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

[The Zack]

Originally posted by Jacaylbaro:

quote: Carabta waxee u taganyihiin midnimada, jiritaanka iyo kala go'itaan la'aanta Soomaaliya.

Tooda ka waran hee marka ?? ,,,, every tuulo has its own kingdom and dowlad and yet they want inay midnimada "soomaaliya" isu taagaan ?? ,,,

Ever heard of "Do as I say, not as I do"? And it works great. A good example is your business management class prof at your college, he can teach you about business and you will be able to implement his teachings and be a good businessman where he (the prof) can't implement that. Plus the Arabs are no different than the west like Naassir, the SOL veteran, said. You gotta listen what they are telling you to receive some portions of their big bucks. The west is the same, you gotta work on your way to freaking democracy to even think about getting a penny of aid from them.

[Jacaylbaro]

Bad comparison here .........

 

Again the west try to adapt to the said "democracy" then they tell the rest of the world to do so. But look at these thugs telling you "We are separated but you should be united" ,,,,,

[SayidSomal]

Cudud ma leh col kula weerar gala ciidan iyo xooge

Inkastey cid kuu soo diraan waa cidloo kale

Caloosha iyo madaxay sidii dumar cantuugaane

Maandhoow cayaayirka iga daa Carabi waa naage

what were you guys talking about?

[Jacaylbaro]

[Mad_Mullah]

Jacaylbaro, the Somaliland goverment are thugs like the Arab goverments! The Arab goverments have betrayed one another, and Somaliland has betrayed the OG, even giving women to the Secret Services of Ethiopia..

 

And to be honest, if they decided to give money to Somaliland, you wouldn't stop worshipping them.

[NASSIR]

Sayid-admirer, was Axmed Saalax, the man whom Sayid thought to be his true spiritual leader and guardian, an Arab.

Remember Sayid was demoralized and he killed many of his followers after that forged letter from his Arab spiritual guardian.

C'mon, don't worry about the summit's resolution on the unity and restoration of Somalia.

 

It's good for the TFG.

[NASSIR]

Zack, well said. They aint no different from other players' role in the region.

[Som@li]

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Sudan: One country or two?

 

George Clooney explains why an upcoming referendum in South Sudan could trigger more violence.

 

As people in southern Sudan prepare for an independence referendum next year, is Africa's largest country heading towards another civil war?

 

South Sudan is likely to break away from the North in a vote scheduled for January 9, 2011. The referendum is part of a 2005 peace agreement that ended a prolonged long civil war between the Arab and Muslim North and the Christian and Animist South in which two million people died.

 

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But Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, who also leads the North's National Congress Party, says he "will not accept an alternative to unity" causing fears that Sudan could slip into another cycle of violence and bloodshed if the South votes to secede.

 

On Wednesday, joining us to discuss those issues will be George Clooney, the Oscar-winning actor and activist. He has just returned from Southern Sudan where he says violence is imminent unless the world acts.

 

Also joining the programme will be John Prendergast, an author and human rights activist who has worked for peace in Africa now for 25 years.

 

This episode of Riz Khan aired from Wednesday, October 13, 2010.

 

 

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[Jacaylbaro]

Sudan south eyes settlement on disputed Abyei

 

Sudan's south is ready to offer the north a financial package to soften the blow of secession if it agrees to allow southern annexation of the oil-producing Abyei region, said a senior former southern rebel.

Both the north and the south claim the central Abyei area, which is due to hold a referendum to decide which part of Sudan it will join on January 9, 2011, the same day southerners are due to vote in a referendum on independence from the north.

 

But the north and south have been unable to agree on who should be allowed to vote in the Abyei referendum, raising questions about whether it can go ahead and leading mediators to to come up with alternative solutions, Reuters reports.

 

Luka Biong, minister of cabinet affairs in the coalition government formed after a 2005 north-south peace deal, told Reuters the south had accepted a U.S. suggestion that it annex Abyei by presidential decree if the referendum did not go ahead.

 

To compensate the north for agreeing to a peaceful settlement along these lines, the south would agree to arrange a financial package.

 

He said this could be in the form of an interest-free loan to the north to cover up to half the loss in oil revenues if the south secedes.

 

The south would also create a development fund from Abyei's oil revenues for Sudan's Missiriya nomads, who move south through Abyei a few months a year to graze cattle. The Missiriya tribes would also be granted citizenship rights in the event the Abyei referendum did not take place.

 

"Abyei could be a flashpoint for not having peace -- this is for the sake of peace," said Biong, a senior member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the grouping of former southern rebels. "It's bigger than just Abyei."

 

He said such a settlement could only happen if an Abyei vote became impossible and must be announced before the January 9 southern plebiscite and implemented before July 9, 2011 when the peace process formally ends.

 

The northern National Congress Party (NCP) says the Missiriya should have full voting rights in Abyei alongside the Dinka Ngok, who farm the land all year round, and other residents. The SPLM rejects this.

 

Biong said Washington feared the dispute over Abyei would end up leading to conflict and had therefore proposed the settlement.

 

"They put this proposal ... having a presidential decree to return Abyei back to the south and the Missiriya to have dual citizenship -- we accepted it," Biong said.

 

Under a 2005 peace deal a semi-autonomous southern government took 50 percent of the revenues from wells in the south, a majority of the 470,000 barrels per day output. But if the south secedes, it will want all revenues from the southern fields.

 

Sudan's north-south civil war was fought over issues including religion, oil, ethnicity and ideology and claimed some 2 million lives. Most analysts predict the south will vote to secede but a lack of agreement over Abyei, citizenship, oil sharing and the north-south border has raised fears of renewed conflict.