Shane Mage wrote:
Fraid not. It was the Baidoa "government." The nytimes said:
It also fired the four Mogadishu warlords who held cabinet positions
in the transitional government but had flouted calls by their
colleagues to stop the fighting.
The four men are Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, who was national security
minister; Muse Sudi Yalahow, commerce minister; Botan Isse Alin,
demobilization minister; and Omar Mohamed Mohamud, religious affairs
minister.
as expected, the article had a map with no indication of the
existence of Somaliland.
Pretty sure, something about corruption charges, and one of those sacked
is a white guy.
Here it is:
Somaliland President sacks Minister of Interior and Police Chief
http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/top.titleStory&sp=l38553
Also:
Somaliland: AU Urged to Prevent Somalia-Somaliland War
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=60&par=4560
The African Union (AU) is urged by international security experts to
look into the situation of Somaliland, which last week celebrated its
15th anniversary as an independent but still non-recognised republic.
There are rising concerns about "an ever-increasing source of friction,
and possibly violence" between Somaliland and Somalia, which will not
recognise the breakaway state's existence. The AU is called to prevent a
new war, preferably by recognising Somaliland.
The Brussels-based think-tank International Crisis Group (ICG) today
published a new report - "Somaliland: Time for African Union Leadership"
<http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4131> - which reads as
an open letter to the AU.
The analysis examines the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as it on
18 May marked fifteen years since it proclaimed independence from
Somalia. The north-western Somali territory, which was a British colony,
has managed to establish a stable, democratic and developing state in
these 15 years, while southern Somalia remains ravaged by clans and
warfare.
<...>
Which is sort of amusing, because apparently the Somali
government-in-exile (albeit in their own country currently) wants the same:
Somalia may seek AU troops
Sunday 11 June 2006, 14:24 Makka Time, 11:24 GMT
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/636F5A44-DB67-4FA7-BF19-624FA03872F4.htm
This looks like a proxy war due to British & Australian oil/mineral
exploration that went from low intensity to high in a matter of months.
Maybe they found something important enough to kill for.
The CIA apparently thought so...
BTB, Didn't John study Swahili @ Columbia?
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
