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2010-05-21 Africa Horn

Somali President Reinstates Prime Minister, Cabinet

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 You should pay attention to Somalia. These clowns - and there are more than 500 of them - purport to rule the country. The Transitional Federal Government.

More than half of them are in Nairobi, Kenya, living off the UN aid money, sipping lattes at Java House.

They do this while al-Shabaab takes over Mogadishu.

They are just parasites.

Instead the UN should be giving that money to Dr Farole, head of Puntland's state government, and the head of Somaliland's state government.

Those two northern states can be saved from al-Shabaab. They are relatively stable.

And giving Dr Farole money will stop the scourge of piracy in the Gulf of Aden. His entire yearly budget last year was just $15 million. He has locked up hundreds of pirates in prison - but he needs cash.

Instead the UN refuses to deal directly with his functional administration or the similarly functional government in Somaliland because they don't want Somalia breaking into 3 states.

Instead they prefer to see al-Shabaab take over.

Al Qaeda in Africa. Massively hardline Wahhabist Sunni Islamists.

Versus ordinary African mystical Sufis.

Cut off money to the UN while you have a chance and give it to the ones who can make a difference for all of our sakes. Or the next people to fly planes into buildings are likely to be Somalis.

Posted by anon1 2010-05-21 05:30|| 2010-05-21 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Cut off money to the UN? You're preaching to the choir around here, anon1!

We should indeed be helping to build the nascent governments of Puntland and Somalialand, but in doing so the other African states would become both angry and nervous. Both of these regions are considered 'successionist', and the last thing other ruling African thugs want is encouragement for parts of their own countries to split off and go their own way.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-21 09:13|| 2010-05-21 09:13|| Front Page Top

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