PUNTLAND POSITION PAPER ON THE GAROWE SUMMIT TALKS

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WHY KENYA SHOULD NOT CELEBARATE

Take a read.

https://africanexecutive.com/article/read/10140

JOB WELL DONE, GAROWE CITY MAYOR!

Garowe, May 26, 2019

Have you noticed what was happening to the Capital City of Puntland State of Somalia, Garowe, lately?

Well, if you didn’t, then you aren’t giving much thought to a better Capital City.

Where are the loitering, City garbage-eating and nightly noise-making goats? They are either slowly disappearing, perhaps, into the homes of their negligient and lazy owners, or the goats are all in City jails for constant trespassing both public and private properties, decimating City trees against the Mayor’s desire to turn Garowe greener. There are no more smart, car-wall-tree climbing goats in town.

Congratulations are due to the Mayor, Ahmed Said Muse, and Government of Garowe City, for listening to the concerns of residents. We should recognize them for job well done in addressing that particular annoying City problem. We are looking forward to seeing a greener Garowe City soon.

While we are at it, would owners of Garowe City hotels too take the lead and copy the first example set by the City Mayor, to reign the invasion of cats and kittens in their respective restaurants and kitchens.

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TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC SERVICE

TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC SERVICES. Any comments on rank, posting and number? (Image credit: Allbanadir. org). Is it authentic or fake? Would Allbanadir.org clarify the info?

AUTHENTIC STORY? LET US VERIFY IT.

https://www.kiafriqa.com/post/we-purposely-spread-hiv-aids-to-wipe-out-blacks-in-south-africa-apartheid-era-officer-admits

(Image credit: KiAfrica)

A DANGEROUS ROADMAP BY ETHIOPIA?

Editor’s Note and Postscript:

Since the posting of this short easay today, Ethiopian Foreign Ministry had taken down their provocative and destabilizing “New Map” from the Ministry’s Internet website. Thank you, the move helps to cool public nerves, but the damage has been already done.

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Mogadishu, May 26, 2019 – Here is a website-link drawn from the official internet site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ethiopia, in which Somalia no longer exists on the globe.

Pradoxically, a tiny country called “Somaliland” as a neighbor of a new Ethiopia appears on the provocative “NEW MAP”. Is there a Somali Embassy in Addis Ababa? The ambassador should seek explanations from the Ethiopians for this further Ethiopian irredentism. Is the map fake or authentic? The ambassador has to find out. Can we afford to engage in diplomatic confrontation on two fronts at same time now? Is there an organized coordination between Kenya and Ethiopia attached to the introduction of this destabilizing “map”? Let us weigh our options on all of the above.

In the MFA text of this web-link attached, you wouldn’t find once the word Somalia. Take a read.

http://www.mfa.gov.et/Home/TemplateI?PageName=African%20Countries&TYPE=Policy%20Issue&SUBTYPE=African%20Countries&Language=English

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Postscript:

Ethiopia did similar provocative act before by erasing Eritrea and Somalia on the map. Eritreans protested strongly. Somalis never noticed the incident. Ethiopians kept erasing Somalia on the map. This is,at least, the 2nd time they did. It is a deliberate provocation and a roadmap for its ambitious and historical irredentism to swallow Somalia. Here is the link to the first Ethiopia’s premeditated action. They may claim that their website had been hacked. But, this is their 2nd trial they were caught in the act. They should immediately render an apology, nothing short of that.

https://ethiomedia.com/2019/01/27/ethiopia-apologizes-over-map-that-erased-eritrea/

Latest development on the incident:

BREAKING: Ethiopia “regrets” for posting “wrong and unacceptable image” of the map of Africa on its Foreign Ministry website. The map showed Somalia as part of Ethiopia. “Upon becoming aware of the matter, we have immediately removed it from our Website”. https://t.co/eLpEuigyFz

THE STAR’S TAKE ON SOMALIA’S PRIME MINISTER

https://www.the-star.co.ke/siasa/2019-05-25-somalias-renaissance-a-welcome-respite-for-the-horn/

WILL SOMALIA RISE UP AGAIN?

Garowe, May 26, 2019

I receive multiple long distance phone calls, text messages and emails almost on daily basis from friends and colleagues living overseas within the Somali diaspora around the world. To sum up the contents of these messages, their overall inquiries boil down to the above question: “Will Somalia rise up again?” How would you answer that question? Think a bit about it.

Personally, I have found out a genuine way to answer it. How? Well, ask them critical questions. What are they?

In your own opinion, is Somalia better off today than what she was ten years ago?

Does Somalia have a recognized government engaged with the world community today?

Is Somalia an active member state again in all major international and regional bodies as a sovereign nation?

Does Somalia talk about elections and building public institutions these days?

Is Somalia fighting back against extremism and wanton violence?

Is federal system agreed upon already, at least, half done?

Now, you guessed my method and approach to ask close-ended questions.

What about if you ask them open-ended questions. How?

What is your own take on Somalia’s situation today?

How would you, yourself, describe the performance of the Farmaajo-Khayre Government?

What would you like to know about Somalia?

How would you evaluate the general public opinion of Somalis living in your part of the world?

Now, I think, you can figure out the big difference between the two methods of questioning.

The first method is a critical approach to an organized fact-finding and quicker way to cause the inquirer to think critically and ask you intelligent questions too.

The 2nd method is to solicit for information and personal opinion of your interlocutor.

So, decide upfront which method of informing your colleagues you will use for a mutually satisfactory exchange of information.

Both methods are useful, depending on what you want out of these communications.

What I don’t want you to do is to lecture your friends and colleagues about your own take or opinion on things in Somalia. Be open-minded and listen to any concerns and misperceptions people have on many things. You will not be able to correct misinformation and biases if you don’t listen, acknowledge concerns first, paraphrase their opinions to let know them that you understood them, and try to answer to a reciprocally listening and attentive person on the other side of the world or infront of you across the table- a pleasure session to conclude.

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