Now nation-building must begin for a country that had had no effective Government for over two decades. He, therefore, welcomed the strengthening of AMISOM and additional support. He had hoped, however, that the authorization and support would have been approved for one year, to better support the Government’s efforts, but nevertheless looked forward to working together with the Council on meeting future challenges.
The meeting began at 10:12 a.m. and ended at 10:35 a.m.
Resolution
The full text of resolution 2073 (2012) reads as follows:
“The Security Council,
“Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation in Somalia, in particular resolution 1772 (2007),
“Reaffirming its respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and unity of Somalia and reiterating its commitment to a comprehensive and lasting settlement of the situation in Somalia,
“Recalling its decision in resolution 2036 (2012) to expand the logistical support package for AMISOM to include the reimbursement of certain contingent owned equipment including force enablers and multipliers,
“Determining that the situation in Somalia continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region,
“Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
“1. Decides to authorise the Member States of the African Union to maintain the deployment until 7 March 2013 of AMISOM, which shall be authorized to take all necessary measures, in compliance with applicable international humanitarian and human rights law, and in full respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence and unity of Somalia, to carry out the following tasks:
(a) To maintain a presence in the four sectors set out in the AMISOM Strategic Concept of 5 January 2012, and in those sectors, in coordination with the SNSF, reduce the threat posed by Al-Shabaab and other armed opposition groups in order to establish conditions for effective and legitimate governance across Somalia;
(b) To support dialogue and reconciliation in Somalia by assisting with the free movement, safe passage and protection of all those involved with the peace and reconciliation process in Somalia;
(c) To provide, as appropriate, protection to the Somali authorities to help them carry out their functions of government, and security for key infrastructure;
(d) To assist, within its capabilities, and in coordination with other parties, with implementation of the National Security and Stabilization Plan, in particular the effective re-establishment and training of all-inclusive SNSF;
(e) To contribute, as may be requested and within capabilities, to the creation of the necessary security conditions for the provision of humanitarian assistance;
(f) To protect its personnel, facilities, installations, equipment and mission, and to ensure the security and freedom of movement of its personnel, as well as of United Nations personnel carrying out functions mandated by the Security Council;
“2. Decides on an exceptional basis and owing to the unique character of the mission to extend the United Nations logistical support package for AMISOM civilian personnel for a further 50 civilian personnel, on a temporary basis to be reviewed in light of the upcoming AU and United Nations strategic reviews, underlines the importance of these civilians deploying swiftly to areas recently liberated from Al-Shabaab, in line with the letter dated 18th October from the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to the United Nations Secretary-General;
“3. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide technical, management and expert advice to the African Union in the planning and deployment of AMISOM, through the United Nations Office to the African Union, including on the implementation of the AMISOM Strategic Concept and the AMISOM Concept of Operations;
“4. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide a logistical support package for AMISOM referred to in paragraphs 10 and 11 of resolution 2010 (2011) and paragraphs 4 and 6 of resolution 2036 (2012) for a maximum of 17,731 uniformed personnel until 7 March 2013, ensuring the accountability and transparency of expenditure of the United Nations funds as set out in paragraph 4 of resolution 1910 (2010);
“5. Requests the African Union to keep the Security Council regularly informed, through the Secretary-General, on the implementation of AMISOM’s mandate, and report to the Council, through the provision of written reports, 60 days after the date of this resolution;
“6. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.”
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#Somalia: #Kismayo: Charcoal for Al_ittixad Business cartels...
#Somalia: #Kismayo: Charcoal for Al_ittixad Business cartels...: By asking the ban on the export of Charcoal to be lifted the African Union,IGAD and Amisom are showing that they have some hidden Agen...
#Kismayo: Charcoal for Al_ittixad Business cartels allied to Al-Shabaab.Wait and see
By
asking the ban on the export of Charcoal to be lifted the African
Union,IGAD and Amisom are showing that they have some hidden Agendas for
Somalia.Everybody knows this Al-ittixad Business Cartels of Kismayo
are the ones who where allied
to
Al-Shabaab .Now they are allied with the Ras Kamboni Militia/ Clan
Militia group who recently took over Kismayo together with the Kenyan
Army /Amisom.If the regional powers really wont to have a
federal.peaceful and neighborly relations with Somalia they must desist
in their meddling in the Somali murky Clan alliances and stop supporting
some groups without knowing the real political and economic Agenda of
that Militia or Group.The Ethiopians have made to think our
Clans/Warlords.Al-Ittixad business Cartels like national entities who
are allied with foreign powers like China,Iran,France,Russia and Italy all
allied with the regional powers like Ethiopia and IGAD. The Ras kamboni
sub- Clan Militia is dong the interest of Ethiopia and IGAD not the
Somali National interests.The regional powers forget that Somalia is
sovereign to its territory and running of its internal affairs and till
know the Somalis are a sovereign State.The meddling in the internal
affairs of Somalia and the plans to sub-divide Somalia in mini-vassal
states who are sub-Clan enclaves it only helps the Agenda of Al-Ittixad
Business Cartels( Wahabi Salafist) and those super powers in the U.N
security Council who are allied with Ethiopia and IGAD namely China,Russia and
France who are after the OIL and GAS of Somalia.The main Agenda is to have a new Somali sovereign State in Kismayo run by Ras kamboni.-Clan Militia which is loyal to the Tigre Regime of Ethiopia.That is the reason an organ like the U.N security Council is discussing things like the exemption of the Ban of Charcoal in the Kismayo region of the Somali federal Republic.This is like Kismayo is not part and parcel of the sovereign Republic of Somalia.Wait and see.
UN resisting African calls to end Somalia arms embargo
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#Kismayo; IGAD/Ethiopia jurisdiction or under Somalia? Wait and see.
Last Friday(26 October 20012) the day of the Iid when all Muslims and all Somalis where celebrating the festivities was also a day of controversy, political warfare on the airwaves between the president of the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Regional president of the state of Puntland of Somalia. What it was about the controversy?
This controversy which is getting hotter these days is about in general about two different Visions/Agendas about the future, legal/constitutional architecture of Somalia. In particular it’s about who got the authority to nominate the administrators and government officers of the City of Kismayo and the lower Jubba region. What are saying the two conflicting views and what the laws says about it?
Lets me start with the two sides take on the issue. One fronted by the Clan- militias called Ras- Kamboni with other militias recruited by Kenya and calling themselves so-called Somali army who together with the Kenyan Army/Amisom took over Kismayo is saying” we have got the right and authority to nominate and administer this town of Kismayo as this have been done in other cities like Baidowa,Beledweine who have been liberated by Ethiopian armies and installed Clan militias as they Rulers”..Period. The other opinion is that of the federal government of Somalia which says” there is a new federal constitution which specifies that the federal government has got the authority and the powers in Law to nominate the administrators for Kismayo( Lower Jubba),Beledweyne( Hiiraan) and Baidowa( Bay and bakol Region).Period.
Before I go back what this different political opinions represent for the future of Somalia let me explain what the Law says in the new provisional constitution of Somalia enacted in August 2012.First let me also explain that our new constitution is almost “dysfunctional and idiosyncratic “like any other thing in Somalia which is linked to governance and Rule of the law”. My opinion is this law has been made badly and contradictory on almost different subjects and parts but we have to abide to it till the parliament and the Somali people emend those parts which are contradictory and are against the letter and the spirit of the document itself.
The new Constitution on article 48.C.2 says” No single region can stand alone. Until such time as a region merges with another(s) to form a new federal member states, “a region shall be directly administered by the federal government for a maxim period of two years”. There is not any single article saying otherwise. I mean the concept and right of the local clan communities and their militia to organize and form/nominate an authority for Kismayo and the Lower Jubba or including the two other regions. There is one article 142 which says” Existing member States in Somalia. Until such time that all the federal member states of Somalia are established and the adopted federal member States constitution are harmonized with the Somali federal Constitution, the federal member states states existing prior to the provisional adoption of this provisional Constitution by a national Constituent assembly shall retain and exercise powers endowed by their own State constitution” Personally I do not agree what this article says and others in this new Constitution which are preparing and are made for the subdivision of Somalia in a new Confederate state.
The idea that people-citizens of the newly nominated liberated areas or regions can nominate or choose by themselves new administrations is not in the Constitution and that act is illegal and against the sovergniety, Unity and territorial integrity of the Somali Federal Republic. It looks the right of “self determination of people” sanctioned in the U.N charter has got a new interpretation by IGAD/Ethiopia when we write and explain the Somali situation.
The so called supra-national outfit IGAD/Ethiopia has re-interpreted that article and made it like” all Somali sub-clans have the right to self-determination” as we were different national communities and not one Somali national communities which is from the same ancestry, culture and religion. This pseudo- legal interpretation of the right of self-determination with the added incentive of puppet leaders/warlords political mobilization that all Somali sub-clans have the right of their own administrations and Self Rule is what makes the new Constitution “dysfunctional and idiosyncratic” and the every clan militia make/ believe concept that they are a national community within the only Somali community-Nation State.
This two different Visions for Somalia: one which says that Somali Republic is one and have a federal system of governance with the Rule of Law and the other one which is advocating a Confederate System for the governance of Somalia where the Regions States are more powerful of the national State. The is the crux of the matter or the real controversy. (The two visions are in the new constitution)
If the Clan militias running the show in Kismayo now succeed in self-declaring themselves rulers of the Lower Juba/Kismayo it will mean every Clan have the right of self-determination and Somalia will be made a Confederate State under the hegemony of Ethiopia/IGAD.
But unfortunaly for Kismayo and Somalia things are getting worse by the days and weeks by applying this vicious Clan politics/self-determination which the Ethiopian are supporting to have an independent State in The South of Somalia to have direct access to the Indian Ocean and exploit in the future the vast mineral resources of Oil and Gas with their friends China and France. Russia which are in the security Council of the U.N.
It’s not a coincidence that in these days there is a
discussion on the exemption of the ban for
the export of Charcoal from Kismayo .Why?
It looks
African union which plays second fiddle to the policies of IGAD/Ethiopia has
requested the U.N Security Council to lift the Ban.
But the
lifting helps the Al-Ittixad business Cartels which one time where allied with
Al-Shabaab and now with the Ras kamboni clan Militia to get more financing for
their control of the economy of Kismayo.This group of Business people have
worked in tandem with the warlords who were allied with Ethiopia and after that
for the last five years with the Al-Shabaab.For
the Clan Militia to consolidate their powers they need the percentage of
commission from the sale of the Charcoal by this Wahabi-Salafist group called
Al-Ittixad business cartels. This is the typical system Kismayo used to be administered
for the last 20 years. Wait and see.
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...: Its quasi reasonable analysis of the Turkey role in Somalia. What I know is our friends Turkey one time has close contacts and business...
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...: Its quasi reasonable analysis of the Turkey role in Somalia. What I know is our friends Turkey one time has close contacts and business...
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...
#Somalia: History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-I...: Its quasi reasonable analysis of the Turkey role in Somalia. What I know is our friends Turkey one time has close contacts and business...
History of the alliance between Ethiopia and All-Ittixad political movement.Wait and see.
Its quasi reasonable
analysis of the Turkey role
in Somalia.
What I know is our friends Turkey
one time has close contacts and business dealings Al-Ittixad business cartels
which are allied with Ethiopia and Al-Shabaab. Somali
politics
is very complicated for those which are new comers and
at first-sight if you think in black and white you will never understand it. Myself
who has being involved in it for a very long time as a human rights lawyer and
activist and lately as a blogger it took
me a very long time to understand it and came to know how the Islamist of
Al-Ittixad business cartels could be allied with States like Ethiopia, China, Iran,
and France. First was about the hegemony
of Ethiopia of the Somali territories
but it became from the 90’ about the Oil and Gas of Somalia. For this reasons atheist State
like China
and Islamist-radicals like All-Ittixad business cartels are allied. The masterminds of this alliance were
Somali elites warlords-drug-barons linked to All-Ittixad political movement and
in the same time members of the so-called movement-oppositions based in Ethiopia in the late 80".Later during the
first conference for Somalia
to reestablish a transitional government in Nairobi from 2004 the alliances was remade
and
strengthened including some”‘Ruling elites" of IGAD( Ethiopia,Uganda,Kenya,Tanzania,Sudan, Professional Elites in politics, business, professionals
in media-print and TV and Organized crimes groups of those countries.) and the governments
of China, Iran, France, Italy, Russia. From 2004 the main agenda was to
outsmart the Americans, The Arab world, the Islamic world and have total control of all Somalia with sub-clans groups who call
themselves autonomous regions-breakaway States and at the end have a
Confederation of Somali States with names like Somaliland,Puntland,Jubbaland
In the 80” when this quasi inhuman agenda was hatched the Regime of Menghiste needed to control Somalia by subdividing it in sub-clan based States. The two main leaders of the U.S.C- Manifesto group who said no to the Ethiopian hegemony were assassinated in Italy, masterminded by Somali Ittixad leaders’ members of the U.S.C and the Ethiopians, with the complicity of Italian mafia and the Italian intelligence services in April and July1990. The two were my late father Ali Mohamed Ossoble who was one time vice-president of The S.N.M and later president of the U.S.C Roma( 1989-1990) and DR. Ismail Giumale Ossoble who started the Manifeto group(1990). After the assassination of these two leaders the U.S.C was taken over in Ethiopia-Nairobi by pro-Ethiopian groups and in Mogadishu by the All-Ittixad political movement members masquerading as U.S.C leaders. That is main reason instead of fighting against the Siad barre regime for regime change the U.S.C started a civil war and the total destruction of the State infrastructures in Mogadishu and all over Somalia. The Militia of the U.S.C in Mogadishu and the S.N.M( in the north) and S.S.D.F in (northeast) were looting and destroying every system connected with the Somali state and started as a policy to have Clan cased regions-areas.
The other policy of Al-Ittixad is to take over the economies of all regions of Somalia specially the Trade, Communication Hawilaad/money-remmitences,the education systems starting from the madrasa to the universities. The policy of the Ethiopians to subdivided the Somalis in sub-clans groups which are fighting each other and ruled by Warlords who made the main agenda. The ittixad Movement accepted this model to outsmart the Ethioapians and canceal any accusation that they were controlling the political spheres of the society.
(To bee continued)-next piece the will be about(1) Organized crimes,(2)How the Ethiopians made the alliance with All_ittixad business cartes.(3)The economic expansion of theAll_ittixad business cartels and their connection with International companies and Organized crimes.
#Somalia: "Pseudo-legal argument to sub-divide the Somali fe...
#Somalia: "Pseudo-legal argument to sub-divide the Somali fe...: The new Somali constitution.This new Document has been misquoted and abused although the document itself is "idiosyncratic". In this ...
#Somalia: Analysis & Comments.
#Somalia: Analysis & Comments.: Here is a well though analysis on the failed theoretical concept on Somalia and names of some so-called "Thinkers" who do not underst...
Analysis & Comments.
Here
is a well though analysis on the failed theoretical concept on Somalia and names of some so-called "Thinkers" who do not understand nothing about
the historical factors and the ones at play in the " so- called
perpetual failed" state situat
ion in the
Somali Republic. I will add that there have always been an Ethiopian
Agenda and Al-ittixad movement Agenda in the destruction of Somalia (from the 80" planned by Menghiste and the Somali Al-ittixad political movement) and
in the sub-sequent institution building of Somali land and Punt land as
Building blocks and models for Somalia preplanned by Ethiopia. Professor Menkhaus is not Somali and could not understand the Clan based culture of the Somali which is biggest political vehicle used by the Ethiopians and Al-Itticad to make their power base among the Somalis and use as clan-based political movement to destroy the country.. Somalis are one ethnic or Clan group but for historical reasons linked to their survival and subsistence-nomadic way of life their fought each other for centuries for water and pasture and camel raids with very far Clans or sub-Clan- neighbors.That culture of fighting has been made into folklore and poetry is the backbone of the history of every Clan and sub-clan. Every sub-clan has ingrained in their hitorical mind the wars theiy fought aganist other Somalis.The Anti- Colonialist and before them the Somali freedom fighters who fought the Ethiopians and the British/Italians have started the concept of a centralized Somalia as a culture and Nation who speaks the same language and have same ancestry., religion. .The S.Y.L political movement and the political parties of the north have decided to unite the the Somali speaking sub-Clans of the Horn and that went against the expansionist plans of the Ethiopian regime of that time which have participated in the Berlin Conference for the scramble of Africa. The Ethiopians knew that Somalia have great deal of Oil and Gas in their Somali region( region five of Ethiopia ) and have planned that to get that Oil & Gas they have to destroy Somali and subjugate them to their hegemony as a SUB-DIVIDED MINI-CLAN ENCLAVES BUNTUSTAN BREAK-AWAY Republics.. As a matter of fact in the new Somali constitution Somalia have been subdivided in new States and we have a ready made Confederation of Somali States.The last Somali conference to approve the new constitution the Elders who were there at the constituent assembly refused to ratify it.Only after the promise that things will be changed at the next parliament they passed it reluctantly. The Al-ittixad political movement has partecipated in that destruction why they have the agenda to change completely the secular system which was based the Somali republic.Both have used the Clan based political opposition movement to destroy and start a new one based on their ideas and plans.Wait and see.
Destructive Governance Model for Somalia: the case of Prof Ken Menkhaus
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Immediately
after the imposition of the Provisional Constitution (PC) establishing a
medieval model of governance in Somalia, Prof Ken Menkhaus, scholar and
Comments.Wait and see.
I
think the West and the Arab world must do more to help Somalis in
general.Somalia in general is hostage to Ethiopia and
Al-shabaab-Al-Qaida. A hostage-nation which needs to be helped in
liberating themselves.But it needs that in the first phase more
technical-know- how and manpower of the fight against those enemies must
be deployed.The State structures and institution existing now is made
to he
lp those two groups to hold Somalia
hostage.From 2004 till know the Ethiopians and IGAD have discouraged a
National Somali state and encouraged and made a so- called Clan based
Bantustan type administrations in all over Somalia. For the Ethiopians
the existence of Al-Shabaab is part of their game plans to have a
Somalia "failed State" and a security situation where they are always
needed.The destabilization plans going on now in Mogadishu are against
the new Change in government which is against the short and long term
plans of the Tigre regime of Ethiopia and Al-shabaab.The new President
has a lot of enemies in the Horn which would like to make him helpless
and give up the fight and have "Business as usual". In other words to
accept like some of his predecessors the Plans of Ethiopia and
Al-shabaab to sub-divide Somalia and have a safe-haven to Organized
crime and International terrorism. Wait and see.
#Somalia: Analyis& Comments.
#Somalia: Analyis& Comments.: We must know that the idea of a "iJihadist Islam" which fights other Somalis has not been feasible in Somalia for at least the last fi...
Analyis& Comments.
We
must know that the idea of a "iJihadist Islam" which fights other
Somalis has not been feasible in Somalia for at least the last five
years.We have seen the failed experiment of The Islamic courts and the
sub-sequent resurgence and of
Al_shabaab
joining Al-Qaida. All failed because the Somalis got tired and
understood the "wrong" ideas and plans of this groups. Al-shabaab has
used just like the warlords-drug-barons( linked to Ethiopia) to take
power and hold to it the concepts of sub-clans,the control of resources(
including the local business and its licensing) and the Islamic
Religion to woo the youngsters and the idealist. All the use of this
concepts including the sacred one of the religion have failed .What we
need know is a Somali national State which unites all Somali
clan-communities,have a just economic vision where the role of the state
as regulator and participation in the economic sector is for the Somali
society. Where our religion is not used anymore to kill and acquire
power for a Somali group or Jihadist transnational.To implement all
those ideas we need a State which is representative of every clan and
sub-clan. The international community must help the Somalis to
resurrect their pride,nation-hood and stop the meddling of regional
powers in controlling the Somali Elites and imposing on them puppet
leaders and Warlords who never wont a peaceful and just Somali
republic.The international community must help the Somalis to have a
strong regulatory and administration for our economy because Organized
crimes groups are controlling big chunks of our economy together with
the Al-ittixad business cartels( a wahhabi salafist group) which has
monopolized the Somali Republic economy and national resources.Wait and
see.
#Somalia: Change has came to Somalia? With a surpriise.
#Somalia: Change has came to Somalia? With a surprise.: Last night there was a celebration in the small district of Eastleigh,Nairobi Kenya where the biggest concentration of Somali refuge...
Change has came to Somalia? With a surpriise.
Last night there was a celebration in the small district of
Eastleigh,Nairobi Kenya where the biggest concentration of Somali
refugees and business community outside of Mogadishu lives and work.
There was a celebration for the election of the new Somali
president-elect Mr. Hassan Sheik Mohamud.Who is this man? What interests
he represents? How he succeeded in the high wire competition where
regional powers- mainly Ethiopia and in small measure Uganda and local
business interest( All-Ittixad Business Cartels ),Warlords-Drug barons
,Puppet leaders allied to the Tigre regime were dictating who will win
the race?
Here I will try to answer to this questions. But first I would like to tell that myself have to eat humble pie because I thought the Old regime will be back. What happened?
Mr. Hassan Sheik is from academia having started a private College of management studies in Mogadishu and having also opened a branch in Punt land region. He was active in the Civil society circles and also came to my knowledge four months ago when I heard him debating on The BBC.Somali service about the infamous Road map and the corruption and mismanagement in the regime of the two Sherifs(the former speaker and the former president).
In the last six months he started canvassing about every imaginable group and most importantly he had his own party called the party of Peace and Development through which he started a Coalition Building with all the groups who were in the opposition. Prof. Samater who came from the U.S ,Mr. Formajo the former Prime minister and the other presidential contenders including the last incumbent Prime Minister were in agreement to fight together the incumbent President and during the voting sessions to put all their efforts in who has got more votes after the first round.
Mr. Hassan the president –elect succeeded to garner all the votes necessary in the first round coming second and in the second round all his friends-competitors in the opposition including the incumbent Prime minister choose to support him in the last round against the incumbent president. It was the victory of the Change vote and it was the victory of the people-citizens compared to the Old regime.
Every body agrees in all the Somalis I myself canvassed that the Game-changer factors in terms of the election were Three: the first is the newly-re-found alliance the between the two sheriffs (the incumbent president and the former notorious Speaker) which was declared last Sunday has made everybody angered and instead of helping damaged the incumbent president. The notorious former speaker represented everything bad in Somali society and state in other words the corruption, mismanagement, the Tigre influence and most dangerously the monopoly of the Al-Ittixad business cartels all allied to the incumbent president. The other factor was for some clan- communities the words of Mr. Farole of Puntland that if some groups are elected he will secede from Somalia. All those factors made the MPs linked to the puppet leaders to rebel and support Mr. Hassan who was allied to Farole and do not came from the same region. Another factor is the support the incumbent President has from the Warlords-Drug barons for whom he fought for their re-admission in the List of the nominated parliamentarians which was done yesterday before the presidential election. All this factors made even the parliamentarians linked to the puppet leaders allied to the Tigre rebel and vote in bloc refusing their Whips-warlords-Puppet leaders to vote for the incumbent President. What a historic day. For the first time the parliamentarians chosen by the warlords-puppet leaders decided to vote with their minds and hearts free from those oppressive groups and voted for Change, Somali national interest etc.
Last but not least the Somali Civil society and the International Community in Mogadishu have encouraged and nurtured this would be Change and have taken a neutral role when came to choose the successor of the incumbent president. Who are the winners and the losers? My guess is for the first time the Somalis have chosen democratically a leader who is not under the influence and dictation of the Ethiopian regimes. Secondly a leader who is not blatantly linked to the Al-Ittixad business cartels, Warlords-drug-barons and puppet leaders. Change has come to Somalia. But I suspect all those reactionary forces will try to stop this change and will work very hard to make things difficult for him and the Somalis in general. I believe the international community and Amisom must show strong commitment to fight against the enemies of Change in Somalia and that they will stand for what the Somali people have chosen. This new President needs a strong team of like minded technocrats and intellectuals which are not linked to corruption and past mismanagement plus broad-based plans to solve all ills and problems like the issue on institution building in a national federal government .Wait and see.
Written /September 11/2012.
Here I will try to answer to this questions. But first I would like to tell that myself have to eat humble pie because I thought the Old regime will be back. What happened?
Mr. Hassan Sheik is from academia having started a private College of management studies in Mogadishu and having also opened a branch in Punt land region. He was active in the Civil society circles and also came to my knowledge four months ago when I heard him debating on The BBC.Somali service about the infamous Road map and the corruption and mismanagement in the regime of the two Sherifs(the former speaker and the former president).
In the last six months he started canvassing about every imaginable group and most importantly he had his own party called the party of Peace and Development through which he started a Coalition Building with all the groups who were in the opposition. Prof. Samater who came from the U.S ,Mr. Formajo the former Prime minister and the other presidential contenders including the last incumbent Prime Minister were in agreement to fight together the incumbent President and during the voting sessions to put all their efforts in who has got more votes after the first round.
Mr. Hassan the president –elect succeeded to garner all the votes necessary in the first round coming second and in the second round all his friends-competitors in the opposition including the incumbent Prime minister choose to support him in the last round against the incumbent president. It was the victory of the Change vote and it was the victory of the people-citizens compared to the Old regime.
Every body agrees in all the Somalis I myself canvassed that the Game-changer factors in terms of the election were Three: the first is the newly-re-found alliance the between the two sheriffs (the incumbent president and the former notorious Speaker) which was declared last Sunday has made everybody angered and instead of helping damaged the incumbent president. The notorious former speaker represented everything bad in Somali society and state in other words the corruption, mismanagement, the Tigre influence and most dangerously the monopoly of the Al-Ittixad business cartels all allied to the incumbent president. The other factor was for some clan- communities the words of Mr. Farole of Puntland that if some groups are elected he will secede from Somalia. All those factors made the MPs linked to the puppet leaders to rebel and support Mr. Hassan who was allied to Farole and do not came from the same region. Another factor is the support the incumbent President has from the Warlords-Drug barons for whom he fought for their re-admission in the List of the nominated parliamentarians which was done yesterday before the presidential election. All this factors made even the parliamentarians linked to the puppet leaders allied to the Tigre rebel and vote in bloc refusing their Whips-warlords-Puppet leaders to vote for the incumbent President. What a historic day. For the first time the parliamentarians chosen by the warlords-puppet leaders decided to vote with their minds and hearts free from those oppressive groups and voted for Change, Somali national interest etc.
Last but not least the Somali Civil society and the International Community in Mogadishu have encouraged and nurtured this would be Change and have taken a neutral role when came to choose the successor of the incumbent president. Who are the winners and the losers? My guess is for the first time the Somalis have chosen democratically a leader who is not under the influence and dictation of the Ethiopian regimes. Secondly a leader who is not blatantly linked to the Al-Ittixad business cartels, Warlords-drug-barons and puppet leaders. Change has come to Somalia. But I suspect all those reactionary forces will try to stop this change and will work very hard to make things difficult for him and the Somalis in general. I believe the international community and Amisom must show strong commitment to fight against the enemies of Change in Somalia and that they will stand for what the Somali people have chosen. This new President needs a strong team of like minded technocrats and intellectuals which are not linked to corruption and past mismanagement plus broad-based plans to solve all ills and problems like the issue on institution building in a national federal government .Wait and see.
Written /September 11/2012.
The next genaration of Tigre-sponsored- government ? Wait and see
To tell the truth (political ) about Somalia in this last week has became a very complicated issue.
From 2004 when the first so- called government was installed in Maghabati,Nairobi by the IGAD group sperheeded and lead by Ethiopia thinghs have been easy to interpretet because there was only one real actor and you followed that lead.What Ethiopia dictated was followed.Period.Now days thinghs look more convoluted and mixed up.More actors-regional and global have came into play and more game-plans are and scenarios are being sold to the politician and the Somali clan- based political groupings.
The political game plan envisaged by the late Meles who was the teal kingmaker of Somali politics has succeeded almost because was executed by the so- called group of six which was preparing and choosing the new members of parliament and the Clan-based alliances to elect the new speaker and the new President , First premier.
My analysis tells me that that plan succesed at least as 65% of the Parliamentarians are linked to the Puppet leaders who are Loyal to the Tigre regime of Ethiopia. and a mere 15% is so- called Islamist linked to the incumbent President. The Nationalist and Democrats are maybe 10 members of Parliament but well know and with a fiery stand on Somali issiues.The rest is opportunistic groups from every clans which will follow the winning groups.
At that point still things were looking and could be understood and interpreted in the Old way Fashion and the plans of the Tigre -sponsored puppet leaders was winning.But came the rejection of the Warlords- drug barons in the lists of the new parliament and the puppet leaders looking panicking and confused.There is the suspicion within the Warlords groups that the Tire regime is dumping some of them and retaining only the puppet Leaders. For the Ethiopians the Warlords maybe have became too cumbersome and a dangerous political alliance.But they are retaining they strong alliance with the former speaker and the regional president of Puntland: this two are the real representative of the Tigre Regime of Ethiopia now in Somali politics. The incumbent president was left alone and that was one of the reasons him and his competitor the incumbent Prime minister went to the funerals of Meles in the middle of the presidential election to seek the approval and support of the Tigre regime.
If you follow the the old scenario the new speaker has been elected by the alliance of some clans allied to the puppet leaders and other against them.The latest is the the new speaker has carved for himself a political space and would like to dethrone the Old speaker from which are the same sub-Clans and political group.Could it be true?
The main contenders of the presidential election which would be held tomorrow are from my point of view: the incumbent prime Minister,The incumbent President and the former Prime Minister Mr. Formajo and two new contenders in the name of a professor Samantar and Mr. Badiyow a declared brotherhood- Islamist with nationalist credentials.The first two enjoyed the support of the Tigre regime in the last three years and my opinion is the Addis-abeba regime will stand by one of them. Mr. Formajo who is liked by most Somalis and started the current change in Somalia is hated by the Tigre because he doers not accept the sub-division of Somalia in a Confederate State.
The latest in Eastleigh is the former Speaker has asked Mr. Formajo and Abdiweli the incumbent premier that if they wont the votes of his regions-Clans they must promise the amnesty from prosecution for him and the warlords-drug barons. The only new story is if the new Speaker will stand for a change or his Clans- mate and those of the North west members of Parliament will follow the lead of the puppet Leaders linked to the Ethiopians. All other MPS are strong supporters of the President or the Prime minister.Wait and see.
From 2004 when the first so- called government was installed in Maghabati,Nairobi by the IGAD group sperheeded and lead by Ethiopia thinghs have been easy to interpretet because there was only one real actor and you followed that lead.What Ethiopia dictated was followed.Period.Now days thinghs look more convoluted and mixed up.More actors-regional and global have came into play and more game-plans are and scenarios are being sold to the politician and the Somali clan- based political groupings.
The political game plan envisaged by the late Meles who was the teal kingmaker of Somali politics has succeeded almost because was executed by the so- called group of six which was preparing and choosing the new members of parliament and the Clan-based alliances to elect the new speaker and the new President , First premier.
My analysis tells me that that plan succesed at least as 65% of the Parliamentarians are linked to the Puppet leaders who are Loyal to the Tigre regime of Ethiopia. and a mere 15% is so- called Islamist linked to the incumbent President. The Nationalist and Democrats are maybe 10 members of Parliament but well know and with a fiery stand on Somali issiues.The rest is opportunistic groups from every clans which will follow the winning groups.
At that point still things were looking and could be understood and interpreted in the Old way Fashion and the plans of the Tigre -sponsored puppet leaders was winning.But came the rejection of the Warlords- drug barons in the lists of the new parliament and the puppet leaders looking panicking and confused.There is the suspicion within the Warlords groups that the Tire regime is dumping some of them and retaining only the puppet Leaders. For the Ethiopians the Warlords maybe have became too cumbersome and a dangerous political alliance.But they are retaining they strong alliance with the former speaker and the regional president of Puntland: this two are the real representative of the Tigre Regime of Ethiopia now in Somali politics. The incumbent president was left alone and that was one of the reasons him and his competitor the incumbent Prime minister went to the funerals of Meles in the middle of the presidential election to seek the approval and support of the Tigre regime.
If you follow the the old scenario the new speaker has been elected by the alliance of some clans allied to the puppet leaders and other against them.The latest is the the new speaker has carved for himself a political space and would like to dethrone the Old speaker from which are the same sub-Clans and political group.Could it be true?
The main contenders of the presidential election which would be held tomorrow are from my point of view: the incumbent prime Minister,The incumbent President and the former Prime Minister Mr. Formajo and two new contenders in the name of a professor Samantar and Mr. Badiyow a declared brotherhood- Islamist with nationalist credentials.The first two enjoyed the support of the Tigre regime in the last three years and my opinion is the Addis-abeba regime will stand by one of them. Mr. Formajo who is liked by most Somalis and started the current change in Somalia is hated by the Tigre because he doers not accept the sub-division of Somalia in a Confederate State.
The latest in Eastleigh is the former Speaker has asked Mr. Formajo and Abdiweli the incumbent premier that if they wont the votes of his regions-Clans they must promise the amnesty from prosecution for him and the warlords-drug barons. The only new story is if the new Speaker will stand for a change or his Clans- mate and those of the North west members of Parliament will follow the lead of the puppet Leaders linked to the Ethiopians. All other MPS are strong supporters of the President or the Prime minister.Wait and see.
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#Somalia: New MP'S ? Maybe a new Era? Wait and see.: New MP’s ? Maybe a new Era? Last week was a very different week because a new Somali Parliament wa...
New MP'S ? Maybe a new Era? WAit and see.
New MP’s ? Maybe a new Era?
Last week was a very different week
because a new Somali Parliament was inaugurated on the 20 of August and all
news was on the death of the PM of Ethiopia
who was the real Ruler of the Somali Republic. We all know that Somalia has
been “ a perpetual failed State” “run by
puppet Leaders and Warlords-Drug-barons” for the last twenty years and this
thanks to the Ethiopian regimes of Menghiste and Meles Zenawi and the Somali-
Wahhabi-Salafist Movement of Al-Ittixad Political movement who later became the
I.C.U/Al-Shabaab and its ally The Al-Ittixad business Cartels.
I will start with the Death of Meles.Let
me say more to the Ethiopian Establishment and Tigre Elites who Rule that country this was a shock and loss to the Somali Puppet
Leaders of Somaliland,Puntland and the TFG incumbent politicians of Mogadishu
specially the Incumbent president and the Former speaker of Parliament till
August 20.Why? Mr. Meles was the most powerfull politician of the Region and
was the one who dictated where the Somali Agenda was going and where will go.
Who will be the next president of Somalia and the next Speaker and Prime Minister.
He was the man who planned and made implemented the new Somali Constitution ( a
concotations of norms which will make Somalia a Confederal State) through the “Somali
puppet leaders” and to give you an example made a so-called state a town with
less than 5.000 people in the central regions. There was a game plan by the
Tigre regime of Ethiopia on who will be the next members of Somali Parliament.
The demise of Meles was a Game –Changer at least for some parts.
Another example of how the late Meles
was influencing the Somali Politics was how in Somali talk shows he is mentioned and there is even a controversy on Who
sends a condolences and if that is un-Islamic and against the Somalis. What uproar..
The other factor which influenced the
composition of the Members of the parliament is for the first time the
international community which is the paymaster of the Somali TFG , AMISOM and
so-called Somali regional States has
requested and got a vetting process in the selection of new MP’s. This new
vetting method has denied the Warlords-Drug-barons to be anymore member’s of
Somali parliament, some of the Al-Ittixad business Cartels representative and
puppet parliamentarians linked to Ethiopia.
The Somali people-citizens rejoiced for
this new bold move which was meant to improve the quality of the parliament and
the process to have accountability for the Somali-citizens. Things are not so
easy in Somalia. The incumbent president, the former Speaker who are the best
allies of the Al-Ittixad business cartels, Warlords-drug barons got so angered
that they started threatening the Somalis ,the International community and as usual
they manipulated those UNPOS and Amisom representative to tell the world and
their Countries namely Uganda that with out the warlords,Al-Ittixad
representative and this pro-Ethiopian candidates to be members of parliament there will be Chaos and back to civil-wars.
This warlords-drug-barons which directed,started
and fomented the Somali civil wars from 1991 were the individuals the incumbent
president was fighting for. Anyway Mr. Mahiga and officers of Amisom have
pushed the international community to relent on the Rules and maybe admit as
members some criminals-warlords and friends of the incumbent President who are
former members of I.C.U allied to al-Shabaab. As I know from yesterday my estimate is the
pro-Ethiopian groups have got 20% to 30% of the members and the all_ittixad
almost 15% to 20% of the total members of the parliament with at least 36
members remaining to be nominated.
If we
compare to the parliament of Mbaghati, Nairobi of 2004 and the following
compromise- parliament of 2009 there is a reasonable change but nobody can be
sure till know if they will be influenced of the Old politics of following the
Agendas of the All-Ittixad and warlords-Drug-barons,pro-Ethiopians puppet
leaders. There are some more enghlitened, intellectuals and democratic
individuals than previous parliaments but we still do not know if they will be
corrupted and or stand for the rights of Somali people-citizens and the Unity
of the Somali Republic.
Within the selection of the Parliament
there was going on the game of the election of the future president and Speaker.
The type of the members of the Parliament would decide what type of leaders we
will have and what direction the Somali national
politics will take. Already is started the campaigning for the speaker and that
of the President and ugly tactics of
Fear-mongering are being used like if I
am not elected there will not be any Somali political process and Amisom will not be in Mogadishu to fight
al-Shabaab. This fear mongering tactics are from the incumbent president,
former speaker and the Old pro-Ethiopian puppet leaders and their allies the Warlords-drug
barons.
They are afraid of the new crop of Leaders who
are from the Diaspora which have plans to Change the old Status quo and have a
Somali not anymore sub-divided in mini-clan enclaves to be recognized as would be Sovereign States under
a new Confedarate State envisioned by the so-called new constitution.
There is a fierce political warfare
going on in Mogadishu at this moment between those who would like to have a new
dawn for the Somali Republic and the Somali –people citizens and those of the
Old Guard which would like to have the Old status Quo. Who will win? Wait and
see.
Written on
25 August 2012.
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