Day: July 22, 2020

DUSAMAREEB MEETING BETWEEN FGS AND FMSs FOLLOWS DAYTON STYLE NEWS BLACKOUT

Dayton Accord on Yugoslavia Bosnia- Herzegovina in 1995 was extracted under secrecy, arms-twisting and total news blackout in the US town of Dayton.

It includes, among other prohibitions, bringing parties into a room, ordering news blackout, restricting media efforts to cover news, making maximum humiliation for the members of entourage below the rank of heads of the delegations, who are kept in the dark.

With President Farmaajo, there is no public transparency of state affairs. Here is what happened in Garowe too in May 2019 Meeting.

Garowe, 8, 2019

“Democracy dies in the darkness”

GAROWE talks between the leaders of Somali Central Government and member states of the Federal Government have been taking place at Puntland Presidency for several days now in complete and unprecented secrecy. The nation doesn’t have a clue on what is being discussed on its behalf.

Leaders at talks had even excluded their own members of respective delegations from the talks. The talks are off-limit to senior political advisors and experts. No lawyers or economists are available or needed there. It is a gathering of laymen as leaders of a nation in trouble, where fundamental issues of nation-building are being deliberated with no inputs from subject matter experts. It is a gathering where knowledge, experience on statecraft and history are not required. It turned out to be a few laymen in closed door session. It is suspicious and worrisome to the members of the general public. It is unsettling to the members of various delegations to Garowe Meeting from Mogadishu, Kismayo, Baydhaba, DusaMareb and Jowhar as well as members at all levels of Puntland Government.

Local and international Media outlets are being kept in the dark. Nobody knows what is being cooked up in a secret room in Puntland Presidency. The entire Somali nation is shut off to follow the progress or even the agenda of the GAROWE Meeting. The talks look like board-room bargaining, debating on how to divide and share stocks among some wealthy traders. Positive outcome expected from this secret meeting, therefore, is as good as micromort.

It doesn’t sound right. We demand the right to know what is being debated on our behalf as a nation. We demand daily briefing of what is being discussed at Garowe Gathering.

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CAN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE CLANS BUILD NATION-STATE?

This article has been updated.

Are Somalis aware of the fact that the international Community, including Somalia’s neighbors had learned the soft belly of the people of Somalia; that they are divided along clan and tribal lines; that clans are mutually self-destructive by nature; that in the eyes of IC Somalia’s handlers, none of them represents Somalia’s common interests; that each of them speaks only for their respective tribes; and that weakness should be exploited fully to cement still further clan divisions and mutually self-annihilation; and that way they should be prevented from coming together to build a nation-state?
I doubt very much that Somalis will ever discover the secret to their permanent weakness and perils to their very survival in the Horn of Africa, and as important human species in the world upon current trend of lasting self-destructive existence, which they led for centuries.


Colonial powers of Europe discovered this weakness of the Somalis in the Somali culture and exploited it. Now the world has dramatically changed since then, and more nations are discovering this secret too in their search for more resources and new strategic rich spots of the globe.

Their 2nd fatal weakness is TARIQA wars (religious sectarianism) that too had helped colonial masters conquer, divide and rule Somalis and Somalia.

Add to this, the deep mistrust, among Somali clans that had been created by a vicious civil war without any attempt at meaningful national reconciliation efforts. How would you learn from past mistakes and abuses, if you aren’t willing to study them and correct them never to repeat them?

Without studying the underlining causes of Somalia’s state failure and addressing them faithfully, expect no mercy from history to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

One could argue that the Federal Member States are too, tribal. Yes, but they are more manageable than hundreds of clans and sub-clans all engaged in rivalry and mutual self-destruction; after all, this could be a temporary arrangement that may or not fade away.

Have your say.

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