Editorial: How much longer can Somaliland survive?

[wind.talker]

Awdal News Network editorial: How much longer can Somaliland survive on armchair politics and an empty stomach?

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

 

"Today when the fruits of their long labor were due to be reaped, Somalilanders have found themselves between a rock and a hard place. On the one side Somalilanders have every right to be proud of their accomplishments. Hargeisa can match any other African capital with its luxurious hotels, gorgeous villas and bungalows and state-of-the art architecture. On the other side, however, Hargeisa and all other Somaliland towns for that matter have no town planning, no roads, no services, no sewage system, no water supply, no reliable electricity, no health services and no source of income with 90% or more of the community relying on assistance from relatives in the diaspora and the whole able-bodied population unemployed with no hope of economic or political salvation in sight."

 

"The first blow came from Djibouti , which has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to be the gateway for the exports of livestock coming from Somaliland. It also handed over its customs and ports to the Emirate of Dubai to develop and manage them in an attempt to acquire ultra-modern equipment and implement advanced IT infrastructure solutions, thus eclipsing Berbera’s role as a potential rival the same way that Djibouti had eclipsed the flourishing port of Zeila in the early 20th century.

 

The second blow came from Puntland whose Machiavellian warlord had first played the tribal card to dismember Somaliland and throw its territorial integrity into a perpetual doubt. With Abdillahi Yusuf Ahmed now buoyant with his newfound power and international recognition as the leader of Somalia, there is no doubt that he will make his priority to stymie Somaliland’s ambition for nationhood. The establishment of the Horn of African Free Zone (HAFZA) in Puntland is a step to tighten the noose on Somaliland’s dying economy and force it to fall into Ahmed’s lap like a ripen fruit. "

 

After living almost a decade and a half in the political twilight, Somalilanders are not only demoralized and beaten by the travails of finding their daily bread, but some of them have started to question about the viability of issues that they felt were so sacrosanct to even think about questioning them. If the conversation of Somalilanders in the coffee shops and their rush to meeting delegations of the newly formed Somali government could be taken as any measure, one can notice a change of tone and a softening of the position of the most die-hard Somalilanders towards any reference of association of their country with Somalia."

 

BOTTOMLINE:

 

"Either they have to trust each other, add penny to penny and create employment-generating businesses or they should know that people cannot live on empty stomachs and empty rhetoric for long and so they may not find any alternative but to try another 30 years of hell with bread than heaven without. "

 

SOURCE:

 

http://www.awdalnews.com/wmview.php?ArtID=4881

 

and

 

http://www.radiosomaliland.com/index.php?itemid=700

[SOO MAAL]

Northwest somalia provinces must seriously consider to negotiate with the federal somalia rebuplic and stop entertianing the socalled somaliland myths (a clan based adminstration like puntland)

[CHE]

Somali reality is based on clan, and there is no escape to that in the near future.

 

let me put it this way,Somaliland will sustain itself as long as the rest of the country sustains itself and vice versa,hence two inseparable entities.

what needs to go is the seccesionist ideologs that run Somaliland.

[General Duke]

^^^^^^ I agree with comrad CHE .

Somaliland will survive insha Allah. The people of the North West are resourceful bunch and I have no doubt, they will play an important role in the coming years.

[Garyaqaan2]

Soo maal

 

Somaliland's leader Daahir Riyaale"It's good. We have no better friend than Ethiopia ... They always treat us as brothers, as young brothers. They help us better than any other country in the area."

 

You crack me up

 

 

Lets leave waqoyeland alone couse the britsh we recognize them insha alaah. lets pray for them

[wind.talker]

Nobody said the people of Somaliland won't make it. The ideology (secession) is in question here.

 

It keeps getting more interesting, though. And here I was thinking Jamhuuriya newspaper was worthy of journalistic praise:

 

http://www.jamhuuriya.info - under "Ciidamada Somaliland - Sir Culus" - right-hand side of the page.

 

The author of this piece isn't mention, just an ambigious 'Jamhuuriya Online' is left at the bottom. Did they really author that?

 

They essentially saying Riyaale was adviced NOT to go to Laascaanood in Dec 2002 (which is true) but he decided to go because of some conspiracy involving him, Jaamac Blue (the businessman) and Abdullahi Yusuf/Gen Adde Muuse. The guy basically set up his own coward act of running out of his country (Laascaanood, Somaliland ).

 

Such garbage.