The director of the Natural disaster Response and Preparedness agency NERAD Mr. Mohamed Muse Awale and the Deputy Governor of Maroodi Jeh region Mr. Rashid Ahmed Mohamed have jointly warned local truck drivers against harvesting sand soil from the hargeisa “Dooh” in order to reduce the risks and impacts of likely disasters.
Mr. Mohamed Muse Awale said, “We decided to take this measures in order to prevent frequent occurrence of disasters and reduce vulnerability to the environment and communities living near the Hargeisa River who are at risk of accidents be caused by truckers harvesting Sand soil and that the harvesting of the sand soil may cause adverse effects on the environment for example, if the amount of water collected from the river bed is not kept proportional to the rainfall it may result to undesirable changes to the ecosystem resulting to the drying up of surrounding vegetation hence the decline of the amount water obtained from underground sources.
The Deputy Governor of Maroodi Jeh region Mr. Rashid Ahmed Mohamed speaking to the media said, “The regional administration office will now henceforth enforce the ban on sand harvesting in the Hargeisa River for commercial purposes.
Purpose
NERAD is a national institution tasked with effectively coordinating disaster /drought preparedness, mitigation and recovery interventions with other stakeholders in order to reduce the risks and impacts of likely disasters (drought) in Somaliland and managing early warning systems, information sharing and dissemination advocating for disasters and related environmental crisis for strategic decision making and action in the country.
The agency is also tasked with developing a linkage and maintains regional and international contacts with intergovernmental forums involved in mitigating disasters, research and learning.
The director of administration and finance department in the ministry of Interior Mr. Mohamed Osman Dube yesterday announced that more than 2500 would be job seekers had applied for 45 vacant posts of different categories, marking the deadline for submitting application letters after the new positions were advertised by the interior ministry nearly one week ago.
The Ministry of Interior official said, “The ministry of Interior together with civil service commission shall soon announce the date for the interviews and exam all those job seekers who have already submitted their applications forms and all potential candidates shall be selected through a fair and competitive process.
This is the highest number of job positions ever of to be announced by the ministry.
“We all know the demand of employment opportunities is very high in the country”, he stated.
(Nairobi) – Somalia’s new cabinet should urgently adopt meaningful reforms to confront rampant sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Over the past year, women and girls endured high levels of rape and sexual abuse, including by government soldiers, in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
“Many women and girls in Mogadishu live in constant fear of rape,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “The Somali government’s public commitments have not materialized into better protection for women and support for victims.”
The 72-page report, “‘Here, Rape is Normal’: A Five-Point Plan to Curtail Sexual Violence in Somalia,” provides a roadmap for the government and its international donors to establish a comprehensive strategy to reduce rape, provide survivors with immediate and urgent assistance, and develop a long-term approach to end these abuses. The report focuses on improving prevention, increasing access to emergency health services, ensuring justice, legal and policy reform, and promoting women’s equality.
For the report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 27 women in Mogadishu who survived rape, with some of them experiencing assaults by multiple perpetrators on more than one occasion. All the cases took place since August 2012 when the new Somali Federal Government took office.
The incidents occurred in the Benadir region, which includes Mogadishu, an area primarily under government control and where resources have been invested to improve security and rebuild government institutions, including the judiciary and health services.
Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, have sexually assaulted, raped, shot, and stabbed numerous women and girls. Women and girls displaced by war and famine from their homes throughout the country are particularly vulnerable to abuse both inside internally displaced persons camps and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood, Human Rights Watch said.
Lack of justice for sexual violence remains the norm in Somalia, Human Rights Watch said. Shamso (all names are pseudonyms for security), 34, who was gang-raped in her makeshift home in a displaced persons camp, described to Human Rights Watch the pervasive climate of impunity that fuels the abuse: “They took turns. The men didn’t hurry because mostly women live in the camp and are no threat to them. During the attack, one of them told me, ‘You can tell anyone that we did this, we’re not scared.”
The United Nations (UN) reported nearly 800 cases of sexual and gender-based violence in Mogadishu alone for the first six months of 2013, although the actual number is likely much higher. Many victims will not report rape and sexual assault because they lack confidence in the justice system, are unaware of available health and justice services or cannot access them, and fear reprisal and stigma. When Human Rights Watch asked one survivor why she did not report being raped, she shrugged: “Rape is a frequent occurrence in Somalia. Here, rape is normal.”
According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), about one-third of victims of sexual violence in Somalia are children under 18 years of age.
While the government has pledged to “comprehensively” address sexual violence “as a matter of priority,” these commitments have thus far brought about little, if any, change. The new government needs to take urgent and concrete steps to address the pervasive problem of rape, particularly among displaced communities, Human Rights Watch said.
The government response In early February 2014, Human Rights Watch met with various government officials in Mogadishu, including the new minister of women and human rights development and members of the president’s policy unit, who reaffirmed the government’s commitment to combatting sexual violence. In particular, the officials said they would be revising the government’s draft national gender policy to include specific provisions to address sexual and gender-based violence.
Human Rights Watch called on the Federal Government of Somalia to take serious measures to prevent security force personnel and others from committing sexual violence and to hold perpetrators accountable. As a top priority, the government should take all necessary actions to ensure victims who report sexual abuse do not face retaliation by government security forces and intelligence services, as occurred in three high-profile cases in 2013.
“Somalia’s government faces daunting challenges given the scope of the abuse and the extensive measures needed to address it,” Gerntholtz said. “So instead of targeting victims who dare to speak out, the government should focus on prosecuting perpetrators, including members of the security forces.”
Years of conflict have left Somali medical services and the justice system, including police and the courts, profoundly ill-equipped to support and assist victims of sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said. As a result, women and young girls face what the UN’s independent expert on human rights in Somalia refers to as “double victimization” – first the rape or sexual assault itself, then failure of the authorities to provide effective justice or medical and social support.
Maryam, a 37-year-old single mother who was gang-raped in her makeshift shelter, was the only survivor Human Rights Watch interviewed who attempted to file a police report. The police officers at the station humiliated her after she bled from injuries sustained during the rape.
“Before they let me go, they told me I had to wash the floor where I was bleeding,” she said. “I sat down, they gave me a brush and I cleaned the floor.” She never returned to the police station to pursue the case or report a second gang rape three months later.
Other women described the continuing economic impact that rapes have on their lives and how the government and donor community could help. “The challenge for women in Somalia is not just the violence,” said Sahra, who was stabbed and raped in July while collecting firewood. “Now the manual labor that I did before I was raped, I am not strong enough to do it anymore. We need more programs that give us capital to start an alternative business.”
Human Rights Watch called on Somalia’s government to take a number of crucial steps.
These include deploying a sufficient number of competent, trained police, including female officers, to provide security for displaced communities; ensuring that health and social services can provide adequate psychological, social, economic, and medical support to women and girls recovering from violence; and promoting gender equality through education, women’s political, social, and economic equality, and women’s political participation.
The challenges that the government faces are enormous and will need the help of the international community, Human Rights Watch said.
International donors have pressed the Federal Government of Somalia, including through the Somali Compact endorsed in September, to give priority to women’s rights. Donors have leverage and need to make it clear that supporting both short and long-term measures to address sexual violence against women is crucial for Somalia’s development.
“Donor countries should press Somalia’s government to ensure that the plight of rape survivors is a priority of reform efforts,” Gerntholtz said. “And then the donors need to step forward and help make those reforms happen.”
Nine months pregnant and in chains, Haben’s* torturers beat her ruthlessly demanding a $35,000 ransom from her husband.She gave birth in shackles, beside other terrified captives, with only rusty metal to cut the umbilical cord. It’s unbelievable that this is happening in 2014!
Amazingly Haben survived — but she is one ofthousands of East Africans who have been abducted by criminal trafficking rings, and tortured in Egypt’s Sinaiuntil their desperate families pay huge ransoms for their freedom. If we can show Egypt’s leaders that this dirty secret is out and damaging the Sinai’s tourism reputation as the ‘Red Sea Riviera’, they could break the trafficking rings, and free these slaves.
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A confidential U.N. monitors’ report warns of “systematic abuses” by Somalia’s government, which the monitors say has allowed the diversion of weapons that Somali authorities purchased after the U.N. Security Council eased an arms embargo on Mogadishu
last year.
Some of the arms believed to have been diverted were earmarked for a leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, the monitors said in their report, which was obtained by Reuters.
In its 14-page report to the Security Council’s sanctions committee, the U.N. Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group recommends either restoring the full arms embargo or at least tightening notificationand reporting requirements related to arms deliveries.
“The Monitoring Group has identified a number of issues and concerns over current management of weapons and ammunition stockpiles by the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), which point to high-level and systematic abuses in weapons and ammunition management and distribution,” the report said.
The panel of independent experts tracks compliance with the U.N. Somalia-Eritrea sanctions regime.
The 15-nation council’s decision to ease Somalia’s decades-old arms embargo last March was a controversial one, although Washington supported the Somali government’s appeals for restrictions to be relaxed to enable it to better arm its security forces to fight al Shabaab.
The new report details difficulties the monitors have had in getting access to weapons stockpiles in Somalia and information about its growing arsenal. It says the government cancelled several inspections of armories that the monitors and U.N. officials had planned to undertake.
DISCREPANCIES
The monitors describe how parts of shipments of weapons from Uganda and Djibouti, including assault rifles, rocket launchers, grenades and ammunition, “could not be accounted for”. The report also mentioned discrepancies in accounts of what had happened to arms sent from Ethiopia.
“Given the gaps in information … it is impossible to quantify what the scale of diversion of weapons stocks has been,” the report said. “However, the Monitoring Group has obtained other pieces ofqualitative evidence that point towards systematic abuses by the(Somali army).”
The Security Council imposed the embargo on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords, who a year earlier had ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged the country into civil war.
Somalia was virtually lawless until 2012, when it held its first vote in 21 years to elect a president and prime minister.
The monitors said they had identified at least two clan-based “centers of gravity” for arms procurement within Somali government structures that were distributing arms to “parallel security forces and clan
militias that are not part of the Somali security forces”.
One of those groups is within the Abgaal sub-clan of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who last month said he wanted the U.N. Security Council to extend the partial lifting of the embargo when it expires in March because government troops needed more and better equipment to
battle al Shabaab.
“A key adviser to the president, from his Abgaal sub-clan, has been involved in planning weapons deliveries to al Shabaab leader Sheikh Yusuf Isse … who is also Abgaal,” the report said.
Mohamud told Reuters in January his government had met all conditions related to the partial lifting of the embargo. “We have been following the instructions of the Security Council and the committee that has been assigned … to monitor,” he said.
GOVERNMENT MINISTER
The report also referred to the role played by a Somali government minister from the Habar Gedir sub-clan in relation to arms purchases from a “foreign government in the Gulf” – a government the report does not identify.
“The Monitoring Group has received credible evidence of un-notified weapons deliveries by air from the Gulf state to Mogadishu during the course of October 2013, which would constitute a direct violation of
the arms embargo,” it said.
“Indeed, after delivery, some of the weapons were moved to a private location in Mogadishu,” the monitors said.
The easing of the U.N. arms embargo has allowed sales of such weapons as automatic assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, but left in place a ban on surface-to-air missiles, large-caliber guns, howitzers, cannons and mortars as well as anti-tank guided weapons, mines and
night-vision weapon sights.
“The trends described above demonstrate that the implementation of the (government’s) security policy is being captured by clan and sub-clan politics,” the report said.
A confidential U.N. monitors’ report warns of “systematic abuses” by Somalia’s government, which the monitors say has allowed the diversion of weapons that Somali authorities purchased after the U.N. Security Council eased an arms embargo on Mogadishu
last year.
Some of the arms believed to have been diverted were earmarked for a leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, the monitors said in their report, which was obtained by Reuters.
In its 14-page report to the Security Council’s sanctions committee, the U.N. Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group recommends either restoring the full arms embargo or at least tightening notificationand reporting requirements related to arms deliveries.
“The Monitoring Group has identified a number of issues and concerns over current management of weapons and ammunition stockpiles by the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), which point to high-level and systematic abuses in weapons and ammunition management and distribution,” the report said.
The panel of independent experts tracks compliance with the U.N. Somalia-Eritrea sanctions regime.
The 15-nation council’s decision to ease Somalia’s decades-old arms embargo last March was a controversial one, although Washington supported the Somali government’s appeals for restrictions to be relaxed to enable it to better arm its security forces to fight al Shabaab.
The new report details difficulties the monitors have had in getting access to weapons stockpiles in Somalia and information about its growing arsenal. It says the government cancelled several inspections of armories that the monitors and U.N. officials had planned to undertake.
DISCREPANCIES
The monitors describe how parts of shipments of weapons from Uganda and Djibouti, including assault rifles, rocket launchers, grenades and ammunition, “could not be accounted for”. The report also mentioned discrepancies in accounts of what had happened to arms sent from Ethiopia.
“Given the gaps in information … it is impossible to quantify what the scale of diversion of weapons stocks has been,” the report said. “However, the Monitoring Group has obtained other pieces ofqualitative evidence that point towards systematic abuses by the(Somali army).”
The Security Council imposed the embargo on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords, who a year earlier had ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged the country into civil war.
Somalia was virtually lawless until 2012, when it held its first vote in 21 years to elect a president and prime minister.
The monitors said they had identified at least two clan-based “centers of gravity” for arms procurement within Somali government structures that were distributing arms to “parallel security forces and clan
militias that are not part of the Somali security forces”.
One of those groups is within the Abgaal sub-clan of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who last month said he wanted the U.N. Security Council to extend the partial lifting of the embargo when it expires in March because government troops needed more and better equipment to
battle al Shabaab.
“A key adviser to the president, from his Abgaal sub-clan, has been involved in planning weapons deliveries to al Shabaab leader Sheikh Yusuf Isse … who is also Abgaal,” the report said.
Mohamud told Reuters in January his government had met all conditions related to the partial lifting of the embargo. “We have been following the instructions of the Security Council and the committee that has been assigned … to monitor,” he said.
GOVERNMENT MINISTER
The report also referred to the role played by a Somali government minister from the Habar Gedir sub-clan in relation to arms purchases from a “foreign government in the Gulf” – a government the report does not identify.
“The Monitoring Group has received credible evidence of un-notified weapons deliveries by air from the Gulf state to Mogadishu during the course of October 2013, which would constitute a direct violation of
the arms embargo,” it said.
“Indeed, after delivery, some of the weapons were moved to a private location in Mogadishu,” the monitors said.
The easing of the U.N. arms embargo has allowed sales of such weapons as automatic assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, but left in place a ban on surface-to-air missiles, large-caliber guns, howitzers, cannons and mortars as well as anti-tank guided weapons, mines and
night-vision weapon sights.
“The trends described above demonstrate that the implementation of the (government’s) security policy is being captured by clan and sub-clan politics,” the report said.
When it comes to Somaliland politics, the tipping point of dispute is inevitable. Since 2005, the executive branch and parliament had a wonderful relationship. The relationship is basically related to the interests between them. The ‘you scratch my back and I will do yours’ relationship which means you do a favor for me and I will do a favor for you. The minister of state has said on a recent speech he made in Liverpool UK “we as government have passed on the parliament of 45 different rules and regulations with our trick and skills since the parliament has been elected”.
Each entity has its own responsibility. The parliament bears full responsibility for success or failure of that branch, same as the executive; but even before he was elected this current government, the chair of the parliament has eagerly supported the president.
The day dissent occurred within justice and welfare party (UCID); the current government blindly holds up the chair of the House instead of playing the neutral of the party dispute, which was part of the problem.
However, the time has come. The bribery, deception and paying-off have been ongoing. Who knows, who is right and who is wrong, but the question is who cares? Do the Somaliland citizens care? Is the civil society aware on the reason behind the conflict? A lot of questions have been asked.
The dispute has nothing to do with the interest of the people, but is exclusively the interest of the politicians. It is between executive apparatus and the leaders of the house of legislatives. They are not fighting for propose of the interest of the Somaliland citizens. They are selfish and they do not care about those who are elected, whether they are the executive branch or legislative branch.
Their first mandatory of two branches is to provide and delivery service to the people of Somaliland. The parliament has failed to fulfill their mandatory; more than one hundred laws are still bending up and needs to create bylaws. For example, the penal laws that our justice systems have been using is the one we had inherited from the Dictator Mohamed Siyaad Barre.
As the rumors say, after the executive branch paid the large amount of money, the legislative branch had submitted two opposing motions concerning on amendment of parliament laws. In addition, we are aware of the ongoing dispute between the chairman of the parliament and his deputies who are looking for the chance to overthrow him.
The executive branch has failed to fulfill its own responsibility. The poverty has been deteriorated; the public service has got totally worst. For example, more than half of the Hargeysa residents are suffering without water. Hospitals are getting more horrible day by day, the students do not have an adequate education except those who are going a privet schools.
Those who elected these two branches have to do something about it, whether they condemned their action or confront with them.
Nairobi, February 14, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by reports that two radio directors in the capital, Mogadishu, were arrested and held without charge for two days by Somalia’s National Security Agency.
Somali authorities detained two radio directors for two days and threatened to kill them if they continued to air news critical of the government upon their release, local journalists told CPJ. On Tuesday evening, National Security agents arrested the directors of two independent radio stations, Mohamed Barre and Ibrahim Mohamed from Radio Danan and Radio Haatuf, respectively, according to news reports and local journalists. They were released from a detention center Thursday night without charge, according to the same sources. Mohamed and Ibrahim were beaten in custody, a colleague who spoke to the journalists told CPJ.
Both journalists went into hiding on their release and could not be reached.
The two were arrested after broadcasting similar reports on Tuesday about a blast by an improvised explosive device that wounded the deputy governor of the Lower Shabelle Region of Somalia, Hassan Gessey, the chairman of the Somali Independent Media House Association, told CPJ. Both stations are members of the organization of 27 media houses in south and central Somalia.
“Authorities in Somalia must stop trying to intimidate the independent press with arbitrary detentions,” said CPJ East Africa Representative Tom Rhodes. “We call on the government to ensure that news outlets are able to report freely and for security personnel deal with journalists in a responsible, professional, and legal manner.”
Plainclothes men suspected to be security agents visited Radio Danan the same evening they released Mohamed in an apparent bid to intimidate the journalists working there, local journalists told CPJ, but did not elaborate. Both stations are still broadcasting, Gessey said.
Government spokesman Abdirahman Omar, reached by email, said he is out of the country and referred questions to the Information Ministry. CPJ’s calls to the information ministry went unanswered.
Authorities have arbitrarily detained at least six journalists across the country since January, according to CPJ research.
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What lessons as Somaliland, wannabe country, moved in political turmoil?
“Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You may feel little offended when you read the title, but it’s rightly fit for the ongoing recipe of disaster—it is crisis if you care about it—indeed, few idiots not just manipulated their bootlicker MPs but politically raped them openly, it is the case if ones are narrow-minded and greedy, they compromise values including religion because the latter is not just paint like beard or similar of which theypaint their faces like football fans, but it is a set of values people exercises in the critical time. however; Unlike Somalia’s bogus parliament whose country has burnt down to ashes flying over neighboring countries , reducedto breeding ground of terrorism; epicenter of major unprecedented famine, and turned to pockets of hostile small counties fighting to death, Somalilanders built what seemed a Westminster model Parliament which holds televised, lively debate with free press thus became an envy ofall Somali speaking masses across the world but Hirsi’s degrading remarks against women while in Liverpool’s fund raising party“ couple of wives gave milk….,”which he meant and vowed to return the two puppet deputies at the his behest or dismantle the entire Parliament of Somaliland with millions of Government money marked the end of epoch of good days of genuine of democratic Parliament.
For the last few days the ugly scenes of MPs who were said to get 70,000 USD each to remove their Hon. Speaker has been frequently appeared in the TV screens all over the world. So is Somaliland MPs becoming replica of Somalia’s All-You-get-Supermarket Parliament which guys, good or bad or terrorist whatever, can buy whatsoever they want? Or are they even worse? The parliament is last institution to be corrupted and financially raped with funds more needed to built maternity centers in Garadag and Oodweyne where women deliver babies in the open air and die of bleedingor rush to hundreds kilometer distant Adna Maternity Hospital in Hargaysa to add burden if they afford.
Somaliland is notorious for buying criminals off, not uprooting them, and appeasing militants and sometimes rewarding them high governmental posts until they get Jihad job or Saudi business. Ahmed Godane has been state guest in Somaliland until the budget of the establishment of dark caliphate has arrived from Arabia and Islamists’ cartels in Somaliland.
While many people blame Hirsi alone the carpetbagger in Hargaysa, the so called immoral MPs of underfed underpaid, whom lavishly fed in the VP’s House yesterday with mind-boggling promises of becoming ministers next election before the Reunification Talks end are the sole problem.
The MPs are poorly trained and poorly paid rendering them unable to buy Khat, “Somaliland’s brewery”.
Hirsi, however, has installed mortar guns on civilian cars to wage Jihad war against Riyale’s government to hijack the country and do what he is doing now. He was so desperate to rule as Mullah Omar of killing fields of Kabul, few days before the election. He was most wanted man in Somaliland next to Godane. The former had run to Buroa to avoid imprisonment.
The Late Samuel Doe of Liberia the naive leader
Saddam’s happy beginning and fatal ending from history book is this of which has parallel to us:
In 1976, Saddam rose to the position of general in the Iraqi armed forces, and rapidly became thestrongmanof the government. As the ailing, elderly al-Bakr became unable to execute his duties, Saddam took on an increasingly prominent role as the face of the government both internally and externally. He soon became the architect of Iraq’s foreign policy and represented the nation in all diplomatic situations. He was thede factoleader of Iraq some years before he formally came to power in 1979. He slowly began to consolidate his power over Iraq’s government and the Ba’ath party. Relationships with fellow party members were carefully cultivated, and Saddam soon accumulated a powerful circle of support within the party.
Putting your differences aside, what this does quotation picture? People in Eastern Buroa say “imagine Somaliland without Hirsi” he automatically became King Abdalle of Jordan.
President Silanyo is not just ailing but contracted a “simple stroke” or brain tumor, according to credible foreign newspaper which has access to his medical files. Dementia, age-related, symptom as well is seen. Such illness you can walk but one can be brain dead unable to run his life properly.
Hirsi’s bribery of the ignorant MPs is the first step towards consolidating power. Will donors ever accept to help elections of no rules? The situation went from bad to worst since Cohen’s reign.
Immediately after his entrance into the presidential complex with great fatigue and yet putting smart on his face and showing tolerance to the press, President Silanyo gathered millions of dollars from clannish sources to bribe MPs to unjustly sack the General Persecutor, Jurist Omane who only met him during oath-taking ceremony. God bless him. He left the judiciary system functioning.Sooner the little Hirsi took the lead whom many thought would be a friendly nurse to the president unlike the wrong impression begun to fire the Head of Police and the President of Intelligence whereby altered the formal structure of the modern government by including Sheikh ministers, ex-Madrasa, Hawalas assistants, and janitors to make it look more like Mullah Omar-led Taliban theocracy rather than being more West-style democracy of modern features of government. To justify his disorder, he stated his tribe— probably he meant for his cult or coterie— was out of the system.
More recently, the self-declared president Mr. Hirsi was in the UK in disguise of fundraising parties but actually taking cooperate kickbacks and millions of dollars of advances from “dubious” oil companies to use it as campaign funds in the next election while his people including underfed MPs dwells in squalor . he overhead that Hon. Speaker Erro has removed the mines besides him slightly with little noise, namely the two deputies, and demoted to mere MPs which they accepted until the Little the self-declared president uttered his nonsense remarks to put some spicy into….. And then he flew back like his mother has passed away leaving his Adoptive father Silanyo uncared though his primary assignment is friendly nurse’s “ job” who must accompany him even to graveyard! Locals refer to him as “The Shadow of Silanyo”. Because whenever the president appears in TV, the Little Hirse boys bet on him “wherever he goes, Hirse is always there!” see? Bold one devoid of moral values performs any mean task.
This guy who took huge space of my writing behind all the political upheavals Somaliland has experienced and continues to experience in the immediate future.This tiny wannabe country under besiege of all enemies is unpredictable in the months to come. Media was already muted out of fear or of hand-lubricating, Parliament is the last intact institution to alert nationals in case of ill-omen but its hope has dashed yesterday. How do we foresee if some things go wrong? If Somaliland begins to collapse, God forbid that! It would fall apart unnoticed because malnourished people are singing “ dhulkeena nimcaa fadhidda…..” .
The second Somalia Investment Summit 2014 takes place in Dubai in April 6th to 7th
DUBAI, UAE, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The growing confidence in Somalia’s economic recovery process has seen institutions like the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, commonly known as the PTA Bank, lift sanctions against the country.
PTA Bank is the key Sponsor for the Somalia Investment Summit (http://bit.ly/NEQVuU) joining other regional authorities like the Commonwealth Business Council and the Eastern Africa Economic Chambers of Commerce in supporting this high profile business forum
”This year’s summit opted for Dubai as a location to target the growing number of Gulf Investment in the Africa Region, the bilateral relations between Somalia and Dubai dates some hundred years, we are hopeful that the Somalia Investment Summit will reassure the Gulf Businesses of the untapped potential that is Somalia” Hassan Dudde MD of the Somali Economic Forum summit organisers stated.
The summit will be a platform for first-hand success stories of International private sector leaders who have already invested in Somalia and are now successfully operating in various regions. As the State of Somalia continues to attract international exposure and interest, this is the optimal time to invest in reforming the country’s economy to make private sector friendly. Rebuilding the State of Somalia will not only encourage economic growth but will certify vast profitable and effective markets.
”SiS will continue to highlight key economic trends that have emerged in Somalia, most notably the increased role of international investment in facilitating rapid economic growth and development within Somalia.” Hassan Dudde commenting
The Summit will initiate crucial dialogue on the current economic, developmental and financial trends and growth within the county and it will primarily focus on opportunities in the following 5 sectors; oil & gas, finance & banking, telecommunications, infrastructure, Agribusiness and finally the energy sector.
Somalia is certainly going to benefit from Africa’s growth and the ‘Africa Rising’ phenomenon will soon become the ‘Somalia Rising’ Story.
According to Economic Analysts, Somalia possesses the hallmarks to be a dynamic, regional economic power due to its strategic location and potential natural resource reserves. The best time to invest in Somalia is now and insiders would all agree that such an investment will pay dividends in the medium and long term.
The organisers are confident that the platform will act as a dynamic and enriching platform enabling investors to interact with industry captains and members of government to provide sustainable and mutually beneficial investments.
’2014 is indeed time for Somalia’
Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of the Somali Economic Forum.
