Ungrateful.
Africa Is Trying To Build Somalia's Infrastructure.....
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Ungrateful.
...and as usual, we are ungrateful towards them.
AfDB signs $28.8mn grant deals to improve road, water supply in Somalia.
The livelihood in Somalia is set to develop as the African Development Bank has recently signed two grants for USD 28.8 million for road and water supply projects.
The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors on 19 July 2019 approved grants of $28.86 million for water and sanitation and roads projects designed to improve livelihoods in Somalia and boost the East African country’s resilience.
The grants, consisting of $11.99 million from the Bank’s Transition States Facility (TSF) for an urban water and sanitation project for the Kismayo and Baidoa towns, and $16.86 million for the rehabilitation of roads, underscore sustained efforts by the Bank Group, especially the African Development Fund (ADF), to tackle fragility in the Horn of Africa.
Of the total $28.86 million, the Italian Cooperation contributed $5.22 million through the TSF, split into $1.57 million for the water and sanitation project and $3.66 million for the roads project.
The Kismayo-Baidoa water supply and sanitation project will boost access to potable water, improved sanitation and strengthen capacity for related delivery services in Jubbaland and South West states of Somalia. The Road Infrastructure Project is expected to enhance connectivity through rehabilitation of some 247 km of roads, in addition to the construction of a new 100 km feeder road.
The European Commission is also providing a grant of $47.11 million for the road infrastructure project, giving a total $63.97 million that will be invested under this program.
Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina believes the grants would help improve quality of life, inclusiveness and engender resilience in the communities, especially in Kismayo and Baidoa, where an estimated 65 percent of the population live below the poverty line and 70 percent is younger than 30 years and unemployed.
“…We should look at the whole issue of fragility and transition states in a more comprehensive way. We need to do a lot more engagement; we need to work aggressively to help these countries,” Adesina told Board members during the approval process.
He commended the role of the African Development Bank, through utilization of the ADF resources, in fragile environments, saying it showed the commitment of the Bank to impact livelihoods in line with the Bank’s High 5 priorities. “It’s important we do what we are doing in order to build their resilience,” he added.
Poverty levels in Somalia are extremely high, with about 50 percent of the population living below the poverty line. It is aggravated by widespread insecurity and natural disasters, like floods and droughts.
The Bank Group has over the years played a key role in supporting infrastructure development and promoting regional integration in the Horn of Africa and in its Regional Member Countries. Currently, it has 12 ongoing projects in Somalia with a total commitment of $109.13 million in agriculture, water and sanitation, multi- and social sectors.
Bank Deputy Regional Director-General, East Africa, Nnenna Nwabufo said the water and sanitation project will propel Somalia towards Sustainable Development Goals on universal access to water and sanitation. It will benefit around 200,000 urban and peri-urban people living in Kismayo and Baidoa, which are experiencing a high influx of internally displaced persons, resulting in high youth unemployment, leading to increased fragility.
Despite decades of war and conflict that have affected its economy, the country has taken decisive steps to rebuild itself. “Somalia is showing promising signs of increased stabilization through formation of recognized state institutions, fostering a country-owned and led approach to transition from fragility,” she said.
https://www.globalfdi.net/afdb-approves-28-8-mn-for-water-and-sanitation-and-roads-infrastructure/
Multi-Partner Somalia Infrastructure Fund (SIF).
Context and objective
Approved in October 2016, the Somalia Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is one of the financing windows under the Somalia Development and Reconstruction Facility (SDRF) of the New Deal COMPACT for Somalia.
The Fund’s goal is to support and accelerate Somalia’s inclusive and sustainable economic recovery, peace and state building within the context of AfDB’s Strategy for Addressing Fragility and Building Resilience in Africa. The focus of the SIF is the rehabilitation and development of infrastructure, and related skills development and institutional capacity building. The Fund takes advantage of the Bank’s existing Transition Support Facility to mobilize resources.
https://www.afdb.org/en/topics-and-...multi-partner-somalia-infrastructure-fund-sif
Anything that we contributed to Africa lately other than dissing Africans?
doesn't matter, all those million s will go into private banks by failmarjo and co and we will be begging in another 20 years time,
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
do you have a fethish for denigrating somalia?\@Mufasah
With the help from our Arab friends (you prefer them) and in particular Qatar who funded, the first Somali soap manufacturing plant has been opened in Kismayo. Look how developed we became.
https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2019/...h_start_up_soap_factory_opens_in_kismayo.aspx
Ghana is the future of Africa': Why Google built an AI (Artificial Intelligence) lab in Accra.
Google has also now declared itself an "Artificial Intelligence first," company and that statement is potentially going to change everything we know fundamentally. It will almost certainly change how we live.
This change will also resonate for us in Africa; Google just recently announced that Africa is getting a Google Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and that is just the beginning. The lab will be run by Moustapha Cisse, a Senegalese AI champion and expert.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/14/africa/google-ghana-ai/index.html
These cars are manufactured by Kantanka Automobile Company in Ghana.
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I think you are right, we are the only African country who couldn't build a water-slide. But one day, we will obtain these skills once we master in soap manufacturing.
most of these organisation are backrolled by western/china investors .
ghana doesn't make there own cars it's parts they get from china that they just assemble.
i don't hear saying anything when ethiopia take 1,1 billion dollars of aid from usa.
You guys sound like the Somali demonstrators in a small Swedish town protesting for bigger houses and yelling, 'we don't want to be colonised'. What colonisation? The 68 is very active these days.
What are you doing over there
We should be grateful for the grant but please remember how these people think.
If they throw you a couple half chewed bones when you're at you're lowest they'll expect a lifetime of loyalty from you.
Just like how the Kenyans always bring up the refugee camp whenever we refuse them something.
Even though the UN and Europe is paying for those camps and they actually profit from it....
$60 million in roads would barely cover 60 miles.
Somalia requires over 10,000 miles of roads.
Not even 0.6% of our requirements and the AU members will be reminding us that they paid for Somali infrastructure until our Sun turns into a red giant.
FGS should stop taking these measly handouts and focus on domestic revenue generation.
Provide rule of law for commerce and property so that people are comfortable enough to invest.
Just 0.6% of our population with decent jobs could pay for those roads with taxes.
If they throw you a couple half chewed bones when you're at you're lowest they'll expect a lifetime of loyalty from you.
Just like how the Kenyans always bring up the refugee camp whenever we refuse them something.
Even though the UN and Europe is paying for those camps and they actually profit from it....
$60 million in roads would barely cover 60 miles.
Somalia requires over 10,000 miles of roads.
Not even 0.6% of our requirements and the AU members will be reminding us that they paid for Somali infrastructure until our Sun turns into a red giant.
FGS should stop taking these measly handouts and focus on domestic revenue generation.
Provide rule of law for commerce and property so that people are comfortable enough to invest.
Just 0.6% of our population with decent jobs could pay for those roads with taxes.
What are you doing over there
I am stuck here.
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
cant't anwers my post huh?
why do you turn a blind eye wen our neigbors takes 1,1 bilion in aid and take billions in chinese loans
for godsakes the au headquarters is funded by china.
http://hornofafrica-abdikarim.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-union-opens-chinese-funded-hq.html?m=1
@riyaale
How are you stuck there? Dhaqan cellis or deportation?
@RasCanjero
All Somalis know the right thing to do however, fighting and spending all their meagre resources on militias is a top priority for them so their clan stays relevant in the scheme of things. in 2090, Haiti will be donating to the 199 federal states formerly known as Somalia.
@tyrannicalmanager
The thread is about the African Development Bank giving grants to Somalia and Somalis and not China's investments in Africa.
The thread is about the African Development Bank giving grants to Somalia and Somalis and not China's investments in Africa.
lol, I have never been to Europe, north America or any western countries.
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
fgs can't do shit when al-shabaab taxes people in mogadishu.
Lets not act like Africa is helping us, the UN said this week that Kenya is funding Al-Shabaab through illegal Charcoal trade in Kismayo, the very city getting aid by this loan.
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
it's still bullshit, these nation depend on foreign aid to function.
they take 100 of milion of dollars from the world bank/usa and you don't say dam word.
but when somalia takes 20 million (plus 40 million from europe) from a western funded development bank, you start talking about how somalis should be grateful?
They can if you operate a couple more brain cells sxb.
Big investors need rules to ensure that FGS itself doesn't steal from them.
Big businesses are much more competent and scarier than AS.
They'll pay off whoever needs paying of for security.
However since most their revenue will be coming from exporting goods the federal or state government can get enough taxes from them to bolster their own security.
What happens when FGS gets a regular $500 million plus in taxes that they're able to spend on the military.
The clans and AS no longer become the most powerful faction.
Like in most the civilised world... Corporations replace pirates and bandits as the local bullies.
There's only so much AS can raise from peasants.
After a while the businesses will stop paying of AS and instead pay FGS to dismantle them to appease the new god of the profit margin.
I've just had a quick gander at the member state list, and to absolutely no surprise not a single African country is a contributing member.
You know what I did notice? My country of residence is. And what more, Australia selfishly refuses to participate. My tax money has gone to developing your tuulo. Where is my pat on the back?
tyrannicalmanager
pseudo-intellectual
you and i know the fgs politician and anisom profit from al-shabaab.
without al-shabaab anisom won't able to get there daily paycheck to sit in camps or guard farmaajo in his bunker.
remember when a maheran general got sick of fgs/anisom and just went rogue and capture merca in mere days.
@tyrannicalmanager
Have you seen a major western government that’s debt free and don’t they all donate to poorer countries. A small slice of the $28.8 million came from Italy and the Italian government is the mostly heavily indebted western nation, therefore, your argument lacks substance. The African Bank donated these funds to help one of the poorest African country in the continent to sanitise the drinking water so Somalis could drink clean water and why are you getting so riled up? Did it hurt your fake pride? Or, are they helping your clan foes?
Here we go, what Amisom couldn’t do was done by a marehan General!!! What’s stopping you to develop Gedo which is the poorest and most underdeveloped region in Somalia?
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