Somalia’s Dysfunctional Clan-Federalism

[Yonis]

@DR OSMAN please come in and response to this clown with your 20 page diatribe

 

[Prime Minister]

What is the alternative to federalism?

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

What is the alternative to federalism?

Centralist dictatorship where all the money pours into private bank accounts in Mogadishu and the rest of the country is neglected. Meanwhile citizens live in fear of being raped and killed by a large, unruly army.

Siyad Barre 2.0

 

[Removed]

The problem is that Somalia died 30 years ago and it was killed by Hawiye. Hawiye killed the Somali nation-state and they did not have the power to revive it. The centralized state that died in 1991 is not coming back. We can have a country called Somalia, but it will look nothing like what those who remain nostalgic for the centralized state will want. Any attempt at a revival of that dead state will lead to further fragmentation and another round of complete collapse. We had a nationwide collapse in 91, a regional collapse in the south beginning in 2006. It has been 14 years since the Ethiopian intervention and there is no end in sight for the chaos created by the injection of religion into the conflict. Somalia is more politically fragmented in 2020 than it was in 2000.

I believe they had the power to revive it but were just extremely short sighted in their nature. They behaved as though the city didn’t belong to them, I mean how can somebody sack their own hometown. Even after the crimes in Xamar and surrounding regions they still wanted more their was a point when Darood leaders were willing to give them President and Second in command. As we can see even that never stopped the fire.