Mogadisghu: EU delegation arrives - $30 million dollars given to TFG: PICS

[General Duke]

Italy donates 40-million-Euro facility to support peace initiatives in Somalia

 

Unveiling a 40-million-Euro facility to support peace initiatives by the African Union (AU) yesterday, Italy has called on international community to back security and reconciliation moves in war-ravaged Somalia, according to Afrique Enligne.

 

The facility is meant to support AU's efforts in conflict prevention, conflict management with particular emphasis on negotiation and mediation, and in areas of post-conflict peace building, the website indicated.

 

Initialing an agreement with the AU Commission to bring the Italian-Africa Peace Facility into operation, Armando Sanguini, the personal representative of the Italian Prime Minister, said his government set aside the funds to help the AU to have the necessary capacity for addressing the political challenges of Africa.

 

''Since Somalia is now within a phase that is extremely important and crucial, we want to show our support'', he said, noting that the country's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein were doing extraordinary work to reconcile and bring all Somali people into the national peace process.

 

''This occasion should give encouragement to other countries and organizations to assist Somalia. This is the first time after so many years that we see some light at the end of the tunnel,'' said Sanguini, explaining that Italy's immediate support through the AU would be directed toward institutional capacity building and creation of the necessary security framework in Somalia.

 

According to AU Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit, who signed the agreement on behalf of the AU Commission, one of the areas in which the AU has not been able to mobilize the necessary political, logistical and financial support is the case of Somalia.

 

''We hope this gesture will be emulated by others to come in support of the new Somali federal transitional institutions,'' Djinnit said.

 

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Hussein, who attended the signing ceremony, said his administration was pleased by the fact that a portion of the peace facility (10 million USD) would be dedicated to the training of the Somali police force.

 

''We are very happy to see this event happening. Somalia is trying its best to address the problematic issues that contributed to its chaos and lack of law-enforcement,'' he added.

 

''Today, with regard to the national reconciliation process, we are achieving positive results, which will allow us to go ahead with the strategic plan that we put in place after the formation of the new government,'' the premier noted.

 

© Walta Information Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

[General Duke]

Fatboy: $40 million dollars is not enough, it will help with basic salaries, and for the talks but the government and nation needs more money.

 

To rebuild infrsutructure, recruit, train and equip police, army and civil servents.

 

We need at least 500 million for the next couple of years. The money should be on projects, road works, extension of the major southern ports air strips. Mogadishu, Marka, Kismayu and Baidoa airport.

 

These projects would create jobs, and help inject some cash into the economy.

 

$40 MILLION is nothing much.

[Lois Lane]

Walaal,

 

at this point you are attempting to put some kind of a veil over our eyes. I understand the need for security, but 40 millions to be used all towards salaries is extremely ridiculous.

 

This administration receives more money then it can obviously handle. Just last year money was given by the us (40 million), by the EU (47 million) and now this 30 million. How much is the salary of working men and women in Somalia now a days. Wow, perhaps I should send over my resume.

 

Seriously, if this administration, had any sense, it would at least attempt to lie better as to what they do with aid funds. Further, it is not the UN's responsability to find more money to relieve Somali citizen from the drought, its not for other countries to rescue Somalis from famine, diseases, ect.

 

Did your administration truly believed that fighting for the presidency seat and pocketting the funds, was the role expected of him/them?

 

Wake up and stop this propaganda B.S!! Your admin can prostitute themselves, but the Somali citizens will never accept them, and one more thing, walaal it does not take this long to at least take the steps to real changes. This security so dearly needed is not for the people, its to keep in a place a government that is NOT wanted by the majority of the citizens its trying to rule over. This admin is costing us lives and funds.

 

Get up and leave once and for all. Theses puppets are not wanted!

[rudy-Diiriye]

looks like the mafia just bought some drugs from tfg!! its the only way to get italian money.