The Ndrangheta Mafia on the Maakhir Coast

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The Warsangeli Clan Confronts The Ndrangheta Mafia on the Coasts of Sanaag region..



Traditional elders alongside with local forensics suspect the Italian owned ship which is believed to be carrying nuclear waste is linked with the 'Ndrangheta. The 'Ndrangheta mafia is an Italian criminal network that generates 3.5% of Italy’s GDP mainly from illegal drug trafficking, prostitution, and nuclear waste disposal.







The Warsangali Clan elders are concerned of these mysterious European ships appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast numbers of barrels into the ocean. According to a number of cases reported by the local hospitals, the coastal population of Sanaag and Bari regions have suffered from strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies of which the medical officers suspected to be from the toxic waste offshore.



Clan elders and a group of local investigators told reporters from Dhahar.com that before these toxic wastes arrive at their final destination, the Ndrangheta and other Mobsters bid for contracts from major corporations. Then these mobsters sub-lease their loads to small ships from developing countries like Egypt leaving the mobsters un-traceable.



Local investigators believe that these mobsters dump the nuclear toxic waste using two methods: Either by dumping it into the sea in special metal containers designed to sink them to the bottom, or purposely sinking the ship carrying the waste, and reporting it as an accident.



These activities explain the poisoning of other regions of the Somali coastline as the Tsunami disaster of late December 2004 revealed. The tidal-waves caused leaks in the containers with chemical and radioactive compounds.



Alongside with the toxic dumpings by these criminal networks, European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. Industrial Europe has destroyed its sea world stock from over exploitation and now turns to rob defenseless Somalia.



More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers according to a UN report Local fishers employed by Somalia’s leading industry, Laasqoray Tuna Factory, fear that if nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in their coastal waters.



There is a general consensus among the Warsangali clan elders that the Ndrangheta mafia with a track record of dumping toxic waste is buying local politicians like Abdullahi Mohamed Du'ale, head of Somaliland’s foreign ministry, as they formerly bought Ali Mahdi, the Somali president after the collapse of the civil war.



Nevertheless, the clan Diaspora is outraged at the destruction of their coastline and the future of their kinsmen.



Dhahar Online Editorial

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