This is the Capital City of Somaliland.

The Hassan Khayre led government is failing both on domestic security and international policy. Today , the sixth bombing as many day has rocked Mogadishu with deadly fatalities. Despite the " peace security brigade" formed to pacify the capital and intercept the bomb laden cars, nothing seem to be working. Mogadishu is already the most fortified city in the world with blocked streets and checkpoints. Just like the colonial powers of the last century the government and their connected NGO's live in these fortified neighborhoods while the native populations resides outside these zones . Leaving the native population outside had allowed Al-shabaab to have free hand plot their deadly attacks in a way that impacts the nation. Would be Somali soldiers were trained by many nations for the last six years. Americans, European union soldiers, Italians , and African countries were some of the nations training these soldiers. Turkey , the most important partner of rebuilding Somalia, has been training professional Somali soldiers for more than a year and was graduating hundreds of soldiers. Yey, no one can travel between Mogadishu and Jowhar. Is these soldiers become ghost soldiers after graduation? , or they just disappear when they no longer able receive their salary. I always believed that a small but effective and well paid professional soldiers are the answers for the security issues. It seems that there is no shortage of soldiers but what is missing is the management and deployment of the soldiers . As the Farmaajo speech has shown , he delegated most of these tasks to the generals and the defense department. Yet, the blame should go to those who manage these generals and the prime minister himself. We have enough of the false bosting and promises of prime minister Khayre. He had enough time to pacify the capital or make his ministers accountable. Farmaajo must force Khayre to either shuffle the cabinet or ask him to resign. The area that need a change are mostly foreign policy department, internal ministry, defense ministry and national security. I would not ask him to change the army commanders and leadership which needs continuity . We do need to critically look the foreign policy of Somalia. Things are happening without critical consultation and deep debate within the leadership. Farmaajo went to Eritrea and helped them get rid of the sanctions against Eritrea without no tangible exchange. Before the president flies to any country , he must have his foreign policy group ahead of him and digest everything before hand. He seems to be stumbling to surprises prepared by other nations. If others present a blue print that t is too good to be true , it is the duty of the foreign ministry to read the fine print and analyse the future consequences. Abiy Ahmed looked the cards Farmaajo was carrying and took those who were useful for him and is now using now one by one. Without notice , Abiy took him to Kenya un prepared and got nothing from Kenya. When Dr. Bayleh took the Kenyans to international court, the Kenyan president came to Mogadishu to resolve the issue. As Trump had shown with the Syrian Golan Height issue, the international rule and law that guided the world since the second world war is disappearing. As Somalia passes one of our weakest time in history, predator nations could take advantage and annex some of the best and fertile land in Somalia especially the Jubba area. When you have landlocked nations like Uganda, Ethiopia, and Burundi debating Somali maritime territory and rules, we must all worry. They are probably shocked that how a failed state and dysfunctional government and people could own this prime real estate and ocean in the horn of Africa. In order to avoid theft of maritime resource and even the annexation of Somali proper, Farmaajo must quicken the withdrawal of foreign forces from somalia. It will diminish the future theft and domination by others. Those and many others reasons must be a case to fire and replace the foreign minister and his team. If he is overruled and Farmaajo is carrying his foreign policy in a whimp , then there is no hope of shuffling or changing things. I have even Seen the prime minister fly to Kenya without the foreign minister and do his personal business with Kenyan leadership. Waxaanu nahay dameer malab sida oo aan ogayn waxa uu sido. We are carrying a gold yet we do not know the value in our back. As I stated in these pages, the defense minister is missing in action. No one knows him, and no one has seen him speak or address the nation on the issue of soldiers and the missing salary. Same thing goes with the home affairs ministry. I have never seen him travel to the hotspots of the country. It was the first time today I saw him visit central Somalia. Just like the defense minister, the national security minister is an unknown hotel manager who usually discusses checkpoints or couple of soldiers who abandoned a check point.In other words , he acts like a police officer in Xamar Weyne. Furthermore, the national intelligence man is money carrying election hacker who thinks he can buy anyone just like the presidential elections. He spends most of his days to bribe warlords in the media and unemployed social media personalities to increase the popularity of the government. While politics is important in any system, it must end somewhere and the real work of nation building, performing your duty and regular work is an everyday thing. These tasks need honesty, dedication and commitment. The Southern ways of shortcutting things or being shrewd doesn't build long term and stable system. These and many other shortcomings can't be allowed to continue. Farmaajo is already in big hole and the chances to come out are very small, yet one must always try and dig himself out. To keep doing the same thing and not changing the course would be digging deeper. There are few options. Fire the prime minister and appoint a new one. Looking the choices Khayre made in his cabinet it is difficult to keep going the same bath. Having incompetent members of cabinet had allowed the prime minister to keep all decision making in his office and increase his workload. Weak members of the cabinet usually draw their salaries and try not ruffle any feathers. That is why the defense minister is not comfortable coming out to the media and make the case.Ministers are not allowed to make decisions and push the issues with confidence. The 66 men cabinet that is assembled are nothing but liaison officers to help them inside the parliament to defeat motions. Other than few members of the cabinet most of them had failed or sidelined by khayre. Furthermore, Khayre had failed to build a sustainable relationship with the Mogadishu community. As a local son , he should had the courage to confront the Mogadishu instability without fear and repercussions. He no longer have the confidence of the locals and as a bad police could no longer arrest or confront the anti peace elements. These and many other reasons should force Farmaajo to change course and get a new government for the remaining years. Renewing the mandate and getting a new government is one of the ways to energize the system. Make an overarching cabinet shuffle. Rather than micromanage everything, the prime minister must appoint known heavy weights to the cabinet and allow them to shine. Mr. Khayre must not expect his ministers to be school children that should be either muzzled or lectured. The last men who asked few normal questions---Yusuf Garaad and Juxa--were fired without cause. In fact, since Yusuf Garaad was fired the foreign policy of the country was going down the drain.Mr. Garaad had managed the gulf Arabs and their blockade saga very well, he nurtured the Turkish bond and release hundreds of Somalis from foreign jails. He must change at least those who are involved in defense, interior, security and intelligence. In fact, it could be argued these three, the interior, defense and intelligence were appointed to fill their tribal slots without qualifications. If anyone of those options are impossible then you must expect to make your bed in that hole. If you do not change the course, you could become the worst president since Carta government. Do not listen to the unemployed social media kids and others who would never tell you the truth. Somalia is in the crossroads and change of course is a must.

Berbera is on the up. The mayor Mr Ciddin, is doing a great job. He's an example to the other mayors of SL.

There won't be any talks any time soon. Somaliland and Somalia will also never ever unite again the people have seen the evils of the failed cancerous union. The koonfurians can look for solutions else where perhaps Uganda Ethiopia can help them.

@galbeedi I will be highly surprised if Cheeseman replaced Khaire. Khaire has got Cheeseman on a chokehold. He is not going anywhere. Anyway, Cheeseman is in the middle of a muddy field, he is only going down from here. The IC have given him until July to get the electrol laws passed. This was meant to be finalised in July 2018. This is highly unlikely, but lets assume this goes through. Lets assume they copy the Somaliland electrol laws word for word just to save time. The biggest issue in my opinion is not about the laws at all. It is the people's mentality towards Multi-party elections. With a weak, fragmented clan based melitia, throwing multiparty elections will be akin to adding fuel to fire. Multiparty elections are by nature divisive and if you add the clan politics, it is even more divisive. And adding half-baked electrol laws, is like adding fuel and throwing a match on to it. There is no Goodwill left for Cheeseman. He has no oratory skills to bring people together. He has lost all politcal capital and is walking naked. This is the reality.

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