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Subject: [camnetwork] Re: [Voice-Of-Uganda] Re: Somalia: The World Must Act
The situation in Somalia is definitely going to get out of hand, and the
Ethiopian, Ugandan and Burundian forces, most likely, are going to be driven
out of the country.
First, America is having huge financial crisis bound to curtail its
influence - through bankrolling - in the Horn of Africa. Where will these
bankrupt, pro-colonialist and pro-imperialist governments now in Somalia, as AU
peace keepers, going to get financial and material resources to keep their
mission going?
Second, Somalia is a very tightly knit society; couple with Islamic
ideologies, things can only get ever complicated.
Third, the mushrooming piracy in the coast of Somalia, that appears
expanding by the hour everywhere within Indian Ocean means, the situation could
not look any worse.
Now keep in mind that this new development has the potential of being
picked up by other insurgencies, could be off the coast of Nigeria and
Cameroon, where rebels are active, what indeed are we Africans increasingly
facing?
The desperate state of Africa generally, and that of Somalia in
particular, should focus our attention on how to increase productivities in the
continent, if these messes are to be tamed. Africans need job, and therefore
incomes if the situation must change. Unfortunately African government
officials everywhere, have been squandering African resources. They do not care
about the economies of the continent; instead, they are quick to feed Western
industrialisations at the expense of the populations.
Leaders like Museveni of Uganda, are only hell bent on destroying
indigenous population to replace with foreigners - beside selling off the
country's resources. A recent article posted here on this forum indicates that
East Indians are swooping into the country from Europe and America, in droves.
What does that tell us, when our people are living on less than a dollar a day,
or in many cases, being fed by NGOs?
We have for instance, the people in Eastern and Northern part of the
country herded into camps, where children are dying at the rate of 1000 per
week, by UN estimations. No body in Museveni's government cares about this.
Instead, the populations are left in the hands of foreign NGOs to feed. While
in Kampala, government officials are busy whining and dining with these
potential new citizens coming in to take over resources, claiming that it was
their assets in the first place before Idi Amin kicked them off the land. Even
worse, the government is dishing out land to them, including other foreign
investors, like the Libyan government, and in the process, many citizens have
been rendered squatters.
How can all these be accepted?
Everywhere you go in the continent, these problems are replicas; it does
not matter which country; one just finds the same kind of problems for
Africans. Displacements from control of their resources; being forced off their
land; rendered jobless; the educated elites and students fleeing their
countries and looking for greener pastures in Europe or America, leaving behind
their illiterate relatives unable to stand up to the marauding forces of
darkness called government, that never invest even a penny in anything that
develop an African economy! Name any sector in an African country, save for
South Africa, it is either no there or not working; completely dilapidated!
Are these the trends we must settle down for in our continent?!
ARJP
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Robert Ssenkindu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Robert Ssenkindu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Voice-Of-Uganda] Re: Somalia: The World Must Act
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 8:15 PM
I thought that we can manage our affairs without help of Occident. So
why not call for troops from all angles and corners of Africa to join the
struggle and stablize the situation in the horn of Africa?
" I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery"----Jean Jaqueas
Rousseau
" Apolitician thinks on the next election - a statesman of the next
generation" James Freeman Clarke
" The State calls its own violence, law;but that of the individual
crime" - Max Stirner "The Ego and His Own (1845)"
"The people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned how to
pronouce the word 'no' -Winston Churchill.
"The more corrupt the state,the numerous the laws- Cornelius Tacitus
"Annals"(c.116.A.D)"
SR. Sveritanien.
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:38:30 -0400
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Subject: [Voice-Of-Uganda] Somalia: The World Must Act
By stating that the "world must act", it appears the writer of the
article below is actually referring to the US..I reckon..he wants the US to
act..but then the question is Can the US act ?...especially given the fact that
the US has it's hands is full in Iraq , Afghanistan
MK
Somalia: The World Must Act
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The East African (Nairobi)
EDITORIAL
28 September 2008
Posted to the web 30 September 2008
Nairobi
The sustained attacks last week by Somali insurgents on positions
occupied by African Union troops from Uganda and Burundi marked a significant
escalation of the crisis in that country.
The shelling of the AU positions in Mogadishu saw thousands of people
flee the city, which has been virtually destroyed by 14 years of war.
Many of the internally displaced people have been driven into the bush,
where such services as health care, education, and food aid are non-existent.
Given that Somalia is in the throes of one of its worst food shortages,
the humanitarian crisis emerging from the latest fighting is truly
heart-wrenching. But more than the lives of Somalis is at stake in the
continuing chaos.
The lawless country is fast emerging as the new Afghanistan, a haven for
all manner of fundamentalists and terrorists and the prime source of the
illicit small arms that have devastated vast areas of the Horn of Africa.
The hijacking of a dozen ships off the coast of the war-torn country
underlines the international nature of the Somali imbroglio.
The world must not sit back. While decisive military intervention is
unrealistic -- no Western power today can risk the kind of reception given US
troops in the 1990s -- the international community needs to engage other levers
to restore a semblance of law and order.
A key plank in this must be the strengthening of the Somalia interim
government, including the training of its nascent military and police, and
support to the fledgling civil service.
Elsewhere, the world must work harder to stop the flow of arms to
non-state actors.
Although a UN embargo is already in place, greater efforts must be made
to ensure that Eritrea and Yemen, which are allegedly arming factions of the
insurgents, cease to do so forthwith. The international financial system must
also be brought to bear to stop the flow of funds to insurgents.
Regarding piracy, the world's leading navies must be mandated to protect
the shipping lanes off the Somali coast, especially at the southern end of the
strategic Red Sea route. Relevant Links
East Africa
Conflict, Peace and Security
International Organizations and Africa
Somalia
In this, the interim Somali government should be prevailed upon to waive
sovereignty so that personnel from the international naval taskforce are able
to pursue pirates into Somali's territorial waters.
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