Somalia needs $2.2bn for reconstruction

[Somaliman%]

UN, Somalia needs $2.2bn for reconstruction
AFP

May 29, 2007

KAMPALA -- Somalia needs $2.2 billion for reconstruction and the restoration of peace, a UN envoy said Tuesday, as fighting continued in the lawless African nation.

Of the total, $1.093 billion would be used for poverty reduction programs, $666 million in social services, and $462 million in security and governance issues, said UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Eric Laroche.

The UN envoy told 60 delegates from Somali non-governmental organizations and international aid groups that the funds would help rebuild the country wracked by lawlessness since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

"They [delegates] are trying to make a diagnosis and find the strategies that include sequencing of priorities to lift the lives of the Somali people out of a humanitarian situation and into one of recovery, reconstruction, and development," he told reporters.

Foreign donors were expected to raise the $2.2 billion, he said.

Almost daily attacks have continued in Mogadishu since Ethiopian-backed government forces defeated Islamist and clan fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu in April after weeks of heavy fighting.

The Somali government is hoping to organize a broad reconciliation conference in Mogadishu June 14, which has been delayed twice due to insecurity and a lack of funds.

[Alluring]

If only I was Oprah.

[LiQaaye_TDH]

daamn thats a lot of money

[AbdiWahab252]

Somalia needs peace before money

[eyes-only]

No amount of money can restore peace

[Alluring]

Pessimism and Hawiye..go together like a horse and carriage.....THIS I TELL YA BROTHER, YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER!

[Sakhraan]

Somalia..................R.I.P


Hutuban movement waa loo darsday.



SAKHRAAN>SEEKER OF T & J.

[Ceelgabo]

Somalia needs honest leader like Hugo Chavez instead Pirates for leaders...

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

thats going into bugland as lacag xaraan ah

[FAH1223]

[quote="Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah"]thats going into bugland as lacag xaraan ah[/quote]

[Warya_dude]

Somalia makes $5.5 billion a year according to CIA (still very very very low compared to Others)

So Somalia can rebuild Somalia

[*Arabman]

[Somalia needs honest leader like Hugo Chavez instead Pirates for leaders...]

Hugo is a non-Muslim. Why not some of the fine Muslim leaders?

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

[quote="*Arabman"][Somalia needs honest leader like Hugo Chavez instead Pirates for leaders...]

Hugo is a non-Muslim. Why not some of the fine Muslim leaders?[/quote]


cos there aint any in this day and age son

He means Hugo stands up to the worlds super evil the US

[*Arabman]

[He means Hugo stands up to the worlds super evil the US]

Hugo isn't the only one who stands up to the worlds super evil the US. How about these Muslims leaders:

AhmadiNejad

Nasrallah

Al-Assad

Mashaal

Bin Laden

Mullah Omar

Dahir Aweys

Sheikh Sharif

[1nemansquad]

Dahir Aweys?

I will take Hugo Chaves as a leader anyday over that kunt mate.