Who can tell the spot, location and which part of Somalia is it? That vehicle is one of the car pool I had hired for the JNA studies for Somalia’s Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) in 2005. The spot is located at GeelDoora Mountain in Calmadow in Sanaag. It takes six hours to cross from LasQoray on the Red Sea for a distance of less than 6 Kms.

This study a (synthesis of Puntland, Somaliland and South-central Somalia Needs Assessment Studies) had culminated in and used in the so-called “The New Deal” for Somalia, which was signed in Brussels during the stint of former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

This study came up with two billion dollars to be raised from donor community in a Conference somewhere in Europe on Somalia’s initial reconstruction needs as TFG was proclaimed in October 2004.