Everyone claims things were good in before siad barre went nuts and that he was setting up deals to extract our resources, but what about the rest of the infrastructure? Why are we so behind everyone? Almost every other country in the 60's and 70's had built some sort of train system and railway system to transport resources mined.
So what happened? Was siad barre going to do this until the civil war broke out? It's strange that we had peace and yet not one of the barre cabinet had the idea to do business with peaceful Scandinavian countries to build up infrastructure. Even the desert rats managed to build a city or two from 1960 onwards.
So what happened? Was siad barre going to do this until the civil war broke out? It's strange that we had peace and yet not one of the barre cabinet had the idea to do business with peaceful Scandinavian countries to build up infrastructure. Even the desert rats managed to build a city or two from 1960 onwards.