The beef between Saudi and Qatar is a blessing in disguise for Somalia. Just like when Trump became president, it seems like the geopolitical arena is under a speedy change. Allies and enemies are rapidly changing and the status-quo of the world platform is under-going transformation step by step. The direction the geopolitical is going this year is nothing but a blessing to Somalia. We also lucky to have a leadership change at this crucial time.
It seems like Somalia is finally under-going the right place at the right time momentum. Everything is falling through at the crucial stage and time with the right people in power too. I thank nobody but our creator the Almighty Allah for such opportunity for our country.
We should stop depending on other get peace and stablity use the recources and wealth of our country and market the right way and the right price all over the world.
fully agree.we can joke about qabiil stuff but one uniting force should be everything that threaten our collective stability should be opposed.alshabab terror is a pain and causes suffering,famine,poverty and diseases.
i agree one thing that somalia is becoming very important but can this govt handle the new situation or will let the cake to be splitted into 2 or 3 thats another question.
neutrality is the best option in the gulf conflict, Farmaajo just recently refused 80million dollars in bribes from Saudi, you don't know who will come out winning in the end, lets see how it ends up, but I a predict positive future for Somalis.
Thousands of Somalis running businesses in United Arab Emirates are living in a diplomatic limbo as they face possible expulsion from the Gulf state following their country's decision to seek a neutral stance in the Qatar crisis.
"I feel unsafe in Dubai. I have a feeling that we may be deported anytime" Ahmed Jama a trader in Dubai told Radio Dalsan in a phone interview.
Dubai has in the past attracted one of the highest nunber of Somalis living in the diaspora mostly traders.
Millions of dollars which are usually sent back to Somalia may be lost if UAE takes the decision to expell Somalia nationals.
UAE is in an alliance with Saudi Arabia that recently blockaded Qatar over alleged funding of terror activities in the region.
Somalia has chosen to be neutral on the issue neither siding woth Riyadh nor Doha.
" I plead with my government to reverse its decision to be neutral and instead side with UAE and Saudi Arabia on this matter for the sake of Somalia" Jama said.
On Sunday a Somali participant in the Dubai International Holy Quran Award Competition was expelled. The incident he claims was linked to Somalia's decision to play neutral. http://allafrica.com/stories/201706130615.html
Saudi efforts, however,, despite the actions of the six countries ― Senegal, Chad, Niger, Comoros, Mauritius, and Djibouti – are proving to be only partially successful. Of the six states, only Mauritius severed its diplomatic ties with Qatar. Senegal, Chad, Niger and the Comoros restricted themselves to recalling their ambassadors from Doha while Djibouti, like Jordan, simply reduced the level of its diplomatic relations.
The six countries joined six other economically dependent nations, including Bahrain, Egypt, the Maldives, Mauritania, and the Saudi-UAE backed internationally recognized government of Libya that controls only part of the country, who had already followed the Saudi-UAE lead in breaking off diplomatic relations with Qatar.
Most Muslim states hope to avoid being sucked into the Gulf crisis. Countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan and Somalia have so far rejected Saudi overtures and instead called for dialogue between Qatar and its detractors. Similarly, Nigeria, the black African nation with the largest Muslim population has so far remained silent on the crisis.
Elsewhere in the Muslim world, Pakistan insisted that it remained neutral in the dispute. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif accompanied by senior ministers and military commanders, joined on a visit to Riyadh the chorus of calls for a quick resolution to the crisis that have so far fallen on deaf ears.
Somalia, a strategically located, war-torn nation in the Horn of Africa, has emerged amid the mixed response to the Saudi and UAE effort as something of a mystery. Somalia has maintained neutrality despite the fact that Dubai-owned P&O Ports signed in April a $336 million, 30-year agreement to develop and manage a multi-purpose port in Bosaso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. The self-declared republic of Somaliland agreed weeks later to allow the UAE to establish a military base in the port of Berbera and signed a $442 million deal with P&O to turn the port into a world-class training hub.
Somali media moreover reported that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed had rejected a Saudi offer of $80 million in return for his government breaking off diplomatic relations with Qatar. Somali planning, investment and economic development minister Jamal Mohamed Hassan announced nonetheless this week that Saudi Arabia had agreed to increase Somalia’s haj quota by 25 percent. Somalia’s strategic importance to the Gulf in commercial as well as military terms would seem to be the only logical explanation for it being rewarded despite refusing to join the Saudi-UAE campaign.
The mixed response to the Saudi effort to rally the Muslim world raises questions about the degree to which the kingdom can call in chips on the back of four decades of massive global investment in religious, educational, and political activities. Saudi difficulty in leveraging its soft power investments was evident already in 2015 when the Pakistani parliament rejected a request by the kingdom for troops to be sent to Yemen in support of its ill-fated military invasion of that country
