Americans and Europeans are alarmed by the coming of Donald J. Trump to four more years of chaos in the White House. The Middle East is up in flames. Palestine is being erased from the map. Iran is on the crosshairs of the US with Israel. The US and Europe will not be able to sustain Ukraine’s survival from its war with Russia. Russia will lash out at European countries and NATO for its own survival at the last minute. World War III is probably a real possibility now than ever before.
Sea transportation will twinkle, and prices of goods and services will be beyond the reach of ordinary people due to conflicts in the Middle East. In other words, there will be tough times ahead, and existential threats to all are in the making. This is not a fiction anymore.
Here in fragile Somalia, our leaders aren’t interested in national survival and defence, but how to sell Somalia to the highest bidder, prominently now to Ankara, Addis Ababa, Abu Dhabi and Doha. While they are engaged in these treasonous acts, public institutions are roting and collapsing before our eyes. Somali people are helplessly suffering and can’t do anything about their situation.
Predatory business sharks are buying and selling everything in Mogadishu, including the remaining properties of the Somali State through tax-evasion, illegally acquired and looted national wealth, and money-laundering. Somali international donor community is watching in silence while all their multi-year efforts to revive Somalia go down the drain. It is a sad saga unfolding. One may take the impression that they are complicit and engaged in a cover-up to shield Villa Somalia from the allegations of runaway corruption and incompetence of this fledgling administration. They don’t even acknowledge that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has abandoned the fight against Al-Shabab and ISIS in South-Central Somalia. It wasn’t among his priorities in the first place, despite well advertised false campaigns by the international community working with the Somali government. Instead, he is engaged in picking up petty fights with the Federal Member States, wrecking Somali unity in the process. How is that OK with the International Donor countries?
Now, the Somali sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake, and there is a public fear in the country that Somalia is facing one of its gravest periods in its entire history.
Let us rise up to defend the nation.
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