Somalistan wrote:I am also opposed to tourism. The Las Geel rocks and the gulf isnt that much to see. I don't see much of a potential for start tourism industry. I'm fearful of the the real underlying reasons why a foreigner would make long trek to some of the poorest and most dangerous region in the world for a tourism purpose. I think these so call tourists are always looking for little excitement and the need for that adrenalin rush. Now, who is to say, they don't come to our land to take advantage of the situation. It's better that they don't come at all under the disguise of tourism, specially when we are not a tourist destination.
Back on topic:
The Government has failed time and again to install confidence in people. Now I believe it is our duty to do that and show our people back home that they CAN do it.They can sweep the garbage from their street corners, plant trees to fight deforestation , grow their own food right in their own backyards and most importantly do not even have to wait for UN recognition to do any of that.
I am also in the believe that we shouldn't blame the govt for all that is wrong, and that we also share the blame for not educating our people back home. We know what works here in the West and developed nations, we lived and seen it, now we should outsource some of those ideas, infused them with the ones already in existence back home, and create our own recipe for success.
Our first priority should be food security and we should beging with livestocks in the next 10 years we should phase down our live export to Saudi Arabia and completly stop it . China and Iran and much of the Asians are consuming more meat se we should slaughter our own animals and export meat only and make use of the bi-products. Screw these Arabs , they buy cheap and make a kill selling our animals and at the slightest suspecion they refuse an entire cargo of tens of thousands of head that die and has to be thrown into the sea.
Second , our major food stable is rice and flour , we should look for an alternative and maybe choose a diet like the Ethopians (teff) or the Sudanis/Egptian "fuul", we have enough sorghum and we could make use of "teff" also it makes a good laxoox. What is left is vegetables and oil and those 2 we can produce locally, we can plant olive trees any where in somaliland. As far as tea , screw it we should switch to coffee , its cheaper for us and we can buy it from Harar and Gima the best coffee in the world. Now sugar could be imported from the rest of Africa , and also we can suppliment that with sorghum cyrup ( made from Quwaax). Now that can't be done if all these prodcuts are comming to our markets and are undercutting the local produce, a goverment intervention is must a tariff should levied on all non local produce. Yes, the free-market nuts will pressure us and maybe scale down their NGO but screw them we can do it.
Now in terms of small industry , we can begin with making our cloths , you guys may now how the African cotton farmers are undercut by US heavily subsidized agriculture , we could make a deal with some African country/farmers for both cotton and sugar and thus make our own cloths, of Mawacs, pants, t-shirts, shirts etc. Next we can make our own shoes from our own local hides.
All that can't be done without the goverment intervention and the cooperations of the local fat cats, they can do it but they need a carrot and a stick at the same time, they should be warrned bringing in basamti rice and taking our hard currency to the outside. In 10 years we can get rid of all NGO's who taught our people nothing but the "art of beggin" seminar this , workshop that , 2 weeks tarining for this and that bull shit.
yes that sounds right 
