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		<title>Deafeating Somali Pirates on Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe western countries has decided to learn lesson from ancient Roman Empire. Pompeo destroyed pirate’s coves and sunk their vessels in 2 months. Now Germany is likely to approve an Eu mandate allowing troops to fight Somali pirates not just in the Gulf of Aden, but also along the shore. Because the war against pirates has to be winned on land not at sea. Dohw and skiff, with light weapons on board, don’t deserve huge cruiser vessels or high tecnological weapons as navy missiles to be defeated. The damage to economies caused by Horn of Africa piracy adds up to several billion euros. According to International Maritime Bureau statistics, in 2010 alone some 220 ships were attacked. In 2011, pirates in high-speed boats attacked 151 tankers and freighters. But most of these money need to fund maritime operations as Atalanta (Uenavfor), Ocean Shield (Nato) and several others countries ships cruising from Aden Gulf to Indian Ocean. The world&#8217;s navies have mobilized in an attempt to defeat piracy at sea. Around two dozen warships from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, India, China, and other countries, organized in several distinct task forces, patrol the roughly million square miles of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/18.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-443" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/18-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>Maybe western countries has decided to learn lesson from ancient Roman Empire. <strong>Pompeo</strong> destroyed pirate’s coves and sunk their vessels in 2 months. Now <strong>Germany </strong>is likely to approve an Eu mandate allowing troops to fight Somali pirates not just in the <strong>Gulf of Aden</strong>, but also along the shore. Because the war against pirates has to be winned on land not at sea. Dohw and skiff, with light weapons on board, don’t deserve huge cruiser vessels or high tecnological weapons as navy missiles to be defeated. The damage to economies caused by Horn of Africa piracy adds up to several billion euros. According to <strong>International Maritime Bureau</strong> statistics, in 2010 alone some 220 ships were attacked. In 2011, pirates in high-speed boats attacked 151 tankers and freighters. But most of these money need to fund maritime operations as Atalanta (Uenavfor), Ocean Shield (Nato) and several others countries ships cruising from Aden Gulf to Indian Ocean. The world&#8217;s navies have mobilized in an attempt to defeat piracy at sea. Around two dozen warships from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, India, China, and other countries, organized in several distinct task forces, patrol the roughly million square miles of ocean where pirates are operating. In January, the U.S. Navy reorganized its own counter-piracy efforts, establishing a new combined task force, CTF-151, dedicated solely to combating pirates. At-sea interception is the most obvious countermeasure for piracy and where the world has focused its resources.<br />
Garacad area, where Somali pirates are holding several foreign ships and their crews for ransom with Harardhere, are two examples of somali  coves. Piracy off the coast of Somalia is attractive for many of the younger Somali generation, despite the fact that it has negatively affected the global reputation of the entire Somali community. Yet many youths are currently looking for ways to join the pirates, even though the thirst for ransoms has cost many lives on both sides. But pirate networks had another land-based weakness, one that was perhaps being neglected: in Kenya, where pirate chiefs based important parts of their operations. As long as Somalia itself remains inaccessible to law-enforcement efforts, Kenya could be where the world must begin rolling back the land-based organizations that support pirates. Pirates recruit employees of Kenyan maritime agencies to act as spies. Much of the shipping that passes across the Indian Ocean stops over in Mombasa. Before a ship can leave the port, it must file papers detailing cargo and itinerary. Using this information, leaked to them by the paid informants, pirates know which ships are worth targeting, and where to look for them in a million-square-mile expanse of ocean.</p>
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		<title>Navy Seal «Team 6» rescues hostages in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Us Navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden as well made an Halo (High altitude low opening parachuting) into Somalia in darkness, early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Nine kidnappers were shooted and both hostages were freed. President Barack Obama cleared the mission by Seal «Team Six» two days earlier, and minutes after he gave his State of the union address to Congress he was on the phone with the American&#8217;s father to tell him his daughter was safe. The Danish Refugee Council confirmed the two aid employees, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were «on their way to be reunited with their families». Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, were working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when gunmen kidnapped them in October. The Seal team came in quickly, capturing the guards as they were sleeping after having chewed the narcotic leaf of khat all evening long, a pirate who gave his name as Bile Hussein told to Associated Press by phone. Hussein said he was not present at the site but had spoken with other pirates who were, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/photo_1327474753044-1-0_0.jpg"><img src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/photo_1327474753044-1-0_0-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="196" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-440" /></a>The Us <strong>Navy Seal team </strong>that killed Osama bin Laden as well made an Halo (High altitude low opening parachuting) into Somalia in darkness, early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Nine kidnappers were shooted and both hostages were freed. President Barack Obama cleared the mission by Seal <strong>«Team Six»</strong> two days earlier, and minutes after he gave his State of the union address to Congress he was on the phone with the American&#8217;s father to tell him his daughter was safe. The Danish Refugee Council confirmed the two aid employees, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, were «on their way to be reunited with their families». Buchanan, 32, and Thisted, 60, were working with a de-mining unit of the Danish Refugee Council when gunmen kidnapped them in October. The Seal team came in quickly, capturing the guards as they were sleeping after having chewed the narcotic leaf of khat all evening long, a pirate who gave his name as Bile Hussein told to <em>Associated Press</em> by phone. Hussein said he was not present at the site but had spoken with other pirates who were, and that they told him nine pirates had been killed in the raid and three were «taken away». </p>
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		<title>Eu: activation of Op center for Horn of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Monday 23rd agreed to activate the Eu Operations center for the Horn of Africa.It is subject to a Eu Council outcome to be adopted as soon as possible, as the European Council said in a press release. The EU is currently conducting two military operations &#8211; Eunavfor Atalanta and Eutm Somalia &#8211; and has started operational planning to launch a civilian mission to strengthen regional maritime capacities in Somalia and in the wider. Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab insurgents are close to military collapse in the face as a coalition of African forces, fighting on multiple fronts, steadily advances on its southern heartland and the United States steps up drone and naval attacks. But the presence of foreign troops could be a fostering factor for local “talibans” even their military fortunes have dramatically worsened in the last year. It began when an alliance of clans supported by Ethiopia pushed it out of most of the central regions of Hiran and Galgudud. This was followed by the loss of the capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011 &#8211; no doubt a big psychological and political blow. Outgunned by the African Union force (Amisom), its ability to wage a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/090203_somalia.jpg"><img src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/090203_somalia-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-436" /></a><strong>The European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Monday 23rd agreed to activate the Eu Operations center for the Horn of Africa.It is subject to a Eu Council outcome to be adopted as soon as possible, as the European Council said in a press release. The EU is currently conducting two military operations &#8211; Eunavfor Atalanta and Eutm Somalia &#8211; and has started operational planning to launch a civilian mission to strengthen regional maritime capacities in Somalia and in the wider.  Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabab insurgents are close to military collapse in the face as a coalition of African forces, fighting on multiple fronts, steadily advances on its southern heartland and the United States steps up drone and naval attacks. But the presence of foreign troops could be a fostering factor for local “talibans” even their military fortunes have dramatically worsened in the last year. It began when an alliance of clans supported by Ethiopia pushed it out of most of the central regions of Hiran and Galgudud. This was followed by the loss of the capital, Mogadishu, in August 2011 &#8211; no doubt a big psychological and political blow. Outgunned by the African Union force (Amisom), its ability to wage a conventional war seriously diminished and having suffered huge losses, al-Shabab&#8217;s badly mauled combat units pulled out of the battered capital they have struggled to control since early 2007.<br />
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		<title>Us drone crashed in Kisimayo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Somali military officials, the Us spy plane crashed near the port city of Kismayo, as it was helping Kenyan troops monitor the port city. Last month, Kenya dispatched soldiers over its border into Somalia and began air and ground offensives against al-Shabab fighters. Tension has been growing between the Somali government backed by Kenyan troops and al-Shabab fighters since they engaged in fierce battle over control of towns in south Somalia. Kenya accuses the fighters of being behind the kidnapping of several foreigners, including a French woman who later died in captivity, in its territory. Al-Shabab fighters deny the allegations. Somalia is the sixth country, where the United States has used the aircraft to launch missile strikes. The Us military has also used the drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen. The US government claims that the airstrikes target militants; however, most such attacks have resulted in civilian casualties. Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally-displaced people in the world. Just two weeks ago we could [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Us-drone-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-432" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Us-drone-1-300x162.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="162" /></a>According to Somali military officials, the Us spy plane crashed near the port city of Kismayo, as it was helping Kenyan troops monitor the port city.  Last month, Kenya dispatched soldiers over its border into Somalia and began air and ground offensives against al-Shabab fighters. Tension has been growing between the Somali government backed by Kenyan troops and al-Shabab fighters since they engaged in fierce battle over control of towns in south Somalia. Kenya accuses the fighters of being behind the kidnapping of several foreigners, including a French woman who later died in captivity, in its territory. Al-Shabab fighters deny the allegations. Somalia is the sixth country, where the United States has used the aircraft to launch missile strikes. The Us military has also used the drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen. The US government claims that the airstrikes target militants; however, most such attacks have resulted in civilian casualties. Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally-displaced people in the world. Just two weeks ago we could read on <em>Washington Post</em>:</span> «The Air Force has been secretly flying Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethi­o­pia as part of a rapidly expanding U.S.-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, Us military officials said.The Air Force has invested millions of dollars to upgrade an airfield in Arba Minch, Ethi­o­pia, where it has built a small annex to house a fleet of drones that can be equipped with Hellfire missiles and satellite-guided bombs. The Reapers began flying missions earlier this year over neighboring Somalia, where the United States and its allies in the region have been targeting al Shabab, a militant Islamist group connected to al-Qaeda».</p>
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		<title>Kenya airstrikes in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi military aircraft will target and destroy weapons that officials said (November the 2nd) were flown into Somalia on two planes and delivered to Islamist militants, a military official said Wednesday. A United Nation arms monitoring group has witnessed many instances of money, fighters and weapons being given to militants or flown into areas of Somalia they control. Kenya&#8217;s military on Tuesday said it had reliable information that two aircraft landed in the Somali town of Baidoa with weapons on board intended for al-Shabab militants. Kenyan military spokesman Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir stated Wednesday that Kenyan Air force aircraft would target and attack those weapons so they cannot be used. He said intelligence showed that the weapons were transported to a militant camp. «Our focus is to reduce the effectiveness of those particular weapons» he said. «At the end of the day you get weapons but these are weapons they cannot use». Al-Shabab fighters closed down roads leading to Baidoa airport on Saturday, a Nairobi-based security official said. A few hours later, residents heard the sound of heavy weaponry being fired, he said, citing information from informants in the town. The organization the official works for does not allow him to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/800px-F-5_Tiger_Kenya1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-420" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/800px-F-5_Tiger_Kenya1-300x193.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="193" /></a>Nairobi military aircraft will target and destroy weapons that officials said (November the 2nd) were flown into Somalia on two planes and delivered to <strong>Islamist militants</strong>, a military official said Wednesday. A <strong>United Nation</strong> arms monitoring group has witnessed many instances of money, fighters and weapons being given to militants or flown into areas of Somalia they control. <strong>Kenya&#8217;s military </strong>on Tuesday said it had reliable information that two aircraft landed in the Somali town of Baidoa with weapons on board intended for al-Shabab militants. Kenyan military spokesman Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir stated Wednesday that Kenyan Air force aircraft would target and attack those weapons so they cannot be used. He said intelligence showed that the weapons were transported to a militant camp. «Our focus is to reduce the effectiveness of those particular weapons» he said. «At the end of the day you get weapons but these are weapons they cannot use». Al-Shabab fighters closed down roads leading to Baidoa airport on Saturday, a Nairobi-based security official said. A few hours later, residents heard the sound of heavy weaponry being fired, he said, citing information from informants in the town. The organization the official works for does not allow him to be identified by name. Kenya&#8217;s offensive in Somalia—dubbed Operation Linda Nchi, Kiswahili for «Protect the Nation»—is also exacerbating tensions and violence at home. The UN news agency Irin reports that Somali refugees in Kenya as well as Kenyans of Somali ethnicity are «living in fear» after grenade attacks on a pub and a bus stop in Nairobi last week, which resulted in one death and several injuries. The government says the Shabab are behind the attacks, as well another on a vehicle carrying ministry of Education officials that left four dead in the northeastern town of Mandera. Following the blasts, one Kenyan Somali was arrested in Nairobi with a cache of weapons, including several grenades, and apparently admitted his involvement in the attack on the bus stop as well as being a member of the Shabab. He was quickly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Somalis in Kenya say they are being treated as terrorism suspects due to their ethnicity. A Bbc news report loans credence to Shabab claims that the Kenyan intervention is an assault on Somalia&#8217;s sovereignty—and even its territorial integrity. Bbc&#8217;s Will Ross cites unnamed «analysts» as saying that «for several years» Kenya, &#8220;with international [read: US] support,&#8221; has been seeking to carve a semi-independent enclave called «Azania» out of Somalia&#8217;s border region as a «buffer zone to shield its territory» from the neighboring country&#8217;s lawlessness. The taregtted area, traditionally known as Jubaland, consists of the administrative regions of Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba. Ross reports: «It already has a flag—blue, white and red—a parliament, a house of elders and a president in waiting». He interviews Abdullahi Shafi, personal assistant to the governor of Lower Juba region, who is wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with «Azania» and says, «We have been in hell for the last 20 years. We need a new Somalia». Kenya&#8217;s military offensive is also sparking concern about a fresh exodus of Somali refugees to camps in Ethiopia. The rainy season has arrived in most of the Horn of Africa, raising hopes for an end to the drought that destroyed the last few harvests, triggering famine in Somalia. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have already fled the famine zone to camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The reception center at the Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, camp receives hundreds of refugees a day.</p>
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		<title>Dhobley, la città degli Shabaab</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Di Marina Angeloni &#8211; Una città contesa dall’esercito governativo e dai ribelli, oggetto di incursioni da parte degli eserciti di due Stati confinanti, terreno di scontro tra milizie irregolari, dichiarata capitale di un nuovo Stato immaginario, centro di riferimento per diverse agenzie umanitarie internazionali, target dei droni americani. Verrebbe da supporre che sia un luogo di strategica importanza, che nasconda grandi tesori, o ricopra un ruolo simbolico fondamentale. Eppure si tratta soltanto di un arido e poverissimo villaggio della Somalia meridionale, senza alcuna storia che valga la pena di raccontare se non la routine quotidiana della miseria e della morte. Questa è Dhobley, un nome che di recente ricorre spesso nelle cronache somale, e che di questa assurda, enorme tragedia rappresenta il perfetto microcosmo. Il cambiamento di tattica da parte delle truppe AMISOM, passate da semplice guardaspalle a combattente alleato della fazione governativa, ha infatti determinato l’uscita dalla capitale del grosso di Al-Shabaab: ciò ha fatto inneggiare all’imminente conquista dell’intera Somalia da parte delle forze africane. Ma se a Mogadiscio la partita sembra per ora vinta, nel sud del Paese la situazione è alquanto più complicata. Il controllo del territorio nelle regioni meridionali, ufficialmente ancora nelle mani del movimento ribelle, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dhobley.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-425" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Dhobley-300x207.jpg" alt="Dhobley" width="300" height="207" /></a>Di Marina Angeloni &#8211; Una città contesa dall’esercito governativo e dai ribelli, oggetto di incursioni da parte degli eserciti di due Stati confinanti, terreno di scontro tra milizie irregolari, dichiarata capitale di un nuovo Stato immaginario, centro di riferimento per diverse agenzie umanitarie internazionali, target dei droni americani. Verrebbe da supporre che sia un luogo di strategica importanza, che nasconda grandi tesori, o ricopra un ruolo simbolico fondamentale.<br />
Eppure si tratta soltanto di un arido e poverissimo villaggio della Somalia meridionale, senza alcuna storia che valga la pena di raccontare se non la routine quotidiana della miseria e della morte. Questa è Dhobley, un nome che di recente ricorre spesso nelle cronache somale, e che di questa assurda, enorme tragedia rappresenta il perfetto microcosmo.</p>
<p>Il cambiamento di tattica da parte delle truppe AMISOM, passate da semplice guardaspalle a combattente alleato della fazione governativa, ha infatti determinato l’uscita dalla capitale del grosso di Al-Shabaab: ciò ha fatto inneggiare all’imminente conquista dell’intera Somalia da parte delle forze africane. Ma se a Mogadiscio la partita sembra per ora vinta, nel sud del Paese la situazione è alquanto più complicata.</p>
<p>Il controllo del territorio nelle regioni meridionali, ufficialmente ancora nelle mani del movimento ribelle, è già da qualche tempo a macchia di leopardo: con zone controllate da milizie che fanno riferimento ai rispettivi clan e che si appoggiano a potentati stranieri per armamenti e finanza, e altre in mano a sub-fazioni dello stesso Al-Shabaab. Tutte comunque disponibili a cambiare fronte per un adeguato corrispettivo, e soprattutto interessate a ritagliarsi una sfera di influenza locale che possa un giorno essere premiata dalla Comunità Internazionale, in linea con la “dual-track” policy attualmente in voga. In questa scenario, la conquista o riconquista di un villaggio è all’ordine del giorno e non determina alcuna reale evoluzione del conflitto.</p>
<p>Per rimanere a Dhobley, due sono le milizie che si contendono avidamente la misera cittadina: una chiamata “Raskomboni” e guidata proprio da un ex comandante di Al Shabaab, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islaan (Madobe). Già ricercato dagli americani, prima imprigionato e poi opportunamente liberato dagli etiopici, lo sguardo inquietante, contornato di giovane soldataglia in tuta verde, oggi si permette di definire “assassini” i suoi ex commilitoni.  L’altra in mano a Mohamed Abdi Gandhi, cosiddetto “Professore” (sostiene di aver ottenuto ben due dottorati in Francia), già ministro del TFG, che si è dichiarato Presidente di un mini stato/regione da lui stesso fondato sotto il nome di “Azania”, e diretto da Nairobi dove egli comodamente risiede. Non è difficile capire quali siano gli sponsor di questi due inquietanti personaggi.  La città è anche terrorizzata dalle truppe “regolari” governative, che taglieggiano, uccidono e violentano i civili impunemente, saccheggiando gli aiuti internazionali, salvo poi spararsi tra loro per la spartizione. I guerriglieri islamici a loro volta compiono attacchi improvvisi che lasciano sempre un certo numero di morti e feriti sul terreno e fanno fuggire le organizzazioni umanitarie. Tanto per completare il quadro, ogni tanto l’esplosione di un missile americano elimina una manciata di “terroristi”… e chiunque si trovi nelle vicinanze.</p>
<p>Con tali premesse, ci si chiede fino a che punto ritenere ingenue, prima che ipocrite, le dichiarazioni della Comunità Internazionale circa le “svolte” e le “opportunità” sul piano politico che di volta in volta vengono comunicate alla stampa. L‘ultima proprio del Rappresentante Speciale del Segretario Generale ONU di turno, Augustine Mahiga, che ha speso termini entusiastici  – quali milestone… great leap forward… best chance in years –  con riferimento all’approvazione di una “Moadishu Roadmap” da parte del TFG per raggiungere, entro dieci soli mesi, nientemeno che: “…security, a constitution, national reconciliation and good governance”.<br />
L’esperienza ventennale dovrebbe invece avere insegnato quanto i somali siano maestri nell’arte del negoziato infinito, quanto abili ad incantare diplomatici stranieri assetati di risultati mediante continue promesse, che al momento opportuno diventano proponimenti solenni. Soltanto parole, o per citare Shakespeare:  …talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind… (Romeo &amp; Juliet, Scene IV).<br />
Ugualmente illusoria è l’idea di utilizzare la diaspora come fonte di leader illuminati e onesti da trapiantare nel paese: nel momento stesso in cui essi mettono piede in Somalia, la logica del clan li riprende o li distrugge.</p>
<p>Altrettanto velleitari sono anche i tentativi di risolvere la crisi militarmente, intervenendo in particolari “finestre” del conflitto che si aprono ogni tanto sul campo, con l’illusione che la vittoria sia a portata di mano. È pur vero che stiamo parlando di forze relativamente insignificanti dal punto di vista numerico  – qualcuno ha fatto notare che la tanto temuta Al-Shabaab conta forse la metà delle bande di Los Angeles –  ed è pertanto assai facile penetrare la Somalia in breve tempo da parte di truppe organizzate. Ma ancora una volta l’esperienza dovrebbe mettere in guardia.<br />
Nel momento stesso in cui un esercito straniero entra nel paese, si presentano infatti due problemi insormontabili:</p>
<p>1)    Le faide interne vengono superate dal risveglio dello spirito nazionalistico somalo, e l’intera popolazione si oppone all’invasore. In maniera più viscerale se si tratta di un paese confinante (sempre sospettato di volersi annettere una fetta di Somalia), ma anche nei confronti di truppe internazionali (passate le iniziali acclamazioni di una popolazione stremata).<br />
2)    Le forze straniere devono prima o poi prendere parte ai combattimenti, e così schierarsi per una fazione o per l’altra, perdendo ogni autorità morale agli occhi dei somali. Questo avviene anche se il sostegno è per il governo centrale, che è sempre comunque un’espressione clanica, oltre ad essere un’istituzione imposta dall’esterno e aliena alla cultura locale.</p>
<p>Purtroppo, la situazione che è andata maturando quest’anno, fino a sfociare in quella che è una vera e propria invasione da parte del Kenya, sembra piuttosto ripercorrere e riassumere in una miscela letale ogni più tragica tappa degli ultimi vent’anni.</p>
<p>Tutto è iniziato come nel ’92: una grande tragedia umanitaria amplificata dalla guerra civile, cui segue l’intervento della Comunità Internazionale (ONU allora, UA oggi), che si schiera con la fazione vista come “legittima” e moderata (Ali Mahdi allora, TFG oggi). Le differenze, in peggio, sono che le truppe straniere coinvolte non hanno gli stessi problemi e scrupoli di quelle occidentali in termini di perdite umane e regole d’ingaggio.<br />
Ma vi è anche qualcosa del 2006: gli USA che finanziano vari warlord anti-islamici (riuniti all’epoca nella famigerata “Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism”) e incoraggiano l’invasione da parte di un paese confinante (Etiopia allora, Kenya oggi) con sostegno di bombardamenti aerei. La differenza, in peggio, è che adesso sembra coinvolta anche la Francia, con il rischio di attirare nel conflitto anche Gibuti (che peraltro si era già offerta di inviare truppe).</p>
<p>Una guerra che non può più essere fermata, perché è già sfuggita di mano ai partecipanti, come le contrastanti dichiarazioni del presidente e del premier somalo confermano. E che soprattutto non otterrà alcun risultato, se non il versamento di molto sangue ancora, sia in Somalia che al di fuori.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo giunge notizia che Dhobley è stata conquistata anche dall’esercito del Kenya, e la popolazione acclama.</p>
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		<title>Us and british special forces storm italian hijacked ship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British and Us special forces have stormed Italian cargo ship Montecristo hijacked by Somali pirates, with 23 people on board in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. Seven of the crew aboard the Montecristo are Italian according to Italian defence ministry font. The special forces were operating under the Nato counter piracy mission, Op Ocean Shield. The 56,000-ton bulk carrier Montecristo was hijacked 620 miles off Somalia on Monday, October 10, by 11 pirates in a small boat. It was stated on other reports that an unarmed security team were aboard the vessel and had stayed in position as the crew retreated to the citadel, reports BBC News. All of the 23-man crew from Italy, India and the Ukraine have been freed. A report states that 11 Somali pirates were detained. The Italian defence minister stated the crew aboard the D’Alessio Group-owned cargo ship were doing well. He did not disclose whether the pirates were on board. Italy’s ANSA newagency said the rescue operation, which was in progress, was agreed between British Defence Minister Liam Fox and his Italian counterpart Ignazio La Russa. The rescue mission comes as the Italy is to station military forces on its [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/758507-australian-navy-and-somali-pirates.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-415" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/758507-australian-navy-and-somali-pirates-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>British and Us special forces have stormed Italian cargo ship <strong>Montecristo</strong> hijacked by Somali pirates, with 23 people on board in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of <strong>Somalia</strong>. Seven of the crew aboard the Montecristo are Italian according to Italian defence ministry font. The special forces were operating under the Nato counter piracy mission, Op Ocean Shield. The 56,000-ton bulk carrier Montecristo was hijacked 620 miles off Somalia on Monday, October 10, by <strong>11 pirates in a small boat</strong>. It was stated on other reports that an unarmed security team were aboard the vessel and had stayed in position as the crew retreated to the citadel, reports BBC News. All of the 23-man crew from Italy, India and the Ukraine have been freed. A report states that 11 Somali pirates were detained. The Italian defence minister stated the crew aboard the D’Alessio Group-owned cargo ship were doing well. He did not disclose whether the pirates were on board. Italy’s ANSA newagency said the rescue operation, which was in progress, was agreed between British Defence Minister Liam Fox and his Italian counterpart Ignazio La Russa. The rescue mission comes as the Italy is to station military forces on its merchant vessels to guard against attacks by Somali pirates, shipping sources said on Tuesday, the day after another of its ships was attacked off the anarchic east African country. Many ships already carry private security contractors to try to prevent hijacks, but deployment of military forces on merchant vessels would mark a clear escalation in measures to combat piracy, which costs the world economy billions of dollars each year. The sources said Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa would sign an agreement later on Tuesday with the confederation of Italian ship owners to put military guards on board vessels in the huge area of the Indian Ocean at risk from Somali pirates, who have hijacked several Italian ships.</p>
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		<title>The somalian litmus test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pierre Chiartano &#8211; The humanitarian crisis in Somalia has reached new heights and the world needs to respond as soon as possible. A prolonged, 20-year civil war, the collapse of order and the worst drought in decades have brought Somalia to the brink of total collapse. But now political interests have to deal to humatinarian ones, and isn’t an easy achievement. Even we have to understand what means the word «collapse» for a country like Somalia: it should be a matter of simply surviving. At the Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenyan border, there are close to half a million refugees; however, there is no infrastructure or organization to provide basic help to the more than 1,500 refugees arriving everyday, according to the Bbc. More than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa have been severely affected by a spreading famine and looming cholera epidemic. The UN’s World Food Program states that they are unable to reach more than 2 million starving people in southern Somalia, which is controlled by al-Shabaab, the rebel group whose bloody fight against the government has cost more than 20,000 lives. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has depicted the Somalia’s scenario as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/humanitarian-crisis-spreads-in-somalia-2011-08-04_l.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-409" title="humanitarian-crisis-spreads-in-somalia-2011-08-04_l" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/humanitarian-crisis-spreads-in-somalia-2011-08-04_l-300x217.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="217" /></a>Pierre Chiartano &#8211; The humanitarian crisis in Somalia has reached new heights and the world needs to respond as soon as possible. A prolonged, 20-year civil war, the collapse of order and the worst drought in decades have brought Somalia to the brink of total collapse. But now political interests have to deal to humatinarian ones, and isn’t an easy achievement. Even we have to understand what means the word «collapse» for a country like Somalia: it should be a matter of simply surviving. At the Dadaab refugee camp near the Kenyan border, there are close to half a million refugees; however, there is no infrastructure or organization to provide basic help to the more than 1,500 refugees arriving everyday, according to the <em>Bbc</em>. More than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa have been severely affected by a spreading famine and looming cholera epidemic. The UN’s World Food Program states that they are unable to reach more than 2 million starving people in southern Somalia, which is controlled by al-Shabaab, the rebel group whose bloody fight against the government has cost more than 20,000 lives. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has depicted the Somalia’s scenario as «the worst humanitarian disaster» in the world. Around 10 million people need urgent help. According to the UN Children’s Fund, more than 2 million children are malnourished and if not attended to immediately thousands of children will die over the coming weeks. Close to 30,000 children have already died in the last six months. Families tell of unspeakable hardships on their way to refugee camps, tragically losing children during the journey. Somalis are flooding to the world’s largest refugee camp and it keeps growing. Now the situation needs to stop fighting and get up a political truce. But how international community could achieve this task after several years of turning heads away? For a long time the only focus has been monitoring terrorism organization, al Qaeda network and trying to control piracy. Donor aid is growing, and this week the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation countries pledged $350m and turkish premier, Recep Tayyip Ergodan, has described the situation as a «litmus test» for humanity. But with aids will come interest to control the area. What&#8217;s better than a humanitarian crisis to take root in a region?</p>
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		<title>Emergenza umanitaria in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il Corno d&#8217;Africa è devastato dalla siccità e ha bisogno di aiuti internazionali. A lanciare l&#8217;appello sono stati i responsabili delle principali organizzazioni internazionali martedì da Roma per la riunione straordinaria della Fao sull&#8217;emergenza carestia che ha colpito la regione. A puntare il dito contro «la situazione catastrofica» è stato il padrone di casa, Jacques Diouf, indicando come «imperativo fermare la carestia». Il Paese più colpito dalla siccità è sicuramente la Somalia, dove circa 3,7 milioni di persone – quasi un terzo della popolazione – rischiano di morire di fame. Ma sono milioni le persone in difficoltà anche in Kenya, Gibuti, Etiopia e Uganda. L&#8217;afflusso continuo di profughi somali in fuga dalla carestia sta mettendo a dura prova i campi allestiti nei Paesi vicini. E potrebbe diventare anche un’emergenza sanitaria. Si teme il rischio malattie, facilmente trasmissibili in organismi così debilitati. Per il direttore del Programma alimentare mondiale (Wfp), Josette Sheeran, di ritorno da una due giorni nella regione, la situazione in cui versano i bambini sfiancati dalla fame «è la peggiore mai vista». L&#8217;agenzia dell&#8217;Onu ha annunciato che avvierà mercoledì un ponte aereo per la distribuzione di aiuti su Mogadiscio, nella città etiope di Dolo, al confine con la [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/210267.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-404" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/210267-300x214.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="214" /></a>Il Corno d&#8217;Africa è devastato dalla siccità e ha bisogno di aiuti internazionali. A lanciare l&#8217;appello sono stati i responsabili delle principali organizzazioni internazionali martedì da Roma per la riunione straordinaria della <strong>Fao</strong> sull&#8217;emergenza carestia che ha colpito la regione. A puntare il dito contro «la situazione catastrofica» è stato il padrone di casa, <strong>Jacques Diouf</strong>, indicando come «imperativo fermare la carestia». Il Paese più colpito dalla siccità è sicuramente la Somalia, dove circa 3,7 milioni di persone – quasi un terzo della popolazione – rischiano di morire di fame. Ma sono milioni le persone in difficoltà anche in <strong>Kenya, Gibuti, Etiopia e Uganda</strong>. L&#8217;afflusso continuo di profughi somali in fuga dalla carestia sta mettendo a dura prova i campi allestiti nei Paesi vicini. E potrebbe diventare anche un’emergenza sanitaria. Si teme il rischio malattie, facilmente trasmissibili in organismi così debilitati. Per il direttore del <strong>Programma alimentare mondiale</strong> (Wfp), Josette Sheeran, di ritorno da una due giorni nella regione, la situazione in cui versano i bambini sfiancati dalla fame «è la peggiore mai vista». L&#8217;agenzia dell&#8217;Onu ha annunciato che avvierà mercoledì un ponte aereo per la distribuzione di aiuti su Mogadiscio, nella città etiope di Dolo, al confine con la <strong>Somalia</strong>, e a <strong>Wajir</strong>, nel nord del Kenya. Al centro dell&#8217;incontro, il nodo dei fondi: a otto mesi dall&#8217;allarme lanciato dalle Nazioni Unite, è stato raccolto un miliardo di dollari, ma ne mancano altrettanti per affrontare l&#8217;emergenza. La Banca Mondiale ha promesso più di 500 milioni, dei quali la maggior parte sarà investita in progetti di lungo periodo destinati agli allevatori della regione, mentre 12 milioni verranno spesi per assistenza immediata. E gli investimenti in auti umanitari sono poi una buona scusaper controllare meglio il territorio, da troppo tempo lasciato in mano a bande e signori della guerra, per non parlare degli shabab e dei pirati.  Sulla carenza di fondi è intervenuta anche Barbara Stocking, direttrice di Oxfam, secondo la quale sono mancati «gli investimenti previsti sui piccoli produttori, semplicemente i soldi non sono arrivati». Critiche anche dal mondo dello spettacolo. Il cantante irlandese Bob Geldof che, insieme ad altre celebrità, ha accusato la comunità internazionale di aver dato finora quasi niente per «impedire che la gente muoia di fame». Contro la carestia, lo «scandalo di questo secolo», si è pronunciato anche il ministro dell&#8217;Agricoltura francese, Bruno Le Maire, che, esortando l&#8217;adozione di misure necessarie, ha chiesto un giro di vite contro l&#8217;aumento dei prezzi alimentari sui mercati internazionali. Ma quando è Parigi a parlare c’è sempre da chiedersi quali interessi la muovano veramente. Visto anche l’attivismo dei francesi intorno a <strong>Gibuti</strong>. Luogo che potrebbe assomigliare sempre di più a una base internazionale per combattere la pirateria. Anche i “timidi” giapponesi hanno deciso poco tempo fa di aprire una base navale per il contrasto ai corsari somali e del Corno d’Africa. Ricordiamo che Camp Lemonnier ex base della Legione straniera ospita oggi l’americana Combined task force Horn of Africa. Ma Gibuti sembra restare un <strong>feudo francese </strong>visto che il governo dell’autocrate locale <strong>Omar Gelleh</strong> si vede versare ogni anno nelle casse statale circa 30 milioni di dollari da Parigi. I francesi mantengono anche una forza consistente di circa 3mila uomini e come in Africa del Nord e in Medioriente hanno inaugurato una nuova politica estera dinamica se non aggressiva. Anche i Paesi del Golfo come Dubai hanno investito parecchio nelle infrastrutture portuali di Gibuti, visto anche il traffico da sabato pomeriggio a Roma che si vede quotidianamente transitare dal Golfo di Aden. Ragion per cui quando la Farncia invoca un intervento umanitario nel Corno d’Africa c’è da chiedersi cosa voglia veramente. Corridoi umanitari sono stati invocati anche dal vice premier somalo, <strong>Mohamed Ibrahim</strong>, secondo il quale la causa principale della carestia sarebbe da ricercare nella «fragilità dello Stato e nel conflitto che va avanti da tempo». Fra le sfide da affrontare, resta l&#8217;opposizione delle milizie islamiche degli Shabab che dal 2009 vietano a diverse organizzazioni internazionali di operare sul territorio somalo sotto il loro controllo.</p>
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		<title>Non solo Somalia: tutto il Corno d’Africa può esplodere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[di Nicola Pedde e Vincenzo Palmieri &#8211; Due omicidi eccellenti e un accordo sgradito hanno infiammato Mogadiscio. Sequestrato un cargo nordcoreano pieno d&#8217;armi diretto in Eritrea. Un difficile negoziato tra Etiopia ed Egitto. Sul futuro di Yemen e Sud Sudan regna l&#8217;incertezza. L&#8217;instabilità domina nel Corno d&#8217;Africa. Continua a leggere questo articolo su Limes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/corno-dafrica.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-394" title="corno d'africa" src="http://www.meridiano42.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/corno-dafrica-300x193.gif" alt="corno d'africa" width="300" height="193" /></a>di Nicola Pedde e Vincenzo Palmieri &#8211; Due omicidi eccellenti e un accordo sgradito hanno infiammato Mogadiscio. Sequestrato un cargo nordcoreano pieno d&#8217;armi diretto in Eritrea. Un difficile negoziato tra Etiopia ed Egitto. Sul futuro di Yemen e Sud Sudan regna l&#8217;incertezza. L&#8217;instabilità domina nel Corno d&#8217;Africa. <a href="http://temi.repubblica.it/limes/non-solo-somalia-tutto-il-corno-dafrica-puo-esplodere/24676">Continua a leggere questo articolo su Limes</a>.</p>
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