A Report on Hargeisa municipality

[Suldaanka]

Maxaa Keenay Dardar Gelinta HawalahaDowladda Hoose Ee Hargeysa Iyo Dadweynaha Biyaha Helay?

 

Waxaynu in badan ogoyn in si aad ah loo dhaliili jiray habka maamul ee ay u shaqeeyaan dowladda hoose ee Hargeysa, haddii ay tahay maamuladdii la soo magacaabi jiray iyo kuwan la soo doortayba.

 

Haddaba, waxa lagu tilmaamaa wakhtigan shacbiga ku nool caasimadda Hargeysa in ku dhow 1,000,000 (Hal Milyan oo Qof) kuwaas oo dhamaantood u baahan hawlihii adeeg sida; Caafimaadka, Nabad-galyada, Waxbarashada, Biyaha, Nalka iyo waddooyinka.

 

Haddaynu in yar dib ugu noqono magaalada Hargeysa waxay leedahay shan wado oo u gudban galbeed iyo bari, waqooyiga Hargeysa waxa ku yaala seddeed (8) waddo oo u gudban Koonfur iyo Waqooyi, halka ay koonfurta magaaladda ku yaalaan lix (6) waddo oo u gudban koonfur iyo waqooyi.

 

Waddooyinkaa dhammaantood waxa la baneeyay intii ka horaysay lasoo noqoshaddii xoriyadda Somaliland, waxa kale oo ku yaalay magaaladda Hargeysa seddex xarumood oo caafimaad kuwaas oo ku kala yaalay Ex. Civil Center, Ka soo horjeedka Tiyaatarka Hargeysa, Dugsiga Biyo dhacay dabadiisa, kuwaas oo aanay ku jirin cisbitaaladu.

 

Sidoo kale Magaaladu waxay lahayd tiro ka yar seddex saldhig boolis (police) oo uu ku jiro saldhiga dhexe iyo hal xabsi, waxay kale oo ay lahayd seddex sariibadood iyo hal bacadleh.

 

Bal hadaba aynu eegno maxaa iska badalay guud ahaan goobihii adeega guud ee magaaladda aan soo qaadano:

 

Nabad-galyadda:

Saldhiga Koodbuur

Saldhiga Axmed Dhagax (Ex. Iftin)

Saldhiga Maxamuud Haybe (Ex. Guryo Samo)

Saldhiga Daloodha

Saldhiga New-Hargeisa

Saldhiga Dhexe

Saldhiga Booliska ee Dowaladda Hoose

Saldhiga Airportka

Laanta Booliska ee Maxamed Mooge

Laanta Booliska ee Sheekh Nur

Laanta Booliska Jigjiga yar.

 

Waxa ad halkaa ka arkaysaa sida ay u korodhay magaaladu iyo sida ay ula socdaan illaalinta nabad galyadu taasoo suuro galisay in meelkasta oo ka mida magaaladu hadii shil ka dhaco si dhibyar loo helayo, waxa intaa dheer Qaybta Booliska oo ku taala Saldhiga dhexe iyaduna hawlgalisa iskuna xidha dhamaan saldhigyadan iyada oo ay waliba ka barbarshaqeeyaan laanta Nabad Galyadda Wadooyinka iyo Laanta/Qaybta Baadhista Danbiyadda (CID) bal aynu eegno waxa iska badalay caafimaadka.

 

Caafimaadka

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Koodbuur

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Axmed Dhagax

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Maxamuud Haybe

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Xawaadle

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Sheekh Nuur

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Daami

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Dhexe

Xarunta Caafimaadka New Hargeisa

Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Maxamed Mooge

 

iyo Xarunta Caafimaadka ee Gobolka oo ah halka laga maamulo hawlaha ay qabtaan, waxa intaa dheer cusbitaalka guud iyo cusbitaalada gaarka loo leeyahay, hadaba xarumaha caafimaad ee aan kor ku soo sheegnay waxa dhamaantood laga hirgaliyay mashruuc u sahlaya in hooyaddu ku umusho goobtaa iyada oo aan isku mashquulin in ay saacado badani kaga lumaan daydayga anbalaas ama tagsidii qaadi lahaaa maadaam aanay haysan dadkeenu dhaqaale sidaa u buuran, halkaana waxaa ka muuqda in horumar wayn laga sameeyay dhinaca caafimaadka oo manta meelwalba aga helayo iyada oo isla goobahaasna lagu bixiyo dhamaan talaalada kala duwan ee caruurta iyo hooyada urka leh, waxana laga helaa daawooyin tayadoodu sarayso oo qiimahoodu hooseeyo. Bal aynu eegno xaga Nalka.

 

 

Nalka

 

Markii ugu horaysay tan iyo intii lala soo noqday xornimadda waa markii igu horaysay ee ay magaalada Hargeysi yeelato laydh ay leedahay Dowladdu, waxa hore igu bixi jiray magaaladda mishiino yaryar oo ay lahaayeen qolyo ama niman dhiigmiirato ah oo ninwaliba wakhtiguu doono shido markuu doonana bakhtiiya, balse hadeer magaalada inta badan waxa ka baxa nalka dowladda oo ka tayo wanaagsan kana qiimo jaban kuwii hore, mar waan wax ka waydiiyay ganacsatada yaryar ee dowladda lagata uu bishii ku bixin jiray nalka wuxuu ii sheegay inay ahayd inka badan 120 dollar halka uu imika ka bixiyo xadi ka yar 20 dollar, waxa halkaa kaaga muuqata horumarka muuqda ee laga gaadhay xaga nalka, waxa intaa dheer waxa ka shaqo gala shaqaale aad u tiro badan oo ka igu hooseeyaa qaato todoba boqol oo kun (700,000) SL Shilling taasina waxay dabooshay baahida reero badan kadib markii ay shaqo ka heleen dhalinyara badan oo suuq jog ahayd iyada oo waliba bilahan u danbeeyay mushaharkooda ay qaataan inta aanay gaadhin 29 ka bisha. Mar aan wax ka waydiiyay dhawr qof oo ka mida shaqaalaha wakaaladda laydhka waxay ii sheegeen inti maareeyahan cusubi yimid aanay arag mushahar ka raaga halka markii hore uu is gaadhi jiray mushaharkoodu.

 

 

Biyaha

 

Waxaynu wada ognahay oo yar iyo weynba ka dharagsanahay dhibaatada dhawaanahan ka haystay magaaladda Hargeisa Biyo la’aanta taas oo gaadhay heerkii igu xumaa inta la ogsoon yahay, waxase Illaahay mahadii ah in muddooyinkan danbe aad moodo in biyuhu sidoodii ku soo noqonayaan oo aanay jirin cabasho farabadan oo ka imanaysa biyo yaraanta, mar aan u kuurgalay sababta keentay biyo la’aanta inta badan ay ka cabanayeen dadweynaha Hargeysa waxaan ogaaday inay ahayd maamul xumo ka jirtay wakaaladda biyaha dhexdeeda, hadaan hoos iguyar daadegno waxay wakaaladu ka kooban tahay:

 

Ceelasha

Qabyta maamulka

Qaybta shaqaalaha

Qaybta hubinta biilasha

Qaybta farsamadda

Qaybta Iibka biyaha.

 

Waxay leedahay wakaaladdu Hal Maareeye, Maareeye ku-xigeen, saddex Engineer, shan agaasime waaxeed iyo tiro ku dhow 400 oo shaqaale ah, waxaa inta badan dhici jirtay in shaqaalaha wakaaladu intooda badani ay lahaayeen kaalmo biyood oo ay iyagu inta badan iibin jireen, taas oo keentay in magaalada ay ka dhacdo biyo la’aan. Sidoo kale may jirin baryahan danbe cid doonta biilasha lacagaha lagu leeyahay guriyaha, meheradaha iyo dhamaan macaamiisha oo dhan taasina waxay noqotay in uu baabo’o nidaamkii maamul ee wakaaladdu, waxa daliil u ah mudada gaaban ee uu joogay maareeyaha cusubi sida ay isku badashay shaqaddii wakaaladu, waxaan ognahay in lacagta yare ee uu bixiyay Madaxweynu aanay ka badnayn mushaharkii ay lahaayeen shaqaalaha wakaaladu haddana wakhtigan waxa uu iibiyay tiro ku dhaw afar gaadhi oo mid ka mida ay ka bixisay madaxtooyadu halka inta kale uu ka iibiyay dakhliga ka soo baxay wakaaladda.

 

Halkaa waxa kaaga iftiimaya in masuuliyadu tahay shay qaaliya qof walibana uu qaban karo wuxuu is yidhaado u qabo dalkaaga waanu ku mahadsan yahay maareeyaha cusubi waxa kaliya oo aan u soo jeedinayaa in haddii uu kordhiyay lacagtii biyaha inkastooy fiicnayd inaan la kordhin hadana haddii laga maarmi waayay loo kordhiyo shaqaalaha mushaharka laguna amro inay shaqeeyaan saacado dheeraada loona sameeyo Dirays aya kaga duwan yihiin dadka kale iyo waraaqihii aqoonsiga sidoo kalana waa in sida igu dhakhsaha badan looga dhigaa shaqaale dowladeed ee aanay noqon qaar marna maareeyuhu eryo marna qoro. Taas oo kor u qaadaysa niyada shaqaalaha.

 

Bal aan usoo noqono xarunta dowaladda hoose ee Hargeysa, waxa hadeer ka socda dhisme dabaq ah oo aad u qurux badan kaas oo loogu talo galay xafiisyo iyo hallkii ay ku shirlahaayeen Golaha Deegaanku, waxay dhawaan ku guulaysatay Dowladda Hoose in ay rarto dadkii daganaa Beerta Xoriyadda, Buurta kala jeexan iyo Istaadiyoonka iyada oo dajisay xaafadda cusub ee Sheekh Muuse Ducaale oo ku agtaala degsiimadii hore ee Cabdi Iidaan, waxay dib-u-habayn ku samaysay sariibadii xaafadda Ibraahim Koodbuur, Xarunta weyn ee bacadlaha (Ex. Fooqii jajabka) bilowga sariibad cusub oo laga hirgalinayo xaafada Xero Awr oo wakhtigan dadka suuqaasi ay fadhiistaan meel bacadda waxay iibisay dowaladda hoose bishan gudaheeda in ku dhaw dhowr iyo toban gaadiida kuwaas oo kala ah, lix ruglay, laba kuwa daamurka sameeya, laba baabuur oo ah kuwa xashiishka, baabur xaajiyadda oo laba shidhlaya waxana laga siiyay intaas o shay sided iyo labaatan kun oo dollar (28,000 dollar) waliba sida ay ii sheegayaan ila xogogaala waxa loogu badalay dhul danguud ah halka awal hore la cuni jiray dhulka danta guud, waxyaabaa kale ee aan aadka ula yaabay een ku arkay xafiisyada degmooyinka magaalada Hargeysa waxa ka mida xafiis walba waxa yaala hal computer, hal printer oo lagu dhameeyo hawlaha adeeg oo awal hore lagu soo garaaci jiray xurunta dhexe, sidoo kale waxay leeyihiin shan gaadhi oo mid waliba ka hawlgalo degmo ka mida shanta degmo kuwaas oo iyaguna si toos ah u daboolay baahidii gadiid ee awal hore jirtay.

 

Mar aan dhawaan booqday xafiiska xarunta dowladda hoose waxay ii sheegeen qaar ka mida saraakiisha sarsare ee dowladda hoose in qorshaha dhow igu jirto rarida dadka deggen Axmed Guray, State Houseka, iskuulka alifdoon, Jaamacada Hargeysa iyo Xarunta Agoomaha Hargeysa dadkaas oo loo qorsheeyay halkii ay degi lahaayeen.

 

Haddaba, waxaan ka mid ahaa dadka inta badan naqdiya waxqabadka dowladda hoose ee Hargeysa waxaadse maanta moodaa in ay dhaliishii faraha badnayd isku canaanteen oo ay waxqabad muujiyeen mana haboona in masuuliyiinta marwalba ammaantooda la sheego waayo faraska waxa usha loogu dhuftaa inuu orodka ka sii badiyo waanay ku mahadsan yihiin.

 

Igudanbayntii waxan halkan igu soo jeedinayaa talo masuuliyiinta dowladda hoose taas oo ah waxa aynu ku jirnaa xili roobaad waxa meelaha qaarkood aad arkaysaa xashiish badan oo yaala sidoo kalana waxa aad moodaa inaanay shaqayn waaxda caafimaadka ee dowladda hoose sababahan awgood, ma jirto cid eegta huteeladda hurdada, maqaaxiyaha cuntada, waxa aad arkaysaa weel wasakhaysan, jajaban oo wax lagu cabayo, waxa kale oo aad arkaysaa habeenkii gooraha danbe bulaacadaha oo lagu soo qubo wadooyinka dhexdooda, kuwaas oo sababi kara caafimaad daro, dhanka kale waxa biyaha qaarkood laga soo dhaamiyaa dooxa iyada oo bulaacadaha ugu badanina ku dhacaan isla dooxa, haddaba marka ay sidaa tahay waxa haboon in si dhakhso ah loo hawl galiyo waaxda caafimaadka loona furo tababar caafimaad xataa hadii laga bixin karayo hala siiyo tababaro dhaadheer, kuwaas oo aynu ognahay inay anfici doonaan waxna ka badali doonaan habka maanta ay u shaqayso waaxda caafimaadku.

[Nationalist]

Impressive website for such a poor city with water shortage. Some people need to get their priorities straight.

[Fyr]

This website is created and registered toâ€Somaliland Netâ€

“Somaliland Net†made this site for theâ€Hargeisa City Governmentâ€

 

Hargeisa City doesn’t spend any city funds on this website nor does any city official run it.

 

It’s solely run by “Somaliland Net†to help the Government and all foreign travellers to Hargeisa City by providing them with information such as “laws, security, transportation, hotels and restaurants etc.

[Che -Guevara]

Nice site, I hope they will continue improving the city infrastructure. Atleast one thing I like is the city emblem "Pair of Ladies Breast Mountains" or Naaso Hablood.

[Qudhac]

The problem with hargeisa is that the curent infestructure cannot cope with the level of population increase for example the water delivery system that is in place was design for population four times less than the current population, people say hargeisa has water shortage but the problem is not the water its the delivery systems such as the pipes, machines etc etc that is in dire need of seriousl investment because the water resiviors have not even been taped into yet only fraction of it is used.

 

 

hargeisa is only strugling with what every city strugles with which is to balance population increase with modernisation of infestructure that fact that its poor country just makes more of challenge.

[LANDER]

Originally posted by Fyr-Kanten:

This website is created and registered toâ€Somaliland Netâ€

“Somaliland Net†made this site for theâ€Hargeisa City Governmentâ€

 

Hargeisa City doesn’t spend any city funds on this website nor does any city official run it.

 

It’s solely run by “Somaliland Net†to help the Government and all foreign travellers to Hargeisa City by providing them with information such as “laws, security, transportation, hotels and restaurants etc.

thanks for for the explanation saxiib, eventhough the individual "nationalist" was just making an antagonizing statement.

[Yeniceri]

Big up Hargeisa!

 

QUDHAC -

 

Since the problem is maintaining a balance between population and resources, perhaps the government should take action to control the inward flow of population that only helps to harm the system. Or would that cause civil unrest?

[Ace of Spadez]

Suldaanka, this report seems to suggest that we should stop complaining and pipe down. I don't agree with that line of thinking. Yes there is progress, but should we be ok with the status quo? I don't think so! I don't think we need another person telling us how well we are doing. I remember the Mike Harris Progressive Conservatives in Ontario making TV Ads tooting their own horn. Our country has a lot to improve on lets not get complacent.

[Qudhac]

Nugaal

 

well it seems they have been attempting to do that recently as they banned any repatraited returnees been settles in hargeisa any longer even if they originaly came from hargeisa, they will have to resetle in other town and cities, but its hard to control natural influx of people into towns its just natural events that is happening all over africa somalis are slowly abandoning their nomadic lifesyle and trying their luck in towns.

[Nationalist]

Lander:

 

I love the Hargeysawis, but I made a valid point! This would be the case with every other Somali city, but do you even know that Hargeisa is the city with the most water shortage and trash.

 

If you don't believe me, as I expect, than you can check out my words at:

 

qurbaawi journal

 

The writer is Farah Mahamud Yusuf, the brother of Usman Mahamud Yusuf 'Burmadow', a true peacemaker!

[Suldaanka]

I think the Somaliland people are expecting too much, well if you are expecting too much to be done, I tell you we had done whatever our limited resources had allowed us to do.

 

For one to really understand the scale of reconstruction in Hargeisa and how far the city came into what it is today, one needs to look back at its recent history.

 

Here is one such article authored by Raqia Omaar in 1994/5 that may revive that memory...

 

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One thorn bush at a time

 

 

Rakiya Omaar reports from Somaliland on how a peace has been

 

 

 

Nothing can prepare you for a visit to a hometown utterly destroyed by war. Especially not when 70 per cent of your hometown has been levelled to the ground by artillery shelling and aerial bombardment.

 

I had seen pictures and videos of the wasteland Hargeisa had become after a decade of destruction and neglect. But this did not blunt the shock of my first return visit to the Somaliland capital in June 1992. I was touched by the tenderness with which people tried to help me absorb my impressions without making a drama out of their misfortune.

 

This year I made a second trip back – and found a rather different Somaliland. In stark contrast with recent events in neighbouring Somalia, the main activity in Somaliland over the past year had been not war- but peace-making. And it had been achieved with precious little outside involvement or interest.

 

To communicate the scale of this achievement I must fill in some of the background of Somaliland’s recent bloody history.

 

Up to 1991 Somaliland was a north-western province of Somalia. Local people – mainly of the ***** clan – felt they were not getting an equal share of the nation’s resources in a country run from the southern capital of Mogadishu. In 1982 the northerners formed the Somali National Movement to promote a higher political profile.

 

The response from dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was to launch a sustained campaign of terror against civilians in the region. People were tortured, livestock slaughtered, villages razed, crops destroyed and the area strewn with landmines. Summary executions were commonplace. Thousands fled to escape violent and humiliating abuse.

 

But in 1988 the ill-equipped Somali National Movement rebels managed to take the cities of Hargeisa and Burao – much to the surprise of the Barre Government which reacted by pounding residential districts with artillery. Thousands died as their homes collapsed on them. Others were shot in their houses or as they ran for cover or tried to escape into the countryside. Soldiers patrolling the exits to the towns robbed, raped and murdered people as they fled. By mid-June almost the entire ***** population was either dead or had become refugees in Ethiopia.

 

When in 1991 Siad Barre was toppled after 21 years of dictatorship there was a feeling of euphoria. Somaliland seceded from Somalia and declared its independence. Relieved to be home, buoyed by the security that prevailed almost everywhere, people began to rebuild their lives. The economy took off, making it possible to begin the formidable task of reconstruction.

 

But the heady optimism ended abruptly in January 1992 when feuding between politicians and army officers erupted into open warfare, first in the town of Burao and then in Berbera, the principal port and the country’s economic nerve centre.

 

‘I wept when I saw what had happened to Burao and its people,’ Sultan Abdi, the Vice-Chair of the ***** Elders Council told me. When their diplom-acy failed to halt the fighting, Sultan Abdi and other elders went into the battlefield itself to stop the fighting. ‘We could not find enough white flags to wave to get the shooting to stop, so some of us took off our shirts.’

 

When I visited the port of Berbera in July 1992 it was a virtual ghost-town. People were too discouraged, disoriented and uncertain about the future to start rebuilding their homes. Heavily-armed young men were everywhere. Travel was dangerous. The few foreign agencies had either closed their operations or evacuated their expatriate staff.

 

With the Government implicated in the fighting, the forces of peace had one option left. They rallied around traditional elders, the most enduring and accountable elements in Somali society. No other civic institution has the political clout or the moral authority of the elders.

 

Resolving conflict was nothing new for the elders, who are experienced professional negotiators. Their position of elders is not hereditary – their power comes from the authority their clan has delegated them to manage the clan’s affairs. They are chosen by virtue of personal attributes such as age, a reputation for fairness, expertise in the political arts of compromise and persuasion, powers of oratory, skill as a poet, piety, religious knowledge, generosity and courage.

 

Using traditional mechanisms of arbitration, they began a painstaking process to end the armed conflict, establish a framework for mediating future disputes and bring about a peaceful change of government. They began with a series of peace conferences at the local level to iron out differences between clans.

 

The conflicts in Somalia and Somaliland have taken place mainly between neighbouring clans, making the violence an intimate affair that left communities deeply traumatized. It was a situation that called for patience, persistence and tact in overcoming a legacy of grief, anger, mistrust, guilt and shame.

 

The elders were guided by the Somali proverb: ‘If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove one thorn bush at a time.’ The order in which problems were tackled was critically important.

 

Neutral facilitators trusted by both sides provided the parties with lists of the elders planning to attend the conferences from the opposing side. Participants regarded as ‘men of war’ were weeded out, ensuring that the groups who met were confident of each other’s goodwill.

 

Opponents were first encouraged to meet face to face to confront and overcome the bitterness and suspicions that divide them. To encourage an atmosphere of calm and to create incentives towards compromise, the opening days were devoted to social and religious events: ‘You have to lower the temperature,’ one elder explained. ‘People cannot make peace if there is fire in their eyes and hate in their hearts.’

 

The goal was reconciliation rather than vindication. Blaming either party as guilty in a public forum is regarded as a humiliation that allows grievances to fester and sets up barriers to concession.

 

There were no artificial deadlines. ‘What is the hurry?’ asked another elder. ‘The killings lasted for years. We cannot bring the dead back. But we can bring peace. If we hurry and fail, it is not only a betrayal of the future. It shows disrespect to the collective suffering of the past.’

 

Starting the peace process at a local level and keeping it within Somaliland was of crucial importance. ‘Because everyone felt involved, everyone felt responsible,’ commented Zamzam Aden Abdi, a Somali relief worker. ‘Every elder will meet at least 20 people a day – in his home, on the road, at the mosque, at the teashop. He tells us what was said and decided; this makes its way into the grapevine. Everyone gives him his or her opinion. He takes our views back to the conference table. This could not happen if they were cooped up in some conference centre in Nairobi or Addis Ababa.’

 

Foreign mediation in Somalia has consistently ignored the fact that disputes over material resources lie at the heart of the conflicts in both Somalia and Somaliland. Unlike foreign mediators, the elders have a long familiarity with the history, geography and ownership of the resources in question. So local conferences concentrated on disputes about land, grazing rights, the return of houses and the exchange of stray livestock – trying to resolve such material questions at the local level before moving onto regional disputes.

 

The entire peace process culminated in a four-month national conference in Boroma in January 1993 which adopted a countrywide security framework, laid down a national constitutional structure, and effected a peaceful change of government.

 

The fruits of their efforts were apparent when I went back in January 1994. I was able to travel throughout the country, more afraid of landmines than gunmen. A friend who had contemplated leaving the country in 1992 was grateful he had stayed: ‘We still have a long way to go, but yesterday and today – it is like night and day.’

 

To describe the elders as the saviours of Somaliland is to miss the larger point of their achievement. They succeeded because ordinary people gave them the authority to make peace and promote reconciliation. In turn, they made their task a collective endeavour.

 

Traders, poets, women’s groups, professionals, religious leaders and army officers were mobilized to finance, organize, deliberate, negotiate, implement and monitor an agenda for peace. Somali elders put into practice what thoughtful development specialists describe as the prerequisites for sustainable development: community support, participation in and ownership of the process, common goals, legitimate representation and a long-term process.

 

The elders’ achievements are impressive. This is not to say that political tensions between different regions and clans have ended. But it does mean that there is a broadly-based political framework for resolving disputes in a peaceful manner.

 

None of this, however, can mask the fact that Somaliland has been completely destroyed by a decade of war. Its infrastructure has collapsed; the Government has no money. It cannot pay salaries, forcing experienced doctors, teachers and managers to seek jobs with foreign agencies. The police have virtually no transport or communic-ations system. Thousands of heavily-armed young men – the greatest threat to security, peace and reconciliation – are unable to find employment.

 

Neither the Government nor the public can comprehend the refusal of the UN and donor countries to assist Somaliland. The folly of spending millions to wage a military conflict in Mogadishu while withholding the thousands that would sustain peace in Somaliland has given their criticism a sharper edge.

 

The Secretary-General of the UN has made it clear that recognition of Somaliland is not on the agenda. The war that engulfed Somalia, and the absence of a central government, have delayed the day of reckoning. No one knows what the future holds. What is certain is that UN efforts to enforce unity will spark a new war and a new tragedy for the people of Somalia and Somaliland.

 

Rakiya Omaar is co-director of African Rights, a human-rights organization based in London. She was in Somaliland for six weeks in January and February this year.

[Saxardiid]

People are coming to Hargeysa the same reason they did in Mogadishu decades ago; there are jobs, good public service etc. So to avoid the same fate the current government must plan ahead and distribute resources equally to all regions of the country. For example government must move all ministry of fishers activities to Lasqory while they ministry of agriculture's work and resources concentrates in Gabilay. What I am trying to say is the gov must choose specialisation of the regions as a strategy to relief Hargeysa burden and tackle Mogadishu’s effect head on (avoiding one city state).

[Nationalist]

Saxardiid, this is what's Puntland doing for years. The resources are equally allocated through Bosaso, Garowe, Galkayo, Badhan and Las Anod. So the cities will all develop, I'm 100% sure Puntland would become a one-city state if Bosaso had all these resources, it would be much easier for the Puntland government.

 

As of Hargeisa having rised from the ashes as a phoenix, I totally agree on that. But don't give it too much credit, since other cities have grown in that same area like Burao. It must have been a natural development, not an extraordinary one.

 

The city of Galkayo for instance, the capital of Mudugh, has not been levelled to the ground like Hargeisa for 70%, but it was a warzone throughout the whole entire 80s and 90s, the last attack from the USC militia occured just 3 years ago, before the Puntland troops took extreme countermeasures and settled their troops in USC land, south of Galkayo. The city has witnessed bombardments of Ethiopia, Siad Barre and of course the USC.

 

Nevertheless, Galkayo too, has prospered boomingly and grown ridiculously. And that for a city in the most insecure situation of all, being the frontier city between the peaceful north and the chaotic south as it is. The city has managed to have adequate medical and educational services for the people, wich are now mostly private. And the city looks a lot more modern than it used to, but it has lost it's friendly, quiet villagecharacter forever.

 

But still, I've been to Somalia lately and Garowe and Bosaso are far more advanced on many fronts than Galkayo. Especially Bosaso if I might add. Those cities can credit that to there more secure and stable circumstances they hold themselves in.

 

Same thing can be said about Hargeisa.

[SJ]

Hargaysa

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Originally posted by Saxardiid:

For example government must move all ministry of fishers activities to Lasqory while they ministry of agriculture's work and resources concentrates in Gabilay.

SL ministry in Las Qoray...good one.