Somaliland – The Chronicles of Chaos, Fratricide Conflict, and Mafia. Part I

The worldwide financial and economic crisis proved to be a propitious event for Somalia – thus far. With the release of MV FAINA, the major Somali piracy issue took an end, and the pretext for an amphibious military operation in the area of the breakaway Puntland administration vanished. An unnecessary and terrible disaster was thus avoided. If we take into consideration what has occurred in Somalia since 1991, the development is really promising.

On the other hand, following the fake Djibouti elections that reflect only partly and erratically Somalia’s realities, TFG has got a new colonial president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who has been rejected by his own people, the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS); still based in Asmara the ARS members in their majority supported Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who denounced the TFG elections as an unrepresentative parody. Quite rightfully!

The transformation of the patriotic ARS leader into a colonial TFG president was also discarded by the leader of the rival organization Al Shebab, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, who controls the South.

Several readers, who are familiar with my earlier support to Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, may find it difficult to believe that I describe his present political status as colonial. One has to bear in mind that pleasant words lose their value, and good intentions become a pale reminiscence, when the deeds demonstrate a different reality. I will expand greatly in several forthcoming articles, but here I am contented to merely quote the news: "AU Envoy Says Somalia's National Unity Government to Be Secular" (title of an article in the Puntland portal: http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Africa_22/AU_Envoy_Says_Somalia_s_National_Unity_Government_to_Be_Secular.shtml). From the same source I republish the following paragraphs:

"The African Union special envoy to Somalia said Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has assured him the national unity government now being formed will be secular. The head of the AU peacekeeping mission AMISOM is hailing Sheikh Sharif's rise to power as a 'big chance' for halting the insurgency that has made Somalia ungovernable for nearly two decades.

Special envoy Nicholas Bwakira is appealing to the international community for sustained diplomatic and political support for efforts to establish a stable administration in Somalia. After briefing the AU Peace and Security Council, Bwakira said he had been assured by Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a Somali cleric, that his government would not be religious.

"He also indicated that ... on the matter of religion, it would be the government, the State which will outline the policy, not the clerics," he said".

Who is the Christian diplomat Nicholas Bwakira to dare say to the Somalis what to do and what not to do or how to arrange their life, society, and state? Can the Burundian diplomat present in public his speeches in several Jesuit colleges allover the world whereby he has repeatedly called for the establishment of a Christian – not secular – super-state allover the world?

Where is then the due patriotic Somali reaction of the otherwise honest Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed? Does he accept to implement in Somalia what his extremist Christian Jesuit mentor orders? Is this attitude not colonial?

Further in the North, the recent elections in Puntland brought to power Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, who is an educated and experienced economist with a great vision that serves the noble purpose of a pacified, unified and – note this – rehabilitated Somalia. His stance against the dark deal between the Australian Oil company Range Resources and the previous Mohamud ‘Adde’ Muse bears witness to President Farole’s patriotism and irreproachability.

What currently remains Somalia’s most problematic territory and most corrupt regime is the Hargeisa gang of the disposable pseudo-president Riyaale, Somalia’s most loathed person. Merciless tyrant and corrupt gangster, the Somali Al Capone represents modern Somalia’s bleakest page. His tyranny brought the different northern Somali tribes to the brink of the abyss.

A parody of dictatorial elections is expected to take place in North-western Somalia next March. Had free elections been organized in Somaliland, more than 95% of the local population would have wholeheartedly rejected the high traitor of Hargeisa who ridiculed Somalia because of his servility to the criminal Abyssinian dictator Zenawi.

The extent of the rejection is such that even Riyaale’s party was divided in the candidate nomination "procedure". I reproduce herewith an article earlier published in the Somali portal Xogtamaanta that sheds more light in the last divisive policies and activities of the murderous dictator of Hargeisa. Soon, Somaliland will crumble, and the Northern Somalis will gain again their rightful and influential position within Somalia, thus contributing to the Horn of Africa pacification and rehabilitation.

Somaliland Ruling Party Divides over Candidate Nominations
http://www.xogtamaanta.com/page21.html

Hargeisa, Somaliland, 06.02.09 (xogtamaanta.com) -- Somaliland's ruling party UDUB has embroiled in a nasty and politically self-destructive quarrel that exposed the intramural UDUB divisions and the bitterness that tainted the party's convention in Hargeisa.

The UDUB convention was said it would last three days, but with hasty crowning of president Riyaale and his vice, as the unchallenged UDUB candidates for the upcoming presidential elections turned the convention into two days of showdown for president Riyaale, his vice, Ahmed Yusuf Yassin, and their cronies.

The convention held at one of Hargeisa's prestigious banquet halls – at Maansoor hotel was staged as a coalescing event for Riyaale for his bid to run for the second term, but influential party members and heavy weight elites barred competing with president Riyaale were left outside and deprived both their constitutional and party member rights, are calling it illegal the way the convention and nominations were conducted.

Ismail Adan Osman, the former interior minister is one of the four men wanted to contest with president Riyaale at the party convention, and was the only entrant managed to attend the convention, but not allowed to challenge the staged convention that declared president Riyaale and his vice as the UDUB's only candidates.

"What happened at the convention and the declaration of president Riyaale as uncontested candidate is fallacy and unacceptable," said Ismail Osman, who was speaking after he walked out the convention when he was stopped to challenge a notion prepared by the chairing committee which proposed to amend the UDUB constitution in favor of president Riyaale and his vice as the only candidate for the UDUB party.

Abdillahi Iman Dirawal, a former health minister and two other contestants, who also wanted to contest with Riyaale, but denied to attend the convention and to contest, called the nomination of president Riyaale as 'null and void' and vowed that they will continue to challenge the candidacy of president Riyaale and his vice.

"If Riyaale thinks we will abandon the UDUB party for him, we want him to know that we are staying and will challenge him within the rule of law" said Abdillahi Dirawal who was speaking at a mini convention they held simultaneously with the convention they were barred to participate on Wednesday.

'The hijack of the convention by Riyaale is the discernible actions that president Riyaale is not the same guy that the people elected in the last elections -- he has changed and he is now someone else," said Ismail Osman, the former right-hand man of Riyaale who is adamant for not accepting the way Riyaale was nominated.

The UDUB convention and the hasty nomination of president Riyaale have revealed the rift and the division the UDUB party and its elites endured, and it will make difficult for most UDUB members to rally around the declared candidates without compromise between the two camps.

The division of UDUB is also a sign of self-defeat in the next elections which three parties, including UDUB will contest in hotly worried presidential elections that each party can not afford to lose.


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Picture: Typical case for Somaliland: one more suicide bombing. The deterioration will be precipitating over the next months. From: http://www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/21340