No wonder Gedo is holding off the famine though surrounded

[Voltage]

It is getting massive assistance due to its location and the fact majority of the region is free from Al Shabaab. From emergency food assistance, cash vouchers, immunization, and water treatment the latest situational report from the UN's office of the coordination of humanitarian assistance shows how accessibility provided by defeat of Shabaab makes Gedo very fortunate in this time

http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.in ... 202011.pdf

I really think we need to capitalize on this. Peace and security is the key and with the right position of the region as a solid bulwark in an unstable neighborhood, we draw in massive NGO aid that Puntland and Somaliland live off of.

[Coeus]

Inshallah gedo will be free from Al shabab this year. Although most of gedo is already liberated.

[Voltage]

Current and former U.S. representatives at the United Nations Food and Agriculture agencies Saturday wrapped up their three-day visit to Kenya to assess the international response to the Horn of Africa's ongoing drought and famine. They said aid agencies are able to access more areas in southern Somalia and that aid is reaching people in need, but more must be done.

The World Food Program's regional director, Stanlake Samkange, told reporters in Nairobi his agency is expanding food distributions in Mogadishu.

The agency can now operate directly in the Gedo region as well as in other pockets north and south of the Somali capital that were previously sealed off by the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab.

"The access situation is changing in southern Somalia, I think because of the pressure and the serious condition there, and we are responding to that very actively and very aggressively," said Samkange.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Mor ... 57253.html

[Knight of Wisdom]

With peace and security, Gedo has the potential to become amongst the TOP 3 Richest Regions in Somalia.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Peace and security is the key and with the right position of the region as a solid bulwark in an unstable neighborhood, we draw in massive NGO aid that Puntland and Somaliland live off of.

Lying to yourself will not develop Gedo.

http://www.netnomad.com/boosaaso.html
http://www.netnomad.com/csm.html

The NGOs came to Bosaso AFTER the people established themselves. Teachers worked in the city for free, taking handouts from the mosques and businessmen and entrepreneurs hit the ground running years before a single NGO setup shop. Neither Cabudwaaq nor Gedo have established any domestic organs of society - neither local services nor proper governing councils. The largest active trading company in Cabudwaaq is a smaller branch of a Bosaso-based company, the biggest telecoms and xawalas are based in Hargeisa, Xamar or Bosaso as well, and so on. If you can't establish the basics for yourselves, the UN can't do anything for you. The UN has been in Xamar since virtually day 1 yet nothing has changed.

Bosaso 1996/1997

In Boosaaso, that has meant harnessing community resources and talent to jump-start its import-export-based economy and provide crucial services. A businessman has established a citywide telephone system. Teachers work for no salary. A volunteer police force has been created. Boosaaso's council of Muslim elders effectively acts as the town's judiciary.

Today Boosaaso, without a formal government, has become a boom town, with one of Somalia's busiest ports, a burgeoning population and the kind a daily stability envied by much of this deeply troubled East African country.

The marketplace here in Bossaso does a brisk business. Sectors such as fishing and livestock have grown throughout the relatively stable northeast. Before the war, there was one aviation firm with three aircraft; now there are 14 companies with 62 airplanes.

The city also has a reliable power supply and, thanks to businessman Ismael Abdi Ahmed, a telephone system for the first time in its history. Two and a half years ago Ahmed, 35, bought a satellite dish and opened the Netco phone company with 20 lines. Today there are 260 lines throughout the city, and two buildings where residents line up at phone booths to place local and international calls.

Ahmed, the town's wealthiest businessman, has established a business where employees come 10 different sub-clans. In Somalia, entrepreneurs typically saturate their companies with members of their own groups.

"I do not look at what [sub-clan] they belong to, which is very abnormal in Somalia," the businessman said. "They just have to be professionals--people who are educated and smart. The main thing I'm interested in is whether they can do the job."

Like other Boosaaso businessmen, Ahmed want a government that will oversee the Bari region. As the city grows, residents say they need the structures of a formal local government to keep law and order and to provide essential services.

Businessmen want an investment code to protect the international entrepreneurs, who currently balk at bringing projects to Boosaaso because it has no such shields. Civil servants want salaries. Truckers need an organized road system. Builders and merchants need regulations for constructing homes and establishing businesses. Justice authorities need a regional court system.

A body of politicians, elders and businessmen has strained for two years to form a regional authority that would address such issues. Last week the groups began final negotiations, and it hopes to have a governing council in place within weeks.

For now, Boosaaso's clan elders and sub-elders are the closest thing to government, mediating a range of disputes from criminal acts to traffic arguments. If one Boosaaso resident slays another, for example, elders decide whether the aggrieved family will receive a payment of camels or whether the accused will be executed.

[grandpakhalif]

Why does this guy try to refute every positive step for this region? Seek some professional help.

[Voltage]

Paidmonk, from Bosaso port to Garowe airport to the hospital built with Kuwaiti NGO money that you called best health facility in Puntland to the Saracen donated 4 armored trucks you talked about 150 times the last week, the only advantage Puntland has is peace and security. None of that was built with Puntland capital. Your greatest presentation of Puntland power centers around Faroole meeting with Mark Bowden, UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia and how more accessible WFP donated food is in Bosaso. There are things I take serious as debates and things I don't even waste my time on; it is the latter in this case.

[FBISOMALIA]

Paidmonk, from Bosaso port to Garowe airport to the hospital built with Kuwaiti NGO money that you called best health facility in Puntland to the Saracen donated 4 armored trucks you talked about 150 times the last week, the only advantage Puntland has is peace and security. None of that was built with Puntland capital. Your greatest presentation of Puntland power centers around Faroole meeting with Mark Bowden, UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia and how more accessible WFP donated food is in Bosaso. There are things I take serious as debates and things I don't even waste my time on; it is the latter in this case.

bossaso port was build by the kacaan garowe airport was build by and NGO money was to Expansion bossaso airport iyo port only other then that golis bulding and gov building was build by puntlanders and more go check for pl section for the pic

[Murax]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

[Knight of Wisdom]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

Here is FBISomalia's response to your "Go to school".

I think schooli is me no good becausse faroole i graduated with my ged was 1.0 only other than i my mom see it i say it was number 1.

[Advo]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

Here is FBISomalia's response to your "Go to school".

I think schooli is me no good becausse faroole i graduated with my ged was 1.0 only other than i my mom see it i say it was number 1.

That was pretty good even though I like this fbisomalia character. hilarious guy.

[FBISOMALIA]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

sorry MR. english man those words were meant to voltage step side until your turn coming

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

Here is FBISomalia's response to your "Go to school".

I think schooli is me no good becausse faroole i graduated with my ged was 1.0 only other than i my mom see it i say it was number 1.

That was pretty good even though I like this fbisomalia character. hilarious guy.

you like it wooooooow im happy

































like i would care

[DropkickMurphy]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

That is just downright mean.

[Murax]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

Here is FBISomalia's response to your "Go to school".

I think schooli is me no good becausse faroole i graduated with my ged was 1.0 only other than i my mom see it i say it was number 1.

lmao Faroole baa maskaxda ka qabsaday

[samadoon-waaxid]

^^

Warya I never understood one post You ever wrote. Go to friggin school!

Here is FBISomalia's response to your "Go to school".

I think schooli is me no good becausse faroole i graduated with my ged was 1.0 only other than i my mom see it i say it was number 1.