Daawo Sawirada ee MALABO, caasimada dalka EQUATORIAL GUINEA

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

This is that little country that struck oil a few years back and it was a big deal, but this whole time the "big discovery" was just 1.1 billion barrels HAHA! Somalia's Puntland region is set to strike 5 - 10 billion barrels, more than even Sudan! Check out what this small nation has turned their capital into. I've also thrown in some pictures of their other project city, Bata!

[HalfDzed]

Seeing these sort of pictures makes me wonder what would've become of Somalia if the civil war never happened.

[union]

Interestingly the oil in this nation was discovered by a small company, much like Range company that has many of the concessions in Somalia.

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

Half Dzed, I'm one of those people who used to ask those "what if" questions, but in the case of Somalia its much better that the civil war happened, but don't think I'm using the bullshit insane excuses used by USC & SNM supporters, I think the civil war helped Somalis in ways beyond politics.

Before the civil war Somalis had very small business interests. My mom told me in her hometown there was a reer Xamar Yemeni guy who owned a very small shop and no other Somalis aside from her sister owned a shop; this shop sold scrap metals and this guy barely had anything but to Somalis he was very advanced although even my mom's ambitious 18 year old sister was doing the same, but all Somalis in town thought the man was some kind of millionaire. After the civil war Somalis started going overseas and experimenting with diverse businesses and fields of interest. In other words as my mom would say, "we've seen the world now." I think the civil war did for Somalis and Somalia what all the exoduses did for the Jews, its just given us a unique international experience on a mass scale via immigration that no other society has seen since the Jewish exodus after WW2.

I'm of the opinion that, without civil war, the small network of Somalis wouldn't have done much, we wouldn't be doing much better than Eritrea is doing today, truthfully. We'd have a government, that's it, but we'd still rely on WFP and other aid, but thanks to our experiences in the diaspora and the wider world many Somalis will use schemes used by their adopted countries to create efficiency and self-sufficiency. Its going to all work out. We'll recreate Somalia circa 1980 in a day.

[Somalian_Boqor]

Hard to think that is an African Country.

[Somalian_Boqor]

Bosaso In Six Years.

[Somaliweyn]

Such pictures only strenghten my belief that Somalia will be a superpower in Africa and way better to live in than the current Western countries we live in.

Insha allah, have patience and we will overcome all obstacles.

[tightrope]

Bosaso In Six Years.

Inshallah!
First step is to end greed and corrpution in Puntland government!

[Monk-of-Mogadishu]

macaanka!