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Piracy has Drawn World Attention
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It is said that the sea has a surface area of about 2 million square miles that is largely the operation area of the pirates. It is not, therefore, easy for a small force without helicopters to control such a vast operational area and defeat the pirates.

It is essential that the world collectively stand up and fight against the actions of piracy that have become a question not to reckon with. I believe that if all the neighboring countries would participate in this war the pirates would find it very difficult to survive in such a hostile and harassing environment.

To some however, the question of piracy can become history if the Somali transitional government was sufficiently empowered to end the insurgency in Somalia.

For Somali peoples having a stablity and infrustrures means that the pirates will have no base on land and will become exposed to the marine forces dealing with them from the sea .

Actually, the world has abandoned Somalia and I think it is high time the world turned its attention back to the abandoned land and help the government there to stabilize.

In fact, one may think that for the Somalis to get involved in acts of piracy was a way of showing the world that they are tired of the suffering they have experienced in the past more than twenty years.

Statistics show that only last year over one hundred vessels were captured and about 815 people held hostage.

This year, so far over twenty five ships were captured and more than three hundred and fifty people held captives of which up to now 16 vessels and two hundred and fifty people remain in captivity.

It is very encouraging for the world to have pronounced itself strongly against piracy and having taken a step towards its total elimination.

It might not be easy to have them all eliminated but I believe that with determination the pirates cannot hang on for a long time.

Mahamed Osman
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

April 27, 2009 | 12:07 PM Comments  0 comments

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The Presnt day Somalia
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Since the collapse of the former government, there have been diverse political systems.Somalia today is actually composed of three relatively autonomous regions:

* Somaliland, a former British colony in the northwest of Somalia.The region is independent from the whole country and has its own system of governance and is seeking recognition from the international community as an independent nation just like Eriteria did in 1991 when separated from Ethiopia . Somaliland forms the most stable Zone,
* Puntland, in Somalia’s northeastern section, has also established its own political system, although it considers itself part of a federated Somalia. Puntland’s elected leader serves as part of the Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government.
* Then there's the rest of Somalia, the south and south-central parts of the country. It is in this area where competing clans struggle for control, where kids only dream of attending school, where infrastructure is crumbling from 15 years of war and neglect.


Mahamed Osman
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

April 7, 2009 | 11:32 AM Comments  0 comments

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Nulear Wastes damped in Somalia
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World's chemical industries and nuclear energy plant have already generated millions of tons of hazardous waste Industrialized countries generate over 90% of the world's hazardous wastes (WCED, 1987). The high growth of industries in developed countries was accompanied by an equally high increase in the production of toxic hazardous wastes. But the technological capacity to handle these by-products - wastes, was not developing by the same level. This is the reason why problem of these wastes, particularly nuclear wastes, still remains unsolved. Taking advantage of political instability and high level of corruption in Somalia but lured by the potential financial gains,Somalia have been used as the dumping sites for hazardous toxic waste materials from developed countrie. Bearing the cost of the damage caused by the hazardous waste which are environment threatening wastes and effecting the ground water . Both the exporting and importing counterparts violated international treaties to which most countries in the world are signatories.

To day in Somalia the damped wastes resulted to many problems such new incurable disease, and more importantly the piracy which had a global effect. The relationship between piracy and waste damping is that there is no fish left alive by the radio active wastes , so that local fisher men have to do piracy as an alternative business to survive


The Suez canal is very important for world trade but piracy is in front of the channel, so the world must not forget Somalia any more.



Mahamed Osman
Addis Ababa

Ethiopia

April 6, 2009 | 1:10 PM Comments  1 comments

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About Somaliland
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In 1991, after the collapse of the central government in Somalia, the main part of the territory asserted its independence as the Republic of Somaliland on May 18, 1991. It regarded itself as the successor state to the briefly independent State of Somaliland, but did not receive any international diplomatic recognition.

The economic and military infrastructure left behind by Somalia has been largely destroyed by war. The people of Somaliland had rebelled against the Siad Barre dictatorship in Mogadishu, which prompted a massive reaction by the government.

Somaliland has stable functioning adminsatrtion, and by now very peacefull and stable.

The late Abderahman Ahmed Ali Tuur was the first president of Somaliland. Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal was appointed his successor in 1993 by the Grand Conference of National Reconciliation in Boorama (Borama), which met for four months and led not only to a gradual improvement in security, but solidified the fledgling state.[6] Egal was re-appointed in 1997, and remained in power until his death on May 3, 2002. The vice president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, was sworn in as president shortly afterwards, and in 2003 Kahin became the first Somaliland president to be elected in a free and fair election.

The 2006 War in Somalia between the Islamic Courts Union and the forces of Ethiopia and Somalia's transitional government has not directly affected Somaliland
Somaliland was also safe from piracy on the horn of Africa



The map of Somaliland (Northen part of Somalia)

April 2, 2009 | 5:36 PM Comments  0 comments

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