Why Somali Republic is a "Perpetual Failed State" for the last 30 years?In this blog I try to answer to that question and in particular of the failure of Somali politics.How Clan Elites have been used by Regional powers and the Somali Salafist Movement and the end game plan to make Somali Republic Clan Enclaves.Who controls Somali economy and political control of Clans in Clan Enclaves.
#Somalia: The New POLITICAL MAP of the SOMALI Speaking Peopl...
#Somalia: The New POLITICAL MAP of the SOMALI Speaking Peopl...: Above you can see the Map used by some Somali websites unknown for their real meaning ( I suspect prepared by the Tigre-E...
The New POLITICAL MAP of the SOMALI Speaking People(s) of the HORN of AFRICA Part 1.Wait and see.
Above you can see the Map used by some Somali websites unknown for their real meaning ( I suspect prepared by the Tigre-Ethiopian Intelligence) like (somalitalk.com) which unfortunately paves the way for the subdivision and break-away of the Somali Republic in Clan Enclaves under the hegemony of the Tigre-Ethiopian Empire. The real trick in the Map is it uses the OLD DREAM of the Somalis in the 50”, 60” and 70" to have one Somali Nation-State for all Somalis living in the region But this map is for totally a different AGENDA. What is not seen is the new new borders between the Somalis regional (sovereign) states- as planned by ETHIOPIA- and their new borders with the neighboring Nations like Ethiopia , Kenya , Djibouti. .The main Idea is the Somali Speaking Nation(s) or People(s)- as the Somali Clans are called nowadays by ETHIOPIA Intelligentsia and in the last Addis-Ababa Agreement between the Somali government and the Jubba regions patronized and prepared by Ethiopia- they will be ruling almost all that territory in the Horn of Africa with the Hegemony and sub- colonization of the TIGRE-ETHIOPIAN Empire with the dissolution of the Somali Republic. Some Puppet Leaders of the Somali Clans and sub-Clans are used for this sinister Agenda and the Future Capital of this Confederate States is JigJiga in the Somali Region of ETHIOPIA. In Other words Somali Republic Territory will be subdivided in new regional Sovereign states and under the cover of sub-Clan hegemony and Clan Hegemony within the Somali Republic. But there will be Close connections, cooperation between this new states and the Ethiopia Empire using the Somali Region of ETHIOPIA.The Somali Region of ETHIOPIA will be part and parcel of ETHIOPIA but it will.be connected to the sea by incorporating it with the southern regions of SOMALI REPUBLIC like Gedo,Lower Juba and middle Juba and made part and parcel of the Empire of ETHIOPIA.They Will incorporate the Southern-Lower Juba,Middle Juba and GEDO- regions with a so- called Referendum by the Ruling regional powers like the one in CRIMEA and ETHIOPIA will make a Law to incorporate those regions.In that way the Landlocked ETHIOPIA will have access to the Indian Ocean with the port of Kismayo for the first time after the secession and independence of ERITREA in 1992 who used to give them access to the Red Sea.
This Map is to misinform, dis-inform,
manipulate the Hearts and Minds of the Somalis in general and in
particular the Clans and sub-Clans who are working tirelessly for the
implementation of this :"Grand--Plan" of ETHIOPIA to subjugate
SOMALIA..The game Plan was started by the Emperor of ETHIOPIA after the first
war between Somali Republic and ETHIOPIA with the opening in Fiyambiro of a school where a new cadre where thought the SOMALI CULTURE ,mores and
tradition in the way to understand how the Somali Political consciousness based on their culture and to use the Somali culture as a base to subdivide and control the
SOMALIS. See my Blog "wardigley.blogspot.com at the post called "OIL and GAS,Mini-Clan-Enclaves,ETHIOPIA-IGAD Hegemony".The agenda was taken up by the so- called Socialist-Military Regime
of Manghiste who after another war with SOMALIA in 1977 decided to
accommodate,use, give shelter,arm militarily the Clan-Militias of
the new SOMALI Clan-based opposition groups of the SSDF,SNM,USC,SPM from inside
the Ethiopian territory against the Siad barre regime from 1978.-1979. During this time the 70" the Salafist Movement was started in SOMALIA and knowing that the only way the Somalis associate is based on Clan Culture they joined as members the new opposition groups in ETHIOPIA.The so- called marxist regime of ETHIOPIA was aware of this fact and from there it started a secret alliance between the Salafist who were members of this Clan based movements and the Menghiste regime.For the Ethiopians their enemy were the Clan Nationalist and the Elites who believed in the Unity of the SOMALI REPUBLIC not Salafist of any type. When Meles Zenawi came to power he improved and made more sophisticated the use and alliance with the Salafist Movement which now was led by the Somali Salafist Business Cartels and adding even other religious groups like the Ahlu- Suna waljameca ( Sufi)of the Central regions and the Gedo Regions of SOMALIA.
The basic reasoning for the ETHIOPIANS is first to get without any Legal and Political constraints The OIL and GAS of the SOMALI regions of ETHIOPIA-vast amounts explored by US companies in the 50"- and secondly to subjugate the SOMALIS in SOMALIA .That is " the Only way"this Empire could exist and its the basis of this new political MAP. Read please my post called"Short rebuttal to Matt Bryden interview on the Daily Nation and the post called"History of the alliance between Ethiopia and Al Ittixad"
( to be continued)
The basic reasoning for the ETHIOPIANS is first to get without any Legal and Political constraints The OIL and GAS of the SOMALI regions of ETHIOPIA-vast amounts explored by US companies in the 50"- and secondly to subjugate the SOMALIS in SOMALIA .That is " the Only way"this Empire could exist and its the basis of this new political MAP. Read please my post called"Short rebuttal to Matt Bryden interview on the Daily Nation and the post called"History of the alliance between Ethiopia and Al Ittixad"
( to be continued)
#Somalia: SUB-#CLANS,#OIL and #GAS,#ETHIOPIA -#IGAD-#AMISOM
#Somalia: SUB-#CLANS,#OIL and #GAS,#ETHIOPIA -#IGAD-#AMISOM: My Hope is UNSOM,International Community will not follow blindly the wrong policies,strategies of IGAD-AMISOM-...
SUB-#CLANS,#OIL and #GAS,#ETHIOPIA -#IGAD-#AMISOM
My Hope is
UNSOM,International Community will not
follow blindly the wrong policies,strategies of
IGAD-AMISOM-ETHIOPIA in the latest fight/campeign against AlShabaab by #AMISOM forces
with #ETHIOPIAN #ARMY.
Ethiopia and IGAD countries had always a strategies to #subdivide SOMALI
Clans and sub-CLANS in those allied to them ( some are even still ex-AlShabaab members but siding with IGAD) and
those who are siding with Al-Shabaab( they are used and manipulated by the
their Salafist Clan ELITES). In that way we have and are going to have a society- Clan- Communities
divided and made enemies for a very long time maybe for another twenty
years.Secondly#AlShabaab and #ETHIOPIA would
like to have this continuous strive and division to subdivide the Somali
CLANS-sub-CLANS for their own strategies("the next strategy of Al-Shabaab
is to have Clans-Sub-Clans who are fighting for them" for Clan
Re-vindication in URBAN Guerrilla warfare and terrorist Acts ").One of the
strategies is to control some of the CLANS and SUB CLANS of those regions were
its proven there is #OIL and #GAS
thanks to the previous( of the 50" and 60") exploration and rights of #US #OIL #Companies.The
main Agenda of #ETHIOPIA was to subdivide All Somalia in Clan Clan-Enclaves#regional #sovereign States
therefore to change Somalia and in that way controlled by Clans closely
linked/Allied to their policies.Those companies who had agreement with Somali
previous governments will loose their rights with this new sovereign states
like #SOMLILND,#PUNTLAND,#HIIRAANLAND,#Central regions
Land,Benadir Land,JUBBA regions Land, etc.All are Clans based groupings in
which some Clans are"in power" and others have to be segregated
therefore they have to join Al-Shabaab to get "Power".The Ethiopian
strategy is to control the SOMALI #OIL and #GAS #BASINS all
over SOMALIA like the BASIN of #NUGAL,the
basin of #AWDAL some in the #Somaliland regions
and some part of #Puntland.To control
the #MUDUG-#GALGADUUD regions #BASIN,the #LOWER #Shabelle Basin
and the GEDO-JUBBA regions Basin.This strategy is executed by using Somali
Clans-sub clans who are inhabitants of those regions.But in the same time
alienate some of the Clans who live there.That is what is already going on in
#SOMALILAND,PUNTLAND,HiIIRAN REGIONS,MUDUG, JUBBA regions,Shabeelle Lower and
Middle.IF you wont power you side with ETHIOPIA-IGAD or you join AL-Shabbab for
CLAN RE-Vindication..WAIT and see
AMISOM, IGAD and UNSOM Somalia heads meet with international...The heads of UNSOM, IGAD and AMISOM have met with
International representatives in Nairobi. United Nation envoy to Somalia
Nickolas Kay, African U
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This picture shows how the religious powers were working with the Somali national government.In other words our religious leaders were for a Somali Nation-Hood and to promote the National interests of The #Somali People--Citizens.Our #Religious#leaders were not working for #Foreign powers like #Ethiopia under the guise of Clan community like the Ahlusunna Waljames of the Central region and they were not employed and used by Non State-Actors like the Salafist /Jihadist of Al-Qaida allied to #AlShabaab.In this picture there is #harmony between the Temporal and Spiritual powers.This must be a lesson for our Leaders of Today be it religious and Political.Also the Somali two main religious groupings the #Salafi and the #Sufi must revisit their Agenda and make and adopt the Somali#National interests as their main guiding #principle.That is the Only way the Somali people-citizens could be saved from #Terrorism/#Jihadism and the #Hegemony and#recolonization of #Ethiopia.Wait and see.
In the picture is the National Religious Leader Sheik Muhidin ELI and former Presiden of SOMALIA MR.
Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
#Somalia: The reasons Behind Al-Shabaab attack at "Villa Som...
#Somalia: The reasons Behind Al-Shabaab attack at "Villa Som...: On 21/02/2014 was another Dark day for the history of the Somali (Federal) Republic. The terror/Jihadist Group #...
The reasons Behind Al-Shabaab attack at "Villa Somalia" the Presidential compound.(Part 1)
On 21/02/2014 was another Dark day
for the history of the Somali (Federal) Republic. The
terror/Jihadist Group #Alshabaab attacked the presidential
compound at “Villa Somalia” with car bombs and nine fighters armed with
Guns at noon Friday when everybody was readying himself for the
Friday prayers and the President himself was supposed to attend the Mosque at time Prayers at the Palace. The attack came
at two of the entrances of the Compound close to the Mosque at the East
side of the compound. The first question is “This was an assassination attempt
directed to the President”? While I was writing this article #Alshabaab
spokesman said “It was an operation directed to kill the President”. “Or this
was a spectacular attack by the Al-Shabaab“ Amniyat”( the Amniyat is the
security and intelligence services who is made of the most prepared/trained and
trusted of the Alshabab operatives and cadres and had always direct links with
the Salafist Business Cartels and Organized Crimes/Drug cartels who are
closely allied with the Ethiopian Intelligence) to show their capacity
and strength”? “Or this was just part of the Alshabaab strategy of continuous
destabilization (they don’t have a strong military presence in Mogadishu”?) to
tell the Somalis, International community and some of the
Salafist Business Cartels they are very powerful and can strike
everybody? I will try to answer to these questions relating them to
the last acts by Al-Shabaab in the whole of Somalia linked to this last
attack and especially in South- Central. There was Al-Shabaab
Attack on the entrance of Mogadishu airport in which a UN convoy was attacked
and the UN representative in Somalia of UNHCR escaped unhurt by almost a
whisker. It was on 13 February. But innocent Somalis were killed. After that
Al-Shabaab told the biggest Telekom company owned by Salafist Business Cartels
“Hormud”, which is one of the richest and one of the largest
Conglomerates in Somalia with Hawilad -Banking ,Real Estate,
Telecommunication, Trade interests all over Somalia, to stop all its
Internet-Mobile connections.( everybody uses mobile connections there are
not land line connections) which they acquiesced to that criminal order. Then
they also attacked and killed people at the main gate and parking of one
of that same Conglomerate Hotels, the one Called “Al-Jazeera” close to
the airport. The third act I would like to mention is the “assassination” of
the Chief of Security-Intelligence of the Ras Kamboni group ruling Kismayo Town
-Lower Jubba region in south Somalia. I am taking these last acts because these
parts of Somalia-Central and South are the most important for Al-Shabaab for
their concentration of population density and National resources plus hosting
the biggest Salafist Business Cartels Companies, Organized crimes/Drug
Cartels groups and being the political and commercial hubs/ heart of the
country like Mogadishu. In Kismayo the Capital of the Jubba regions the port
supplies the entire southern regions to include neighboring regions-Sovereign
States and its high volume of business (including the illegal one of the export
of Charcoal to Dubai the U.A.E) is one of the main sources of income for
Al-Shabaab. All Somali ports including Mogadishu, Kismayo, Berbera, and
Bosaso are commercially controlled by the Salafist Business cartels/Organized
crimes/Drug-Cartels who uses them as entry points of illegal goods like the
drug Heroin imported from Afghanistan/Pakistan. (Please read my blog
“wardigley.blogspot.com” at the post titled “The criminal motives behind the
car bombing in Kismayo of Ahmed Madobe…” and “Who are the business people of
Somalia”).
To understand all this acts and how these are interlinked let me make a
brief historical timeline of the President Hassan Presidency and a description
of the main domestic/Regional actors mainly Ethiopia –IGAD countries . What is
their main “strategy” at this time after the formation of the last Council of
Ministers and President Hassan “Political Agenda about Somali Unity in a
so- called Federal system vis-Ã -vis the “Ethiopian GRAND-GAME PLAN OF HAVING
SOMALIA subdivided in Mini-Clan Enclaves which will be in a Confederation of SOMALI
REGIONAL SOVEREIGN States”?.
President Hassan was elected and inaugurated in September 2012 by a new parliament
were the majority was Elite Clan Puppet Politicians -at least 175-who are
closely allied to the ETHIOPIAN-Tigre regime and the big wigs/warlords were
from the parliament of 2004 made in Mbaghati, Nairobi, Kenya. The parliament is
made of 275 members subdivided in Clan communities from all over Somali
(federal) Republic. (Please read my blog titled “For the New PM: Lessons from a
recent Past”). The President Hassan said in his Manifesto and agenda that he
was for a democracy, Rule of law and a country were ISLAM WAS THE RELIGION OF
THE STATE as already stated in our constitution but with the promise to
fight the JIHADIST Al-Shabaab group. In his first speech he stood for a United
Somalia where the Federal system was a devolved system of governance based in regional
administrative authorities. All that was well for the oppressed people-
citizens of Somalia. But this has brought him in a “collusion
course” with the Elite Clan Puppet Leaders/Regional puppet leaders who were following the
Agenda of ETHIOPIA and IGAD to subdivide the SOMALI REPUBLIC in CLAN ENCLAVES
for the last 23 years and were supported in their game plans now even by the
#AMISOM forces. This was the real problems in 2013 presidential
governance of Hassan Sheik . He also came in disagreement with his PM Mr.
Shirdoon who was more nationalist than his Ministers who were signing agreements
against the “Sovereignty”,"Unity" and "Territorial
integrity" of the Somali (federal) Republic. Those agreements with Kenya
linked with the so- called maritime “dispute” over the Continental Shelf boundaries and
the one on the Air Space with a Somali regional administration called
Somaliland. All those agreements were disowned by the Council of Ministers but
there were also the Addis Ababa agreement on the transitional administration
for the Jubba regions and the so- called Kampala Communiqué who were in some
parts an "appeasement" to the Tigre regime of Ethiopia and curtailing
our Somali National “sovereignty” to have self rule in the internal affairs of
the Somali m (Federal) Republic specially in matters of security.
In few words during the last six /seven
months of his Presidency he has chosen a policy of "compromise" with Ethiopia
when it came to matters of security in what I call “ limited military interference by
Ethiopia like AMISOM participation ” but still with the Somali sovereignty and the “direction in general” of the Somali national affairs as he thought
in the hands of Somalis. Also by reappointing a new PM Mr. Abdiweli Sheik Ahmed, who has yet to became still his "own Man " and think about his would be legacy in Somali political history( the last Shirdoon was totally disliked
by the Ethiopians and the Salafist members of the Ministers of councils ). Our President Hassan has always though
that he was infallible as political thinker and concentrated all powers in himself , made a new council of Ministers with the PM and made of Salafist Business Cartels
representative members to whom he was
linked politically , Elite Clan puppet politicians closely allied to Ethiopia and a small number of honest politicians. With
this kind of ministerial cabinet President Hassan was thinking he will navigate
all waters and compromise with all “politically” interested groups in Somali affairs
domestically and regionally. He was “absolutely Naïve” because he did not understand
the “Real nature of Somali politics” which was totally controlled by “forces
outside” the national interest of the Somali “People-citizens”. That Somali politics was controlled by Salafist Business cartels sitting in the back seat with Organized crimes and Ethiopia linked Elite Clan Puppet Leaders at the front seat.The only group
who tried to represent the Somali national interests was put in the oppositions-those
I call the Clan Nationalist- and he “accepted’ as members of the cabinet those who
represented Organized Crimes/Drug cartels as ministers. The security /Intelligence
and Defense two portfolios were given to Salafist and “representatives” of the
Ethiopian-Iranian interests in Somali politics.
(To be continued)
(To be continued)
#Somalia: Why the TIGRE ARMY is Back in SOMALIA?Wait and see...
#Somalia: Why the TIGRE ARMY is Back in SOMALIA?Wait and see...: By bringing back the Ethiopian-Tigre Army inside Somalia (they were already illegally from 2010) with a legal Mandate to Kill and tort...
Why the TIGRE ARMY is Back in SOMALIA?Wait and see.
By bringing back the Ethiopian-Tigre Army inside Somalia (they
were already illegally from 2010) with a legal Mandate to Kill and torture
Somalis is against the will and the future of the a Somalia which is democratic
and has its own self-rule and at peace with neighbors and the World .The
Ethiopians has been supported in coming
back I suspect by IGAD countries and
have came with some kind of Agreement
with the so- called international community. The Mandate as usual is they are fighting
Al-Shabaab which is not true at all. Ethiopia is the country who has participated
(the only African country) in he scramble for Africa of the Berlin Conference
before the First World WAR. The went there to get the Somali inhabited
Territories of the Somalis who were the neighbors to the AMHARA /and OROMO.
Somalis Clan-Communities today are part
of the citizens Ethiopia in the the so- called
SOMALI REGION of ETHIOPIA. The Hawd area was given to them by the colonial
British Empire. Today their Agenda is to exploit and control the resources-like
OIL and GAS- and colonize indirectly the Clan- Communities of Somalia by
dividing them in Regions who are fighting each other in so- called regional
Sovereign States. Lately they started calling the SOMALIS as an integral part
of the ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE which is inhibited by the SOMALI speaking Clan
communities. I know and every body who follows Somali issues knows that the
Tigre Regime of ETHIOPIA and some IGAD countries are part of the SOMALI problem
from the 80". THEY MADE AND
SUPPORTED THE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS WHO WERE IN THE OPPOSITION IN THE 80" in
Ethiopia and participated in the destruction of SOMALIA in the 90". Those
opposition movements were allied with the Salafist Movements of the Al-Ittixad
Al-Islamiya and in the same time were allied with the ETHIOPIANS( read my blog
called “For the new PM of SOMALIA: Lessons from a recent Past”). Later when the UN and the US came to SOMALIA in 1993
for the Restore HOPE intervention, the new ETHIOPIAN REGIME of MELES ZENAWI sided
with the Clan-Warlords allied with the Salafist
Movements - by giving them ammunition
and political support- who were fighting the UN and US intervention. When with
the consent of the so- called international community ETHIOPIA came back to
SOMALIA in 1996-1997 and 2006-2009 they massacred and tortured thousands of
innocent SOMALIS who were not part of Al-ITTIXAD in 1996 and in 2006. Clans who were not part of Al-Shabaab but just members of some Clans
which they thought were against their re-Colonization of Somalia. How The Tigre
regime of ETHIOPIA on one hand help Warlords allied with Salafist Movements and
in the same time fight Jihadist like Al-Shabaab from the 90”? Why Al-Shabaab
and its allies Salafist Business Cartels never Attack ETHIOPIA and instead concentrating
all their JIHADISM-terrorism only in SOMALIA and East AFRICA?. Any way Ethiopia
and some IGAD countries have meddled in the internal affairs of Somalia and
destroyed Somalia for at least the last 23 years. IF we are to have a peaceful
and stable SOMALIA the so- called front line states must not be permitted to
bring their Armies to SOMALIA. President Hassan Sheik and his DAMU JADID
pro-Salafist group and their Warlords./Elite puppet leaders/Organized crimes/Drug-Cartels
allies who are the ones supporting the ETHIOPIANS will never subjugate the
SOMALI people-citizens to the Tigre regime. Wait and see.
#Somalia: The list of new Cabinet Ministers is made of: 30%a...
#Somalia: The list of new Cabinet Ministers is made of: 30%a...: Sidoo kale, golahan wasiirrada waxaa ka mid ah golahan wasiirrada xubno ku cusub siyaasadda Soomaaliya iyo kuwo horay uga tirsanaa xukuu...
The list of new Cabinet Ministers is made of: 30%are DAMU JADID memebers, 60% are Elite Clan PUppet Leaders,Warlords/Organized Crimes memebers,10% are individuals used for Window dressing.Wait and See
Sidoo
kale, golahan wasiirrada waxaa ka mid ah golahan wasiirrada xubno ku
cusub siyaasadda Soomaaliya iyo kuwo horay uga tirsanaa xukuumadihii KMG
ahaa ee Soomaaliya soo maray.
HADDABA, HALKAN KA AKHRISO LIISKA WASIIRADA CUSUB:Maxamed X. Xuseen, Hiiraan Onlinemaxuseen@hiiraan.com
Muqdisho, Soomaaliya
Muqdisho, Soomaaliya
#Somalia: Did the Election of Dr.Abdiweli Ali Gaas bring "Ch...
#Somalia: Did the Election of Dr.Abdiweli Ali Gaas bring "Ch...: The words of Mr. Nicholas Kay- UN representative for Somalia and Head of the United Mission for Somalia- after the Election...
Did the Election of Dr.Abdiweli Ali Gaas bring "Change" to Puntland regions and Somalia? Wait and see
The words of Mr. Nicholas Kay- UN representative for Somalia and Head of the United Mission for Somalia- after the Election of MR.Dr. Abdiweli M.Ali Gaas as new Elect- president of the Regional state of Puntland were the best to illustrate the mood, anxiety and relief of the members of the Puntland Parliament, politicians representing Clan communities,Clan community Elders and in general the population at large of the entire region and of Somalis of the Somali Republic in general wherever they live or were at that particular moment. Mr. Kay post election remarks included the words like “You will sleep well tonight……. Now you are part of the process to develop Somalia etc”. This is my shortening of quotes of the entire speech. There was relief, hope for a well done election in which all the political and social forces including the Salafist Business cartels- all Clan based- of the regions of Puntland were involved and was sometime on the brink to collapse and in part civil war was averted after the annulment of the direct elections prepared and organized by the incumbent President MR. Abirahman Mohamed “Farole” of July 2013. There was at that time a popular uprising of the cities of Qardho,Bosaso and Galkayo who represented the major Clans and the Kaleidoscope of Salafist groups and Sunna-waljamaca,Clan nationalist,Organized crimes groups etc..
This regional Election was watched carefully by all Somalis and specially by the Leadership of Somaliland regions, the Federal government in Mogadishu, the so-called Khatuma regional state and the regional powers like ETHIOPIA and IGAD countries, foreign powers like CHINA, IRAN, ITALY, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE and the big OIL & GAS Companies of this world and the minnows companies in OIL like Africa OIL Co. with which “Mr.Farole” the incumbent made illegal concessional Rights deals. And also Big US companies who owns the OIL and GAS concessional rights of the regions from the 60” and have for the last time been renewed by the Siad Barre government in 1989. Also there were the keen interests of the US,EU the UK and the Arab/Muslim world like Saudi Arabia,Qatar and Turkey.The UN ,IGAD-AU and the international community were all represented at the Election venue. These were all the Regional and Global actors involved indirectly in this contest. But the domestic Actors were those who were taking and playing a political game that was sometimes so brutal, emotional that all the tricks of the Somali Politics were used.
Let me make a short timeline of the basic events of the existence of the state of PUNTLAND regions of Somalia. In that way we can understand better the so-called social and political forces at play in this last political contest which are in general the real Power-Brokers in those regions.
Puntland was established in 1998 by former members of the SSDF an opposition Clan-based (like all the Somali opposition Clan based political movements sponsored by Ethiopia like SNM, USC and SPM) movement sponsored/ based in Ethiopia between 1979-1986. Mr. Abdulllahi Yusuf one of the founders of the movement and Chairman was arrested by the Ethiopians around 1984-1986 times and was released from jail in Ethiopia in 1991. He restarted the Political Clan based movement in 1991 in the Puntland regions and he self-proclaimed himself as Leader with the acknowledgement/ support of the Elders of the regions . In 1992 he fought a Salafist insurgency in the one of the first Al-Ittixad Militias-(there was a compromise agreement between the SSDF and the Salafist who were supported by some local Clan Leaders to administer the PORT of Bosaso ) who took over the Port of Bosaso and defeated them in a bloody battle which was one of the first civil wars between Somalis with a Religious divide( the others were in middle Juba ,Lower Shabelle regions between the USC of Gen. Aided and other Salafist in as early as 1991 but later Aidid will revert to his strategic alliance with the Salafist militants to fight the UN/US mission in Somalia). This was one of the main phases of the political Struggle for power between the Salafist and the so-called Clan Nationalist-Ahlu-Sunna (Sufi Islam groups) of the Regions State of PUNTLAND. In that battle the members of the Salafist Militia were from all regions of Puntland and other parts of Somalia and they were led by the man who later will become their National leader with the ISLAMIC COURTS UNION in 2006.
Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf became president of the Somali Republic with the first transitional Charter which envisioned the Federal System in 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya with the support of ETHIOPIA and IGAD countries but recognized by the UN and international community. In Puntland the new Leader was Mr. General Cadde Musse who was elected in 2005 by MPs selected by Elders . For the first time the Salafist groups and Organized crimes who were controlling the Trade/Hawilad-remittances/Telecom / education /Health and had surplus cash, came back in the scene by financing the “ the criminal menace” of the “Piracy” based in that regions in which almost 300 to 400 millions of US dollars was paid as Ransom between 2005 and 2011 by the Owners of hijacked ships( UN report 2013). Part of that money( its an open secret) in 2009 will be part of the finances given to Mr. Farole to be elected as the next President of Puntland by the Organized crimes groups and the Salafist Business Cartels. But there was also another factor which came into play in Puntland politics at that time which will bring “into the open” the game –Plan of Ethiopia- to Subdivide the Somalis of the Somali Republic in territorial Clan-Enclaves which will call themselves “sovereign” Regional States”. There was already the self-proclaimed- secessionist Agenda of the Ruling SNM Elites in the regions of Somaliland but in the North east of Puntland that was a novelty.
What brought in that new factor was the OIL and GAS concessions to Petroleum Companies for the drilling of OIL in the Dharoor Valley( later Mr. Farole also will include the Nugal Valley where Conoco Philips had rights from 1989) by Mr. Cadde Musse. To Drill for the Oil the regional state of PUNTLAD will require being a “Sovereign State” under INTERNATIONAL LAW and therefore will renegade even on the “transitional Charter” of the new Somali Federal government of 2004. That is what MR. Farole will try by making a new Constitution for Puntland and “bringing in the new concept of a Confederate Somalia” in which all regional states are “sovereign” in 2010 after just one year after his election but without any legal backing and legal adoption by the federal government or any acceptance by all Somali Clan-communities-people-citizens of the Somali Republic by a Referendum . The subsequent political ‘matching” between him and the so-called leaders of the federal government in Mogadishu was all a charade to give Mr. Farole “ the legal precedent’ and reasons to start drilling for OIL in contravention of all Somali Laws and International Laws which did not recognize a new Somali state called Puntland in the North east regions of the Somali Republic.
The recent history is Mr. Farole failed with his ambitions to divide the Somalis because in the meantime in 2012 there was a new constitution in which the Somali Clan Community Elders agreed to have a federal system of governance after it was pushed under their throats by the UN and the So- called international community under the influence of ETHIOPIA and IGAD countries. Till today we don’t know what means a federal system in a clear way in the constitution.
The Election of MR. Abdiweli M.Ali Gaas as president of the regional state of Puntland will bring to the fore all the problems of the so- called Somali Federal State and the internal dynamics of the power struggle of domestic actors within Somalia in general and in particular the regions of Puntland.
When I said the domestic actors I mean the Clan Based groups in all of Somalia be them Salafist Business Cartels ,Ahlu-Sunna waljameca, Puppet Elite leaders politicians allied to Ethiopia-IGAD, Clan -Nationalist Elite-Leaders Elders and politicians , Organized crimes groups in Business which were part and parcel of the last election in Puntland and the main actors in all of Somali Republic including the regions of Somaliland.The only group which was not influential in the Election were the Jihadist groups of Al-Shabaab but which have an ideological connections with some of the Salafist Cartels and a business connections with the Organized crimes groups in Business and Piracy in Puntland regions.It was printed in some internet sites and rumored by political pundits that one of the main contenders was an ex-fighter of the Salafist Movement of 1992 in Puntland and now he was a well know- respectable businessman and there was also another Salafist businessman, All in all the contenders were eleven(11) and the three main contenders who succeeded to reach the second round were Mr. Dr. Abdiweli M.Ali Gaas who represented the Clan based Ahlu-Sunna-Waljameeca,Clan nationalist Elites but he is in good relationship with the Ethiopia-IGAD countries.Mr. Abdirahman "Farole" who represented the interests of the Elite Puppet leaders allied to Ethiopia-IGAD, Salafist business cartels who were allied with Ethiopia who wonted the economic and political the Status Quo and Organized crimes groups.The other third group was Clan based Salafist Business cartels who for the first time had their own candidate openly and were proposing their Own Agenda.They were represented by Mr. Ali Hagi Warsame. In the last round for "political reasons" he gave Mr. Abdiweli the Chance to win. by adding his votes to Dr.Abdiweli..Did Abdiweli made horse trading politically? Did the Salafist Business cartels group divided themselves in different groups with different agendas? We will wait for sometime to know the real game-plan.
What next for Abdiweli in Puntland? The main Challenges for his administration and also for Somalia is what Type of Federalism we need? A question which has never been answered at national level and at regional level in a democratic manner. How to solve the Clan-communities of Buhodle,Las-Canod and Taleh self-proclamation that they are part of a regional government called Khatuma state?How to solve the intricate web of dominance of the economy by a group of Salafist which would not like a national central-federal government like the puppet leaders allied to Ethiopia? How to fight the Jihadist groups in the midst of the regions of Puntland like Mr. "Atom" Al-Shabaab linked group which is stationed at Galgalo mountains and can attack the main town of Bosaso when they like? How to stop the extra-judicial killings organized by the Ethiopian Intelligence but executed by Puntland forces and bring justice to the people-citizens of Galkayo and Bosaso? How to reorganize the quasi-criminal intelligence services trained by the Ethiopian intelligence under the control of Ethiopian intelligence officers based in Garowe? How to have a professional security services not sub-clan based who are part of the federal national Army of Somalia?
There are other main issues like the youth unemployment, reorganization of the civil servants and mostly importantly a new the political and cultural narrative which stands for the national interests of the all Somali people-citizens.Dr. Abdiweli must link with the Clan nationalist elites of all of Somalia to sell his own vision of a federal Somalia and not be partisan like Mr. Farole who liked to represent only some Clans within the large Somali clans. In that way he stood for a Clan-Based vision of Confederate Somalia in which just like in the Jubba regions some Clans were more "equal than others"A Confederate system in which Somalis are divided in Clan enclaves and have borders between them.Where he will stand Dr. Abdiweli? He will stand for Somali Nation-Hood and STATE-HOOD in a United State but with a devolved Federal system or as propagated by the "Somali puppet Leaders" he will be for the subdivision of Somalia in a new Confederate Somalia under the Hegemony of Ethiopia and IGAD countries? Wait and see.
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