Somalia: Back To The Begining!

[Koronto91]

Abdullahi is an old incompetent buffoon who has no intentions of securing Mogadishu. His idea of "governing" is his daily speeches & his weekly "official" visits to Nairobi & Addis Ababa.

What has he done so far for the Somali people? What infrastructures has he built? What social programs has he implemented? What funds has he allocated to the starving people all around him in Baydhabo & elsewhere? Does the TFG stand for an incompetent league of incompetent men?
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The non-stop violence and chaos has returned to Somalia and its people are showing signs of nostalgia for the brief period of Islamist rule that brought the first whispers of effective governance in 16 years. The nightmare is far from over.

Somalia now seems to be back to square one. The non-stop killing, kidnapping and hijacking has returned as the order of the day after a brief period of relative stability was shattered by the arrival in Mogadishu of the transitional Somali government backed by Ethiopian airpower and armor.

Near-daily attacks are launched against Ethiopian and Somali government soldiers by Islamist insurgents, and criminal activities have risen to pre-Islamist levels.

Shelling has become a ritual in the capital, Mogadishu, where insurgent groups, under the cover of night, attack with mortars and the transitional government side responds with heavier artillery.

According to some estimates, almost 200 civilians have been killed and some 500 others wounded in the capital since December - caught in the crossfire of Somali government and Ethiopian troops and insurgents, who have no qualms about exchanging heavy artillery blows in densely populated residential areas.

So far, the deadliest day has been 24 February, when more than 23 civilians were killed and more than 72 others wounded when a barrage of shells hit civilian homes in the capital.

Hundreds of Mogadishu residents have begun to flee their homes, seeking shelter in nearby towns for fear that unguided shells may make them their next target, from either side.

On Sunday, a contracted ship loaded for the UN World Food Program (WFP) was hijacked by a group of Somali pirates off the country's northeast coast.

The Somali people have now begun to grow nostalgic about the brief six-month period of Islamist rule, when stability and unprecedented security prevailed after 16 years of anarchy and chaos since the overthrow of the late dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

Despite their strict rule and severe punishment of both criminals and political opponents, the Islamists brought about a semblance of law and order in the areas under their control during the short period of their reign. They returned some essential services such as health care, and reopened the Mogadishu international airport and the seaport. The Islamists sidelined the more ruthless warlords who had held the Somali people hostage for the past 16 years of no effective governance.

The international community believes that reconciliation between Somalis and a political process is the only way out of the insecurity and instability in the Horn of Africa, and has urged the transitional government to organize a national congress.

The top leaders in the transitional federal government, formed in 2004 in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, do not seem to feel the need for such a process.

Transitional President Abdullahi Yusuf had repeatedly ruled out any talks with even the most moderate of the defeated Islamists, and his Prime Minister Ali Ghedi maintained until very recently that “the time for reconciliation has passed.”

The first paragraph of UN Security Council Resolution 1744 adopted on 20 February stresses “the need for broad-based and representative institutions reached through an all-inclusive political process in Somalia, as envisaged in the Transitional Federal Charter, in order to consolidate stability, peace and reconciliation in the country and ensure that international assistance is as effective as possible.”

Still, both men seem have little choice but to play along with the international community, which appears to condition any assistance for the government on reconciliation and a revived political process.

Yusuf and Ghedi have called a National Reconciliation Congress, but its agenda, venue and participation have yet to be determined.

"We will start at [the] national level and go down to local and regional levels […] down to grass roots. Our people fought hard, we slaughtered each other […] we have to discuss how to forget and forgive," Yusuf said in an interview earlier this week. “We are intending to start this congress within two, three weeks."

Omar Fanah, a human rights activist in Mogadishu, rightly notes that as long as there is no true reconciliation, with grassroots-level participation and international mediation, security will remain illusive. He told ISN Security Watch that enshrining reconciliation in the latest Security Council resolution was much more important than sending tens of thousands of peacekeepers.

Permanent peace and security for Somalia depends on the successful convening of that much awaited national reconciliation congress, which President Yusuf has promised and the UN resolution has strongly urged. It will also depend on the full withdrawal of foreign troops from Somalia as envisaged in the same resolution.

The expected outcome of such an internationally sponsored congress is no less than a true representative government and equitable power sharing - a government committed to righting past wrongs and putting Somalia on the road to recovery and reconstruction.

But he chronic inability of Somali politicians to resolve their differences peacefully, and the reluctance they have concerning the involvement of the international community do not bode well for this process. Complicating matters is the contentious presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia. Taken all together, what the international community is seeking is a very tall order, and it is not likely that the nightmare will end any time soon.

[Manaking]

stupid fukker

shut the fukk up

I am so tired of hearing somalis complaining .
You dont understand a shit

how tha fuk can you build infrastructure when Hawiya warlords is destroying everything.
I cant believe the rats are back in Mogadishu

how many are they today
Also that bastard Aideed junior looking like a fukking pig

[Karbaash_killa]

^ reces is over go back to your kindergarden class..

where not back to the begging but were back to occupation! pre 1960 infact today things are worse as our national tresures are being exploited with out our consent and the whole world is laughing at us..the only country in the world to be occupied by another poor country... what a shame!!