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Victor Mwarania
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Somalia a coutry that need HELP
January 7, 2007 - 02:47 AM
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When you think of somalia you dont really know where to start. For a long time now the country on the horn of Africa has been torn by persistent war and thousands have lost their lives. Infact the war has been for so long that its become almost normal.
The point is that in that small country their are children and women who unfortunately have to endure the harsh reality of the violence that goes on around them and then live with the constant fear of an attack. But no one can know how that feels like until you have been in Mogadishu and death is so close you can smell it.
When all this is happening the world sits back and discusses what to do, anyway thats what they do best if you remember the 1994 genocides of Rwanda. Recently the ALqaida has urged muslim activists to back up the islamic Somalis against the christian Ethiopians, now its a war based on religion.
Am thinking that a time has come when the youth of the world have to come together and do something about whats going on in Somalia, this time not just sit down and discuss but literaly find a way to show the world that Somalia needs help, not providing them with guns and other weapons to kill each other but offering tangilble resolutions. Thats where we need to come up with ideas and fast.
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Re: Somalia a coutry that need HELP
January 7, 2007 - 07:25 AM
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Thank you for the post. The current situation in Somali is worrisome and indeed hopeless. Somali's biggest problem is the strong tribalist thinking there that seperates people, communites and even families.
I am convinced beyond any responsible doubt that the situation in Somalia will continue to be that hopeless until and only if women's role in that leadership process hase been given its due attention and place.
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Re: Somalia a coutry that need HELP
January 19, 2007 - 09:59 AM
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A good example of a country where an opposition to form a possible Iran-style Sharia-law-guided government brought US tanks and military planes. Ethiopia, a local puppet of American government, didn't hesitate a second to launch a preemptive strike supported by warplanes and artillery against Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), widely refered in mainstream media as Islamists. Ethiopians ousted UIC from Mogadishu (previously taken in June 2006 by UIC). But now Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a transtional federal government (TFG, installed by Americans) president, is believed to be heading the country towards a dictatorship. A continuous Ethiopian presence in the capital of Somalia adds fire into oil...
The new UN chief caleld upon neighboring African countries to consider renforcing the AU force and bringing it into Somalia, a step much opposed by Erithrea, which openly supported UIC during the conflict.
Add to this the fact that some oil fields were discovered in Somalia recently and you have a situation reminiscent of American involvement not so far in the North...
Hopeless or no Sahro we will come to see. UIC was poised to take Baidoa just before Christmas and noone anticipated that Ethiopia would not only repulse but also would capture Mogadishu.
Let's wait and see.
This post was edited on: 2007-01-19 at 10:04 AM by: elemental
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Re: Somalia a coutry that need HELP
January 30, 2007 - 03:52 PM
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The AU wants to send an 8,000-strong force to replace departing Ethiopian troops, whose intervention swept Islamists from power last month.
But so far only three nations have come up with concrete offers of troops.
Meanwhile, Somalia's president has agreed to host a reconciliation conference in the coming weeks.
President Abdullahi Yusuf told the AU summit that the conference would include clan and religious leaders but he did not say whether moderates from the ousted Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) would be invited.
European Union Development Commissioner Louis Michel said this meant the EU would be able to release 15m euros ($20m) to fund the peacekeeping force.
The EU, the US and the UN have all urged Mr Yusuf to include moderate Islamists in his administration.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6312217.stm
It's been almost 3 weeks ever since the call forAfrican countries to contribute peacekeeping troops was made. So far only three have committed firmly to provide troops not amounting even to half of what is needed.
I wonder if those African countries, especially countries bordering to or being in the proximity of Somalia are realising the dangers of a civil war caused by sectarian violence and supported by US-backed vs. Muslim-backed countries? Ethiopia and Erithrea are poised to confront each other sooner or later. So might be DR Congo and Rwanda, and numerous others in the sub-Saharan region...
The region is like a fuel tank; it needs a spark to explode...
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Victor Mwarania
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Re: Somalia a coutry that need HELP
February 20, 2007 - 12:35 AM
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There are a number of possiblities that keep on rising and overiding the main factors causing the war, That is the US involvement. As one notes, dont the other countries know of the impending danger of such a war on their territories? Well the answer is they are full aware but, that does not mean they are exercising the rule of the jungle. Most Tanzania to the south and Kenya know exactly what would happen if such a war crept in their boundaries and their calmness comes out of a knowldge of the power they posses.
Despite the never ending tension in the Horn of Africa, Somalia militia have never been known to pose a great danger to their neighbouring countries which on one hand also boast a more superioi military that is well organised and prepared. But this is not what people should be thinking about, its coming up with a new course of how this manupilation can be stopped. In advently the appreciation of the role of women in that islam state will also bring about some major needed changes.
Again as someone said guns dont kill people, its people who kill people. So these can be resolved, only no one seems to know how!
While Somalilanders voted for their right of self-determination, the subject of state secession is still a matter of ongoing conflict. With a transitional government in southern Somalia reluctant of accepting Somaliland's independence, neighboring countries deeply divided on the issue, the regional organization I.G.A.D. unable to endorse any solution, and a European Union paralyzed by the quarrel between the U.K. and Italy, Somaliland's future remains to be seen.
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