There is a disgusting thing going on right now and that is the use of the drought and famine in order to essentially starve the unwilling people of Somalia into submission.
The drought has been going on for almost 2 years now, and longer if you don't include the brief relief a few years ago this drought has been going on strong since about 2005, so cries of an emergency and a need for urgent action are incredibly hypocritical. Where was this urgency in 2009 and 2010? Calls for western assistance are empty, western aid never arrives where it is needed, it is stolen and embezzled and even then, insufficient even if it did make it to where it is needed.
The ONLY thing that can help the suffering people of Somalia is peace. Only peace.
The big-headed men of Somalia, their heads so swollen with pride that they are deaf to compromise, they are to blame and noone else.
AWSJ, al-Shabaab, Ethiopia, Kenya, TFG: End the damn war.
James Dahl, are you leaving out
USA and
EU for a reason? They are participant in the conflict by not de-listing Al-Shabaab from the terrorist list, and at the same time bringing more army of Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia while not allowing Somali leaders to make concessions. The solution is somewhere in the middle but leaving the big boys out of the equation is not genuine.
West should allow Somalia to live in peace. It is that simple.
It is mind boggling to see the west talking to the Taliban, and working with known AlQaeda affiliates in Libya, but no negiation between TFG and Al-Shabaab nor no negotition between Al-Shabaab and the west?
The war in Somalia is a genocide imposed on the people of Somalia. According to the previous TFG PM Mohamed A'laahi Farmaajo "
The international Community is not ready for Somalia to have a viable government." Every one knows Somalia's problems start at the footsteps of Washington and Brussels, and will end there.
