The Somalia TFG an Administration on life support

[The_Emperior5]

Halkan ka akhriso

http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_20 ... omalia.pdf

[Ahmed17]

THE SYSTEM WAS MADE BY ETIOPHIA NOT TO FUNCTION, SINCE 2000 TFG HAS BEEN A DEAD BODY WHO STILL EXIST ON THE PAPERS.

[Keyse_0208]

intensive care bey ku jiraan nacalaa aabahood yaal, hospital bed bey jiiftaan waa


dee siday tahay

[ToughGong]

NOT FOR CIRCULATION OUTSIDE CRISIS GROUP

[AbdiWahab252]

The TFG has resisted Shabab for a long time, Somaliland would have collapsed by now if Shabab made the same moves.

[galia]

Keep dreaming Idoor just like for somaliland recognition

Victorious TFG October 2011

[Cali_Gaab]

[The_Patriot]

NOT FOR CIRCULATION OUTSIDE CRISIS GROUP

[Jaidi]

Nothing has changed since this report was written. Military advances without any semblance of services delivered and corruption continue. Its a mirage that they have improved.

[Jaidi]

Levels of corruption within the TFG have increased significantly in the last one year, and many local and foreign
observers now regard the Sharif TFG as the most corrupt since the cycles of ineffectual transitions began in the
early 90’s. Sharif’s long-time ally and confidante, Sharif Hasan Sheikh Aden (now Speaker of Parliament after a
well-orchestrated campaign to unseat the old Speaker), and handful of cabinet ministers, now preside over a
corruption syndicate that is massive and sophisticated and well beyond Somalia’s borders. The impunity with
which these elements operate and manipulate the system to serve their greed is mind-boggling. These individuals
are not fit to hold any public office and they must be forced to resign, sanctioned and isolated.

[Saraxnow]

They are so embarrassing to Somalis in general.

[The_Patriot]

Thoroughly inept, increasingly corrupt and paralysed by Sharif’s indecisive and weak leadership, exacerbated by a
vicious internal power struggle, every effort to make the government modestly functional, has come unstuck.

[ChiefAaqil]

Calls for reform
President Sharif is under pressure from the international community to deliver on the reform promise. He is also
sensitive to the calls for reform within the regime. A significant number of reform-minded figures associated with
the Kutla (Arabic word for caucus or bloc) – an informal group that is beginning to emerge as a key player in
parliament – wants change. The president is aware that in his struggle with Sharif Hasan, this is a group he needs to
cultivate as allies. But it is unclear whether he can achieve that, considering the fact he is increasingly viewed by
some Kutla members as part of the problem.

The Kutla is itself an interesting phenomenon. It is cross-clan, issue-oriented and carving a centrist place for itself
in the new polarized political climate. It is led by Abdi Hashi (a northerner and an Isaq), a man widely respected and
who despite ill health and advanced age, has managed to mobilize reformists and articulate a reform agenda that
has struck a cord with a large segment of well-educated MPs of different ideological persuasion.
So far, attempts by the two Sharif’s to bribe and co-opt its members have not succeeded, but the strain on its cohesion is bound to grow in the coming months, because the stakes are high.

[Jaidi]

This is actually an incredible and revealing read. Shows much over your heads the nature of Somali poltiics is. People cheerleading their relatives without realizing this is all about individuals

Sharif Hasan, for his part, is known to be harbouring presidential ambitions. He has been discreetly campaigning
since early 2009 to emerge as a credible candidate, gingerly outflanking potential rivals. He is a skilful operator and
a supremely persuasive politician, adept at mobilizing support, often using his immense wealth and superior
knowledge of the political terrain. His dextrous manoeuvre to secure the powerful post of Speaker, was, to many, a
political masterstroke. Ethiopia and other regional and international actors are said to favour him. He has cleverly
exploited the widespread suspicion of Sharif and his Aala Sheikh supporters, to project himself as a secularist and
the only man capable of stopping “closet Shabaabists” from completely taking over the TFG. It is important to
highlight this because arguments in support of Sharif Hassan are gaining traction with certain segments of the
international community. The notion that Sharif Hassan is a secularist is without any merit and those propagating
this ludicrous myth, certainly, do not know the man. Allowing Sharif Hassan to achieve his ambition, primarily on
the vague and uncritical assumption he is a “secularist” and likely to be much more decisive and competent leader
than Sheikh Sharif, is to completely misread his character and his brand of politics and to ignore his negative and
destructive influence within the TFG and on the wider body politic. To argue that the choice is between these two
leaders – one who is inept and one who is corrupt, but nonetheless effective and competent – is cynical. This is a
false choice to which Somalis must not be condemned.

[UlteriorMotive]

But that's the thing jaidi. The clan often does not benefit only those at the top of the pyramid. Lol @ people who supported clan warlords who looted, robbed and killed people and he hasn't done JACKSHIT for you or your faamily. He only pimped you by using reer hebel to mobilise support.

Hey if people are satisfied with having a man from their clan running things no matter how inept then so be it.