The author seems to be in need of some sort of history lesson as he ignorantly argued in his article: since 1960, the country [Somalia] has been a lawless state that is a haven for terrorists and pirates”. Had this been substantiated it would have been a good argument by author but it is one based on prejudice and paranoia and to which no factual analysis or substance was presented whatsoever.
At the moment the world is very risk averse because the banking plumbing is freezing up which is causing huge global problems, including in derivatives markets.
The Somaliland president Dahir Riyale Kahin visited the US in April in the hope of broadening support towards the goal of recognition. Somaliland has certainly passed any democratic test set by Washington in establishing a multi-party system, holding free and fair elections and upholding freedom of speech.
Asia has an opportunity to save itself, and the world economy, from the crushing excesses of Wall Street. China and Japan, with other Asian countries holding substantial surplus reserves, should act now to create an Asia bond to contain the fallout from a weak dollar.
We are shining a light on governance in Africa, and in so doing we are making a unique contribution to improving the quality of governance. The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. Africans are setting benchmarks not only for their own continent, but for the world.\" Mo Ibrahim.
You must know Mr.Kipkorir that with the exception of Mogadishu every other town in the Somali region whether it is in Somaliland, Puntland, Baidoa or even Kismayo at the border of Kenya have better degree of security than your cosmopolitan Nairobi. In Hargeisa for example like any other town of former Somalia, women sell gold in the open market and leave it without any guard at times of prayer without anyone stealing it, while in Nairobi people are killed for the watches they wear and the mobile phones they carry in bright day light.
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