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http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/ Championing Independent Journalism Mon, 03 Sep 2012 14:23:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/#comment-1651 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:23:41 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4046#comment-1651 And here they were talking about how they would transcend clan politics. Perhaps some of them meant it.

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/#comment-1650 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:03:52 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4046#comment-1650 That’s how Ayro and his thugs started out, basically on bodyguard duty, before he helped Aweys and the ICU take Mogadishu. Now of course there are several branches with several leaders based on geographical and – you guessed it – clan divisions, some more extreme than others.

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/#comment-1649 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:34:56 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4046#comment-1649 That’s the first I’ve heard of Al Shabaab originating as a “protection unit” for AQ. I understood that they were a youth wing of the ICU and had become increasingly radicalised as time went by. Last year Al Shabaab tolerated those NGOs and UN agencies which it considered to be assisting the Somali people, while attacking those which it thought were agents of the foreigners, be they Ethiopians or Americans or whoever.
I do agree with you about the missed chance during the days of the ICU. Lately, though, it seems that Al Shabaab has gone totally out of control. I don’t get the feeling that they have the capacity to bring order in the same way as the ICU, although there were signs of it in some of the towns they captured late last year and early this year.
I really wish I knew what to make of it. Or where to spot the glimmers of hope.

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/#comment-1648 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:34:40 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4046#comment-1648 Somalia is always a mess. Story gets held because of pirate action, then lack of space. Then gradually gets forgotten. Things move on.

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/getting_it_wrong_in_somalia_over_and_over_again/#comment-1647 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:20:27 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4046#comment-1647 It sounds like a lose-lose situation for both the UN and foreign donors, not to mention the Somalis themselves.
How come that story never ran?
And maybe this is a silly question, but what happened to the UIC?

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