Somalia: Security Forces Hamstrung By Corruption, Infiltrators

Mogadishu — Somalia's security forces need rebuilding to cement gains made by foreign troops against Islamist militants, but how to pay and arm recruits, tackle corruption and prevent rebels infiltrating their ranks remain hurdles for the cash-strapped government.

Proving the dire state of the Somali forces, when Islamist gunmen attacked a court in Mogadishu in April, police said they couldn't tell who was friend or foe, while members of the force say a $100-a-month salary is not enough to inspire loyalty.

"Shoe shiners have a better life," said a junior police officer, who only gave his name as Hussein. "They are not targets and they get a better income."

Emerging from two decades of anarchy, security gains in the past two years have been made largely thanks to African peacekeepers spearheading the fight against al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels.

Western powers, long worried Somalia is a launch pad for militant Islam in east Africa and beyond, fear the nation could slide back into chaos if local forces cannot cement gains.

How to overhaul its security forces will top the agenda at a May 7 conference in London, where Britain and Somalia will seek more international support at a time al Shabaab are weakened and piracy off the Horn of Africa is at an all-time low.

A threat by Ethiopian troops to withdraw from Somalia has raised questions over how the stretched African Union peacekeeping force, known as AMISOM, would be able to plug the gap and highlighted the need for Somalia to build its own capacities.

"Somali armed forces need building up, their police need expanding," Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters when he re-opened Britain's embassy in Mogadishu.

"There are many huge challenges and dangers that remain and the world mustn't think that we have solved all the problems or that its help isn't needed," he said. Washington and Brussels already help pay African troops and Somalia's forces.

Hague said Britain's permanent diplomatic presence signalled London's confidence, although the makeshift embassy's four metal cabins lie behind two blast walls within the fortified airport.

Elected in September, Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said security was "priority number one, two and three".

PEACEKEEPERS

It is clear why. Mohamud's government depends on the 18,000 or so African troops to survive, and the poorly armed, poorly paid and ill-disciplined military is in no position to take over.

When Ethiopia grumbled AMISOM was not doing enough to take over places its troops had secured and withdrew in a huff from Hudur, near Ethiopia's border, al Shabaab retook the dusty town.

That signalled how swiftly al Shabaab, now largely confined to rural areas, could regroup if any vacuum is left. Diplomats do not expect Ethiopia to leave the African troops stranded.

"It is not in Addis Ababa or anyone's interest to see al Shabaab move back in. Ethiopia clearly understands that," a senior Western diplomat said. "But now we have to tie up what AMISOM is doing and what the Somali National Army is doing."

More a collection of rival militias than a cohesive fighting force, the army lacks sophisticated command structures and has been dogged by soldiers selling off their guns and uniforms.

Frequently that gear ends up in Mogadishu's markets, or in the hands of al Shabaab. More worrying, security officials say, is the number of militants infiltrating the armed forces.

In the April attack on the capital's law courts, the attackers were disguised in official military fatigues.

During the chaotic gun battle, a Reuters photographer saw one group of soldiers point their guns at another group, also in uniform. "Hey stop, who are you? Go back!" They too raised their rifles and replied "We are security forces, and who are you?"

"EAT YOUR BULLETS"

Mistrust is not limited to those in Somalia's forces. Somalia's allies are also wary. The United Nations has partially lifted an arms embargo, allowing in light weapons to help Somali forces, but has maintained a ban on heavy arms.

"They have to visibly demonstrate they can control what they buy and receive before we go further," said a Western official.

President Mohamud and foreign powers say security sector reform must extend beyond the military to the police force which officially numbers around 6,000, nearly all of whom are in Mogadishu - reflecting the government's limited reach.

Plans to add 4,000 more would still leave the national force less than a third the size of New York city's police department.

A government-approved strategic plan for the police force acknowledged some officers have never received any training while others learned their trade as militia loyal to warlords.

One diplomat said foreign assistance to the police force amounted to "life support". More generosity may be required to make it a more professional security operation.

"If only we could get $500 a month, al Shabaab would be extinct," said a second officer who identified himself as Omar. "We would stand in the alleyways day and night and pick them off like ripe bananas."

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U.S. policy seen as factor in Somalia famine deaths

By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — It was the catastrophe everyone knew was coming yet no one seemed able to stop.

According to analysts, a violent Islamist militia was partly to blame for thousands of deaths in Somalia's food crisis from 2010 to 2012, but so was U.S. anti-terrorism policy.

A malnourished child is hospitalized in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.… (Carl de Souza / AFP/Getty…)

The effect of nations' collective failure to grapple with the complex problems of getting aid into famine-stricken southern Somalia has only now been established: Nearly 260,000 people died, half of them children younger than 5, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S.-based Famine Early Warning System Network, or FEWS NET, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The death toll, first reported early this week by the Associated Press, was double the worst estimates at the time.

The findings follow the first definitive scientific study on the effects of the food crisis, which found that 10% of children and 4.6% of the overall population in southern Somalia perished.

The FEWS NET warned of the impending disaster in 2010. The famine was declared in July 2011.

According to analysts, the deaths were caused by people and politics: the Islamist militia the Shabab, which denied humanitarian access to the hardest-hit areas and prevented starving people from leaving; local clan warlords, who stole food aid; and the transitional government in Mogadishu, the capital, whose officials diverted aid.

But American policy also played a considerable role, according to analysts, with the Shabab designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2008. U.S. counter-terrorism law imposes sanctions on any group found to be offering even indirect assistance to a terrorist group. Some U.S. and international agencies halted aid deliveries to Shabab-controlled areas, fearing they could be charged with helping a designated terrorist group. In January 2010, the World Food Program suspended aid to southern Somalia, after reports that the Shabab was diverting supplies.

"The short answer — who was to blame — was that there was a syndrome of factors that together created very large problems of access," Somalia expert Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College in North Carolina said in a phone interview. "It wasn't one single factor."

He said the suspension of WFP aid and the U.S. anti-terrorism measure had a "chilling effect" on other humanitarian organizations trying to respond to the Somali crisis. Some agencies, Menkhaus said, were afraid that their global reputations would be damaged if the Shabab ended up with their aid.

"Everyone wanted to get aid in," he said. "But local aid diversion was endemic. One aid agency worker called southern Somalia 'an accountability-free zone.' You could not count on getting aid to the people who needed it most."

Geno Teofilo, spokesman for Oxfam, said his agency believed that the international community put too much emphasis on security issues in the developing world and not enough on humanitarian crises.

"Oxfam believes that when there's a conflict it doesn't matter what side of the control line people are on," Teofilo said in a telephone interview. "When they need food and people are dying of hunger, politics should not play a part. People should be able to receive humanitarian aid, wherever they are."

 

'The future of Somalia is at stake', says president

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia tells Zoe Flood that although things are getting better in his country, there is a huge amount at stake.

By Zoe Flood, Mogadishu

He darts through the city in a convoy of armoured vehicles, teams of bodyguards bristling with weapons and alert for suicide bombers. The war ravaged streets of Mogadishu have been cleared for him to pass safely. It is too dangerous for him to leave his home without days of planning.

And yet Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the president of Somalia, will arrive in London this week to tell David Cameron that things are getting better.

^{_{Mr Hassan is Somalia’s first president elected on home soil in decades} (Feisal Omar for the Telegraph)}

“Now we’re moving from one stage to another,” he told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview, sitting in dappled sunlight outside his official residence. “All our plans are based on moving the country from emergency to recovery, and from recovery to development and reconstruction.”

Mr Hassan, a former academic and the country’s first president elected on home soil in decades, has found a vital ally in David Cameron, with whom he will on Tuesday co-host an international conference in London to boost support for his country.

“When I was elected I was attacked within two days, and there were suicide bombers in every corner of my hotel. There are threats against me all the time — I receive a lot of alerts that an attack on me is imminent,” he said. But he promises that the situation is improving – and that it is essential not just for Somalia that it does.

“There is a huge amount at stake in Somalia: the future of this country, the security of the region, the removal of the piracy stranglehold,” he said. “David Cameron is investing political capital in supporting Somalia. People may ask if it matters at this time, but he understands that the cost of Somali insecurity to global business – at a time when Europe is trying to recover from the recession – is too much to bear. The threat to national security from home-grown extremists is also too much to risk.”

 
^{Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (3rd R), William Hague (2nd R) and other officials at the embassy opening (Reuters)}

Britain’s support for Somalia has been particularly visible in the lead-up to the conference. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, last month opened Britain’s new embassy in Mogadishu, 22 years after diplomats fled chaotic fighting in the capital.

The British ambassador to Somalia, Matt Baugh, who will nonetheless continue to spend most of his time in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, told The Sunday Telegraph that “real security gains” were among the reasons that Britain has formally returned to the country.

The Somali government is looking to Britain to help convey the country’s needs and priorities to the world. Mr Hassan, who works 20 hour-days and looks confused when asked how he relaxes, promises that they will be presenting “very clear plans” including on security sector and judiciary reform, as well as on the management of public finances. In return they are hoping for funding, technical advice and diplomatic support, from Britain and others.

Britain has its own priorities in Somalia, which include tackling conflict and countering terrorism and piracy. To this effect, it is expected that Britain will pledge tens of millions to build up Somali security forces – forces that Britain already helps to train.

Somalia is used to needing all the help it can get. One of the world’s most dangerous countries, the Horn of Africa nation is known for war, pirates and famine rather than its miles of pristine coastline and centuries-old literary tradition. Since the government’s collapse in 1991, it has been shattered by conflict and most recently a violent insurgency by al-Qaeda-linked militants.

 
^{Somali military blocks Mogadishu streets to prevent anticipated al-Shabab attack (Feisal Omar for the Telegraph)}

But a gruelling military operation by African Union and Somali troops has pushed al-Shabaab – which the president describes as having a “proven” link to British extremism – out of the capital, driving up hopes for the future.
Mogadishu is without doubt undergoing a massive transformation. The city streets, largely deserted just over a year ago, bustle with hawkers selling cigarettes, girls walking home from school and men gathered for coffee.
 
^{Street life in Mogadishu (Feisal Omar for the Telegraph)}
 
Bombed-out ruins are being rebuilt and opened as hotels, shops and restaurants. Residents of the city recall that not long ago mortar shells fired by al-Shabaab fell into the gardens of the presidential compound Villa Somalia, where Mr Hassan now lives.

Last week he made a rare visit to speak to the people he leads – travelling a few minutes from Villa Somalia to visit a fish factory and speak with the workers.

During a short stay at the facility, he managed to exchange a few words with several men packing fish, while his unsmiling bodyguards formed a permanent barrier around him. At home, security around the president is just as fierce: to get into the official residence requires passing through at least six checkpoints, several involving body searches and fierce questioning.

These rings of steel around Somalia’s mild-mannered and erudite president are understandable. Al-Shabaab has carried out a deadly campaign of suicide bombings and targeted assassinations since it declared its withdrawal from Mogadishu in August 2011. Last week the capital was under lockdown for some 72 hours, with major roads closed and military out in force while a major operation hunted down al-Shabaab leaders. Three weeks earlier a coordinated attack on the capital’s courthouse, claimed by al-Shabaab, left at least 19 dead.

 
^{Street life in Mogadishu (Feisal Omar for the Telegraph)}
 
“We do not rule out that such acts can happen,” says Mr Hassan. “They happen in Kabul, Baghdad, Mogadishu, many parts of the world. It’s a real threat but one we’re living with and working on to eliminate.”

The president is frank about the links between militant ideology in Somalia and terror threats in the wider world.

“The al-Shabaab ideology is an imported ideology, it has been brought by foreign fighters who came here or Somalis who went outside and came back. This ideology of extremism is a virus, it goes everywhere.

“Many of those young boys who became suicide bombers, they came from the West. They went there while they very young, or even they were born there. Some of them are of Somali origin, some of them are not Somali. They took the virus while they were there in London, in Washington, in Toronto, in Rome.”

For a man recently named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people, Mr Hassan cuts an unlikely figure. He is far from presidential – without the arrogance of power, even if his entourage puts on a good show. Warm and welcoming, the 57-year-old president struggles with the levels of interest in his personal life, acknowledging that his life “has become a public domain”.

He smiles easily, a sincere and sometimes mischievous grin, but looks a little uncomfortable when everyone in the room jumps to their feet as he enters.

Mr Hassan’s formal political career began only two years ago, and his time in public office in August last year. Unlike many now at the top of Somalia’s politics, he stayed in the country throughout the conflict, working as an academic and civil society activist. He turned to politics after years of frustration trying to shift the mindset of Somalia’s politicians.

“I was well paid, I can say I was one of the highest paid people inside Somalia,” he said, referring to his roles as a university dean and deputy director of a research institute. “But I decided to drop everything and stand for politics. I decided that I would change myself so that then I can pursue the change I want to see in Somalia.”

The election by MPs of Mr Hassan - the country remains too unstable for a full election - was welcomed both at home and internationally as marking a turning point for Somalia. But the country remains some distance from being able to hold a nationwide poll.

While the government may now be in control of Mogadishu and other key cities, bolstered by military support including from its neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia, al-Shabaab still holds sway over large swathes of the country.

And ongoing disputes with semi-autonomous regions over their status mean that plans to hold a general election in 2016 seem particularly ambitious.

“Somalia is a country that has been exposed to anarchy for over two decades. One thing is very clear that Somalia is fragmented into pieces,” Mr Hassan said.

“Reversing all that has been happening in the past two decades is a very tedious work that requires some time.”

But the significant number of foreign-based Somalis returning home to invest their time or money in the country reflects the confidence that many have in the president – who is attempting to overcome a politics previously dominated by clan – and the new era that many believe has begun.

And Somalis in Britain, of which there are over 100,000, are central to that.

“They are the front-runners who come early, who have started the reconstruction of Somalia. Today in Mogadishu, new hotels, new restaurants, new supermarkets are established, all of them established by the diaspora people. Those in Britain are very important and I’m going to meet them when I go to London,” he said.

The president expects non-Somali British firms to follow hot on their heels.

“The environment is not conducive enough for heavy investment. But so far what we are seeing, the people who are approaching, who have very clear proposals, who already come making assessments for the investments, many of them are British and we are expecting that there will be a lot of British investment in this country.”

Despite much well-placed optimism, Somalia’s quiet but determined president is facing an onerous task. Domestic and international expectations are high, peace remains fragile and potential pitfalls clutter the path ahead.

But, as he puts it, firmly: “It is critical for Somalia. This is the right time.”

Bomb targets Qatari delegation in Somalia

(CNN) -- A suicide car bomb targeted an African Union convoy carrying a Qatari delegation in Somalia on Sunday morning, authorities said.

All members of the convoy were unharmed during the attack in the capital of Mogadishu, said Ahmed Adan, the Somali prime minister's spokesman.

Adan had said earlier that the interior minister was with the delegation, but the minister's office said he was not.

Radical Islamist militia Al-Shabaab is to blame for the attack, according to Adan.

Separately, the African Union command in Mogadishu said at least seven civilians were killed in the attack.

Al-Shabaab has waged recent attacks in the nation.

Last month, at least 10 heavily armed militants forced their way into a court building in Mogadishu, a deadly attack that left 29 people dead, diplomatic sources said.

In that attack, some assailants detonated explosives while others exchanged fire with government security, witnesses said.

At least nine members of Al-Shabaab were also killed, the sources said.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called the uptick in strikes "nothing but a sign of desperation by the terrorists," saying the militants "are in complete decline."

Somalia's shaky transitional government, backed by African Union peacekeepers, has been battling Islamist guerrillas for years.

Somaliland: Country Urged to Capitalize on the Flexibility of the UK and Danish Governments

"Somaliland should encourage more partner countries to follow the lead of donors such as Denmark and the United Kingdom...." David Shinn

By: Mahmud Walaleye
WASHINGTON DC (Somalilandsun) – "Somalia's goal in 1960 to unite all five Somali-inhabited areas in the Horn of Africa under one flag was probably never realistic and is even less so today"

This was termed by Amb David Shinn during an exclusive interview with Somalilandsun in which he also said the his take is that though the international community has been reluctant to recognize Somaliland, the governments of Denmark and the United Kingdom, in particular, are being flexible in the economic support they are giving to Somaliland while Turkey has also helped in a variety of ways.

Below are the verbatim excerpts of the interview with Amb Shinn conducted by Somalilandsun's Mahmud Walaleye

Recently, Somaliland president ended his visit to US, where he met both government and congress delegates as well as businessmen, how do you see this visit would enhance relation between US and Somaliland, would you got chance to meet, if yes what was discussions you had with him?

Somaliland has a good reputation in the United States. Visits by its leadership to the United States and meetings with senior officials in the executive branch, Congress and business persons make a positive contribution to the relationship. I had an opportunity to meet President Silanyo in Washington on 22 April at a lunch hosted by the US think Tank, the Atlantic Council.

Somaliland has been consistently making dramatic shifts for the past two 22 years. Some fair outside observers have called the rebuilding efforts and the developments that Somaliland has made for these past two decades, mostly with very little or no contribution from outside, "the miracle of Africa". Unfortunately, the UK, with a long historical link with Somaliland and rest of world, has refused to recognize this "African miracle". How do you see?

I am reluctant to label any political development in Africa or elsewhere "a miracle." Good governance and peace with neighbors come after a lot of hard work AND COMPROMISE by all concerned parties. Both factors will be necessary as Somalia and Somaliland continue their dialogue. While no government has recognized diplomatically the government of Somaliland, it is my understanding that the governments of Denmark and the United Kingdom, in particular, are being flexible in the economic support they are giving to Somaliland. Turkey has also helped in a variety of ways.

Somaliland and Somalia united on the basis of nationalism ideal. Since uniting all the five Somali-populated territories cannot legally and politically happen, by logical extension, the disbanded union of Somaliland and Somalia cannot be pursued legally, politically, and morally. How do you perceive?

Somalia's goal in 1960 to unite all five Somali-inhabited areas in the Horn of Africa under one flag was probably never realistic and is even less so today. Djibouti, whose majority Somali population has been independent since 1977, never had any intention of joining a "Greater Somalia" and certainly does not intend to do so now. Neither Kenya nor Ethiopia has ever been inclined to allow its Somali-inhabited regions to join a "Greater Somalia." The passage of time has only hardened their resistance. This leaves only the relationship between Somaliland and Somalia and that will be determined in the coming years by the people and leaders of both Somalia and Somaliland.

Lastly, how do you see Somaliland quest of international recognition be retained under current maneuvers?

I don't believe recent developments have changed the reluctance of countries to extend diplomatic recognition to Somaliland. Today, it is more important for Somaliland to encourage more partner countries to follow the lead of donors such as Denmark and the United Kingdom to make assistance available on a more flexible basis. It is equally important that Somaliland continue to pursue its generally good record on building democratic rule.

 
Reporter Mahmoud WalaleyeAmb David Shinn who received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from GW is an expert on Horn and other issues , currently an adjunct professor of international affairs at The George Washington University, a post he assumed after serving his country as ambassador to Ethiopia (1996-99) and to Burkina Faso (1987-90)
To read his regular views on the Horn and world issues visit http://davidshinn.blogspot.com

Earlier Amb Shinn interviews and articles on Somaliland posted by Somalilandsun

US Government to Act after Final IEO Report: Country Urged to Enhance Democratization Process : Only a Broad based government in Mogadishu can resolve differences with Somaliland : International community not Important in Somaliland’s recognition : US Dual Track policy towards Somalia and Somaliland : and , US Dual Track Policy in Somalia to Result in Increased Aid to Somaliland

Press Freedom Day: Where reporters and their work are threatened

Activists from Reporters Without Borders hang a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Paris to mark World Press Freedom Day. (Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP/ Getty Images / May 3, 2013)

Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations two decades ago as a day to nurture the freedom of journalists -- or to remind the world of where it falls short. Rights groups pointed to several spots on the globe where reporters are persecuted or in peril.

Syria is the deadliest country in the world for journalists, Amnesty International said in a newly released report. At least 46 people have been slain while reporting on its civil conflict between March 2011 and late April 2013, most of them Syrian nationals, according to UNESCO.

Journalists have come under fire from both government forces and rebels, some of them deliberately targeted for their work. Government forces are believed to have abducted, tortured and killed reporters, according to testimony gathered by Amnesty. Opposition fighters have publicly threatened journalists deemed sympathetic to the Syrian government and celebrated when they were attacked. At least seven journalists are now missing in Syria, according to the Agence France-Presse.

The government clampdown on foreign and local journalists has spurred citizen reporters to take up cameras to document the carnage in their neighborhoods, exposing themselves to added risk. The barrage of violent attacks on journalists “may amount to war crimes,” the human rights group wrote.

Those and other attacks made 2012 the deadliest one for journalists worldwide since the International Press Institute started systematically tracking journalists’ deaths in 1997.
On top of the dozens of reporters killed in Syria, at least 16 reporters were slain last year in Somalia, according to the group. Many appear to have been killed in retaliation for their work.

The Islamist militant group the Shabab is believed to be behind some of the killings, the Los Angeles Times' Robyn Dixon wrote last year, but warlords and powerful businessmen are also suspected.

“In Mogadishu, the atmosphere is very fearful and people wonder how they can continue doing their jobs. Many have stopped. They're afraid of being killed,” Rashid Abdullahi Haydar of the National Union of Somali Journalists told The Times. “Families are afraid too. They are saying, ‘Please stop this [journalism] because you have no rights and no protection. ’ ”

Iraq has failed to seek justice as its journalists are slain, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday, giving it the worst ranking on its newly updated impunity index. No convictions have been obtained in 93 cases of journalists killed over the last decade, the group said, with “no sign that authorities are working to solve any of them.”
Somalia and the Philippines also ranked high on the committee's impunity list. In Somalia, authorities pledged this year to investigate killings of journalists, creating a task force to examine past slayings. In the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III has made similar promises, but 55 slayings of journalists over the last decade remain unsolved, the committee said.

Other countries have fewer reported killings of journalists, but give journalists no freedom to do their work. Earlier this year, Reporters Without Borders ranked Eritrea,  

Turkmenistan and North Korea last in its annual report on press freedom.

The three countries have repeatedly ranked last on that list, with little change seen in state control over the media. In January, Eritrean officials denied reports that dissident soldiers had taken over its Ministry of Information and broadcast demands for change.

Eritrea is “Africa’s biggest prison for journalists,” with at least 30 of them behind bars, Reporters Without Borders wrote. It added that although no journalists were killed last year, “some were left to die, which amounts to the same thing.” Since 2001, seven journalists have killed themselves while imprisoned or died because of prison conditions, according to the media freedom group.

In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to ensure that journalists are able to do their jobs. “When it is safe to speak, the whole world benefits,” Ban said Thursday.

Puntland oo Qaadacday Shirka Magaalada London 7 May ku Qabsoomaya

Garoowe - Dowladda Puntland ayaa ka hadashay mowqifkeeda ku aaddan shirka London ee toddobaadka soo socda ka furmaya magaalada London ee xarunta dalka Brirtain, kaasoo dhaqaale loogu raadinayo Soomaliya.

Warsaxaafadeed kasoo baxay madaxtooyada Puntland ayaa lagu sheegay in Puntland ay soo dhaweynayso shir kasta oo wax loogu qabanayo Soomaaliya, isla markaana ay diyaar u tahay inay ka qaadato xaslinta dalka.

“Puntland waxay taageersaa wax walba oo nabadda, midnimada iyo Qarannimadii Soomaaliyeed dib loogu soo celinayo, hase ahaatee kama qayb-galayso shirka London,” ayaa lagu yiri warka kasoo baxay Puntland.

Inkastoo Puntland aan lagu casuumin shirka London haddana waxaa maalmo ka hor booqasho ku tagay Garoowe madaxweynaha Somalia, Xasn Sheekh si uu ugala hadlo madaxda Puntland inay wafdi uga qaybgala shirka soo xulaan balse waxaas kasoo horjeestay madaxweynaha Puntland. C/raxmaan Faroole.

Mas’uuliyiinta Puntland ayaa sheegay inay doonayeen in shirkaas lagu casuumo iyagoo ah maamul-goboleed ka jira Soomaaliya, balse aysan taasi dhicin iyaguna ay go’aansadeen inay diidaan ka qaybgalka shirka.

“Puntland kama qayb geli doonto shirka London, wax ergo ahina shirkaas uma tegi doonto. Puntland waxay qoraal ku aadan mowqifka ay ka taagan tahay arimaha Soomaaliya u gudbin doontaa shirka labaad ee London” War-saxaafadeedka ayaa lagu yidhi.

Warsaxaafadeedka ay soo saartay Puntland ayaa waxay ku sheegtay inay ku wargelinayso madaxda Britain inay eegaan xaqiiqada Soomaaliya ka jirta iyo baahida loo qabo dhismaha maamul goboleedyo sida ku xusan dastuurka ay ku dhaqmayso Soomaaliya, iyagoo sheegay inay walaac ka muujinayso wax ka badalka dastuurka Soomaaliya ee horay loo ansixiya.

Madaxweynaha dowladda Somalia oo ah ilaaliyaha dastuurka, guddoomiyaha barlamaanka iyo ergayga Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan arrimaah Somalia waxaan ugu yeeraynaa inay furaan baaritaan ballaaran oo shacabka loogu faah-faainayo dastuurka,” ayaa lagu yiri warsaxaafadeedka ay Puntland soo saartay.

Shirka London oo ay si wadajir ah u guddoominayaan madaxweynaha Soomaaliya iyo ra’iisul wasaaraha Britain, David Cameron ayaa waxaa looga hadli doonaan sidii dowladda Soomaaliya looga caawin lahaa dib u dhiska dalka iyo soo celinta ammaanka