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2003-08-08 Africa: East

Land of Somalia refuses to join Mogadishu government

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-08 00:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, try this link to the official web site to the "Republic of Somaliland." Looks different than Puntland (I think). Looks like the "Barbara passage" is around Berbera (10.5N 45E) on the Gulf of Aden. Ethiopia is to the south and the rest of ~~crazy killer land~~ Somalia is to the southeast. Puntland apparently is the part to the east that follows the Gulf to the Indian Ocean, from what I can get out of the CIA World FactBook 2002.

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-8 1:00:05 AM|| 2003-8-8 1:00:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I forgot about Somaliland -- damn the translation from Arabic!

Posted by Fred 2003-8-8 10:53:17 AM|| 2003-8-8 10:53:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Puntland, in northeastern Somalia is dominated by the Darood clan who claim Somaliland as theirs because of the large Darood population there.

Puntland's leader, Col Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad has threatened the eastern Somaliland regions of Sool and Sanaag. The two regions fall geographically within the borders of pre-independence British Somaliland, but most of the main clans inhabiting them are associated with Puntland. These are the Warsangeli and the Dhulbahante, which, along with Majerteen - the main clan in Puntland - form the Harti clan of the Darood.

Abdullahi Yusuf has said that Puntland does not consider Sool and Sanaag as part of Somaliland.
He believes that Sool and Sanaag are part and parcel of Puntland, and the people there do not consider themselves part of Somaliland.

Ethiopia has rejected calls by the breakaway republic of Somaliland for international recognition by insisting that the regionâs future lies within a united Somalia.(a fantasy)

The Ethiopians want to include Somaliland within the boundaries of Somalia.

However, the Somaliland regional government's statement said Somaliland's borders were those it inherited from the British, and "are recognised by the African Union and the UN".

In other words, we welcome any solution that will lessen the threat to Somaliland's independence. But hey, we're fine here. So, you guy's work it out. Okay?

Posted by fullwood 2003-8-8 12:18:55 PM|| [] 2003-8-8 12:18:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Jesus, I'm terrible at this posting tech. I'm out.

Posted by fullwood 2003-8-8 12:21:53 PM|| [] 2003-8-8 12:21:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's that bug... I just can't track it down.

And you don't have to put in the "A href" part of the link when you use the buttons.

Posted by Fred 2003-8-8 12:34:39 PM|| 2003-8-8 12:34:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ok, so Who's on first... I Don't Know is on second... PUNTLAND. (snicker) Oh man, ya gotta love it. Oh well, the Bloods and the Crips have the same issues. But there's peace and gentle breezes in my Isles of Langerhans.

Posted by Â·com 2003-8-8 1:34:40 PM|| 2003-8-8 1:34:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Bloods and the Crips have the same issues

In the place of crack though, they have Khat, "a mild narcotic plant very popular among Somalis."

An eye-opening scene at the Khat drop-off point is described here: Flying in Mogadishu's daily fix,along with a narrative of a Khat flight: "I decided to go to the cabin and have a chat with the pilot.
To my bewilderment, he too was dozing off."

Posted by fullwood 2003-8-8 2:06:37 PM|| [] 2003-8-8 2:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 fullwood - great story! I used to use a sig that went: Life is the search for endorphins...

I guess some of us are just wired that way. I'm damned happy that I'm not one of them! To quote a comedian I watched on Politically Incorrect some 7 yrs or so ago, in a discussion about all sorts of drugs and such - "I'm just glad I've reached the age where I can get that same feeling just by standing up too quickly."

Posted by Â·com 2003-8-8 2:28:24 PM|| 2003-8-8 2:28:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the entire Somolia problem could be solved with one 2.5 Mton Nuke.

Just nuke the place, bulldoze it clear and start over again.

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-8 3:24:03 PM|| 2003-8-8 3:24:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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