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Nimaan wixii soosocda garan waxa joogana ma garto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SomaliNet Forum (Archive): RA'YIGA DADWEYNAHA - Your Opinion: Somalia: Soomaalinimo - Nationalism : Nimaan wixii soosocda garan waxa joogana ma garto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Soomaali

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 07:32 am
Bal eeg oo u fiirso fahamka uu Ethoipianku ka qabo soomaalida.

Qoraalkan wuxuu ka soo baxay Dowlada Xabashida.

Nin aataqaan yaa tahay lama dhaho!!!!!


The Case For A Strong Nation

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Story Filed: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:06 AM EST

Addis Ababa (The Monitor - Addis Ababa, January 17, 2001) - It is alarming to hear that Somalis have burnt Ethiopian flags in their stadium. It is very unsettling to have a belligerent and hostile neighbor and more unsettling indeed to find that the common ground for these polarized tribes is their new found common enemy-Ethiopia.

If these Somali clans find a unifying factor in us, and if they are so close to us it can be a very dangerous thing for the stability of Ethiopia and the region. If a unified Somalia means a threat to Ethiopia in that it can easily be a spring board for terrorism or for other elements that can easily use Somalia to destabilize Ethiopia because, a peaceful Ethiopia is perceived as a threat to Egypt by Egyptians, for instance, it is a quagmire that Ethiopia finds very difficult to get out from unless it stands very united as a nation and very strong militarily and economically.There is no choice for the Ethiopian government but to make sure that it is strong economically, militarily and pursues unifying politics. For starters, the government should try to make sure that there are continued foreign exchange earnings, via incentives to exports, that local -ETHIOPIAN entrepreneurs are encouraged in every which way possible, that the people of Ethiopia are empowered economically and politically, and that the national coffers are continually beefed up. The government, has to cut down of divestiture, has to make sure it continues to earn money through reproductive economic activities.

Selling of government institutions allows the government to have money, but that is a once-off earning and unfortunately cannot be sustained in the form of taxation because most of the privatized ventures are not making money or profits due to various reasons-unfavorable international markets, high cost of raw materials, unproductive or lethargic labour force inherited from the old regime, and lack of sufficient incentives from the government, prohibitive taxation, as well as devaluation of the local currency. The net effects of all these, coupled with the armed conflict and famine and declining foreign exchange earnings due to external factors like the unfavorable world price for coffee, have been a demoralized private sector, frustrated farmers especially coffee growers, a financially weak or overly aid-dependent government, reduced incomes from taxes- or rather high opportunity costs in terms of forgone tax earnings-and further impoverished farming sector and a disenchanted civil service due to continuous rising cost of living. Even if the IMF and the World Bank insist otherwise, the government of Ethiopia should subsidize some strategic services and sectors, like petroleum or electricity, it should undoubtedly subsidize the agricultural sector and make the necessary policy adjustments to allow large scale commercial farming, and a whole range of supportive fiscal and monetary adjustments that will support the private sector. I do not think the government should move too quickly into doing less, as subscribed by the IMF and World Bank because there is no strong private sector that will soon fill in the gap and foreign investors are not exactly ones you can depend on-they will be the first to pack and leave at the first sound of a bullet.

Just look at the travel advices the governments of USA, Canada and UK have been issuing their citizens when the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea started-right from the onset. So what makes us think, foreign investors will stick with us through thick and thin in our country? If, we run into any conflict with Egypt, at best they will jeopardize us, if they cannot do that they will shut down and stop production pretending it is not safe for them to work. This is not a paranoid stand, but it is being pragmatic and practical.

Why cannot we be cautious and look far into the future? We have played into the hands of our enemies enough. We have made ourselves a land locked country.

We have-probably the only nation in the history of the world-dismantled our navy and sold off in auction our naval fleet. We have to retain control over what we have left, our national pride, our source of income, as well as our people-educated or non-educated.

Our national pride is not something abstract, because it can be productive and positive-it takes the form of Ethiopian Airlines, and Ethiopian pilots and hostesses and technicians, Ethiopian-run University-the oldest in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopian Telecommunication the oldest in Africa and among the oldest in the whole wide world, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia run by Ethiopians, The Ethiopian Shipping Lines, etc. If we lose these things, it would not only be hard but also impossible to unify the nation especially against our traditional enemies and the government will soon find itself fragile.

A foreign managed commercial bank with the largest number of branches in the nation, for instance, will not be willing to raise up financial, and manpower support to raise funds, for instance to fight off a certain calamity. They simply will not have any sentiment that Ethiopian managers would.

The lesson from Eritrea should be a good lesson. One cannot forever be learning or experimenting, there has to come a time when one has to emerge wise and seasoned.


(allAfrica.com).

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Anonymous

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 08:09 am
Waxaan filayaa in warka uu ku dhan yahay maqaalkaas. Ujeeddo weyn ayaa ka dambeysa waxay Itoobiya aynan u rabin Somalia oo markale iskeed isutaagta. Ma aha oo keliya Ethiopia u fiirso u jeeddooyinka ay Djibouti ka leedahay WADDANKEENA. Waxay ila tahay in nin walboo Somali ah ay waajib ku tahay inuu wadanka difaaco. waxaa duullaan lagu yahay Mustaqbalkeene, Kheyraadkeenna oo ah kan imika laka qaybasay iydoon weli la degin. Yaa qaybsaday HAREERAHAADA Fiiri. Geelle iyo ninka layiraa Galeyr iyo Imaaraadku maxay ku Heshiiyeen. Haa waxaa inoo buuxa oo la hubaa Oil the "finest". Indhaha kala fura Somaaliyeey.

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