News Analysis: Giving Somaliland Its Over Due
Recognition is key to Horn's stability
Introduction: Again the IGAD despots made another blunder and formed
another fictitious government in exile. African dictators never
learn from their mistakes. They made career out of the misery of the
suffering people of Somalia. They created another false hope for a
people devastated by successive warlords, brutal Ethiopian invasion
they blessed and now under the mercy of violent terrorists.
Top stories: 1. The Club of Despots gathering in Addis Abba, and the
nomination of Gaddafi's as its president.
2. Artha II: The selection of Sh. Shariff and the complete collapse
of Embagatti
"Foreign made outfits synthesized and cloned in foreign lands can
not work"
The saying goes "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting a different result."
This is something the chaotic and debating societies of IGAD/AU/UN
complex, have been doing to the people of the Horn of Africa for the
last 20 years. These secretive and non democratic organizations have
been trampling on the civil and the human rights of the people of
both Somaliland and Somalia. For the people of Somaliland who have
reclaimed their inalianble rights and decided on their own future,
these criminal enterprises have put them in a political limbo. Non
of these despots have a real legitimacy on the eyes of their people.
In the name of the people of Somalia, IGAD were collecting funds
from the world, under the pretext of creating a government for them.
But that is not the case, they made a career out off making Somalia
a bogeyman for milking few dollars from the world, under the guise
of helping the people of that country, and forming a government for
them. On the contrary, what they are doing is creating their own
outfit, comprised from the worse of the worse. The reservoir they
draw their fake leaders from is primarily full of warlords, failed
and recycled leaders, unscrupulous personalities, international
vagabonds and other throwaways.
That is why non of their outfits worked and will not work in the
future.They have no sense of shame from their endless blunders and
mistakes. They keep on repeating the same mistakes over and over
again. Somalia needs indigenous and true reconciliation, and healing
process that starts in their villages, towns and cities where they
sit together, and ask themselves what their real problems are? IGAD/AU/UN
complex have miserably failed to bring a scintilla of resolution to
Somalia's chronic problems.
These groups are vigorously resisting to confess their mistakes. In
fact IGAD/UN conglomerate are part of the problem. These dictators
have aggravated, stirred up, meddled, profited and perpetuated
Somalia's problems. They are neither sincere nor has the ability to
resolve these problems. It is time for the people of Somalia to
aggressively demand these despots to take their hands out of their
affairs.
These knee jerk attempts are not designed to resolve the problem but
will rather aggravate it. These draconian ideas created and will
create more problems than it will resolve. The people of Somalia
must realize that no solution will ever come from IGAD/AU/UN
failure-complex. The Rwandan genocide, the morass in Congo, the
debacle and human misery in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the on going
genocide in Darfur, Sudan had all happened in their watch. They
failed to resolve the 30 year war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Eritreans have resolved their problems the hard way by waging a 30
years arms struggle against Ethiopia, a country the AU made its head
office in its capital Addis Abba. The AU for so long rejected to
heed the cries for justice coming from the Eriterian people. Had
they heeded those cries the devastating Eriterian struggle for
independence would have been averted.
In conclusion the people of Somalia must not wait for the AU, the UN
and its Mauritanian envoy, Abdulla Wallad, who instead of resolving
his country's failure of state institutions, slavery, governance and
under development problems, who made a career of Somalia, a country
he knows very little of. What had happened to Embagatti will be
awaiting any other IGAD/UN outfit, that did not come with popular
support of the people of Somalia. As the saying goes " Easy come
easy go."
There is no reason to believe that any other IGAD engineered
government can work. Through out the month of December, 2008, we
watched the speedy disintegration process the Embagatti group went
through. It started with the abrupt departure of Abdullahi Yusuf the
preeminent Embagatti architect, and the exodus of its parliament
from Baidawa.The day before Sh. Shariff was selected in Djibouti
Baidawa fell to the terroist group Al-Shabaab. There is no single
so-called Embagatti parliametarian in Baidawa today. Embagatti was a
non existent entity without the Ethiopian troops. As the Ethiopian
troops started withdrawing Embagtti has fell. So in reality all the
IGAD engineered outfits never existed, they only existed on paper,
and on the minds of its IGAD engineers. Apparently non of them never
took root on the ground.
I. In their meeting in Addis Abba the do nothing AU-den of despots
selected Qaddafi as its president.This is the mother of all
ironies.They did n't mention Mugabe and the monumental challenges
facing the continent. Qaddafi a left over from Africa's failed 20th
century presidents for life, is a leader who ran out of gas. He is
no longer relevant as he overstayed his welcome both domestically
and internationally. The lofty fantasies of his September revolution
has failed, his dream to liberate Palestine, Unify the Arab world,
and be united with with Egypt, Sudan, Tunis and Chad have all went a
bust.
Gadaffi miserably failed in realizing any his dreams in his hey day,
when he was flying high and has the full backing of the then
powerful Soviet Union. Now at the twilight of his rule, and his
popularity in wane, both his idealism and energy are all but
evaporated. His recent toying with the impossible task of unifying
Africa, a disintegrating continent with monumental problems, much
more serious and deeper than the problems of the Arab world is
nothing, but a last gasp from a failed leader. Selecting such a
failed leader as their president says volumes about the corruption,
ineptness, and incompetence of the long failed African dictators.
Those dictators have dashed the dreams and the promise of African
independence. More than ever before, the continent has left behind
the rest of the world, became saddled with astonomical problems,
economic decline, rampant unemployment, poor governance,
astronomical problems, negative consequences eminating from failing
and failed states, poor health care, hopelessness, lack of education
and unprecedented migration of its people.
II. Artha sub II: In Djibouti Sh Shariff Ahmed was selected as the
president of Somalia (Mogadishu and its region). The selection of Sh.
Shariff in Djibouti is a welcome news for the people of Mogadishu
and Somalia. But what had happened in Djibouti is the same thing
that was happening to the people of Somalia for the last 20 years.
This is the fifth outfit made overseas, and called the government
for all the former Somalia. That is an utter mirage and non sense.
The reality on the ground and the architecs of Somalia's outfits are
so far apart. Apparently reality and the actions of the engineers of
the failed and fictitious outfits are so far apart as Mars and
Jupiter.
Daunting challenges are awaiting Sh. Shariff. Besides Somaliand who
were never part of the IGAD-UN organized conferences, this time
around, Puntland, the Northern part of the former Italian Somaliland
declared, it is not part of the Djibouti conference. Therefore, in
reality what Sh. Shariff may be left with is the area between South
Calkayo and.Kismayo. In those areas themselves, Baidawa, Merka,
Kismayo and some parts of Mogadishu are in the hands of the
terrorist group Al-Shabaab. In real terms Sh. Shariffs Somalia will
be parts of Mogadishu and some towns in central Somalia.
Despite the fanfare in the despot den-the AU conference in Addis
Abba, there are very few patches of land that may come under Sh
Shariff's control. If the recent past is a guide, the same fate is
awaiting Sh. Shariff. The problem nobody wants to address, is the
huge disconnect between the perennial conferences goers and the
reality on the ground. Forming unpopular by IGAD dictators never
worked and will not work this time.
There is no realism and pragmatism in these free warlord, and failed
leader parties.There is also an immense disconnect between the
reality on the ground, and the IGAD despots and the UN's corrupt
bureacrat's myopic mentality. Unless the bitter reality is faced
IGAD/UN failed and corrupt enterprises will keep forming
unpresentative outfits, led by unpopular, corrupt, and inept
charlatans who do not represt anybody, and the cycle of failure,
morass and mayhem will indefinitely continue. On paper at least, the
just collapsed Embagatti outfit has the greatest chance of
succeeding than Sh. Shariff's new outfit.
Despite being mostly on either a comma or life support through out
of its short life span, the bambastic Embagatti warlords never
shrank from snipping and threatening the people of Somaliland. That
outfit never never anchored its feet on the ground.Through out its
short life span, they were fueding, flying from one despot capital
to the other, finger pointing and urguing. For all practically
purposes they never had any control over Mogadishu let alone
Somalia. Embagatti like the other outfits before it denied the
rights and self-determination for the people Somaliland.
Somaliland is a power in its own right, and can't be dictated by
neither IGAD/UN corrupt complex or their fictitious outfits. The
failure will continue and the suffereing of innocent people of
Mogadishu, Baidawa, Merka and Kismayo will continue. For the IGAD
despots, Somalia became the boggey man through which they can milk
few dollars from the world. But clearly those few dollars are drying
up, because there are good results to show for the dollars they
already wasted on a half a dozen falied outfits.
I would like to tell the suffering people of Somalia, It is time for
you to take things into their hands.They must know there is nobody
out there looking out for them. I am saying to you people of
Mogadishu, " Ceelna Idiinma Qodna, Cidna Idiin Ma Maqna." Sidaa
Ugaadaa and Good Luck.
Never trust your faith on neither warlords, charlatans, Siyad
barre's remnents, terrorist groups, IGAD and the UN. Remember it was
IGAD and the UN who brought in your erstwhile enemy-Ethiopia, the
failing state that mercilessly shelled your neighborhoods, killed
you and your children. Wake up! And take charge of your destiny.
IGAD can not and will not bring peace and stability to you. Your
peace and tranquility must come from you and not foreign lands.
The Disconnect
There is huge disconnect between the IGAD dictators, the United
Nations and the reality on the ground in the former Somalia. Though
not yet got a dejure recognition due to fierce resistence from IGAD
dictatorships and Egypt, Somaliland a major part of the former
Somalia has declared its independence, from the rest of Somlia
almost 20 years ago. Somaliland was never part of the overseas
created, artificial, and so-called reconciliation conferences for
Somalia. Somaliland is already enjoying a defacto recognition by its
people and many countries.
Currently Somaliland has political offices in most European
countries, a number of African countries and the United States.
Moreover, for the last 20 years the people of Somaliland has been
focusing all their energy on Somaliland. Somaliland diaspora has
helped building Universities, medical clinics and other devlopment
projects in the mother land. Somaliland educated class has focused
all their brain energy on Somaliland. For all practical purposes,
the seperation of Somaliland and Somalia is complete.
Despite all that Politicians from Somalia (former Italian Somliland)
and especially the perennial participants in the endless IGAD and UN
initiated conferences, act as if Somaliland as part of a non
existent state called Somalia. But practically the two countries are
completely seperate. Somaliland controls all the territory of the
former British Somaliland. The country has successfully gone through
several elections. It has a bicameral parliament, three political
parties, a robust civil society and numerous indigenous non
governmental groups. In March 2009, a municipal and presidential
election will be held in the country..
Suleiman Egeh
Email: soleimoneg@yahoo.com
Suleiman Egeh - Freelance writer and a senior science instructer
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