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2010-09-03 Africa Horn

Somalia showing signs of progress: UN official

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab

#1 Throw this one in the bin where it belongs.

The UN has failed completely in supporting the national Transitional Federal Government (TFG). It controlled 2 blocks of Mogadishu as of last week, and probably now controls nothing. Al Shabaab are now running the show.

If the UN had a thimble-full of brains between its hundreds of overpaid bureaucrats and fat-bottomed delegates, it would have recognised the functional administrations of Somaliland and Puntland and given them the money they have instead wasted by throwing at the TFG.

The al-Shabaab are now moving north having consolidated in south Central and will progress to blowing up tourists in Kenya, Uganda and potentially further afield.

Posted by anon1 2010-09-03 02:20|| 2010-09-03 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 What, from "war torn" to "bullet scarred"?
Yep. So much progress that she held the press conference in Kenya.

Posted by tu3031 2010-09-03 11:27|| 2010-09-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 hah tu3031 she held the presser in Kenya because that is also where all the 500+ members of the Transitional Federal Government are hiding out LOL while they pretend to rule a country they cannot even live in.

Java House Nairobi will go broke if they ever fix somalia and kick those parasites out

Posted by anon1 2010-09-03 14:17|| 2010-09-03 14:17|| Front Page Top

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