Statement by Dir Biyomaal Community

The Owner of Hormuud Group of Companies in Somalia,  Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle is planning a secret land grab of Dir Biyomaal lands in Lower Shabeelle Province. Hormuud and its land grabbing strategy in Lower Shabeelle of Dir Biyomaal land rights is alarming. Now, there is ethnic tension among the Dir Biyomaal community following a reported directive by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud in collaboration with Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle, owner of Hormuud Group of Companies. Over the past couple of years, Hormuud has been engaged in secret plans to seize Dir Biyomaal lands without consent. Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle is expected to facilitate and provide funds for this project, while President Hassan Sheikh will process all its necessary legislation.

Hormuud is providing financial support for an initiative to resettle over 10,000 Hawiye families in Lower Shabeelle. The Dir clan views these actions as a significant threat, characterizing them as ethnic cleansing orchestrated by both President Hassan Sheikh and Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle, a prominent ideological and financial leader of the Hawiye clan. In light of these developments, the Dir clan urgently calls on the international community, including the United Nations, UN human rights organizations, and International Criminal Court, to recognize their situation and condemn President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle as warmongers engaged in ethnic cleansing. They denounce the covert activities against the Dir clan’s territory in Lower Shabeelle.The clan warns that the actions of President Hassan Sheikh and Mr. Nor Jimcaalle pose a grave risk of reigniting civil conflict in Somalia. This concern is heightened by ongoing unrest in Jubaland, particularly, and the recent conflict between Leelkase and Habargidir Sacad clans in Mudugh Region, which has reopened old wounds from past atrocities committed by the Hawiye clan since 1991.The Dir clan stands firm in their resolve to protect their rights and territory and will not tolerate any further encroachments. This expansionism driven by the Hawiye clan threatens the fragile peace in Somalia. Furthermore, the Dir clan warns international organizations, the International Criminal Court, and donor countries against becoming complicit in what they perceive as ethnic cleansing activities. They assert that the actions of President Hassan Sheikh and Mr. Ahmed Nor Jimcaalle reflect a deep-seated ethnic hatred against the Dir clan, which will never be accepted. The Dir clan pledges to fight for their rightful lands until their last breath, stating emphatically that anyone who attempts to move onto their lands will not be tolerated, and they will not take any responsibility for the consequences.

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The vision of Greater Somalia is dead, mainly because of Somalia’s strategic failure and inability to counter complex conspiracies by superpowers supporting Somalia’s strategic and geopolitical enemies. Following that abysmal failure of Somali thought and leadership in that regard, many of us were taking cues from the European experience after the Second World War that territories which came under the rule of different powers should be left alone as long as residents in the occupied lands enjoy equal rights in their new countries.That experiment gave Europe peace and prosperity. In the case of Somalia, leaving alone Somali territories forcefully occupied by our neighbouring countries with the aid of colonial powers came with a high price and tremendous sufferings.

Now, we ended up having a new challenge of defending the remaining, seemingly independent portion of Somalia under attack by our neighbours again, drawing the help this time from even our UAE and Turkish Muslim brothers. A new player is coming in too, Israel, in the mix.

How are we going to handle this new aggression with such a successive failure of leadership in this poor and unfortunate country?

There is a potential risk that the idea of Greater Somalia may eventually transform into greater Ethiopia and Israel into our land.

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