Month: August 2015

TWO FATEFUL NIGHTS FOR PUNTLAND FOUNDATION

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TWO FATEFUL NIGHTS FOR PUNTLAND FOUNDATION

It was in December 1997 when the Somali National Reconciliation talks in Cairo had just collapsed. National Salvation Council (NSC, the Sodare Group) Co-Chairmen, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and General Aden Abdullahi Nur Gabyow, had managed to get out of Cairo and safely arrived Addis Ababa, the temporary HQ of the NSC.

A group of men from North-eastern Somalia were staying at Ghion Hotel in Addis Ababa. These included Abdullahi Yusuf, Hassan Abshir Waraabe, Said Caduur, General Abdullahi Omar “Ina Libaax Sankataabte”, Ambassador Azhari, myself and a few others. We were all seated in my hotel room as we were drafting some papers concerning our responses to the failed Cairo Conference. Suddenly, Hassan Abshir informed us that Islaan Mohamed Islaan Muuse phoned him up the other night to re-lay to our group that they should travel to Garowe to participate in a “Harti Conference” to be held soon. We discussed on the issue for more than one hour. Hassan Abshir recommended to the group that he could ask the Islaan to put off this conference while we were tied by other pressing issues in Ethiopia. Most of the group responded positively to Hassan’s proposal. Abdullahi Yusuf was non-committal. I, the youngest of all, took an exception to the proposal. I asked the group a question, which I believe, turned things around: “Why General Caydiid and Cali Mahdi were considered as the most powerful warlords in Somalia at the time?”. The group looked at each other and stared at me. I answered my question. “Because they don’t run Mogadishu by a remote control like the way you are suggesting now. We have to drop down everything we are doing here in Ethiopia and all go to Garowe and hold this meeting”. It took the next two days to decide to travel to Bosaso and onwards to Garowe.

In the meantime, a group of Dhulbahante men led by Abdullahi Shariif organized a meeting to sort out any personal and political differences or frictions between Abdullahi Yusuf and Mohamed Abdi Hashi. In that meeting, Abdullahi Yusuf asked Mohamed Abdi Hashi what was the problem or grudges he held “against me”. Mohamed responded that Abdullahi went alone with General Caydiid, the bad man of Somalia, while he (Mohamed) preferred Cali Mahdi, the better man. Abdullahi looked around and asked Mohamed, “is that all, Mohamed?”.  Mohamed responded, “yes”. Abdullahi told that group. “I will tell you why my cousin, Mohamed, was upset about me. During the time we each belonged to different warlord camps, Mohamed Abdi Hashi came up to me and advised me “if Majertaines were unable to lead this time, they should hand over that role to us”. At that time, I responded to Mohamed, perhaps unwisely, you should belong to either Farah Garaad or Mohamoud Garaad to suggest that to me. As a Qayaad man, you shouldn’t”. There  was a hilarious laughter and commotion in the meeting room. With that soft note, reconciliation between the two men was complete.

That was how the Consultative Congress of Puntland Foundation was held.

The 2nd fateful night of Puntland came when Abdullahi Boqor Muuse “King Kong” and Ugaas Yaassiin of Ahmed Harti (Dashiishe) phoned up Abdullahi Yusuf from Bosaso, who was then in Galkayo, after the end of the Consultative Congress. They urgently asked him to come down to Bosaso as the SSDF Executive Committee members were obstructing fund-raising efforts for the Constitutional Congress with the inclusion of Sool and Sanaag regions.

We left for Bosaso upon the Elders’ request.  By the time we reached Bosaso, the SSDF Executive had almost succeeded in foiling fund-raising efforts for the forthcoming Congress, and had persuaded Bosaso business community to refuse any levies ear-marked for the Conference. For Abdullahi Yusuf and his Committee members, it was an uphill battle to counter the SSDF sabotage. Finally, Said Caduur, a Fund-raising Committee member, suggested to Abdullahi Yusuf to resign effective immediately amid unbeatable resistance from SSDF Executive Council. That meant all our efforts to hold the Final Phase of Puntland creation (The Constitutional Congress) were in jeopardy. One day, we were having a lunch in our residence in Bosaso when Abdullahi Yusuf told me, his wife Hawo Abdi Samater and a guest, Muuse Diibeeye, a trader, that he was about to resign from the Fund-raising Committee Chairmanship. It was a shock to me. I asked him: “How could you resign when you are on the brink of a great victory?”  He responded: “What victory? There is only defeat and humiliation here!”.  I argued, and basically, quarrelled with Mr. Yusuf on the issue during the entire course of that lunch and long after.  At the end, he didn’t resign. We eventually won that battle with SSDF Leadership by raising the first Sh. So. Three hundred million for the Congress and handed it over to Islaan Mohamed Islaan Muuse in Garowe successfully. Victory!

That was how we held the Founding Congress of Puntland.

By Ismail H. Warsame

E-mail: ismailwarsame@gmail.com

Twitter: @ismailwarsame

This AP Dispatch was Prelude to the Appearance of Puntland

ETHIOPIA SLAMS EGYPT OVER SOMALIA

ABEBE ANDUALEM, Associated Press

Dec. 24, 1997 1:58 PM ET

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) _ Ethiopia accused Egypt on Wednesday of hijacking a peace process to end seven years of fighting in Somalia and claimed the agreement reached in Cairo by Somali factions could do more harm than good.

The government-run Ethiopian News Agency quoted an unnamed diplomat as saying the agreement signed Monday by 26 Somali faction leaders to form a national government and end fighting could create more divisions rather than help to achieve reconciliation.

Ethiopia, which had been conducting its own peace initiative for Somalia, apparently felt left out after Egypt and the Cairo-based Arab League invited 28 Somali leaders to Cairo where they came up with a deal after 41 days of negotiations at a hotel for Egyptian military officials.

All but two Somali factions signed the complex power-sharing deal and agreed to a national reconciliation conference in the central Somali town of Baidoa Feb. 15 which would name the country’s first national government in seven years.

“The Egyptian government has hijacked the Somali reconciliation process and as a result it has created more divisions within the Somali factions, thus seriously damaging efforts and gains of seven years of reconciliation among Somali faction leaders,” the agency quoted the diplomat as saying.

The diplomat was not named but his comments were believed to reflect views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which often uses the news agency to communicate government opinion.

In Cairo, the Foreign Ministry made no formal comment. But a ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said:

“This is nonsense. We are not in the business of hijacking peace processes. These charges were not issued by the Ethiopian government, but by a Somali who is living in Addis Ababa … and the motives are clear.”

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Postscript, August 2015: The above was, in fact, based on my article to the Ethiopian main newspaper at the time, The Ethiopian Herald. The Egyptian dplomat in Cairo was right on the source of the information. Abdullahi Yusuf and General Aden Gabyow were still in Cairo, trying to get out of Egyptian diplomatic wrestling. That was December 1997 in Abdis Ababa. Two fateful nights for the future State of Puntland would follow from that AP despatch from Addis Ababa – Ismail H. Warsame

Celebrating Puntland!

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Puntland President, The Micromanager

While it is absolutely necessary for Puntland President, Abdiweli Gas, to support the state institutions and regional self-governing bodies, what he is doing now in Galkayo definitely falls under the mandate of the Local Government.

His current visit to the City of Galkayo is long overdue and his effort now is too little too late. Instead of using the opportunity to announce a major strategic Puntland State policy on GalMudugh, respect for the Federal Constitution, the New Deal and Somalia Vision 2016, he has opted for diverting people’s concerns on these issues to dismantling City dwellings and displacing IDPs in the town,  while at the same time the most illegal occupation of the Old Galkayo City by the residents of Baraxley still remains intact and unattended. The President seems to have no stomach to follow up his orders in reversing the illegal expansion, or to use the Somali term “Udub Riixxa” Baraxley.

The Presidential visit to Mudugh becomes a public relations exercise and detraction from the pressing fundamental issues of Puntland State, in general and Mudugh, in particular. What he is micro-managing in Galkayo now he could have easily done as well from his office in Garowe.

Instead of coming down there to visit with a major policy shift announcement in the light of latest difficulties with the Mogadishu Government and its flagrant violations of the Constitution and multiple accords with Puntland State, he becomes a busy body in municipality issues.

Puntland people should be asking President Abdiweli Gas serious questions as to why Puntland’s series of “Agreements” with the Federal Government were not respected and what he was doing about it; What the future holds for Puntland State in Somalia amid its marginalization of its historical leading role by the fledgling Government of President Hassan Sh. Mohamud. And these are are just a few of the deep concerns people of Puntland have about Abdiweli’s leadership and his abilities to do his job as the President of the First Pillar State of Somalia’s Federalism.

One of these grave concerns is the disturbing absence of transparency in the operations of his Office and Government. There are persisting speculations that things are always done behind closed doors. Equally suspicious is the fact that the President has yet to articulate Puntland State clear position on the latest political developments in and about Somalia.

Escalating Puntland insecurity and threat to its stability from extremists all the way to the United Nations Security Council (see recent UN Resolution) to authorise deployment of AMISOM troops without informing his Cabinet and debate in Puntland Parliament is a serious and an impeachal act bordering on treason. These AMISOM troops will be definitely Ethiopians occupying parts of Puntland territory and some cities. Because of this, people of Puntland have legitimate right to be gravely concerned.

By Ismail H. Warsame

E-mail: ismailwarsame@gmail.com

Twitter: @ismailwarsame

Addendum: One of the main reasons why President Abdiweli Ali Gas could not come out forcefully against the Federal Government violations of the Constitution and its partial involvement in Galmudugh formation is believed to be that he had been deeply compromised during his tenure as the Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government. Much of the scribblings in the Constitution were done under his watch, according to reliable sources. He cannot talk and defend himself on those issues now as the President of Puntland.

Former minister hopes Somalia/Somaliland will come together soon-video

Former minister hopes Somalia/Somaliland will come together soon-video.

Car bomb “kills many” at Somali military training base

Car bomb “kills many” at Somali military training base.

Dispute Over Deploying AMISOM Troops To Puntland State

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Puntland state’s Parliamentary Standing Committee has today rejected the deployment of AMISOM soldiers to Puntland soil.The parliament’s decision comes after Puntland President Abdiwali Mohamed Ali (Gaas) accepted a request from UN to deploy limited AMISOM troops to the region that will be responsible for the security of UN agencies in puntland.In an interview with Reuters, Puntland State President, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Gaas), asked for more help from the Federal Government and AMISOM forces but said they do not need AMISOM forces.“We do not need AMISOM forces because Puntland forces have the ability to fight Al-Shabaab, but we need to be assisted with military equipment, telecommunication, military vehicles, weapons and ammunitions” he said. However Goobjoog learns that Puntland president faces pressure from the UN and some western countries to accept the deployment of limited AMISOM troops to the region. Puntland state had previously resisted to accept any deployment of African Peacekeeping  forces to its land saying the state is capable to deal with all the security threats from Al-Shabab.

GUULWADE LEADERSHIP

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GUULWADE (Victory Pioneer) style of leadership is a political phenomenon associated to regimes in Somalia and North Korea. Basically, it is one single man’s show of leadership on the misery of the rest of the society except a few cronies of personal advisors. It is regimented societal order of insuring servile obedience to the ruler, whereby any suspicion of opposing views is crushed mercilessly and eliminated wholly without due process and feeling of remorse. Vital state decision-making is conducted secretly and behind closed doors.

Show cases of regime’s success stories are publicly televised and printed by totally controlled media centres, which  act as loyal mouth-pieces of the Regime for propaganda purposes, mainly for international consumption and local indoctrination.

Any hint on alternative leadership is treated as a capital crime and treason against the state.

Those who worked with the Regime of Siyad Barre for a long time, or benefited his…

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GUULWADE LEADERSHIP

GUULWADE (Victory Pioneer) style of leadership is a political phenomenon associated to regimes like those in Somalia, North Korea, libya, Soviet Union and Communist China. Basically, it is one single man’s show of leadership on the misery of the rest of the society except a few cronies of personal advisors. It is regimented societal order of insuring servile obedience to the ruler, whereby any suspicion of opposing views is crushed mercilessly and eliminated wholly without due process and feeling of remorse. Vital state decision-making is conducted secretly and behind closed doors.

Show cases of regime’s success stories are publicly televised and printed by totally controlled media centres, which  act as loyal mouth-pieces of the Regime for propaganda purposes, mainly for international consumption and local indoctrination.

Any hint on alternative leadership is treated as a capital crime and treason against the state.

Those who worked with the Regime of Siyad Barre for a long time, or benefited his regime without showing any remorse afterwards, or failing to denounce the tragedy they were part and parcel of, shouldn’t have been allowed to govern in a new Somalia again.

Unfortunately, this is happening now without any scrutiny at all. The major excuse for this negligence and over-sight is the war crimes and clan-cleansing that followed the fall of Siyad Barre in 1991. Doesn’t  this sound like blessing Hitler’s henchmen after the fall of the Third Reich?

Ultimate Court of Justice

The ultimate court of justice for a politician is the overwhelming public opinion about his/her character, integrity, vision and other known qualities of leadership. That could translate into failing vote in a democratic society. This is called the day of reckoning to vote out  poor leadership and bad politics of a given leader or ruling party. It would translate into rebellion and violence in non-pluralistic societies. Somalia is passing through one of the stages of the latter situation. Still,  people form their opinion on a particular political figure in Somalia. I feel that both President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud of Somalia and the  Parliament Speaker, Osman Jawaari, have lost the moral authority to govern. They have to go in the name of God.

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Between Somaliland and Puntland | Rift Valley Institute

Between Somaliland and Puntland | Rift Valley Institute.

SOMALILAND and GALGALA

Puntland and the International Community now know from.different sources including an independent observer and scholar, Dr. Markus Hoehne, that Somaliland or elements in Somaliland Administration and business community are involved in the attacks from hide-outs in the mountains of Galgala in Puntland by militant insurgents of Al-Shabab against peace and stability in Puntland. The terrorist act in Djibouti this year against the peaceful people of that country also leads to cells in Hargeisa. There are reports allegingly linking some recent terror attacks in Mogadishu to organizers in Somaliland, who run cells of saboteurs and assassins in Mogadishu.

It is now an open secret that Somaliland Administration is engaged in major underhand political operations in Mogadishu by using the Dir MPs through intimidation and funding to insure the status of security chaos in South-Central Somalia is maintained. Somaliland is doing all these covert operations with the sole policy objective of prolonging the civil war in Southern Somalia in order to secure the now elusive “Somaliland Recognition” (Goni-Usu-Taag).

As they lately see diminishing returns of  that ambitious project on unilateral secession, they are now desperate in Hargeisa to do more of the same. That is why one sees or hears a lot of inside fighting, finger-pointing and contradictions in Somaliland these days in the run-up to the challenging and controversial general elections.

What else could be done besides Puntland defending itself? Does Puntland need external security support against this Somaliland-Al-Shabab threat? What could be done against Somaliland political meddling and security sabotage in Mogadishu?

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HOW MANY ACTORS ON SOMALIA?

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By actors, I mean those state and non-state stakeholders, who have immediate and direct interests in the future and fate of Somalia as to whether that nation may rise up again as a nation-state, or doomed for ever as a “bunch of tribes”,  to borrow Emperor Haile-Selassie ‘s characterization of Somalia’s aspiration for a statehood.

A few years ago I authored an article called Somalia,  Foreign Aid and International Conspiracy. The article, published in Wardheernews, reflected on my personal experience.

Since then, Somalia, or rather the failed state of Somalia and observers alike have been watching tremendous number of entities of international actors involved in the affairs of that country and acting as centrifugal and centripetal forces as Somalia turns round one curve to the other. These foreign actors helped form one  Somali government  after the other without much guidance and leaving each one to its own device, leading each…

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CURUUBA HOTEL

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Kat (aka Qat, Chat, Khat) is Grave National Security Threat to Somalia

Kat (aka Qat, Chat, Khat) is Grave National Security Threat to Somalia.

Dhagayso Siyaasi Cali xaaji Warsame oo ka hadley Xaalada Dalka ee maanta sheegayna in Dowladii Federaalka ay ka leexatay hanaankii loo igmaday

Dhagayso Siyaasi Cali xaaji Warsame oo ka hadley Xaalada Dalka ee maanta sheegayna in Dowladii Federaalka ay ka leexatay hanaankii loo igmaday.

Obama’s optimism is vindicated by history

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By Fareed Zakaria
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Many critics of the nuclear deal with Iran believe that the problem lies in the disposition of the president. “A very, very naive man who does not know how the world works,” said Rick Perry of President Obama. “Dangerously naive,” noted Lindsey Graham. In fact, Obama is not naive, but disposition does matter. Obama is an optimist — about the world, the United States’ place in it and even the threats it faces in the Middle East. And history suggests that it’s the optimists who have tended to be right.

Today we are awash in pessimism, with people who see the world as a dark and dangerous place, where threats are growing and enemies are gaining strength. Last year, John McCain declared that the world is “in greater turmoil than at any time in my lifetime” (which includes the rise of fascism, Nazism…

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USA Congressional caucus on Somalia.

USA Congressional caucus on Somalia being formed, according to Somalilandinformer. Read here:

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KAARAAN SYNDROME (BOOGTA KAARAAN) HURTING AGAIN

Editor’s Note

The WDM article below, written several years ago while Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was in the opposition must be revisited to recognize the latter has been involving to acquire new character different from Kaaraan Syndrome: Now a seeker of other people’s land, territories and properties.

February 27, 2021

What has happened in Mogadishu between TEAM PRIME MINISTER and Team Abgaal ( Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sharif Ahmed)?
To play the minds of Abgaal politicians and leaders and turn them around, one must find perceived enemies for Abgaal. That role is historically and traditionally goes to the manipulators of their minds. Who are these perceived enemies?
Could you figure out a single item among the core issues of Electoral Impasse that Mohamed Hussein Roble Team of Galmudugh origin had offered to the mostly Abgaal Council of Presidential Candidates in their latest agreement in Mogadishu? What was the agreement about, you wonder? There must be a trick that captured the imagination of Abgaal leaders to sign up for it without negotiating for a better deal, like participating in the National Consultative Conference on the electoral impasse. What is it?
To get an idea of what could have happened there, read this short article written a few years ago on KAARAAN SYNDRONE:
August 9, 2015
What do Ali Mahdi, Hussein Bood, Mohamed Dheere, Suudi Yalaxow, Nur Cadde, Sharif Ahmed, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have all in common politically other than hailing from one clan family?
They all have had bitter experience, in one way or the other, with General Caydiid’s experiment in Somalia’s Civil War. All believed psychologically that if the Family Clan of Caydiid recognizes their leadership, the rest of Somalia does not count.
I have named this the Kaaraan syndrome of the Civil War. Every major conflict of such magnitude has a similar psychological impact on its participants. Look back at recent stories about these men, and you would find ample examples and cases in point on golden political opportunities blindly missed, miscalcuted, or mismanaged.
Each of the above men had been misled by this fallacy and fallen down as a result. This is based on my personal observation on events in South-Central Somalia since 1997.

(This article has been updated since its posting)

Khalif Sheikh Mohamoud : The Undisputed Poet of his time

Khalif Sheikh Mohamoud : The Undisputed Poet of his time.

ARE WE STILL A PRIMATIVE SOCIETY?

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By now, Somalis in the Diaspora should know that a country of their own is different from belonging to a specific tribe or clan back home. A country is more than friends or a country of 2nd citizenship. It is their share of the globe among many nations and to lose it is worse than the status of homelessness. A Clan would not give someone a country or citizenship. Other nations recognize only a country/state. One would be always identified with one’s own country of origin even if one exchanges citizenship. Yes, you say that is a “Common sense”, not worthy of reminding people, or insulting their intelligience.

Think about the futile exercises Somalis have been doing for so many centuries.Tribal relationships and allegiance exist in primative societies. Are the Somalis still in primative societal stage? Have your say.

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ARE WE STILL A PRIMATIVE SOCIETY?

By now, Somalis in the Diaspora should know that a country of their own is different from belonging to a specific tribe or clan back home. A country is more than friends or a country of 2nd citizenship. It is their share of the globe among many nations and to lose it is worse than the status of homelessness. A Clan would not give someone a country or citizenship. Other nations recognize only a country/state. One would be always identified with one’s own country of origin even if one exchanges citizenship. Yes, you say that is a “Common sense”, not worthy of reminding people, or insulting their intelligience.

Think about the futile exercises Somalis have been doing for so many centuries.Tribal relationships and allegiance exist in primative societies. Are the Somalis still in primative societal stage? Have your say.

Celebrating Puntland

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HOW MANY ACTORS ON SOMALIA?

By actors, I mean those state and non-state stakeholders, who have immediate and direct interests in the future and fate of Somalia as to whether that nation may rise up again as a nation-state, or doomed for ever as a “bunch of tribes”, to borrow Emperor Haile-Selassie ‘s characterization of Somalia’s aspiration for a statehood.
A few years ago, I authored an article called Somalia, Foreign Aid, and International Conspiracy. The article, also published in Wardheernews, reflected on my personal experience.
Since then, Somalia, or rather the failed state of Somalia and observers alike have been watching tremendous number of entities of international actors involved in the affairs of that country and acting as centrifugal and centripetal forces as Somalia turns round one curve to the other. These foreign actors helped form one Somali government after the other without much guidance and leaving each one to its own device, leading each time to a “New Roadmap.”
Yes, I get it; one would ask the question: Wouldn’t the Somalis have to rely solely on themselves in re-building their nation? This question, how valid it may appear to one, is one of the fallacies of the Post-Civil War Somalia. Who would let a vulnerable country of such strategic importance off the hook to sort out its own problems? How does globalization impact Somalia? What about the historical burden between Somalia and its neighbours? Would ” a bunch of tribes” be left alone to continue to own the longest coastline in Africa, while bigger and more populous countries are land-locked? If the miracles happen and Somalia rises up again, who would be left behind to cut the most profitable business deals and concessions first with the New Somalia?
These questions reflect on the realities of what was happening to Somalia for the past two centuries. Lack of mass awareness due to under-development in education, brain – drain, and brain-wash of the few educated Somalis are some of the critical contributing factors in Somalia’s predicament for centuries
Moreover, and in reality, these “bunch of tribes” have never been free in recent history to deliberate on their own destiny. Somalia’s independence of 1956-1960 was only nominal and scandalously false. Mal-administration, dictatorship, and civil wars are the results and legacy of this historical falsehood imposed on Somalia by colonial powers.
How many actors are involved now, though?
1. “Somaliland”
2. Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Eritrea, Uganda, the Sudan, Egypt, and Gulf States (Qatar, UAE, KUWAIT and SAUDI ARABIA).
3. EUROPE and USA.
4. Turkey
5. China
6. Iran
7. International NGOs and their local partners.
8. International Organizations of EU, USA and UN.
9. International militants and their local partners.
10. Unscrupulous business communities, especially in Mogadishu.
11. . Islamic charity organizations.
12. Arab League and Islamic Conference.
These are the most visible forces. In turn, they had created a network of proxy agents, including business and political opportunists and corrupt personalities in the country.
It is tough to revive a failed state, for it creates profitable opportunities for outsiders, local business sharks, and a unique chance and ambitious desires for those who pursue vital national interests in a given country.
By Ismail H. WARSAME
Email: ismailwarsame@gmail.com
Twitter: @ismailwarsame

The NEW INTERNATIONAL ROADMAP FOR SOMALIA

The NEW INTERNATIONAL ROADMAP FOR SOMALIA.

The NEW INTERNATIONAL ROADMAP FOR SOMALIA

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The New International  Roadmap for Somalia. See link below:

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The NEW INTERNATIONAL ROADMAP FOR SOMALIA

The New International  Roadmap for Somalia. See link below:

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IN SEARCH OF SOMALIA’S SOLUTION

In terms of security, this flight, which I didn’t recall because there were so many of them, is quite different from one that landed us in hostile Bardaale instead of our destination of Ceelbarde in Bakool in the year 2000. That one was a close call. Feel free to see this link below:

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Ismail H. Warsame

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DEMOCRATIZATION IN PUNTLAND

Democratization in Puntland (direct participation of people in the political process through free choice in multi-political parties) starts with a genuine commitment to and belief in something bigger than oneself, devoid of any consideration for self-interest and political expediency of the power and government of the day. The legacy of it is something worthy fighting for, for the sake of contribution to humanity and human progress. Not doing this after 17 years of statehood is truely mediocrity.

MY KISMAYO DAYS

Kismayo was my get-away City on Fridays from Juba Sugar Project in Mareerey. As a young engineer in the late 1980s, I recall having a lot of fun and wild happy parties in peace in Kismayo Waamo resorts.

As an official of Puntland from 1990s, I also remember spending many nights worrying about Jubaland’s security situation and its future. To see it today moving on the road to recovery has special meaning for me.

CONGRATULATIONS TO PUNTLAND!

Congratulations to all Puntlanders on the Golden Occasion of the Birth of the State!

I still vividly remember several nights in the history of Puntland that might had sealed off its fate for good, if there was not my personal intervention.

I don’t feel good about re-telling this, but this is the reality and a true story.