They probably stole the idea from me , but I do not mind if they implement. The nations capital should not be crowded in a hundred kilometer square quagmire that can't accommodate millions of people and cars. A vibrant , commercial, political and cultural capital of the nation must have the future plans to accommodate three or more million people. In order to get a vibrant city that accommodates huge population to the future you need a good urban planning. You need hundreds of acres for roads and high ways to follow from every direction. You need four lane highways and ring roads for heavy vehicles and others. You need public parks, youth and sport oriented fields and pedestrian walk ways for the public. Even the Mogadishu airport should be removed or transformed to regional and domestic flight airport. Flights landing from the north west usually descent among large population in Xamar Jajab and other urban area close to the airport. The noise alone is bad for the residents, and God forbid if accidents happen hundreds might die. You can't have a huge international airport among heavy density populated parts of the town. You need to plan and build huge airport outside the city and the urban perimeter .Either take to all the way to Afgooye zone or north of Kaaraan to the Balacad zone. Yet, in order for all that to happen you need hard nosed politician and first class engineers and urban planers. Asians are the best builders these days. Furthermore, do not rush. You need extensive planning and many competing ideas to make the right decision.

Yoniz, The best news and the only valuable message that comes from these EU and World Bank affair is debt relief. If they actually agreed to debt relive that will be something to celebrate. Personally, I have appetite for donor countries or their money. Nations are not build on donor or NGO money paid by the so called Paris club. Every decade, we hear that western donors want to contribute $40 billion development fund, millennium fund, or other funds to help the developing countries. Yet, if you ask them to right off the $40 billion dollar these countries accumulated during the cold war or before 1990, they will say no. Why you want to give me aid money, while on the other hand, you keep pilling the interest of debt that undermines my economy by taking hundreds of millions of interest?. Not a single one of these nations is capable of repaying the debt and their only efforts would be to keep paying the interest. The Soviet Union had written of over hundred billion dollar debt owed by the developing nations during the cold war. The world bank and other donors left Ethiopia in 2005, after disagreements with Meles Zenawi , the late prime minister. Yet, Ethiopia had grown for the last 14 years without world bank loans .Look at the Asian nation from Burma, to Cambodia and other less developed than the big Asian tigers like South Korea. They have good infrastructure and relatively stable economy. They are not built by donors but the hard work of their people. Furthermore, a government that resides in one city where all its military , police and ministers reside , doesn't need huge money to operate and survive. No one is asking them to serve the hospitals in Buuhoodle, Diinsoor or Cadale. I bet you that the 68 government ministers are paid and maintained by the UN and the NGO's, just as their travels, expenses and their security is taken care off by others. If I were a real opposition, I might even ask the huge salary budgeted for both the office of the prime minister and the president. In 2017, each one of them was supposed to receive over $5 million dollars in salary. That means close to 10% of the budget is consumed by these two men and their offices. Even if each of them had 20 or 30 employees, that is too much for a nation that had a budget of little over $150 million dollars. Muuse Biixi in Hargeisa does the same thing by taking $13 million dollars to operate with a staff of two dozen, while education is allocated half of that. Farmaajo even claimed that he doesn't know his yearly or monthly salary. Of course it is true when you have a bag money coming from the gulf. Somalia uma baahno lacag aan la shaqaysan iyo deyn. Somalia shaqo ayey u baahan tahay. My first order would be to fire the vulture type diaspora folks who are making $7,000 dollars a month and replace them with a local person who could do the job for $700 dollars or ten times less the than the greedy diaspora who fills the hotels. Folks, the whole Somali nation needs rehabilitation and to change the culture and attitude of our people. The Oromo in Hargeisa, Boosaaso and Borama are sending hard currency to their villages in Ethiopia while the lazy Somali is chewing Qat and talking to the latest iPhone. We have been sending money to family members for twenty years. We helped then raise the children, and now when those children became adults, they just started where their fathers and mothers left. A friend told me that one of his nephew keep calling him from Uganda three in the morning. One night, he asked him about the Somalis whom hailed from the same region like him who owned clothing and other merchandise shops, and enquired about getting a job from those stores , especially the one owned by some close family members. He said, " Waar kuwaasi dadka ayey adoonsadaan oo 12 saacadood ayaa loo shaqeyya". The next day, he called one of the store owners and told him to hire him and send him $1200 dollars for his salary for one year. He informed him about the job and told to stop calling him and work at that shop. Initially , he refused to work , but after a month had passed, he had no choice but to work to survive. The Somali state leadership from top to down is filled by people who accepted that the only way to build a nation or organize the security of the nation is money and muscle from donors. As long as that culture exists, do not expect any thing to change. If money and foreign weapons would resolve the economy and the insurgency related security, it would have settled the Afghanistan issue which is still burning after 17 years, while getting help from the most powerful army and NATO. I have friends who works for the Halane compound and they fly back and forth every three months. They work only nine months a year with six fugue salary. Some of you might be too young but the bad culture and theft of the resources without had work started when the I M F landed Somalia in 1981. They devalued the Somali Shilling to boast the trade and imports and created the inflation that destroyed the poor and created the " Booli Qaran" and the Landcruiser that crisscrossed Mogadishu. I do not see any efforts to introduce or create a more stable or small denomination currency to replace the old Shilling that exchanges the one single dollar to thousands of Shillings. It seems Farmaajo and company had given the financial policy of the nation to others in order to get few millions. The same thing is happening in Hargeisa to day where life is difficult for the ordinary people. In Garoowe, almost everyone is working for NGO's and other UN agencies. Hotels are full and people are flying from north and south to get the pie. As I said, there is no short cut for nation and army building but hard work, sweat and blood. Inta aanu idiinka imaanayno iska nafisa. Wadankani gacan bir ah ayuu u baahan yahay. In Canada, they say: If you are breathing you work, if you are not working, you are not eating.