Dr. Hassan Khannenje of HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies a 🇬🇧 funded institute based in nairobi kenya wrote this laughable article in an attempt to discredit the somali security forces.
Dr. Hassan Khannenje is a kenyan who is based in nairobi and works for a institute that is being funded by the kenyan govt, the national counter terrorism center kenya, the tony blair institute and IGAD. All of these donors have an interest in 🇸🇴 ’s security architecture.
3/10
1st : So Dr. Khannenje works from a hostile country 🇰🇪
2nd : his institution is is connected to many people who have an interest in somalia’s security architecture.
3rd : he has absolute no knowledge on 🇸🇴 ’s affair nor does he have any experience in 🇸🇴 or speak somali.
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First of all hassan a bantu kenyan has no direct acces to any information on 🇸🇴 and doesn’t speak somali so all of his information is at minimum secondary and reading the article myself makes me question his epistemology on matters concerning somalia.
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Here is the article in question 👇 hassan starts in the typical sahan fashion and uses an outdated picture that illustrates a somewhat unprofessional and unorganized security force coupled with the headline somalia is still fragile what can amisom do to stabilise it.
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What our bantu brother is doing is basically begging the question he assumes the conclusion but doesn’t provide any evidences for it. The main argument dr kannanje and many other 🇬🇧 funded institutes use is the april clashes when some opposition member tried to stage unrest
7/10
In this particular case only 150 somali national army soldiers deserted in an army of 30k many actual somalia analysts actually make the opposite claim that because of that incident the army has actually proved it isnt divided along clan lines and maintained professionalism
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Dr kannanje also tries to make the argument that amisom should be involved in political affairs and that a couple years will never be enough for amisom because the somali army is semi professional ill trained and lacks any tactical doctrine 👇👇
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He also suggests that handing responsibility over to the somali armed forces should happen and I quote ‘“carefully” and i am sure whatever carefully actually means is determined by the 🇬🇧 government !!
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There is a full assault on somalia’s security forces the groundwork is being laid !! How ?? false accusations and fake analysts reports and fake institutions reports !! @TheVillaSomalia must academically and scientifically counter this disinformation campaign.
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Ethiopia & somali separatists in hargeisa are trying to coordinate their propaganda wich is being designed for them by western think tanks I.E manipulation centers
Here are some of them👇👇👇
#somalia #mogadishu
2/18
1 : misrepresenting statements opposing the illegal MOU
2 : falsely claiming somalia is incapable of physically opposing the illegal MOU
3 : falsely claiming that somalia’s unity btwn the north and the south wasn’t legally ratified
4 : downplaying all criticism.
3/18
5 : falsely trying to present somaliland’s case as an fait acompli ( example : we have already left and are not coming back or we have been longer without you then with you )
6 : CONFUSION‼️
7 : falsely claiming that FGS doesn’t have any control over somaliland
Somalia is clearly being lured into something and the united kingdom is behind it and they’re using the UAE as a proxy and by extent ethiopia too!
Somalia should act strategically not emotionally!!
Let’s consider all the facts!!
#somalia #mogadishu
2/19
First of all it was the UAE who initially started the berbera project in 2016 and finalized the agreement in 2018.
Every since then, there have been white western & certain africans NGO’s and individuals who came out of nowhere who are all extreme somaliland supporters.
3/19
As soon as the uae started the development of the berbera port guess who sneaky inserted themselves into the berbera project ??
Thread on marco polo’s description of Mogadishu from btwn 1271 AD to 1291 AD
This thread also highlights somalia’s famous textile industry
It also highlights how the presence of the jareerweyne community in 🇸🇴 is directly linked 2 🇸🇴’s textile industry
#somalia
2/25
When marco refers 2 mogadishu he uses the name “Madagascar” and the term “island” wich historians explained is a misinterpretation of the arabic word jazeera wich means island or peninsula
The island of Madagascar should therefore be understood as the Mogadishu peninsula.
3/25
That Marco Polo means mogadishu when he uses the name Madagascar is confirmed when marco states that the great island of Madagascar is approximately a 1000miles south of the island of socotra and that madagascar lies btwn socotra and zanzibar wich mogadishu “exactly” is 👇
Here is proof that I.M Lewis was deliberately manipulating somali history
I.M Lewis an British colonial historian was deliberately manipulating somali history and was intentionally misquoting written historical documents on Somali cities👇
#somalia #mogadishu
2/11
Both I.M Lewis 🇬🇧 and Enrico ceruilli 🇮🇹 were colonial administrators and self proclaimed historians that deliberately tried to disconnect the banadir coast from somalis historically.
How ?
By emphasising arab presence and adding their own interpretation to that presence.
3/11
I.M Lewis in his book on HOA history states that by the 13th century the hawiye ( somali clan) had established themselves around the arab settlement of marka. And he uses ibn sa’id al maghribi as a source
Why is he calling marka a arab settlement? Ibn sa’id didn’t say that
Around the 10th century Mogadishu became a world famous port city and is clearly described by literally every traveler or historian from every nation around the world that has visited it or written about it, as the the biggest, richest and most powerful city in east africa.
3/25
The ivory & gold trade is one of the main reasons Mogadishu is so wealthy & there is clear consensus amongst african & western historians that the merchants of mogadishu r the first 2 arrive in sofala Mozambique with ships in search of gold & ivory in wich they find plenty.
Abu barakat al-barbari simply means father of the blessed somalis nothing else‼️the fact that the mogadishu sultanate controlled certain maldivian island’s and were spreading islam in 🇮🇳 like sa’id of mogadishu did, reaffirms that position‼️
Barbari means somali and abu barakat al-barbari in light of the knowledge that mogadishu/somali merchants & scholars are present all over the region spreading islam & trading reaffirms that it should be understood in that context.
3/8
Barbari doesn’t mean he came from berbera as one 🇺🇸 professor suggested and this article is claiming b/c that professor didn’t knew that the somali people were previously called al-barbar and barbari is even used by ibn batutta and it clearly refers to a people not a city👇