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international Aidis used as tool of Retaliationagainst a community of not bowing down to the Dictate of International Oil Company and their Stooges

Aid and its purpose

Speaking about international, humanitarian or foreign aid has its own merits. There are pros and contras, when it comes to foreign aid. The Western developed countries see it as part of their ‘responsibilities’ in this world to assist the so-called underdeveloped world,

while many writers and analysts from the southern as well as from the northern hemisphere see it from different perspective.

“Foreign aid has contributed substantially to the politicization of life in the Third World. It augments the resources of government compared to the private sector, and the criteria of allocation tend to favor government trying to establish state controls”.

In the recent years some of the international organizations working in Somalia have shown their clear purpose of intervention in Somalia. Many writers and also former employees of the international organizations have written about the negative impacts of Aid and the way it is managed.



Dambisa Moya, for an example, a former economist at Goldman Sachs, wrote in her book that, …aid to Africa has made the poor poorer, and the growth slower. The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment. It’s increased the risk of civil conflict and unrest … (Dead Aid: why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.)

Furthermore some of these writers did criticize the objectives of the international organizations that their purpose of humanitarian and development aid in Africa and elsewhere has other agenda rather than fighting poverty or alleviating the living standard of the poor.

In another critical article it was stated that, “Africa defies conventional logic: grinding poverty amidst immense mineral riches … Helping Africa is a noble cause, but the campaign has become a theater of the absurd – the blind leading the clueless. The record of Western aid to Africa is one of abysmal failure. More than $500 billion in foreign aid – the equivalent of four Marshall Aid Plans – was pumped into Africa between 1960 and 1997. Instead of increasing development, aid has created dependence”.[ii]

Following all these critical voices in fact Aid is seen as a tool of depriving the capacity of the communities of becoming the major factor of controlling their destiny. As mentioned above Aid has created dependence in all aspects of life politically, socially and economically of the larger segments of the African societies. In other words the societies of the African nations have been degraded to a level, where the colonial mentality that has justified in the first place colonialism is kept alive.

Aid has weakened the communities in Africa be able to mobilize their resources towards improving their living conditions and sustain their abilities to maintain their traditional socio-economical structures of their communities in tact. The true matter of the fact is that people of Somalia as an example have shown their resilience and with all negative intentions of the representatives of neo-colonial corporates or shall we call them ‘the international aid agencies’ in their territories. The people of Somalia have proven that they will not give in and give up their principles of self-reliance.


DNO/NPA

Also some of the international organizations in Somalia are now showing clearly their purpose of working in the country. In this aspect it is worth to look at one case study to show how aid is used as an insidious retaliatory tool against an action taken by a community, which is trying to defend their resources that lie under the surface of their territories. In other words Aid is used as a weapon by an international Norwegian ‘humanitarian’ agency to break the resistance of people against an international Norway registered oil company trying to benefit from the weak position or the absence of a functional Somali state and the conflict between the communities.



Lately we are experiencing a phenomena that there are certain oil companies such as DNO (please see this article DNO company must stop Mining Work in Northern Somalia published by Somalia media that explore oil in countries or regions where unrest and civil war is ripe – may be they are,according to some analysts,the third hand behind the conflict in such territories – where civil war has become a well calculated factor to initiate where mineral resources are suspected. In a plain languagesome international companies go into countries where the world describes as failed statessuch as Somalia and by pass any legitimate route to collaborate with any ‘state institutions’but rather work with regional militias or entities such as the ones existing today in the country.

We are all aware that the collapse of the Somali state meant for the country ‘becoming orphan’ and an easy prey for the international ‘natural resource’ greedy Western companies as well as large number of ‘international aid organizations’.

Such companies with the help of international consultants as well as international organizations spread positive pictures of areas where they have an interest such as the following statements, “… Somaliland, a peaceful enclave in northern Somalia, which declared a unilateral independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991 has escaped Somalia’s two decades civil war…” But in reality the true picture of the region is completely different. The people from the north see it this way; “The militia from the one-clan secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland – occupying parts of the regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC)- have gone on the warpath on 14 of January, overrunning and occupying several villages in the Cayn region …Humanitarian organizations, often more sensitive to Somaliland’s justifications to block humanitarian aid on gratuitous concocted security grounds, have yet to voice their concern or respond practically to the these displaced civilians.

Furthermore the same writer concludes in his article that, “Aid partly meant for the SSC regions but rarely ever reaches them, has released considerable resources for the occupation of the SSC regions and used to inflict daily human rights crimes against its people, not least forcing thousands of persons to flee their homes. To that extent, aid donors are indirectly implicated in these crimes or in the break-up of Somalia…”



The worst part of all this drama is that Human Rights Watch never speaks about the atrocities inflicted to the communities in the northern regions of Sool, Eastern Sanaag and Cayn, while they cover extensively the atrocities inflicted to the communities in the south by the extremists. Why they don’t cover about the similar atrocities inflicted to the communities in the northern regions (SSC) is a mystery to them.



Coming back to the case study, the Norwegian humanitarian aid has been channeledthrough the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) by its government to assist the communities in the northern regions of Somalia in particular, in Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (Buuhoodle district). NPA has been operating over two decades in theseregions and has agreed with the traditional leaders of the region to work on the following sectors of WASH, Health and Education, even though the initial objective of the organization’s intervention at the time was to do demining. But the communities in these regions have clearly outlined where their priorities lie.

The communities in these marginalized regions have worked closely with this international organization through their local grassroots organizations and in that period built a very constructive partnership. But things have been changing since the Norwegian Oil Company(DNO) appeared in the scene and the conflict between the administration in Hargeisa and the communities in the SSC regions deteriorated and intensified.

Lately it has been circulated in the Somalia media as well as documents published by the UN Monitoring Crisis Group that lack of legal and policy frameworks in the country in the sector of natural resources could lead a wide spread corruption as well as intensify already the existing volatile situations in the country. In its yearly report the UN Monitoring Group wrote that its, “findings reinforce the rationale for its previous calls for the implementation of clear legal and policy frameworks governing the engagement of the extractives industry in Somalia. In particular the FGS should be encouraged to apply its existing legislation, especially the 2008 Petroleum Law, in the management of both current and future oil and gas contracts. As required by this legislation, it is critical to establish an independent Somali Petroleum Authority to serve as regulator for the industry.”



The worrying aspect is that the regional administrations such as Somaliland and Puntland are signing agreements with international oil companies without any prior consultation with the Federal Somali Government. Furthermore the other worrying aspect of the whole situation is the creation of private Oil Protection Units by the regional administrations. All these steps have a great impact on the security of the communities living in the areas where natural resources are expected such as the regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn. The Oil Protection Unit operating in the Nugal area of Sool have already caused displacements of the local population.



An article published in a Somali website has clearly outlined what is happening on the ground. It stated “these oil corporate practices have fuelled conflict and had a devastating impact on human rights. Leaked Oil companies data suggests that in 2013 alone, those companies spent $75 million on ‘Other’ unexplained security expenditures – a vast infusion of cash into the Somalia conflict….the distribution of cash and contracts by oil companies has contributed to “the killing and displacement of thousands of local people” in communal and tribal conflicts. Clandestine

Oil-companies-gave-cash-and-contracts-to-militants-and-warlords-in- Somalia’s northern tribal secessionists”

Meanwhile other sources have published the following confidential information in some of the Somali investigative websites. Here is what they have written about it:

“Somali entrepreneurs in Emirates and Kenya are complaining against a man named Col Musab Abdullahi who is believed to be a member of the Norway’s secret intelligence of NIS.

“Mr Abdullahi, who is from a Hawiye father and Majeerteen mother told us that he is an agent in the NIS as well as Emirate and Kenya,” said a Somali businessman who asked not to be named.

Abdullahi told another businessperson that he helped Hawalas in Kenya which Kenya shut down over allegedly linking with the terrorist group of Al-Shabaab.

“He also responsible for transferring millions of dollars without legal process,” said the source.

He is a friend of Mohamed Sheikh, an official of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and also a relative of the Former State Minister for Presidency Hirsi Ali Haji Hassan.

“Mr Abdullahi is behind the planes hovering the sky of the Sool and Sanag regions…”[ii]



Following these information we have contacted the elders of the communities in the Nugal Sool region. They have confirmed us that in the past few weeks there were unknown airplanes in particular Helicopters flying over their villages and landing on the hills around, collecting materials from them. They added further that following these incidents that they mobilized their people to fight against these intruders. According to them once they started chasing them none of the promised humanitarian aid expected from the Norwegian organization (NPA) has been conducted. NPA is as mentioned above the only international organization present in the area.



NPA and its local partners has promised in the beginning of the year 2015 that their non-functioning boreholes such as the ones in Kulal, Saxdheer and Hange would be rehabilitated. But they underlined that they believe that this unfulfilled promise has something to do with their stand against the Norwegian oil company that has been trying to exploit

the resources in their territory without any consultation.The reason is simple they said, why they believe that their story is a fact. Somebody from the organization visited in the middle of the year to our villages and gave us his word that the boreholes will be rehabilitated. But once it became known that we chased the helicopters of the Oil Company, everything has been frozen and we did not hear anything from the organization and the local organization about the rehabilitation of the boreholes.

In addition they confirmed that they would defend their territory as long as there is no Somali state that will defend their natural resources and they will not bow down to any international aid organization to blackmail them. Also they added to these assumptions that they have received information that NPA is changing its program from water sector (WASH) into Demining, which can be closely linked to the intention of the Norwegian oil company. Due to these developments they are also aware and have the perception that the pressure put on this international organization by the administrations in Hargeisa and Garowe, is gaining the momentum of opening offices in Garowe and Hargeisa, which did not exist in the past.



This will mean the humanitarian aid intended to assist the pastoral communities in Sool, Sanaag and Cayn by the Norwegian government will be diverted to Puntland and Somaliland. Such a move will have a very negative impact on the livelihood of the communities already affected by conflict and drought.



After hearing all these allegations we tried to contact the representative of the Norwegian organization stationed in Las Anod about what we have heard from the people in the area. Unfortunately no one was in a position to talk to us.

In order to get a complete picture of what was happening also we contacted some of the Somali Norwegians living in Norway, who are from the Sool region, to give us some information about the relationship between the Norwegian People’s Aid and the Norwegian registered Oil exploration company DNO. According to their knowledge there is no relationship that they are aware of, but they are aware that many international employees as well as common Norwegians have shares in the company. So in their conclusion the possibility is there that some of the staff from the Norwegian People’s Aid has an interest that the company sets its foot in the Sool region.

This might be according to their judgment the reason why this humanitarian organization is retaliating against the communities in the Sool region. We will continue to find further facts surrounding these allegations against this international organization.



But still hearing that information we find it very unfortunate that an international humanitarian organization has to ally itself with an international profit oriented company, which is trying to exploitillegally the resources of a nation where its population is faced by natural disasters and calamities such as drought and famine. Furthermore it is tragic that an international organization, which is bound to the Fundamental Principles of the international conventions of humanitarian aid such as Impartiality, Neutrality and the like has to punish a community that has just done what their rights are and that is to defend their territories from inhumane exploitation. In addition it is also tragic that such a retaliation method can further fuel the already precarious security situation of the population in the region.

Northern Tribal Secessionists (Somaliland) Aggressions to SSC Unionist Regions Using Western and UK Military Aid? By Habon Haji Published on December 10, i2015 in http://www.allmarqan.com

[ii]in http://waagacusub.net/articles/1131/Top ... -illegally

[1]Peter Bauer, “Western Guilt and Third World Poverty,” in Karl Brunner, ed., The First World and the Third World (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Policy Center, 1978), p. 162



[1]In http://www.cato.org/publications/econom ... ut-poverty

[1]Osman Hassan, http://www.wardheernews.com/somaliland- ... c-regions/

[1]http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/at ... 15_801.pdf

[theyuusuf143]

Too long to read.

[mahoka]

Some people are natural victims. They have a victimhood mentality

[BigBreak]

these terrorists need to be annihilated asap. the sovereignty and territorial integrity of JSL is invioable and sacrosanct. we could also help koonfurian realists in fighting statelessness and clan balkanization in their country somalia (ex italian colony) in return for stop dreaming about reuniting with somaliland like a weak naago

[JSL3000]

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[KyrieJama]

these terrorists need to be annihilated asap. the sovereignty and territorial integrity of JSL is invioable and sacrosanct. we could also help koonfurian realists in fighting statelessness and clan balkanization in their country somalia (ex italian colony) in return for stop dreaming about reuniting with somaliland like a weak naago

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[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

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