The political reality of Somalia Today: Job posting..

[NASSIR]

Here is a report by the Security Council dated 1994. This is after the Sanaag and Sool regions were recognized as seperate regions from the Northwestern secessionist regions.

We also strongly object to the channelling of the allocated fund for the Sool and Sanaag regions through the secessionist authority of the north-west. By doing so we feel that UNOSOM violates both United Nations Security Council

resolution 897 (1994)

and the recommendations of the donors at the fourth humanitarian conference held in Addis Ababa in December 1993.

UNOSOM’s response concerning this subject was that

it was pressured by the United Kingdom Government through its mission at United Nations Headquarters.

 

Security Council

[Thankful]

Originally posted by NASSIR:

quote:Originally posted by Thankful:

Actually most UN reports refer to Sanaag as Eastern and Western Sanaag. They actually warn people from travelling there as it is one of the few disputed regions in Northern Somalia. Even the U.S State department does as well.

 

travel.state.gov

 

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The Sanaag and Sool Regions in eastern Somaliland, bordering on Puntland (northeastern Somalia), are particularly unsafe due to ongoing border disputes and inter-clan fighting.

Thankful, you can't even differentiate the U.S state department press releases on travel from the UN field reports?

 

 

Sanaag has been the most peaceful region of Somalia

This is what he UN says and let me point out they use the term Eastern Sanaag the most, they definitely differentiate between Western and Eastern Sanaag! UN

 

 

MOHAMED SA'ID "ATOM" has engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Somalia. ATOM has directly or indirectly supplied, sold, or transferred to Somalia arms or related materiel or advice, training, or assistance, including financing and financial assistance, related to military activities in violation of the arms embargo. ATOM has been identified as one of the principal suppliers of arms and ammunition for al-Shabaab operations in the Puntland region.

He is described as the leader of a militia that emerged in 2006 in the eastern Sanaag region of northern Somalia.

The militia comprises as many as 250 fighters and has been implicated in incidents of kidnapping, piracy and terrorism, and imports its own weapons, in violation of the arms embargo. ATOM has established his force as the principal military presence in the area, with a primary base near Galgala and a secondary base near Badhan. According to some information, ATOM is aligned with al-Shabaab and may receive instructions from al-Shabaab leader Fu'aad Mohamed Khalaf.

 

According to the international community it is not one of the safest as there are many warnings of travelling to these areas and if you notice they mention the border area's, meaning their is a split between Eastern and Western Sanaag.

 

British Government

 

The Somali President declared a state of emergency on 22 June 2009. Insurgent activity and political tension remains high. There are ongoing reports of deaths and casualties in continued fighting in Mogadishu and in South and Central Somalia.

There is also tension on the Somaliland/Puntland border in the Sool and Sanaag regions.

Canadian Government

 

 

Somaliland and Puntland

 

Parts of Somaliland (a self-declared republic seeking independence) and Puntland (an administrative region in the northeast operating as a separate entity) have experienced relative periods of stability compared to the south-central part of the country.

However, violent attacks on foreign targets, including workers and buildings under the auspices of the United Nations, continue to highlight the extremely unstable and unpredictable security situation. Such attacks have been reported in the Sanaag and Sool regions of Somaliland and the border with Puntland.

Tensions and escalating violence in the south of the country could also spread to Somaliland and Puntland at any time

[General Duke]

Nassir adeer, the political reality of Somalia as this posting highlights is that there are three distinct regions of Somalia. Puntland, Somaliland and South Central. Nothing else lad.

[Polanyi]

It's all about Somalilane. No, it's all about Puntieland. Oh noo,don't forget about Maakhir. Nooo, SSC exists. Bladlana ha ilawin, blad.