Arab Summit: Promises $120M/yr Somalia. Reaffirms Sudan's unity/Territorial integrity

[Gheelle.T]

It's all empty talk. Arabs issue resolution back and fourth with no real substance.

[Taleexi]

Like Somalis are better off and have substance in their deliberations waad iga yaabisay ninyahow.

[Gheelle.T]

Yaa Soomali ka hadlaya, Taleexi? What is it that made you excited about this specific Arab resolution? That they will give a mere $10 million/month to a nation that is suffering? or the fact that they support their Arab brothers in Sudan?

[NASSIR]

Great Job by the President...

 

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Somalia leader leaves for Afro-Arab summit in Libya

 

MOGADISHU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has left the capital Mogadishu for Libya to attend the Afro- Arab summit there, a statement from the Presidency said Friday.

 

The two-day summit will discuss boosting cooperation between African and Arab countries.

 

"President Sharif will share with the assembled Afro-Arab leaders his vision for Somalia without piracy, terrorism and devastation," said the statement from the Office of the Somali presidency.

 

"He will request that Somalia 's Arab and African brothers, to once and far all, help end the agonizing twenty years long national trauma in Somalia ," the statement, of which Xinhua received a copy, added.

 

The Somali government is struggling with a deadly Islamist insurgency which forced it into a few blocks in the restive capital Mogadishu under the protection of almost 6,000 African Union peacekeeping forces.

 

The war-torn east African country's seas are rife with piracy which wrecked havoc on international shipping activities in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden to the north of the horn of African nation.

 

The Somali leader is accompanied to the summit by the foreign and finance ministers as well as MPs and other senior officials.

 

Source: Xinhua

[Som@li]

Too much DHOOSO, nothing else,

 

Carabi Iyadaa too la liita, Wax ay Soomaali iyo Sudan tari karaan baaba iska yar.

 

Sudan will be divided.

[NASSIR]

Taleexi, it's the supporters of the secessionist-inspired tribal entities who are protesting the financial assistance promised to the Somali Nation and its internationally recognized Government by this Summit.

 

It seems they object to a strong central government..

[NASSIR]

Som@li, don't be too narrow-minded saxib.

 

Why divide South Sudan with a population of 3M whereas you leave the Somali region (estimated to be above 6 million) under Ethiopia's rule to be forever colonized.

 

Is it because southern SUDAN has oil that Uganda and Kenya and other powers covet so much. South Sudan, if given granted independence (either by force or through mutually agreed partition) will turn out to be worse than Congo. They are so vulnerable to exploitation and regional intervention.

 

The Unity of Sudan is very important to the stability of the East Africa region. Why call for the partition of Sudan, and not Ethiopia and Kenya?

[NASSIR]

Sudan a Country to Study, writes,

 

“the SPLM sought, not secession from Sudan, but a solution based on a secular, democratic, and federal political system. Because one of the first acts of the transitional military government that overthrew Nimeiri was to suspend enforcement of the September Laws, Garang and other SPLM leaders initially were optimistic about resolving their grievances with Khartoum.”

 

These could be interpreted as the aspirations of the two phases of southern movement.

[Allamagan]

As usual, the arabs talk the talk! Sharifkana been bay u sheegayan. The truth is that if the "international" community wants to partition Sudan then nothing can incompetent Arab leaders do about that.

[Som@li]

Originally posted by NASSIR:

Som@li, don't be too narrow-minded saxib.

 

Why divide South Sudan with a population of 3M whereas you leave the Somali region (estimated to be above 6 million) under Ethiopia's rule to be forever colonized.

 

Is it because southern SUDAN has oil that Uganda and Kenya and other powers covet so much. South Sudan, if given granted independence (either by force or through mutually agreed partition) will turn out to be worse than Congo. They are so vulnerable to exploitation and regional intervention.

 

The Unity of Sudan is very important to the stability of the East Africa region. Why call for the partition of Sudan, and not Ethiopia and Kenya?

Nassir, It is not me who wants Sudan to be divided, it is already happening mate, and there is nothing Arabs or Sudan can do about it,It is all because of too much injustice over 60 years by the northern !diots, to those people, a lot of Oil and Gas, plus the desire of the West (Super powers) wanting them to secede, and the fact they are different ethnic group.

 

It is the northern rulers who made it easy, by marginalizing their citizens for too long, with no help, no Schools, no Health Systems.

 

Just watch, It will happen, Arabs will not be able to do anything, just like the invasion on Iraq.

 

After Southern Sudan, Dafur will be next.

 

I remember watching Dafur leader on Aljazeera, he said, "Why are Arabs arming the government against us, saying this is Jihad, while we are Muslims, instead they should mediate"

[Som@li]

Originally posted by Allamagan:

As usual, the arabs talk the talk! Sharifkana been bay u sheegayan. The truth is that if the "international" community wants to partition Sudan then nothing can incompetent Arab leaders do about that.

Exactly

[Mad_Mullah]

Look at how the SL members are attacking the Arabs but in the other threads worship the Ethiopians..pathetic.

[NASSIR]

S@mali, Arabs could not help the mad man Sadam because he was threatening the whole region. He invaded Kuweit after 8 years of regional war with Iran, threatened Saudi Arabia's Sovereignty and he systematically oppressed his own people , the worst time of his dictatorial rule being when he gassed the Kurdish Iraqis. Yet after 9 years, American policymakers regret the cost of the war in Iraq (a moral and financial drain on its international image) despite ongoing national security concerns. And we are feeling the brunt of the economic recession borne by it.

 

Anyway, you guys seem to be underestimating the political and economic clout the Arab nations wield. (Saudi Arabia is the third biggest creditor of the United States after China and Japan...Super-powers will side with their Arab friends when the push comes to shove).

 

They can sure safeguard the interest of the Arab League. We don't have to be hostile to their genuine concern for Somalia. Or is it a motivational reaction on the part of their inability to form a strong and cohesive foreign policy?

 

So, I ask you again, why not the freedom of our Somali region under Ethiopia's rule?

[Jacaylbaro]

United Nations to police Sudan “hotspots”

 

United Nations troops could police “hotspots” on the tense border between North and South Sudan before an independence referendum in the south, a senior US official said.

 

The international community can also step up sanctions against Sudan if the vote is seriously delayed, the official added late on Wednesday.

 

South Sudan president Salva Kiir asked for UN peacekeepers to be put along the border when UN Security Council ambassadors visited Sudan last week.

 

Some UN mission (Unmis) troops already act as observers in the frontier region, where each side has accused the other of building up their military ahead of the referendum.

 

“Nobody thinks it is realistic to put Unmis, even if we had masses more troops, along the north-south border in a country that large,” the US official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

 

“One thing I think we can and should consider if the (UN special representative) and the (UN) secretariat come forward with such a proposal is looking at augmenting Unmis in certain hotspots along the border where a buffer presence could be established,” the official added.

 

The January 9 referendum in South Sudan and the small oil-rich region of Abyei is part of a 2005 peace accord that ended a two-decade civil war between the North and South in which two million people died.

 

Unmis has a 10 000 strong peacekeeping force in Sudan.

 

The South is widely expected to vote for secession, but preparations for the votes are seriously behind schedule. The UN Security Council went to Sudan last week to put the international message that the votes must be on time and peaceful.

 

The official said the United States was looking for ways to strengthen the application of current UN sanctions against Sudan and that if the referendums were delayed new measures could be taken.

 

“There are additional measures we could contemplate. And I don't view it particularly constructive at this point to be specific,” the official said.

 

“I think it is fair to say that neither the international community, neither any individual member state is without some leverage.”

 

 

- Sapa-AFP

[Jacaylbaro]

CARABI HA ISKA HADASHO HADABA ...........