UN: Power Sharing to Break Somali Impasse

[The Zack]

 

NAIROBI – The United Nations believes that a power-sharing deal might offer Somalia's feuding leaders a way to save face and solve the conflict in the Horn of African country.

 

"The bottom line is that they all want to cling to power,” Augustine Mahiga, the UN’s special envoy to Somalia, told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday, June 1.

 

“So, around that fundamental issue, could there be a possibility of power-sharing? I don't know.

 

"Let them believe there is something for all of them, that there is a win-win situation," he said.

 

Somalia has sunk into deadly violence after militants from Al-Shabab and its Hizbul Islam allied militia launched a deadly offensive last year against the Western-backed government of President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

 

The dispute between Sheikh Sharif and speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, once an ally of the Somali leader, on the adoption of a new constitution, further aggravated the situation in the war-torn country.

 

The Western powers who largely fund the UN-backed government and the African peacekeepers propping it up yield few sticks with which to encourage badly needed reforms to an administration riddled by corruption and infighting.

 

Mahiga said incentives should be brought to the negotiating table, referring to planned talks in Mogadishu later this month.

 

Those could include more funds to finance government projects, or handing the government more say in defining the reforms and rewarding good performance, Mahiga said.

 

The envoy hoped the talks would include regional leaders, local elders and women and move the debate beyond the row between president and speaker.

 

"This (inclusiveness) will create an atmosphere where the two protagonists can save face," he said.

 

Lawlessness

 

The UN envoy said that the payment of multi-million dollar ransoms for the release of hijacked vessels encouraged piracy and attracted the involvement of international criminal gangs.

 

"(Piracy) is getting linked up to the operators of other activities such as drugs, human trafficking and arms trafficking," he told Reuters.

 

"This is an area where there are specialized criminal actors on the international scene, (and) which is probably becoming more lucrative with fewer risks than even say drug-running."

 

While foreign powers have deployed warships to the strategic waterways linking Europe and Asia, not enough attention was being paid to the coastline of central Somalia and the Puntland region where the pirates are based, Mahiga said.

 

The Al-Shabaab rebels, who are on Washington's terrorist list, have demanded a cut of ransoms from pirates operating out of at least one coastal lair, though it is unclear whether any money is changing hands.

 

"You cannot openly say there is a link between piracy and international terrorism, but the potential is very great," Mahiga said.

 

Somalia has lacked an effective government since the ouster of former president Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

 

More than 14 attempts to restore a functional government have since failed.

 

Confident he would not join the diplomats assigned to the Somalia desk who end their mission with their head in their hands, Mahiga, in the job for a year, said he had yet to exhaust his energies but admitted the job was fraught with frustration.

"These are people who have perfected the art of deception and discouragement and making you feel that you are ready to give up."

 

SOURCE: Onislam.net

[The Zack]

Labada Shariif oo Kampala looga yeerey

 

Barito Kampala waxaa ka furmaya shir ay halkaasi ku yeelanayaan kooxda xiriirka Soomaaliya, waxaana caawo halkaasi ku hoyanaya labbada Shariif oo ka sokoow in ay shirka ka qeybgalayaan, hadane lagu wado in khilaafkooda lagu xaliyo halkaasi.

 

Maanta waraysi ay faafisey wakaalada wararka Reuters oo lala yeeshey wakiilka Qaramada Midoobey ee Soomaaliya Augustina Mahiga ayaa lagu sheegey in Qaramada Midoobey ay dooneyso in ay khilaafka labbada nin ku xaliso “awood qeybsi”.

 

Lama oga waxa uu yahay awood qeybsiga u dhiman labbada Shariif oo kala haya labbada xil ee dalka ugu sareeya, Mahiga waxa uu sheegey in dhibka jira uu yahay in labbada Shariif ay isku heystaan xilka madaxweynenimo.

 

Kooxda xiriirka Soomaaliya (Somali Contact Group) waa urur aan nidaam ahayn oo ay ku mideysanyihiin dowladdo reer galbeed ah oo daneeya arrimaha Soomaaliya, dowladda kaliya ee Afrikaanka ah ee ku jirta kooxdani ayaa ah Tanzania.

 

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[Taleexi]

Mahiga: Si xun buu inoogu dhameeyey... wuxuu hadalkiisa ku soo jaray dadkani waa mor-yan aan hadaf nolosha ka lahayn, oo aan dadkooda iyo dalkooda toona horumarkiisa vocabulary-igooda ugu jirin.

[The Zack]

Taleexi;725537 wrote:

Mahiga: Si xun buu inoogu dhameeyey... wuxuu hadalkiisa ku soo jaray dadkani waa ******** aan hadaf nolosha ka lahayn, oo aan dadkooda iyo dalkooda toona horumarkiisa vocabulary-igooda ugu jirin.

Haddii si loo eego, xaqiiqda buu farta dusha ka saaray. Shariifyadu (They are both disgrace to this title, Shariif Hassan baaba dhaama lol) waxey la qeylinayaan waa boos raadis uun. Danta dalka iyo tan dadka waxey ku jirtaa in sharciga la raaco oo la heshiiyo.

 

They both flew to Kampala bal aan eegno how this UN bullying works this time.

[Nabad_dadaye]

wey cadahay in laba shariifba jagada madaxweyna nimada rabaan ,labadoodaba xaq ayeey u leeyihiin lakin mid walbo wuxuu rabaa in tiisa looyeelo sharcigana laga boodo . sharif xasan runtii isaga ayaa murankan keeney isagoo og in doorashada baarlamaanka eey ka hor dheceyso mida madaxtinimada ayuu waqti ku darsaday .dhibkana halkaas buu ka bilowday ,lakin danta soomaliya ayaa ka weyn jago meel laga qabto , maadama eey martay xil ziyaadsigii baarlamaanka sheikh sharif waxaa fiican inuu danta wadanka ka hor mariyo tiisa wuxuuna arinkaas ku helayaa bilad weyn maadama uu soomaali uturay.wadankiina badbaadiyay.

[Nabad_dadaye]

hadey ismari waayaan , dowlada uganda waa iney ku cadaadisaa heshiis ama ciidankeeda iney kala bexeyso usheegtaa maadaama eysan wanaag rabin . hadey ciidanka amison laga bixiyo wadanka ,dowlada awood eey shabab isaga celiso malahan wexey keneysaa in wadanka uu shabaab qabsado , hadey arinkaas dhacdana 2 sharif wexey noqon doonaan dad dunada bananka iyo gudaha laga lacnado , madama greedy nimadooda wadanka ku burburay . labadaas go'aan ayaa hada meesha yaalo ,2sharif ayey u taalaa iney kala doortaan ( malabna sibir lamid ma'ahan)

[Jacaylbaro]

Ummad dhan oo wada madaxweyne doonaysa Allah ha u sahlo .........

[Nabad_dadaye]

waa sax dadkoo dhan ineysan madax noqon karin lakin hada wexey joogtaa meel qaraar , in wadanka la badbaadiyo iyo in wadankan dhiban ee sakaraatka ah nafta lagaba saaro , dowlada maalmahan shaqooyin adag ayeey fagaaraha dagaalka ka wadaa horumar balaaran bey suubisay ,alshabaab na awoodoodii wey sii dhamaaneysaa marka ma ahan in fursad lasiiyo alshabaab .kala jabka dowlada wexey fududeyneysaa in alshabab dib usoo kabsado.

[Nabad_dadaye]

soomalina horey ugu maahmaahday ijiid aan kujiido waa gacma daalis . shacabka dowlad iyo kala danbeyn bey rabaan weyna daalanyihiin marka dad nasiyo ayeey rabaan ee dagaal iska soconaya wax rabo majirto , madaxda xorta ah waa iney fahmaan nabada wadanka iney wax walba ka horeyso .

[oba hiloowlow]

The Zack;725539 wrote:

Haddii si loo eego, xaqiiqda buu farta dusha ka saaray. Shariifyadu (They are both disgrace to this title, Shariif Hassan baaba dhaama lol) waxey la qeylinayaan waa boos raadis uun. Danta dalka iyo tan dadka waxey ku jirtaa in sharciga la raaco oo la heshiiyo.

 

They both flew to Kampala bal aan eegno how this UN bullying works this time.

loooooooooooooool horta yaa qeylinooyo meeshan sharci darro iyo sharci, xaq iyo baadil, ayaa laisku heystaa. War sakiin waxkastow diiday sida shirka June xamar in lagu qabto, kedib inta laso canaantay hadana kuye ergada PL iyo Galmudug iyo dowladda lee waa in shirka kaso qeybgalaan while xukumadda ay rabaan iney shirka keenan Shacabka Soomaliyeed taasna muxuu ku diiday?