Oil Giants – NGOs involvement in Maakhir – Somalia?

[Koora-Tuunshe]

This is a dangerous development. They (Range Resources Inc and Africa Oil Corp) are using the same underhanded tactics some Oil Co's once employed against the people of Ecuador who once rejected the exploitation of their country's resources. Aid Organizations in collusion with oil companies have been alleged to distribute food aid laced with laxatives in order to create the cholera epidemic.

 

 

 

Oil Giants – NGOs involvement in Maakhir – Somalia?

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

April 15, 2008

 

In the easternmost confines of Maakhir (the recently self-declared autonomous state of Somalia), and more particularly in the city of Dhahar, an abhorrent Crime against the Mankind is about to be revealed.

 

The new pro-unitary autonomous state remains unrecognized by the Transitional Federal Government which is the officially recognized, yet deeply unrepresentative, Somali institution. Most of the territory of Maakhir corresponds to the Sanaag province, and is inhabited by the Warsangeli Somalis. In the area of Sanaag, Puntland, Somaliland and Maakhir entered repeatedly into various conflicts.

 

The collapse of the environmental conditions is one of the reasons of the strife, notably between the environmentally conscious and sensitive authorities of Maakhir and the treacherous merchants of self-destruction, who are based at Garowe, the purported capital of the unrecognized Puntland.

 

We will quote at this point an excerpt taken from the wikipedia: "A severe drought in the region in the early part of the 21st century caused an 80% or greater loss of livestock, though two good rainy seasons in 2004–2005 helped restore the area. Over a 15-year period of analysis, from 1988–2003, there was a 52% loss of forest and a 40% loss of grassland, and a 370% increase in bare land. Soil erosion due to weather and human activities and clearing of wood and brush for such uses as charcoal and fuel are issues leading to a degradation of the environment"(1).

 

It becomes clear in this regard that the insistence of the Puntland pseudo-authorities and monstrous merchants on the charcoal trade means grave natural and national destruction for the entire Horn of Africa region. More on this subject one can find in a special photo-gallery that highlights the Maakhir authorities´ commitment to environmental protection and law enforcement:

 

This situation had triggered rightful questions as regards the secret targets of some centers of global power that so determinedly and so mercilessly intend to totally obliterate from Somalia any sources, forms and aspects of life. As the questions about the perseverance of the enemies of Somalia keep minds on the alert, a new development that occurred over the past 10 days in Dhahar was interpreted as able to reconfirm the deepest suspicions with respect to plans of mass extermination of the Somali Nation, and complete destruction of the environmental parameters of the Horn of Africa area.

 

Dozens of Dead Because of Food Donations Containing Laxative Ingredients

 

Yesterday, the leading Somali portal Dhahar.com published a first report on the issue, revealing that emergency food donated caused Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) and even the death of dozens of innocent Somalis. No less than 500 cases have been identified and recorded by the UN Office for the Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). A Kuwaiti medical team arrived the day before yesterday only to reconfirm the tragic event.

 

The Hidden Perpetrators

 

Revealing the identity of the true perpetrators may be an easy task, if we do scrupulously monitor the international press and constantly identify critical developments of which little is published.

 

Two Somali engineers and specialists revealed before precisely two (2) years the existence of a – monstrous and illegal – concession agreement signed between the totally unrepresentative authorities of the TFG and the ´state´ of Puntland with Consort Private Ltd, an obscure company that subsequently sold 50.1% of their shares to Range Resources Ltd, a small Australian firm, which announced on 21 April 2006 that it secured a letter of intent from Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC) to buy 75% of the land covered by Range´s concession. The unprecedented document covers an incredibly vast area, almost 90% of the territory under Puntland authorities´ control (more than 200000 km2).

 

It seems that the Somali soil contains a real lake of Oil, and perhaps the expectations posted in the KNOC website for the company return and net profit over the next 7 years reflect the estimates about the early stages of Oil exploitation in Somalia.

 

The best way to evacuate the legitimate inhabitants from most of the coastal regions of Puntland is to decimate them first, and it seems that for 16 consecutive years, wars and conflicts did not prove to be enough. By controlling several Aid organizations that deliver emergency food to those who managed to survive from starvation, an Oil giant can achieve the Somali population evacuation project without even creating protestations. The dead do not protest.

 

At this point, we suggest every concerned individual to go through the well written and informative articles of the two aforementioned Somali engineers, Omar Abdi and Salah Fatah, under the title ´Puntland Oil & Mining Deal: The Offspring of an Affair between Greed and Incompetence.

 

We will however expand further in the future.

 

Note

 

Picture: the tremendously valuable natural environment of Somalia is in danger because of the illegitimate representatives of the divided nation, and the Oil exploitation plans of the world´s Oil Cartel

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

OMG, SOMALIS!

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

and how do laxatives create cholera?

[Som@li]

Thanks Koora-Tuunshe , Dr Mohammad again hit the nail on the head

[Koora-Tuunshe]

Somalia: Emergency food aid donated to Dhahar district have raised heightened suspicion

 

Sanaag, Apri 14, 2008 (DhaharOnline)-Reports coming from Dhahar district indicate that the emergency food donated to the rural inhabitants just prior to the outbreak of the Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) contained significant laxative ingredients.

 

Some of the local physicians in the town of Dhahar have also scientifically confirmed in an examination conducted at the main laboratory of Dhahar Hospital that the food donated by Aid organizations in the region were heavily laced with laxatives to cause the diarrhea epidemic.

 

Just prior to the outbreak of AWD, the elders of Sanaag were delegated to the management, coordination, and distribution of the food aid, according to news reports from the region on April 4, 2008. The food aid first arrived in Dhahar via Garowe, the capital of Puntland.

 

On the same day, dozens of people mostly from the rural settlements of Dhahar had died of AWD.

 

Over 500 cases are recorded as of now in the district and the surrounding villages, according to the Office for the Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

 

Medical team from Almanhal Al-Islami, a charity organization based in Kuwait, arrived in Dhahar yesterday. They were given access to health care facilities where most patients were admitted.

 

Al-Manhal was also reported to have provided life-saving medicines and promised to increase the capacities of the healthy system in the region.

 

Source: Dhahar.com

[Koora-Tuunshe]

Somalia: Eleven Dead As Diarrhoea Hits Sanaag Region

 

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

17 April 2008

 

Nairobi

 

At least 11 people have died in Dhahar district in the Sanaag region of northern Somalia, after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), medical sources said.

 

"I can confirm 11 have died in Dhahar hospital since the outbreak," Abdulkadir Isse, a doctor at the hospital, said. At least 750 cases have been recorded since 10 March.

 

 

"Today [17 April], we have 400 patients in the hospital," he said. "We had 42 cases on 13 April, which was the highest for one day."

 

 

Most affected, apart from Dahar itself, were the villages of Barkadaha Qol, Bali Busle, Buran and Boda all in the same district.

 

However, Bashir Mohamed, country director for the NGO Horn Relief, said the situation had stabilised in the past few days. "We have been collecting people from the outlying areas for treatment," he added.

 

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA-Somalia) in a report last week said AWD was spreading to rural and pastoral settlements in the district.

 

Health staff, it added, were not able to deal with increasing cases due to a limited capacity of only one doctor and two nurses.

 

Isse said the Somaliland administration and Horn Relief had sent medicines and fuel. Eastern Sanaag is claimed by both the self-declared republic of Somaliland and the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland.

 

The outbreak, according to Isse, started after people used water that had been standing a long time and was probably contaminated. The only borehole in the town had broken down earlier.

 

"The movement of pastoralists looking for water and pasture for their livestock during the current drought may also have contributed to the spread of the AWD," he added.

 

Meanwhile, the UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, said he was encouraged by the latest positive political developments taking place regarding Somalia.

 

"I am particularly encouraged that President [Abdullahi] Yusuf emphasised that he is willing to do whatever it takes to promote peace and stability and former Speaker Sharif Hasan Shaykh Adan declared that the Somali problem cannot be solved militarily," Ould-Abdallah said in a statement on 16 April.