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YEAAAAAHHHHHH BOOOOOY.Many oilmen suspect that Somalia itself may contain the region’s energy mother-lode; war and piracy put it beyond reach.
How times have changed. Today Angola can now boast of a booming economy - forecast to grow 12% this year - and a growing regional and international diplomatic profile.
Angola's physical transformation since the end of the war has also been immense.
Oil revenues and associated Chinese loans have bankrolled an ambitious national reconstruction programme of roads, airports, bridges, hospitals and schools.
In the sprawling cities, where the war-weary sought refuge during the height of the conflict, urban slums are being given a facelift.
Despite the country's rapid economic growth - rated as faster than China's during the past decade - it is estimated that up to half the country still live on less than $2 (£1.25) a day.
There may be vast new housing estates with neat gardens and swimming pools springing up around the country, but for the majority of Angolans, home is a shared bed in an unpaved, overcrowded slum with limited access to running water, sanitation or electricity.
Unemployment remains stubbornly high and despite huge investments, the roll-out of mass education is yet to yield tangible benefits. Health services also remain severely limited. This is due to a lack of skilled professionals as well as pervasive corruption.
Rates of child mortality have decreased significantly since the end of the war, but one in five youngsters still die before their fifth birthday and the country remains near the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index, ranked 148 out of 187 countries.
"In 10 years of peace the government has not delivered a true peace dividend to the Angolan people," says Paula Roque, a political analyst and Angolan expert at Oxford University.
"It makes no sense that Angola should continue with the level of poverty we are seeing when there is so much money coming from oil."
The family of President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos controls a large chunk of Angola's economy
Monk-of-Mogadishu wrote:http://www.economist.com/node/21552265? ... /te/rfd/pe
Latest edition. This part is exactly what we've all known for a long time.
YEAAAAAHHHHHH BOOOOOY.Many oilmen suspect that Somalia itself may contain the region’s energy mother-lode; war and piracy put it beyond reach.
God bless Puntland for breaking the stereotypes and making the nation accessible again. Truly the pioneer elite of the Somali race.
Lord have mercy...
AbuukarSubeer wrote:Us Sufi Mureeds believe that the resources shall not be exported andArd-us-Somaal will release all it's treasures at the time of the last age, it will be the richest country in the world, i believe Ardus-Somaal especially Somaliland has the most resource-filled land and history, even having the Ark of the covenant, the first Tawrah and Injeel.
typical anti science and progress sufis.AbuukarSubeer wrote:Us Sufi Mureeds believe that the resources shall not be exported andArd-us-Somaal will release all it's treasures at the time of the last age, it will be the richest country in the world, i believe Ardus-Somaal especially Somaliland has the most resource-filled land and history, even having the Ark of the covenant, the first Tawrah and Injeel.
AbuukarSubeer wrote:Us Sufi Mureeds believe that the resources shall not be exported andArd-us-Somaal will release all it's treasures at the time of the last age, it will be the richest country in the world, i believe Ardus-Somaal especially Somaliland has the most resource-filled land and history, even having the Ark of the covenant, the first Tawrah and Injeel.
The Amish people believe the same thing...why don't you find their nearest commune and live in the stone age 
Damn you peasant He's a well respect Shaykh who hails from a family of Shaykh's descending from Hasan Al- Basri ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A), to say he isn't is a mistakeSomali-Star wrote:interesting. if we go by what wikipedia has to say about him than according to your master - or would be master - what makes one a sunni depends entirely how they view the barelvi founder, the taghut ahmed raza khan, ie those who love him are within the sunnah and those who don't are outside of the sunnah. interesting to say the least.
When i said that i meant the resources are some how sacred, how many times in history did people try to take the resources of Somali's, yet it never worked?nomadicwarlord wrote:AbuukarSubeer wrote:Us Sufi Mureeds believe that the resources shall not be exported andArd-us-Somaal will release all it's treasures at the time of the last age, it will be the richest country in the world, i believe Ardus-Somaal especially Somaliland has the most resource-filled land and history, even having the Ark of the covenant, the first Tawrah and Injeel.
But Mr Zenawi will have to win over the region’s restive ethnic Somali population. Many oilmen suspect that Somalia itself may contain the region’s energy mother-lode; war and piracy put it beyond reach.
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