Clannish rant against Djibouti by somaliland

[Eaglehawk]

Somaliland-Djibouti Relationship
Gelle: The Tireless Crusader Against Somaliland
By Ahmed I. Hassan
July 30, 2012

A section in a book titled “Somaliland: The Legacies of Non-Recognition”, which is still in the works, deals with Somaliland’s relationships with its neighbors, other relevant key countries and multilateral political organizations, such as the AU, the UN, the AL and the EU . The following is the chapter in that section that examines the Somaliland-Djibouti Relationshipi.
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Perhaps it is more appropriate to characterize Djibouti’s policies and attitudes towards Somaliland as a manifestation of its president Ismail Omer Gelle’s personal mind-set rather than a reflection of the Djiboutians’ popularly held wishes and sentiments. However, it is always a dictatorship’s tendency to take positions that are in contradiction with its citizenry’s real beliefs and opinions. At any rate, when president Gelle thought he could manipulate the affairs of Somaliland and Somalia, he failed to look at himself in the mirror and draw obvious conclusions.

Lets us start with a few facts about Djibouti. With a population of about three quarters of a million and an area of just 23,200 sq km, Djibouti is the tiniest state in the Horn of Africa. Its climate is desert; hot, torrid and dry. It has no known natural resources; no arable land; no forests and grassland.


The economy, which is almost exclusively based on service activities, has been repeatedly beset by recession, civil war, a high population growth rate and fiscal mismanagement. It has serious employment, education, and health problems. Due to pervasive corruption, cronyism and lack of transparency, foreign aid donors have on occasions been reluctant to continue with their largesse.

In adversity, if all men who are fit to bear arms are drafted into military service, Djibouti will be hard pressed to muster more than 65,000 men. In case, God forbid, any of its neighboring countries so much as sneezes in its direction, Djibouti will be swept off its feet and the landing would likely be hard.

Above all, Djibouti is plagued by that most destructive of world curses: the all encompassing, omnipresent and demonic tyrant who is at the helm and in the thick of all affairs of state no matter big or small.

By any measure, Djibouti’s circumstances are unenviable. Admittedly, this condition is not exclusive to that country. Many nations around the world share the same fate or worse. However, its predicament is aggravated by a geographical ill fortune of being in a rough neighborhood and by Gelle’s ill-advised tendency of foolishly putting his middle finger in the said neighborhood’s problematic pies.

Given its physical and economic statuses, it would have been most logical and prudent for Djibouti’s leaders to follow the paths of countries like Switzerland, Singapore, and Costa Rica. These countries long found out that because of their tiny sizes, neutrality in the political affairs of the regions in which they are respectively located is a virtue. They maintain cordial relations with all their neighbors and stay away from their disputes.

This policy should not be construed as lack of ambitions on their part. Rather it is attributable to pragmatic and sober realization that any meddling by them in disputes would not, at the end of the day, make much difference in the outcomes thereof. One the other hand, interference could potentially prove detrimental to their interests. Quiet development and minding their own business became their preferred preoccupations. Today they are beacons of prosperity and stability.

Djibouti or rather Gelle, however, has chosen a different and ominous tack. He has a finger in every regional contentious pie. In the Ethiopian-Eritrean war of the nineties, he was very vocal in his opinions. Nonetheless, neither country was pleased with his noises. Immediately after that conflict cooled off, Djibouti itself went to war with Eritrea that is yet to be resolved. Eretria allegedly still occupies some Djiboutian territory.

For too many times, Djibouti plunged to neck deep into the muddy political water of the erstwhile Somali Republic. The danger also here is that Djibouti’s head may go under water and risk suffering consequences that are as awful as they have been preventable.

But the most baffling and absurd of Gelle’s behavior is his irrational almost paranoiac hostility towards Somaliland. Paradoxically, Djibouti is one quarter from which Somalilanders least expected disfavor of any kind and magnitude, let alone hostility.

Djiboutians and Somalilanders have common ancestral linage and overlapping geographical habitation. For Djiboutians, Hargeisa and other Somaliland cities were always and continue to be literally their second hometowns. They could and still can stay in the country indefinitely; own property and even obtain Somaliland citizenship—all without let or hindrance. Djiboutian nomads cross into Somaliland for any purpose without second thoughts. Somalilanders as a matter of fact never bothered to make any distinction between themselves and Djiboutians.

In their struggle for independence, Djiboutians could count on Somalilanders’ unreserved support. At the time, Somaliland had been in the midst of its dark union with Somalia. The erstwhile Somali Republic, ostensibly true to the Pan-Somalism creed, had admittedly also been helpful to the freedom cause. However, Somalilanders’ succor, unlike other Somalis’, was much more than a mere expression of national policy. It was more emotional, more personal, more dedicated, more material, more practical and more effective.

Many Djiboutian freedom fighters used the Somaliland regions of the erstwhile Republic as their base of operations, or took refuge there after carrying them out, without the then governments’ express involvement or even knowledge. This was partly because many of these fighters had also been members of families in Somaliland.

Read the entire chapter
http://wardheernews.com/public_html/Art ... _Ahmed.pdf
Ahmed I Hassan

[SahanGalbeed]

Yup ,read the whole thing

Djibouti governments’ current and past misdeeds notwithstanding, Somalilanders and Djiboutians sensibly remain the closest of peoples. Like brothers or sisters, goodwill, love and care for each other will endure. These are mutual sentiments that will certainly outlive Gelle and anyone else who might choose to follow his soiled footsteps by sowing discord between the two fraternal nations

[Eaglehawk]

insulting the head of state of a country if that is not insulting the peopel of that country I don`t know what insult is.
ismaciil cumar geelle repersent as the symbol of the djoubutian nation so insulting him is like insulting all djoubutians as far as i am concerned

president geele is democraticly elected by his people so the rant is uncalled for and you deffending shows me the authors wound runs deep in the somaliland society

i have a djoubutian friend who told me that somaliland is jealous because we have everything they are looking for and they are angery that we are ingratitude for what somalis in the south have done for us

he told me when they are with us they say we are walaalo, we are DIr, recognize us and when we refuse to play their games and tell them all somalis are our brothers they get angry


envy is not a good thing

[Eaglehawk]

my favorite line habar maseertay miya

Djibouti leaders have always been and still is
more favorably disposed to the Southerners with whom they share neither neighborhood nor kinship
than to the Northerners with whom they boast both common ancestry and land.

[Khalid Ali]

Relations between Somaliland and Djbouti are better than ever relations between the people of Djibouti and the people of Somaliland was always great no matter what kind of turns politics go. That said articles posted on wardheernews i see where this is heading. We the people of Somaliland support the people of Djibouti where every they are

[Eaglehawk]

brotherhood wa taa, wale ciise wa dhalad somaliyeed

abaha ummada somaliyeed and the liberator of djoubuti welcoming his cousin hassan guleed to afgooy
no wonder reer djoubuti love somalai more then reer somalai love somalai

jaaleyaal noolada reer djoubutow

[Eaglehawk]

wallahi wa qiiroday
bal maqla reer djoubuti ba ku heesaya somaliwayn

[Eaglehawk]

today the somali people have past the constitution

we would not have a goverment today without reer djoubuti making shirkii carte, it might have taken us 10 years but we are here now

allow reer djoubuti dhowr

somalinimdu wa wax cajib ah wale, mr eaglehawk oo walegis qirroon ba qiiroda markaan arko reer djoubuti uu heesaya somali

[skywalker25]

This cat needs to get of the crack and go help his people in Dadaab refugee camp. All the boon are either under al-shabab's feet, or carrying the food and cooking for the ethiopian/kenyan bantu soldiers, and here we have this Boon frothing at the mouth like some lactating cow, concerning himself with affairs way above his pay grade.

The mind of a Boon..

[Cirwaaq]

Random... just recalled Saint paul's := Boon sbastic, teliphone tastic

I haven't figured out why Boon is a negative term when it used to be the Kingdom that spanned Bari, Nugaal down to Mudug prior to the Arrival of Ismeal-Jeberti

[BankiiTuuyo]

This cat needs to get of the crack and go help his people in Dadaab refugee camp. All the boon are either under al-shabab's feet, or carrying the food and cooking for the ethiopian/kenyan bantu soldiers, and here we have this Boon frothing at the mouth like some lactating cow, concerning himself with affairs way above his pay grade.

The mind of a Boon..

lol When you are a pissed off Boon and don't know what to do.

[Thuganomics]

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[BankiiTuuyo]

FARUUROW MAXA BERBERA, KU GEEYAY???????????

FADUUUUUUUUUUUL

[BankiiTuuyo]

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[Eaglehawk]

I think I have a peasent uprising on my hands

settle down kids we are discussing djoubuti and somalilanders envy of that sovereign state

it seems the isaaq have a fetish for boon calling themself boon xirsi having suldaan called boon and even a town called boon

I finally understand were we used to get the people, who used to wash our horses and the people who used to make our armor in classical somali era
even in modern era we used get our servents from the same regions when we needed to be praised or entertained, we used to get our servant from the wagooyi or the boon heartland

nin isaaq la yirahdo darbaxo jin baan yiri
the abwaan, accepted his boon status when he is around the mighty marehan
dharbaxo jin(habar awal) was truly a boon in service of marehan :

hadanu diini magantisa nahay ama marexaan nama midib gumeystan xagay no mitiriyan

this song was made by a isaaq serving his marexaan masters Noolow madaale.. Outch!