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ciyaal_warta wrote:garoowe is beautiful but please some put that dust down ..every pic i see there is a dust booooooor iyo bus lee meesha xumeysay nooh

IRONm@N wrote:Mahiga denied that any meeting will be held in Garoowe.

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You must not know how to read Somali. Kulaha Mahiga denied that any meeting will be held in Garoowe.

Your talking about a meeting the whole of Somalia is being handed over to Puntland to manage, as the period of transition, or shall I say "play time" comes to an end and a permanent government headed by Faroole will be formed in his backyard of Garowe come 2012

During the first three weeks of July, a shift in "donor"-power/U.N. orientation towards Somalia's conflicts has begun to emerge. The T.F.G. has lost its privileged place in the calculations of the "donor"-powers/U.N., leaving the latter without a Somali political entity through which to exert its influence.

The international coalition has placed its bets on the "Consultative Meeting on the End of the Transition," which it is orchestrating in its latest effort to take over the process by which Somalia is supposed to transition to permanent statehood.

A close source reports that the "donor"-powers favor Garowe over Mogadishu as the venue for the consultative meeting, because the Puntland administration's vision of a federalism with substantial regional autonomy fits with the former's perceived interests.

The dispute over the site of the consultative meeting might appear simply to be symbolic, another game, but in this case symbolism indicates substance. If Garowe is chosen as the meeting's venue, it will signal that the international coalition has decisively broken with the T.F.G. From the domestic viewpoint, Puntland's position in the balance of power would rise - it would have an important position at a table it had set. Correspondingly, the T.F.G.'s position would decline. "Somalia" would no longer mean the T.F.G ---- GAME! Or Shall I Say Goal!

The one thing that is obvious is that the international coalition is showing signs of impatience with the "transition" and wants to engineer its end