‘Collapsed state’ Somalia, bedeviled by militant Islam, bites UN hand that feeds it

[Ben Dover]

UNITED NATIONS — After decades of turmoil resulting from drought, civil conflict, famine, armed militias, terrorists and even pirates, the East African country of Somalia remains a shattered state. And while massive international humanitarian assistance from the United Nations and the international community may have mitigated the worst results of the cyclical famines and somewhat stabilized a teetering security situation, now, in a fit of anger, the Somali government has ousted the UN’s chief envoy in the country.

After UN Representative Nicholas Haysom challenged a number of human rights abuses which included the deaths of protesters, the Somalis claimed the envoy “acted as though he is the head or the ruler of Somalia.” Somalia’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse Awad proclaimed the UN envoy “was no longer welcome”.

UN officials were caught off balance with the abrupt action from a government which is largely dependent on UN aid and largesse. Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his deep regret over the Government’s declaration that his envoy was persona non grata.

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch tweeted ironically, “Jan. 1: Somalia joins UN Human Rights Council Jan. 2: Somalia expels UN envoy for questioning their killing of protesters.”

While most readers see Somali through the image of the movie Blackhawk Down, an account based on an epic 1993 battle in Mogadishu between U.S. special forces and warlords, the sad fact remains that for more than 25 years and despite some glimmers of hope, the situation in Somalia still reflects the undertow of poverty, lawlessness, and expanding Islamic extremist ideology.

In a periodic briefing before the Security Council, Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN’s Assistance Mission (UNSOM) stated, “The humanitarian crisis is among the world’s most complex,” adding, “while conditions have improved over the last year, 4.2 million people still require assistance, two thirds of them children.”

“Around 1.5 million people are severely food insecure at crisis or emergency levels and 2.6 million are internally displaced,” he stated. The UN’s 2019 Humanitarian Response plan, “targets 3.4 million people, or 81 per cent of the 4.2 million people in need of assistance, requiring $1.1 billion for its implementation.”

Yet Haysom stressed, “Somalia has laid the foundations to make significant progress in 2019,” while underscoring the complex political challenges facing the fractious central government. “Achieving this will require all role players to pull in the same direction.”

This remains easier said than done in a warlord and militia rich environment.

Significantly Haysom warned that the “Al-Shabab remains the biggest source of insecurity in Somalia. Despite the ongoing operations to degrade the terrorist group, which has the capacity to attack citizens and target electoral delegates, Somali security forces and the African Union Mission in Somalia.”

Haysom’s comments came in the wake of his unceremonious ouster from the war-torn country.

But what effect will Somalia’s rash actions have towards a UN which is trying to draw down some longstanding missions and operations?

The African Union Mission, now deployed for over a decade, comprises a five country military force of nearly 20,000 troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Notably this is not a UN peacekeeping mission but a regional solution approved by the Security Council.

Back in October there was an intent to scale down the Mission, but the troop reductions were put on hold till the end of February. Given the precipitous actions by the Somali central government in Mogadishu, now the UN and wider international community may be reluctant to invest deeper in this fractured state of fifteen million people.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) describes the country; “Since 1991, Somalia has essentially been a collapsed state and has experienced chronic food insecurity, widespread violence, and recurring droughts and floods. The social costs of war have been enormous.” Current American aid stands at $312 million.

Somalia comprises the Horn of Africa strategically abutting the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.

The Islamic jihadi Al Shabab organization, a particularly lethal offshoot of the Al Qaida network, controls large swaths of this country and regularly targets civilians.

Despite Somalia’s political quagmire, there’s some good news from the wider region; neighboring Ethiopia has settled its long standing frontier tensions with Eritrea. Somali pirate attacks on merchant ships transiting the nearby waters in the Indian Ocean have been nearly stopped by multinational NATO maritime patrols.

The Security Council “underlined that 2019 would be a critical year for Somalia, and called on its leaders to work together to advance political and security reforms.” And maybe not bite the hand that feeds it?

John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism the Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China (2014).

https://www.worldtribune.com/collapsed- ... -feeds-it/

[Ben Dover]

Not looking great for the cheeseman

[LeJusticier]

from a government which is largely dependent on UN aid

lol

Intaasaaba wax walba isku fuuqsatay

[Togdeer]

If Germany which is the 4th richest country in the world still relies on Russia for natural gas. Cannot bite the hand that is feeding it gas.
Yet Somalia which relies on UN and IC for almost every thing wants to bite the hand that is feeding it everything and has been doing for the past 25 years.
Allow caqliga hanaga qaadin.

[Ben Dover]

What is hilarious is the pro-cheeseman characters on here trying to spin the PR disaster that took place over the last few days as some sort of 'win' for their docile man

[SultanOrder]

What is hilarious is the pro-cheeseman characters on here trying to spin the PR disaster that took place over the last few days as some sort of 'win' for their docile man

What is hillarious is the level of attention you pay to your cheese president.

But do continue, Idoor have every right to mucaarad against the actions of their government for better or worse.

[Polus]

Two things:

I salute farmaajo for bitslapping the UN. The UN is a whore and the only thing we ask of her is to spread her legs so we can receive the sweets. Any talking will result in punishment.


Secondly, it must hurt you secessionists that a mareexan man is on the rise and restructuring the state. Wallahi the punishment coming to the traitor clan occupying hargeisa will be severe. Siad barre AUN dealt with you lot the way you deserve to be treated. No more qoslaaye giving concessions and sympathy. Idooooor will be punished and her women used as comfort women.

The british can watch as we take turns on you, since you are the children of the bastardd queen

BOW DOWN Somalia

[Ben Dover]

What is hillarious is the level of attention you pay to your cheese president.

But do continue, Idoor have every right to mucaarad against the actions of their government for better or worse.

You are bon marehan, from the poorest, most destitute region of the horn. You only support this paper government because your uncle is hiding in a bunker somewhere in Mogadishu, protected by foreigners so that Somalis do not make another Qadaafi out of him. The IC's patience is surely running out, now do tell, where would your uncle flee to if shit hits the fan?

[Pureblood1]

Two things:

I salute farmaajo for bitslapping the UN. The UN is a whore and the only thing we ask of her is to spread her legs so we can receive the sweets. Any talking will result in punishment.


Secondly, it must hurt you secessionists that a mareexan man is on the rise and restructuring the state. Wallahi the punishment coming to the traitor clan occupying hargeisa will be severe. Siad barre AUN dealt with you lot the way you deserve to be treated. No more qoslaaye giving concessions and sympathy. Idooooor will be punished and her women used as comfort women.

The british can watch as we take turns on you, since you are the children of the bastardd queen

BOW DOWN Somalia

Dirty boon Ilkoyar hunter gatherer you are a poor and broke Oromo hybrid your uncle died on a Nigerian toilet and you can too. Boon Marehan is nothing without state assets to use against other clans but it’s okay because Isaaq has our own state weapons and ours are more effective than yours. Try us we will flat the one toilet in Gedo. No more mercy for boon doofar

[SultanOrder]

What is hillarious is the level of attention you pay to your cheese president.

But do continue, Idoor have every right to mucaarad against the actions of their government for better or worse.

You are bon marehan, from the poorest, most destitute region of the horn. You only support this paper government because your uncle is hiding in a bunker somewhere in Mogadishu, protected by foreigners so that Somalis do not make another Qadaafi out of him. The IC's patience is surely running out, now do tell, where would your uncle flee to if shit hits the fan?

I can’t lie, but I do enjoy the fact you are discussing my uncle. The most popular and respected politician since the civil war.


Somalia Ha Noolato






P.s. which Habar Idoor were you? To this day I don’t know who you are.

[Ben Dover]

I can’t lie, but I do enjoy the fact you are discussing my uncle. The most popular and respected politician since the civil war.

I have listed a number of facts that you can not dispute.

- You are bon marehan, a peasant from the most destitute, poorest region in the horn of Africa. Your people are oppressed by a number of actors, namely Kenya/Hawiye/Al Shabab.

- Your ancestors were shunned by Somalis as boon, an inferior race of men equivalent to midgans of Somaliland.

- You only support this weak 'government' due to your docile uncle guest spot in it, your uncle who, by the way, is unable to take a shit without the approval of General ceeb ( ). Your 'support' is not out of Somalinimo, but opportunistic qabyaalad.

You did not even answer, where would your uncle flee if shit hits the fan? Obviously he can not rely on insignificant bon marehan for protection. So where is he planning to go?

I am curious sxb.

[original dervish]

I think folk are finally noticing how unhinged this benny character has become.

Right after the new Ethiopian president told them to sit their skinny behinds down, he has been waging a one iidoor campaign against the SFG.

[Pureblood1]

A real President:







And this is what a joke looks like:

[Ben Dover]

And this is what a joke looks like:

Why is a random soldier grabbing the cheeseman from his waist like a damsel?

[Pureblood1]

And this is what a joke looks like:

Why is a random soldier grabbing the cheeseman from his waist like a damsel?

Even the “president” gets patted down like a potential terrorist this is the reality in the amisom colony. That soldier could have also just got done using farmajo we know he’s a whore for foreign powers and slightly suspect so he could swing that way