Somali development thread get in here

[Rooble44]

Been binging on this brothers Videos for the past few weeks and he makes some really great points.

Somalia literally follows the same trend every year. There are droughts, people make a gofundme and raise thousands, NGOs and GOs give millions to the Somali government, and then there are floods, people raise thousands, GOs and NGOs give millions to the Somali government, rinse and repeat.

Why aren't these money put into infrastructure that can actually solve this problem so that's at least one thing to worry about?

Shouldn't the government be building drainage systems, dams and other infrastructures that circumvent these issues? Not only would this create jobs short term, but we will need skilled Somali workers to maintain these life saving crucial structures.

You build a dam for basically 3 reasons; control seasonal river flows to reduce or eliminate downstream flooding; to produce electricity, if the water level difference and flow rate is great enough, and provide reliable irrigation.
The cost of the dam is compared to the long term cost of the un-contained flood damage each year, the cost of trucking in irrigation water and producing electricity with diesel generators.
They do the math and if a dam just breaks even within a given number of years, it usually gets built.

Now I'm not well versed on these rivers that are causing the floods and the technicalities of them hence why I'm making this post. So please feel free to share ideas not only limited to this particular issue.

 

[Caaro]

The rivers in somalia are being dried up because of Ethiopian dams. Ethiopia tried the same thing on the nile but egypt wasn’t having it.

I just wish Somalia had the backbone to call them out on building dams.

I’ve given up on highlighting the wrongs of the somali government and began giving them the benefit of the doubt. That a random 16 yr old highschool kid knows how to run a country better than them.

It’d be truly sad if that was the case, so I’d rather wish I was the ignorant one than them.

 

[Rooble44]

The rivers in somalia are being dried up because of Ethiopian dams. Ethiopia tried the same thing on the nile but egypt wasn’t having it.

I just wish Somalia had the backbone to call them out on building dams.

I’ve given up on highlighting the wrongs of the somali government and began giving them the benefit of the doubt. That a random 16 yr old highschool kid knows how to run a country better than them.

It’d be truly sad if that was the case, so I’d rather wish I was the ignorant one than them.

Why wasn't Egypt not having it?

 

[repo]

Those dams you are talking about cost hundreds of millions so they are for more expensive than the damage they do during seasonal floods. Another problem with seasonal floods is that it's erratic you don't know precisely where it's going to hit because there are so many different dry riverbeds.

 

[The Somali Caesar]

Why wasn't Egypt not having it?

In case you didn’t notice Egypt is mostly covered by Desert. The river Nile flows through Ethiopia. So when Ethiopia built the Grand Renaissance dam they basically control the water flow of the River Nile. Which has really pissed off the Egyptians as they heavily rely on the River
Nile.

 

[Rooble44]

Those dams you are talking about cost hundreds of millions so they are for more expensive than the damage they do during seasonal floods. Another problem with seasonal floods is that it's erratic you don't know precisely where it's going to hit because there are so many different dry riverbeds.

So what would essentially be the solution?

In case you didn’t notice Egypt is mostly covered by Desert. The river Nile flows through Ethiopia. So when Ethiopia built the Grand Renaissance dam they basically control the water flow of the River Nile. Which has really pissed off the Egyptians as they heavily rely on the River
Nile.
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Yeah bro, I read about it after @BoqorkaChess mentioned it yesterday.

 

[The Somali Caesar]

Those dams you are talking about cost hundreds of millions so they are for more expensive than the damage they do during seasonal floods. Another problem with seasonal floods is that it's erratic you don't know precisely where it's going to hit because there are so many different dry riverbeds.

So what’s your solution to just let Ethiopian Dams continue taking our water and leaving us barren?

 

[repo]

So what would essentially be the solution?


Yeah bro, I read about it after @BoqorkaChess mentioned it yesterday.

I don’t know that’s a question for an engineer.

 

[Golden Barbie]

So what would essentially be the solution?

it is hard to come up with solution, building dams is highly expensive, we are also struggling with alkabab, the afgoye road took ages and it was one of the most challenging scheme for the government. so if they try to build dams its likely those terrorists will challenge them again, its like a never ending war.

 

[Rooble44]

So security before anything? Walle dad illahay u maqan baa nahay.

 

[Golden Barbie]

So security before anything? Walle dad illahay u maqan baa nahay.

yes, lets give it few years it might improve by the way things are going atm

 

[Caaro]

Why wasn't Egypt not having it?

They don’t want the nile river dried up. They have too many people relying on it, they made a complaint and fighting against ethiopia for it.

Search up the ethiopian-egyptian dam dispute.

 

[Rooble44]

yes, lets give it few years it might improve by the way things are going atm

Not with the 2 ex presidents threatening/predicting another civil war bro. I've had enough of putting the future of our nation into the hands of these non educated tuugs. 1m1v should hopefully change things around because right now our elders are literally ruining us and have fucked us for years to come. All while pointing fingers to Ethiopia/Kenya and foreign powers.