The latest report on Somalia and Eritrea by the tendentious UN Monitoring Group

[NASSIR]

Someone should teach the UN Monitoring Group for Somalia and Eritrea some geography lessons. I am sure some of its selective experts are die-hard secessionists for the sub-states of Puntland and Somalia. Galgala is located in Bari regoin and it's approximately 25-35 km west of Bosaso.

 

"It would be hard to conceive of two States that offer greater contrasts than

Somalia and Eritrea: the former, a collapsed State for over two decades, with no

functional national institutions; the latter, possessing the most highly centralized,

militarized and authoritarian system of government on the African continent. From a

sanctions monitoring perspective, however, the two countries present very similar

challenges: in both cases, power is concentrated in the hands of individuals rather

than institutions and is exercised through largely informal and often illicit networks

of political and financial control. Leaders in both countries often depend more

heavily on political and economic support from foreign Governments and diaspora

networks than from the populations within their own borders. And both countries —

in very different ways — serve as platforms for foreign armed groups that represent a

grave and increasingly urgent threat to peace and security in the Horn and East

Africa region.......

 

"In March 2010, Atom broke off the talks and resumed military preparations,

including — according to eyewitnesses interviewed by the Monitoring Group —

building a rough road between strategic locations in eastern Sanaag.6 Atom also

continued to accumulate arms and ammunition. Deliveries of weapons were reported

in April and May 2010 and in some cases were witnessed at the beach port of

Cadcaddow (approximately 35 km west of Ceelayo).7 Local sources told the

Monitoring Group that while arms deliveries at that location used to come mainly

from Eritrea for the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF), they now came

mainly from Yemen.8

34. Between July and September 2010, the Puntland security forces mounted an

offensive against Atom’s militia in the Galgala highlands. Atom’s fighters enjoyed

an early advantage, fighting on home ground from prepared positions, employing hit

and run tactics and receiving deliveries of arms, ammunition and medical supplies

by dhow in late July and mid-September.9 The September consignment was

delivered at Durdurdi, a beach port close to Saliid and consisted of approximately

25 metric tons of arms and ammunition, based on reports from local people enlisted

to offload the vessel.10"

 

 

 

The report contains similar allegations designed to influence international policy and tip the balance in favor on clan/group over another. The Issue of SSC movement is addressed as well.

 

 

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2011/433

[Jacaylbaro]

SSCA can be characterized as an opportunistic and arguably mercenary militia force that has successfully appropriated legitimate local grievances and exploited radical diaspora sentiment for its own political and financial gain.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ma jabhadi baaa

[NASSIR]

lool@JB. No wonder.

[NASSIR]

JB, History repeats itself. They have always sided with you Hargeisa and Garowe against Sool and Sanaag regions. However, this one-sided policy support for two submissive regions against the entire and proud Somali Nation won't last or be sustainable in the long run.

 

 

According to a de-classified document.

The takeover (1969 Coup) is likely to endanger the

politically courageous attempt,

launched two years ago by Sharmarke ( from Puntland) and his Prime Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Egal ( from Somaliland) to ease

Somalia's irredentist problems

through

detente

with Kenya and

Ethiopia"

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

The Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea estimates that Al-Shabaab currently

generates between US$ 70 million to US$ 100 million per year in revenue from

taxation and extortion in areas under its control, notably the export of charcoal and

cross-border contraband into Kenya. Given the corrupt and predatory practices of the

Transitional Federal Government, many Somali businessmen find Al-Shabaab to be

better for business, and from a purely commercial perspective have little interest in

seeing the group displaced by the Government

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

In contrast with Al-Shabaab, the Government

remains dependent principally on external resources and protection. The state of the

Government security sector has deteriorated in recent months, and many ostensibly

Transitional Federal Government forces are in fact autonomous militias more

closely affiliated with AMISOM than with the Transitional Federal Government

leadership (see annex 1.1.a for a map of AMISOM and Transitional Federal

Government positions in Mogadishu as at March 2011)

[Jacaylbaro]

Nassir, "Long run" ha la gaadhee bal sug horta ,,