Its almost 6 year and counting.. He has proved at every turn that he is not interested to fight alshabab or state building. Nobody got patience for his get rich scheme. He will be fought and kicked out of Kismayo as he has killed alot of people himself. Fitting fate/end for a warlord.

Well put. He was also behind the failed federal state coup against President Farmaajo and thats why he declined the request to show up.

Even if he resigns. I think its dead IGAD project. It cannot be put back into track because of wasted goodwill and false promises over a period of many years.

Its almost 6 year he is in office yet no progress whatsoever from his first year. He didnt talk about Beled Haawo border/fence situation and he is arresting mps that are against him extending his rule. This Kenyan plant managed to kill Jubbaland project.

Im not waiting for any positive outcome from this but it is entertaining.

This comes after a no confidence vote in the somali federal parliament that deemed the regional assembly unfair and illegitimate. Very desperate move by warlord Madoobe. http://www.somalilandsun.com/index.php/regional/7538-somaliland-your-country-is-independent-of-sfg-jubaland-president-tells-somalilanders-

Thats Ugaska beesha gedo and if he is out then this IGAD project lost what ever remaining credibility. Good riddance this IGAD project was doomed to begin with when KDF and Raskomboni started to kill gedonians when they took over Kismayo and the distribution of seats to the so called parliament is a joke to anyone who is familiar with the clan dynamics of these regions. A conference for all stakeholders of Jubaland should be held in Garbaharey lead by Ugaska. Kismayo can wait it will not move.

These people cant be taken seriously because they used and still are supporting warlords like madoobe and abdullahi yusuf and now they are crying crocodile tears. This is the hypocrisy that goni is refering too. On the subject its good that Barre is well and plans will be made for this region that includes the say of its people. Not IGAD, nor Kenya altough they infiltrated and took over Kismayo under the guise of fighting alshabab but their ambition goes beyond fighting terrorism and we are aware and firmly against that.

I believe this issue concerns the next president, Abdiweli Sh.

PRESS RELEASE — The Somali Forum for Unity and Democracy (SFUD) welcomes the prime ministers withdrawal of the list of cabinet appointees January 17, 2015 Mogadishu, Somalia The Somali Forum for Unity and Democracy welcomes the decision of the Prime Minister to withdraw the list of cabinet appointees, responding to the deep concerns over the list held by an overwhelming majority of parliamentarians. We commend the efforts of Forum members and other parliamentarians, as well as our public in voicing disapproval to the list. This signifies to the Somali people that a democratic culture is emerging in our country, a culture that will allow the desired checks and balances to flourish in our political system. The Forum strongly urges the prime minister to use this opportunity to form an inclusive and competent government. A government that can steer our country to free and fair elections in 2016, and one that is capable of advancing our national agenda to improve the rule of law and good governance; restore security, uphold human rights, provide basic social services and enhance the welfare of our citizens. We appeal to the prime minister to not reinstate those that have been responsible for the political instability of our state institutions. We reiterate the importance of the supremacy of law and the respect for the constitution. In this context, we implore the President of the Republic to not constrain the prime minister in the selection of cabinet members and to abide by the constitution. We reaffirm the Forum’s strong commitment in upholding the constitution, and as such will support the prime minister to form an inclusive, balanced and competent government.

Right thing to do. The cabinet was filled with people that accomplished nothing under two previous PM besides being allies to the president and the dissolved cabinet was not inclusive.

MOGADISHU — More than 100 Somali lawmakers on Tuesday vowed to block the nomination of a new cabinet in Parliament. The members of parliament said in Mogadishu they will not pass a motion to approve the newly unveiled council of ministers, noting that the prime minister included ministers in the former cabinet is against their will. Abdi Ahmed Dhuhulow, one of the lawmakers, told Xinhua that his colleagues will reject any attempts to approve the new line-up of ministers and their assistants, terming the inclusion of the immediate former cabinet members a betrayal of the confidence and aspirations of the Somali people. The lawmaker under the umbrella Somali Forum for Unity and Democracy said the ministers in the previous cabinet, who are key allies of the president, had failed the country, adding that it was not possible to achieve Vision 2016 with the proposed cabinet in charge of the country's affairs. Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke on Monday announced a 60-member cabinet subject to parliamentary approval. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the nomination of the new council of ministers and called on parliament to speed up the approval process so that the government can start functioning fully. The president said the new government has a long list of priorities ahead of it, priorities that will require robust decision-making and a commitment to making things happen quickly.

It makes sense and the new cabinet confirm this aswell full with the allies of the president and relatives. But these criminal networks with ties to the president will find it hard to further damage the country besides being incompetent since its only 1 year left to deadline 2016 and every steps these people take will be closely monitored.

This political infighting will keep going on as long the president remains in office. President Hassan sheikh shouldn't interfere in the pm job and until this boundary is respected from the powerhungry president then the progress will be delayed in the country until a solution comes to deal with the president childish behavior.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A confidential report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports from the port city of Kismayu, a business that generates millions of dollars a year for Islamic militants seeking to topple the government. The case of the failed ban on Somali charcoal outlined in the report highlights the difficulty of cutting off al Shabaab militants' funding and ensuring compliance with U.N. sanctions when there is little appetite for enforcing them on the ground. The Kenyan military denied the allegations in the U.N. Monitoring Group's latest annual report to the Security Council's sanctions committee on Somalia and Eritrea. The report was completed before recent clashes in Kismayu. In that fighting, rival militias battled for control of the strategic port city after Ahmed Madobe, leader of the Ras Kamboni militia and a former Islamist warlord, became leader of the Jubaland region, which includes Kismayu, in May. The situation remains tense though the Mogadishu government, which initially opposed Madobe, is letting him stay on as interim leader. Kismayu is a lucrative prize for clan leaders, bringing with it generous revenues from charcoal exports, port taxes and levies on arms and other illegal imports. The Security Council banned the export of charcoal from Somalia in February 2012 to cut off one of the main sources of income for al Shabaab, which has been fighting for control of Somalia for years and enforces a strict version of sharia law in the areas it occupies. Kenyan forces in the African Union's AMISOM peacekeeping mission, which has a U.N. Security Council mandate and receives funding from the European Union and United States, helped the Somali government retake control of Kismayu when the al Qaeda-aligned militants fled in September 2012. Afterwards, the AU almost immediately urged the Security Council to lift the charcoal export ban, at least temporarily. Kenya supported the idea, arguing that Kismayu's angry charcoal traders could undermine the security of its troops. The Monitoring Group, which reports on compliance with the Somalia/Eritrea sanctions regime, disputed Nairobi's analysis. "The argument that a group of charcoal traders constituted a greater threat to the KDF (Kenya Defence Force) than al Shabaab that had just been routed in Kismayu, was difficult to appreciate," the group said in an annex to its annual report, which was seen by Reuters. "Instead, it was far more likely that exporting charcoal would exacerbate clan tensions and resource interests, leading to much broader conditions of conflict," the group said in its report, which is nearly 500 pages with all its annexes. "And this is precisely what subsequently occurred." U.N. CHARCOAL EXPORT BAN FLOUTED The Monitoring Group's report is likely to elicit new criticism of Nairobi from Somalia's government, which has accused Kenyan troops of taking sides against it in the recent clashes in Kismayu and suggested they should be replaced by a more neutral force. Kenya denied the charge. The group said Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asked AMISOM in October 2012 to keep Kismayu port closed to commercial traffic, including charcoal. But it said he was unaware that former Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas had already asked the Security Council's sanctions committee to review the ban. The group said an AMISOM commander lied to the president. "As late as 26 October 2012, the AMISOM Deputy Force Commander for Operations and Plans, Major General Simon Karanja (of Kenya), assured the President that the port was closed and there was no shipping traffic, while he knew otherwise," the Monitoring Group said. The Kenyans did not hide the fact that they wanted to ease the charcoal ban because they feared it could make their job of keeping the peace in Kismayu that much more difficult. When it became clear that the Security Council would not lift the charcoal export ban, the "the KDF (Kenyan forces), Madobe and his Ras Kamboni forces took the unilateral decision to begin the export of charcoal from Kismayu port," the report said. Once that decision was made, the charcoal export business in Kismayu, which the Monitoring Group said is known to have the highest-quality charcoal in Somalia, resumed in earnest. Colonel Cyrus Oguna, a spokesman for the KDF, which has been battling al Shabaab in Somalia since October 2011, said Kenya was not aiding the charcoal exports in any way. "The KDF is not at the sea port. The port is being managed and supervised by a committee put in place by the administrators of Jubaland," Oguna said in Nairobi. AMISOM did not respond to a request for comment. Although the Kenyan AMISOM contingent and Madobe's Ras Kamboni militia took over Kismayu after al Shabaab left, the U.N. monitors said al Shabaab retained a share of the charcoal business after it lost control of the city. "The nature of the business enterprise forged by al Shabaab continues with al Shabaab, its commercial partners and networks still central to the trade," the Monitoring Group said. "Essentially, with the changeover of power in Kismayu, the shareholding of the charcoal trade at the port was divided into three between al Shabaab, Ras Kamboni and Somali Kenyan businessmen cooperating with the KDF (Kenyan army)." Not only did the charcoal export business continue in spite of the U.N. Security Council ban, but it saw a dramatic increase, the U.N. monitors' report said. "In fact, its shareholding in Kismayu charcoal, in combination with its (al Shabaab's) export revenues at Barawe (town) and its taxation of trucks transporting charcoal from production areas under its control are likely exceeding the revenue it generated when it controlled Kismayu," it said. In the 1990s the Horn of Africa country imploded amid clan warfare after the overthrow of a dictator and became virtually lawless for two decades. AMISOM was created in 2007 to support efforts to restore order in Somalia, and today the mission's troops are mostly from Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti and Kenya. 'KING OF CHARCOAL' The Monitoring Group estimated that al Shabaab, which has been driven out of many parts of Somalia but remains a potent force, exported some 9 million to 11 million sacks of charcoal from the country in 2011, raking in more than $25 million. "At the rate of export since November 2012, the Monitoring Group estimates that this number is rising to 24 million sacks per year and represents an overall international market value of $360-384 million USD, with profits divided along the charcoal trade supply chain, including for al Shabaab," the report said. The group said it estimated charcoal exports from Kismayu alone were worth $15 million to $16 million per month. It noted that traders in Dubai say the actual export amount is probably much higher. The group said there was also charcoal exporting from Barawe, the al Shabaab-controlled town north of Kismayu, bringing the militants $1.2 million to $2 million per month in taxes. One Kismayu charcoal trader with strong links to al Shabaab is Hassan Mohamud Yusuf, alias Awlibaax, from the ******* clan and chairman of the Juba Business Committee, the group said. He is also linked to Dubai's key charcoal businessman, Saleh Da'ud Abdulla, who himself has connections to al Shabaab, it added. Another is Ali Ahmed Naaji, from the minority ****** clan, who "arranges or provides loans to al Shabaab, and makes investments for them in South Sudan," the report said. It said Yusuf and Naaji alone account for around 32 percent of charcoal exports from Kismayu, most of which go to Dubai. The largest purchaser of charcoal in Dubai is Al Qaed International General Trading, owned by Baba Mansoor Ghayedi, alias Haji Baba, an Iranian living in Dubai who described himself to the Monitoring Group as the "King of Charcoal." The report said Haji Baba denied importing Somali charcoal in violation of the Security Council ban and that the paperwork shows his charcoal comes from Kenya and Djibouti, both of which have banned charcoal exports. The Monitoring Group included in one annex what it said were examples of false bills of lading certifying Somali charcoal as coming from Kenya. The United Arab Emirates has been aware of the illegal Somali charcoal shipments, the monitors said. In September 2012 it notified the Monitoring Group that it had impounded a shipment of 100,000 sacks of Somali charcoal. The monitors said charcoal traders in Dubai informed them that the impounded shipment eventually reached the market. Some 10,000 bags of charcoal were unloaded in Dubai and the rest in Saudi Arabia. The consignee of that shipment was Haji Baba

Enough with crocodile tears alshabab boy. My post historic is here for anyone to see. I have many times called for a sincere reconciliation and I'm still calling for it. Altough the situation is now more complex with the direct interference of Kenya.

This is the letter: http://allgalgaduud.com/?p=12051 Kenya dont seem to understand whats the mission here. They have mandate to fight alshabab not creating a proxy state inside Somalia and shelling civilians neighbourhoods, taking sides in clan disputes etc. This will only lead to the creating of resistance fronts towards the very precence of kenyans troops in "sector two"

Somalia's government called for a neutral force in the disputed port city of Kismayo, accusing Kenyan troops there of backing one militia against others in ongoing fighting for control of the strategic southern city. Somalia's information ministry said late Sunday that the country wants a "more neutral force" in the city that is home to a contingent of militiamen and where five clan leaders have all declared themselves president. That statement is the strongest yet from a government whose officials have sometimes accused Kenyan forces of taking sides in the Kismayo conflict, charges that Kenya denied on Monday. "Kenya is there...to promote security and the rebuilding of Somalia," said Kenyan army spokesman Col. Cyrus Oguna. "Those allegations are false and do not have any foundation whatsoever." For weeks militias have been fighting for control of Kismayo in clashes that have killed an unknown number of people. Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, said in a statement Monday that the fighting in Kismayo "appears to have caused the loss of innocent civilian lives." She urged "all parties to immediately refrain from violence, exercise restraint, and let political processes be used to resolve outstanding differences." Mohamed Nur, a nurse at Kismayo hospital, said at least eight people had died there following the latest clashes. Kismayo is important for Kenya, which seeks a friendly buffer zone near its border with Somalia — one of the main reasons it sent troops to Somalia to fight the militants of al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab in late 2011. But the rival militias now at war there appear to be interested in the economic engine of Kismayo. Its port generates large and reliable income, and has been the export point of Somali-made charcoal made illegal by the U.N. After another round of intense fighting on Sunday it appears that fighters from the Kenya-backed Raskamboni brigade, led by Ahmed Madobe, had taken the upper hand over rival militias led by former warlord Barre Hirale, according to several Kismayo residents. That brigade did so with the help of Kenyan troops operating in Kismayo under the banner of the African Union, according to Abdishakur Ali Mire, Somalia's deputy information minister. Madobe, who is supported by Kenya, is the leader of the Raskamboni brigade, which fought alongside Kenyan forces who took Kismayo from al-Shabab. He is a key power broker around Kismayo, although he is not backed by the federal government in the capital, Mogadishu. Madobe formed a local administration without giving much of a role to the central Somali government and was named president of the body. Adding to the chaos, four other clan leaders also have declared themselves the president of the region, though none is supported by Mogadishu. The statement by Mire, the Somali government minister, accused AMISOM Section Two —a contingent of African Union forces operating in Kismayo— of launching "a targeted offensive against civilians" and of arresting Col. Abbas Ibrahim Gure, a Somali army official sent to Kismayo by the central government. Troops from the West African nation of Sierra Leone are part of the contingent that includes the Kenyans, but they are not involved in ongoing fighting, according to Somali government officials. Some analysts say fighting in Kismayo is distracting from the main goal of fighting al-Shabab, who still launch lethal terrorist attacks even in Mogadishu. "It's a dangerous distraction for the effort to fight al-Shabab not only for the government but for AMISOM," said Mohamed Sheikh Abdi, an independent political analyst in Mogadishu. ------ Associated Press writer Tom Odula in Nairobi, Kenya, contributed to this report.

This is false reporting. What he said was that he and Alshabab was fighting the same enemy, (ie) Kenya. Not that he is alshabab, he fought them aswell many times.

They have violated the mandate, picked sides between local dispute clans, arrested the government troops, and they shelled civilian areas and military bases with artillery. They cannot remain in Somalia, if they do then local resistance will begin to work them out.

http://saadaalnews.com/2013/06/30/war-hada-soo-dhacay-dowlada-soomaaliya-oo-amartay-in-la-badalo-ciidmada-kenya-ee-jooga-kismaayo-sababtu-maxay-tahay/

http://saadaalnews.com/2013/06/30/deg-deg-ciidamada-kenya-oo-si-cad-u-laayay-ciidamada-bare-adan-shire-hiiraale/

puntnomads;965445 wrote: Dabrow So the final solution for Hiraale is to become an Islamist? Can you enlighten us? I don't think so however it seems they now are both fighting Kenya inside Somalia.

Puntnomad: SFG might be opposed to the Kenyan jubbaland but it don't mean its supportive of Barre jubbaland. If Kenya makes their support to madoobe official or not it don't matter. What's matter is their support on the ground and they are cleary biased.

Uchi its true, however the only way to make your voice heard in Somalia is by guns, unfortunately. Puntnomad. I'm not talking about the SFG but Barre forces and other local opposition. Kenya had before enjoyed benefit of doubt by the locals but now new strategies will be outlined to force them withdraw from kismayo, and their minions will leave with them. Yesterday over 100 where reported to have died by their shelling. This is a declaration of war. I don't think that the SFG has become just a Somali faction in the eyes of amisom but with Kenya is different and its important to differ them since Kenya has other motives then just peacekeeping.