Mogadishu, June 27, 2020

Gross violation of the Clan Power Balance has just occurred in Mogadishu for the first time since the fall of Somalia’s Central Authority in 1991. A dangerous line has been crossed.

This unprecedented breach of the Federal Constitution as well, is happening under the watch of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo.

It was General Mohamed Siyad Barre of the same sub-clan of Marehan, who overthrew the democratically elected government of Somalia in 1969. Barre’s Military Government had led Somalia’s ruin and state failure.

To rebuild from the ashes of the Civil War, Somalia’s faction leaders had agreed upon an equalizing clan power-sharing formula of 4.5 (four big clans and minorities in Somalia), and in order to protect minority rights until one-person-one-vote is conducted.

The insertion of additional 13 New Senators from Banadir clans into Somalia’s Upper House is a crude violation of the Federal Constitution and accords reached by Somalis to end the Civil War.

By this Act, Mogadishu declares itself a tribal enclave and clan fox-hole, not fit to be a Capital City of Somalia and the Seat of the Federal Government.

To salvage the Federal Institutions and Federal Government from irreversible collapse, the Federal Member States must immediately recall their representatives from Mogadishu for urgent consultations.

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Postscript

During the course of the Somali National Peace and Reconciliation Conference 2002-2004, famously known as the “Mbagati Congerence”, from which the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia had emerged, Hawiye Warlords demanded extra delegates to the Conference in disregard of 4.5 Clan Formula. This demand was fully rejected then by the rest of Somali clans and representatives of the International Community. These warlords were Osman Ali Atto, Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, Sudi Yalaxow, Omar Finish, among others. This violation under President Farmaajo Government should also be immediately rejected.

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WDM Op-Ed

Most Somalis seem not to evaluate what has transpired in Djibouti just a few days ago. It wasn’t a secret that the only obstacle to Somaliland recognition was how to bring Somalia to IGAD negotiation table to address Somaliland’s grievances, cessation or other arrangements that could satisfy Somaliland.

Now they did, the process of re-negotiating the Act of Union of 1960 has just started. That is the goal Somaliland has been working hard for years to achieve.

Puntland, Jubaland and other Federal Member States aren’t considered stakeholders under Farmaajo-Bihi negotiations on the auspices of IGAD/AU through the regional leaders of Ethiopia and Djibouti with the heavy lifting of USA pressure and its diplomatic arms twisting. Here only Mogadishu and Hargeisa decides on what secession, federation or confederation would look like as a final product.

These negotiations, excluding Federal Member States, are already happening with full participations of IGAD/AU through Ethiopia and Djibouti as well as Representatives of the UN, EU and League of Arab States.
achieve.

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What do you think about the idea? Have your say.

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Dead men cannot talk or defend themselves, so the late President of Somalia cannot respond to the contents of the article. To clarify, President Abdullahi Yusuf had strained political and diplomatic relations with the leaders of Ethiopia, particularly with Foreign Minister Atto Seyoum Mesfin from 2000-2008. They disagreed on several issues, including the Arta Somali National Conference of 2000 in Djibouti and the Puntland destabilization instigated by Ismail Omar Gheelle and the Abdulqassim Government. Minister Mesfin was unhappy with the election of TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf and used his policy disagreements with Yusuf to turn the rest of the Ethiopian leadership against him.

Despite the animosity between the two men, proponents of Ethiopian foreign policy on Somalia believed that a leader from the Darood clan could not effectively pacify the Hawiye sub-clan system in Mogadishu. This is evident in the CRDP DIGEST article on Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s re-election campaign with full Ethiopian support. They were disappointed to see President Farmaajo elected overwhelmingly in Mogadishu.

Ethiopian subversion against Abdullahi Yusuf had reached a point of no return. They had mobilized IGAD, which is synonymous with Ethiopian foreign policy, to seek support from the USA and the European Union in isolating and eventually compelling Abdullahi Yusuf to resign. Abdullahi Yusuf chose to resign honorably on his own terms.

The author of the article, “Mr. President: End the Wild Goose Chase,” Abdirashid Hashi, published in Puntlandi.com, should be asked to explain the behaviors and activities of Ethiopian military and diplomatic officers in Mogadishu that undermined the President and TFG, resulting in the expulsion of Ethiopian Ambassador Ato Shawal and Col. Gabre by Abdullahi Yusuf. These Ethiopian personnel of the occupation forces in Mogadishu were not only corrupt but also made deals with all elements of Mogadishu’s destabilization, including anti-government merchants and sympathizers of Al-Shabab. This Ethiopian policy caused divisions within TFG leadership, particularly Prime Minister Nur Cadde and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Abdisalam.

With the assistance of Ethiopian influence, European Union diplomats convinced US diplomats to engage in talks with the so-called “Islamist Moderates” of the Union of Islamic Courts, rather than its “hardliners”.

Enter Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

Like Ethiopia, the US government and its diplomatic corps never truly understood Somalia beyond hearing about its territorial disputes with its neighbors. If history is any guide, the USA would prefer the policy option of Somalia becoming Ethiopia’s client state in the Horn of Africa. However, Ethiopian foreign policy failures and humiliating military defeats at the hands of Al-Shabab militants led to the removal of the entire Ethiopian Policy Team and Military Command in Somalia. Foreign Minister Mesfin, second-in-command of TPLF after Melez Zenawi, and his advisor Dr. Tekade Allemu were assigned as Ethiopian Ambassadors to China and the UN, respectively. The remnants of the occupation forces were forced to retreat from Somalia due to the military setbacks they experienced in Mogadishu. The current Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, was a member of that expansionist regime, responsible for the Ethiopian security sector. Read Hashi’s article here: https://www.puntlandi.com/?p=21405

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First of all, nobody in his right mind seeks charity directly from a bank.

Secondly, if you were ill-advised to write such an odd request, you should have noted the relief assistance already given by the Somali Federal Government in an attempt to persuade the Bank Management that the FGS is in support of such humanitarian aid, and copying to the Federal President for this strange correspondence to the Bank.

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Postscript. One reader comments on the article this way:

“Ooh poor man!! he was not informed that his predecessor had given the go ahead that all grants from the International Financial Institutions would be received through the FGS. If you read the second last paragraph, he was reminded of the right gate of entry”