WONDER WHY SOMALILAND IS NOT RECOGNIZED?

[Xamari_76]

WONDER WHY SOMALILAND IS NOT RECOGNIZED?
February 12th, 2009

In the field of marketing and sales, the concept of communicating the benefits of the product to the consumer is extremely important. In a nutshell the customer must easily and quickly understand how they are going to benefit from the product and what particular problems it will help her solve. If you find difficult to communicate the benefits the less likely you are going to be successful selling it.

Imagine you are very hungry, ready to eat, and just walked into a restuarant,
then right before you placed your order with a waiter the owner came up to you and said “you know Mr. Customer it has been 3 years since we last cleaned our kichen because of the shortage of water in the region”. You will mostly likely get out of that restuarant quickly and look for another place to eat.

This example above shows you a person who was suppose to tell you ” how delicious the food is at his restuarant, that their service is top-notch, and thank you for giving us an opportunity to serve you and please let me know if there is anything I can to make your dinning experience more enjoyable:, but instead told you the one-thing that will make you get out of the door as quickly as possible. In otherwords he really forced you not to purchase food from him.

The Vice-President of Somaliland spoke with Diaspora UDUB supporters who attended the UDUB conference in Hargeisa where President Dahir Rayale and Vice-President Ahmed Yassin were again nominated as the party candidates. In his speech he praised the newly nominated President of Somalia; Sheikh Sherif Sheikh Ahmed, further he declared Somalia will always be together, there will never be a border between Somalia and Somaliland. I should point the vice-president said “his statement was taken out of context”, but it is pretty hard to see how his statement was taken out of context when you hear the tape.

Now, imagine if you are one of these foreign dignataries that come to Hargeisa or one of the foreign government officials who meet with Somaliland officials during their foreign trips; and you have just read this statement from vice-president Ahmed Yassin. How would that statement make you feel? you would probably think that Somaliland, its government, and its people are not serious about their desire to have Somaliland recognized by the international community. If they are serious about it surely their elected vice-president would not say something like this. It is the same question, if the restuarant owner wants you to purchase food from him, why did he tell you the one thing he know will make you run-out of his restuarant “they did not clean the kichen in 3 years”.

It is painfully obvious that not only the Somaliland government does not know how to sell the recognition policy to the international community, rather their actions and words are in fact telling the international community that Somaliland is not interested in recognition. if you are wondering why the world did not recognize Somaliland; the answer is because the elected government of Somaliland told them they do not want it - in this last incident the VP told the international community he likes Sheikh Sharif and he can do busines with him, and there will never be a border between Somalia and Somaliland. There are many things that need fixing in Somaliland, but it is pointless to speak about how to correct them without change in leadership. Somaliland is desperate for change in leadership. Fortunately the people have an opportunity to do that in few months.



Somaliland American Council

[black velvet]

I will be counting how many shoes are thrown at you.

[Cali_Gaab]

There's nothing beeen said that's new to the ears.

I'm still very surprised that Axmed Yasin calooleey hasn't been told to resign. He retracted his statement and claimed his words were twisted by the media, whether that's true or not doesn't matter.

UDUB are just ruining their own image and is getting worse as the years go on. They could have gotten themselfs out of the hole by electing two new candidates recently.

Their days are numbered.

[Advo]

Tasty food, falaxal and the unhygienic restaurant aside, The so called vice president told the truth even though, those in the west like the author of the article, the group he represents, the countless Snet members etc dont wanna hear it, reality on the ground is different, the west and the international community will never grant you what u desire (organized criminals anyone?), anywho, my point is this, while you beat ur chest in profound anger at the VP words, just for one moment sit back and put urself in the shoes of the average person who dwells in those regions, sure the idea of having a country and receiving billions of dollars is quite tempting, but they simply cannot afford to dream any longer, so I say, let them work with their brothers and create something from nothing.

[Cali_Gaab]

Their biggest asset so far was the distance they kept from Southern politics, it's unrealistic to ask them to work with those people at present.

Their house should be kept in order at first and show evidence that it can stand. Only then they can communicate with them and this time with demands and a long term plan.

Advo, but that's beside the point. The worst thing is that the same man is running for Vice-Precidency again with the same goals in mind as 7 years ago. Seek recognition bla bla bla.
It's very hypocrytical of him to utter such remarks and then want to lead it's party again for another term.

Recognition is unlikely but things will change when the new party comes to power. Let's see if they can improve the situation and the people still believe their goals can be met.

[Captain24]

Let's see once Siilanyo get's to the seat. Somaliland will either get recognized, or everything will fail and collapse spectacularly. The Uunsi and Gudurburis combination has nothing for Somaliland except for 'Waa soo dhowdahay' iyo Somaliland way duushay