FIVE YEARS AGO, in July of 2019, faqash propagandist @AnalystSomalia made a post advertising a workshop he was personally delivering, in Hargeisa Somaliland!
Somalia has just given away 30% of its entire marine resources to Turkey. This includes fisheries, offshore-oil and gas and deep sea mining rights.
They've done this in exchange for protection from illegal fishing!
This is the robbery of the century.
Lets unpack this:
1. Somalians are attempting to insinuate that the deal will act as a bulwark against the Somaliland - Ethiopia MoU. This is nonsense.
Somalia's leader Hassan Sheikh is very precise in his address that the agreement is to target illegal fishing and dumping of waste within Somalian waters.
2. The timing of the deal is significant.
It comes as Somalia attains debt relief status (meaning access to fresh borrowing) + removal of the arms embargo.
Turkish firms have essentially secured complete monopoly not only over Somalian coast, but also very lucrative contracts related to the rebuilding of Somalian navy.
Huge contracts serviced by new Somalian debt incoming.
The United States is coming to Berbera, Somaliland.
The maritime base at Berbera is near completion.
Tomorrow's meeting in Djibouti between Pres. Muse Bihi and Somalia's Hassan Sheikh is most likely about Berbera, no other issue commands such urgency.
1. Timeline of Berbera maritime base construction.
Although the work has been ongoing for years now, all construction was paused for some time before being resumed in May of 2022.
What happened in May 2022?
2. May 2022 was when the Commander of the US Africa Command Gen. Stephen J. Townsend visited the Republic of Somaliland and met with President Muse Bihi.
The delegation promptly visited Berbera and surveyed facilities.
Within days of the visit, construction work on the Berbera maritime base was resumed.
Classified internal UN documents from 1994 show the level of contempt these institutions and INGOs have for Somaliland.
Pandering to them is the biggest mistake we ever made as a nation.
Note how they wouldn't even name SL and would refer to the "Administration" in this 1994 doc.
The language cant get any more explicit. Reads almost like a film villain's monologue:
"They need us more than they want us out"
"necessary evil"
"as long as we continue to pay..."
They saw the relationship with Somaliland's government as purely transactional; pay = "a cushion of acceptability".
It should then come as no surprise that over time, they were able to cultivate a level of dependency, turning our government meek and agreeable to their presence..
A radical shift is a needed. We need to go back the spirit of 1991.
Please read.
In the first 10 years of Somaliland's existence, we were a nation that was utterly devastated by genocide and subsequent liberation war.
But the story of Somaliland; what we stood for, what we believed in, was crystal clear.
Somehow this is not the case today. A quick example:
1. In Feb 1996, the High Court of Somaliland sentenced AUN Abdirahman Tuur, the founding father of this nation, to death in absentia for rejecting Somaliland's independence.
Somaliland was uncompromising and stood firm, even against the very man who led its liberation.
Faqash are trying to cause confusion about the illustrious history of of Isaaq and their participation in the Adal wars using a poorly scribed manuscript copy of Futuh Al Habasha.
Only problem is, their manuscript actually STRENGTHENS the Isaaq case.
Read on.
The silly claim is entirely based on basic scribing errors found in the 1779 copy.
This thread will debunk it and show:
1. The 1779 copy is objectively inferior in detail, quality of language used, and most importantly in documenting Somali clan names than the 1812 copy.. AND
2. Errors made in the 1779 copy are not limited to Isaaqs, but also butcher Darod names.
The 1812 copy remains the most carefully scribed manuscript edition we have. This is not surprising given its an official Dar Al Kutub copy, whilst the 1779 copy is of unknown origins.