In Somalia, can you differentiate between the former Union of Islamic Courts and the new Dam Al Jadiid in Villa Somalia?
Mogadishu (Sunatimes) The new Somali president got his cake and run with it; so naive that he believed that the cake is properly baked and ready to eat. But President Hasan Sheekh turned the process of state building upside down, exactly as hoped by those plotting to keep Somalia in permanent conflict. Initially, some people thought that President Mohamoud has what it takes to accomplish the task of ending the Somalia conflict; others believe that his leadership style is tantamount to the continuation of the Somalia quagmire by other means, and increasingly the later is being proved right.
As speculated and after an unusually long wait, the new president appointed his close friends... And with the blessing of a secret Shura-council called the Dam Al Jadiid (the New Blood)...
The new kids on the block in Villa Somalia are the same breed as their predecessors, and they could even be more corrupt and nastier; just maybe, though that their modus operandi could be slightly different. But I can’t, so far and not even for one minute, differentiate between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Dam Al Jadiid (the New Blood). As Ali Daa-uun, a member of former Somali parliament from the North of Somalia put it: “the way things are designed, it looks as though the new Dam Al Jadiid may well be on the road to shedding a fresh blood in Somalia”.
As I write this in my hotel room with disappointment, the suitably qualified diaspora Somalis – one by one – are heading back to their second home countries in their droves, depressed and with little hope for Somalia. I saw three of them last night: Ibrahim was heading to California; and Zamzam and Ismail booked a flight to Austin, Texas. And last week, Adam left for Edinburgh, Scotland and Ahmed departed for Berlin.
