If we pooled our resources and manpower things would change, you just need to look at the 1970's, we are cursed people, as long as we continue to have these incompetent leadership, until HSM gets the boot there won't be any progress in PL/SL including the Alkeebab strong hold down south.
Our private sector is a lot more competent, we need better ways of managing external control within Somalia.
The only logical explanation for our predicament is that we are cursed, there is no other explanation that can be offered, and this is a collective curse up and down the country, the entire ethnicity is cursed, this includes all the tribes.
Look at Djibouti, with all the wealth that came there way and opportunities, the stability, the peace, the strategic position, they had everything to be competing with Khaleeji countries, yet you see were they are today.
Look at S/land and P/land, huge tribal demographic favour that ensured they escaped much of the conflicts and bloodshed in the south while in possession of strategic ports, but what do they have to show for it after almost 4 decades now ? marginally better will not cut it, the expectation is a 100x if not at least 50x, even greater for Djibouti, yet the differences are negligible.
Go to NFD in Kenya, the most impoverished area in the country, Somali Galbeed not much difference, what about the Somali's in the diaspora ? not a single billionaire among them, I can't even name a single one that has at least 100 million to their name, they are collectively a NET negative drain in each western country they inhabit, known for scamming the system.
The country has been Leading the corruption index for 30 years straight, ranking at the bottom for the least amount of paved roads and infrastructure in the world, highest electricity cost in the world.
You won't find a single outlier or success story, therefore you can't conclude anything other then it being a collective curse we need to seek collective repentance from, but we are very far away from that realisation, the fake pride and Kibir is just too strong.
You can do a population and nation swap with China, and within a decade we will turn China to Somalia, while the Chinese will do the reverse with Somalia, because the greatest resource a nation has is its people, and we simply don't have that, so it doesn't matter who the president is, he can be the greatest man in the world, but he can't do anything when the most basic resource is not available to him.
You are talking about the past. Now they have none of that and they are far worse than Somalia is currently. Their homeland has been destroyed now they are refugees. Also I have lived back home for 2 years maybe it’s where you are from but the city I lived in I only have good words for it. Don’t lump us with your self hating nonsense.
The entire country is a shi*** hole, if you have nothing but good words to say as you indicate with your post, then your expectations and ambitions are abysmal, and that explains our current predicament.
What can I expect from a person back home, when someone that grew up in a 1st world diaspora nation, is happy and content with a third world nation that ranks at the bottom in every conceivable metric.
You probably never even thought about how to improve that sh** hole and the steep challenges you will face from society itself (forget government/militias), because if you did, you wouldn't have spoken like this.
Just happy to receive that monthly check from the diaspora and content with having a superior life then the locals in that shii*** hole, typical, again nothing more then an extended privileged holiday but more likely a forced Dhagan Celis, which explains everything.