BLOG EDITORIAL

Garowe, April 26, 2019 – Puntland State of Somalia is not concerned about or doing anything state-like towards the regulation of transport and passenger industry. As a result, heavily populated urban cities of Puntland like Galkayo, Garowe and Bosaso are becoming dangerous and threat to life in driving a car along their poorly maintained city roads.

First of all, hundreds of stray goats, whose owners intentionally and carelessly release to the streets of the cities rampage along the roads, creating long daily traffic jams. Since Traffic Police is almost non-existent, no traffic regulations or enforcement is talked about here. Every driver is on his/her own to drive every way or direction they wish. Drivers turn and twist their cars dangerously in the middle of the narrow roads, some driving head-on on the wrong driving lanes. One often sees a long line of cars caught in heavy traffic jam because of one driver ahead stopping right in the middle of the road to answer a call on mobile phone, not even appreciating that there are hundreds of cars being held up behind him or her. It is also a common occurance to see two drivers going to different directions stopping in the middle of the narrow road engaged in animated conversation side by side, holding up all auto-traffic movement to all directions. This is nuts. Nobody is doing anything about it.

Nobody is advising city taxi drivers to stop aside or give room for cars behind to pass over when they are dropping off or picking up a passengers along the road. Because a taxi is blocking the road with passengers getting in or off, drivers behind it are forced to stop and wait for the taxi to move, thus creating preventable auto-traffic jam in this driving violation.This is another nuisance for drivers. Auto-insurance is unheard of here. A driver is on his/her own with regards to accident liabilities.

Public safety is among the core responsibilities of a government at all levels and all branches of a government, including the House of Representatives and Judiciary. It is about time, in fact, long overdue, I would say, for Puntland State to act like a government, and start handling this public safety priority to save lives.

SOMALIS ARE ATTRACTIVE IN AFRICA

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SOMALIS ARE ATTRACTIVE IN AFRICA

MY PERSONAL TRAVEL OBSERVATIONS IN AFRICA

Garowe, April 26, 2019 – Somalis are as attractive as they are contraversial in Africa. They are tall, slim, light-skinned, soft-haired, simple, generous and naively trusting. Africans of opposite sexes love Somalis. They are the most welcome people socially in all countries of Africa. African women are particularly fond of Somali men while Somali women are rare species for sex-hunt by African men. The problem for them is that Somali women are conversative in value, and are not readily available for social interactions with their opposite African sexes. These strained social relations often create jealousness and racial tension in societies, where Somali expatriates live predominantly like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and further to the South and West Africa. Often Somalis are individually most welcome in those sister African countries for their physical appearance, their daring character for adventures and entrepreneurial talents.

Somali expatriate population play fun upon each other on accusing having sex relations with their African counter-parts, rumours, gossips and jokes continually straining social relationships among Somalis themselves there.

The irony is that almost all African countries look Somalia as a country with suspicious eyes, having bought the centuries-old anti-Somalia propaganda by emperors Menelik and Haile-Selassie of Ethiopia.This anti-Somali propaganda in Africa and around the world had worked well as it worked for Arabs against jews, and as it worked well for Siyad Barre Regime against certain clans and sections of the Somali society.

To find solutions to such cultural steorotypes, we have to work hard on them, but mostly do “Peaceful Reconciliation” even in Africa in the same fashion Somalis need it.

(Photo: courtesy to Google).