Africa Oil war has impacted communities in Galgala, Balanbal and places in the Ogeden

[Xudeedi]

By: Mohamud Ahmed

 

maash68@gmail.com

 

Ethiopian Army killed and injured civilians in Balanbal district, Central Somalia, an incident believed to have connections to gas and oil exploration pursued by Melez government in the ****** and extended to the border with Somalia. Similar incident took place in the town several months ago where the Ethiopian Army murdered and maimed more than dozen people including three prominent Maraehan clan chiefs. The action of the Ethiopian government is deeply rooted in their quest to exploit region’s mineral and oil reserves. As of now, Africa Oil and Cinmax (small mafia operandi organizations) are conducting Seismic tests in the ****** and the surrounding regions. In ******ia, in 2006, the rebel group ONLF in an ambush, attacked Chinese staffers who where drilling gas wells in the region. Nine Chinese and many Ethiopians where killed in the attack. However, unreported, the illegal mineral and oil exploitation undertaken by small unpopular corporations under the pretext of economic development, caused civilians in those regions to suffer. In the Balanbal situation, Ethiopian Army is engaged in an active war in the reserve area (Somalia-Ethiopia border) with the border inhabitants to displace thousands of people in order to reach its goal which is: to steal natural resources of the people of ****** and neighboring, unprotected reserve area.

 

In the Africa Oil website, ongoing projects in the Ogeden and Puntland autonomous state are presented ready to view. The partners in the deal are the Melez administration in Ethiopia, Puntland Regional Government, African Oil and its subsidiaries. Often oil schemes involve cash handouts to the willing partners under the guise of operational costs. Masterminds like Africa Oil, market their schemes on their website openly, even go as far as demonstrating their strategy towards sharing operational costs with external companies just serving them promissory note to ascertain future revenue shares. It is a dangerous undertaking since the civilians in those regions are mere subjects who have no say whatsoever. For example, in Central Africa country of Congo, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been uprooted from their homelands under the curtain of development projects. Africa Oil and the like are out there to scavenge unprotected resources of smaller nations with no legitimate governments present.

 

 

resource exploitation project has also sparked intensive war between Puntland government and the defenders of the Sanaag Natural Resources. In that confrontation alone, 90 people have been reported killed and hundreds wounded. Communities’ only food sources–farms and wells–have been set ablaze or poisoned. Africa oil in collaboration with President Abdirahman Farole of Puntland, has delivered its final verdict on these communities. President Farole ( Africa Oil Partner), first ordered people to leave their homes or face the impossible, then, a week later he gave the army ‘green light’ to invade Galgala some 60km from Bosaso. And though the military initially captured the town, operations have been seized temporarily after the Puntland Army lost many soldiers. No one knows what is to follow.

 

Te end, in the light of the recent displacements of viable communities in Central Africa and the ongoing onslaught in Galgala and Balanbal, the international community has the obligation to step in: 1) Provide protection to the civilians in the cross fire. 2) Ban the stolen resources and Africa Oil’s trade activities. Indeed, Africa Oil’s self incriminating reports indicate for the foreseeable future, they will continue hunting for unprotected resources, whilst depriving the people of their God given rights to the resources. If the world does not do anything and continuous to watch unprovoked, Nigeria’s Delta region like resistance–unstoppable–will pop up in many places of Africa and Asia.

[Xudeedi]

Good read, this piece does a great job illustrating how foreign interest is the root cause to many of the problems facing poor Africa.

[NASSIR]

Actually, the Swedish Press is currently investigating Africa Oil, which is a subsidiary of a big corporation I believe, for its explotation of conflict zone areas of Africa and how her dark schemes have impacted thousands of families, killed many and uprooted whole villages.

Sooner or later, it would have to pay the negative spillover impact its illegal contracts with warlords and dictators have caused.

[Xudeedi]

The west is not as clueless as the SSDF clan predicts. They know that this a war between 2 clans fuelled by quest of natural resources.

 

Mohamuud Abdalla did a nice job relaying the story.

[Land_Soldier]

The Curse of Oil(BBC)

[Thankful]

The problem is that the West may not be clueless but they have already implicated Atam of suspicion of terrorist involvement and have written many reports about him, his assests have been frozen according to another report.

 

Articles like this thread are written by radical Somali diaspora memebers, with no facts to support their claims, their g-mail accounts show how amateur they are.

 

Faroole has travelled to Western countries, Atam would never be able to!

[PasserBy]

If Africa oil moves out someone else will move in. The Nordic Blondies should stop acting holier than thou. When in 1999 Talisman was forced out of South Sudan by the Holier than thou crowd, guess who moved in? Yep, China. The rest is history.

[Land_Soldier]

Originally posted by Thankful:

 

Faroole has travelled to Western countries, Atam would never be able to!

If Atam would have an Australian Passport, I am sure Atam (the local popular boy in Galgala) would do some travelling.

 

He met many girls on Paltalk, that he could visit.

[NASSIR]

^ . Thankful probably thinks he traveled with PL's passport...a clan fiefdom.

 

No one boasts of, for instance, directors of organizations who have been invited in Washington and met important officials as both leaders of Somalia and Somali citizens concerned of the plight of their motherland.

 

America has no interest in dealing with clan domains formed by former rebels within Somalia except with the good intention of furthering the peace process and the restoration of the Somali Republic.

 

Even Ximan & Xeeb was recently featured on the NY Times as a good building block approach.

It doesn't however mean it's a recognized state of Somalia.

 

Federalism as a transitional model of governance has yet to succeed and it will only lead to the proliferation of mini-clan fiefdoms.

 

I think it's a matter of time that we should deal with likes of our own clueless puppets in our own backyard. I'm sure whoever stands up for the people of Sool, Cayn, western Bari and Sanaag regions and take a decisive lead to advance the interest of their own people rather than serve other fiefdoms heavily subsidized by international crimes like Piracy and crimes against humanity like human smugglings and the deportation of IDPs, will be considered national leaders and heroes of their own regions.

[Burn Notice]

the terrorist supporters on this thread are a disgrace to the human race

[Gallad]

Rer Bugland terror card ayay ku washeen. That aint gonna work babe.

 

Saleban Haglatosiya is terrorist, People from south are terrorist, ONLF are not Somalis, so on and so forth. We have heard all of that in the past. Even when we kicked your butt in Kismayo you called us Terrorists.

 

By the way last suturday i met A/wali A;kadir the jailed pirate in Newyork. He still claims that he is underage, eventhough his own father said he was older than 30. Any pirate who can possess a machine gun, seize a ship by force; kidnapp and take hostage, has to be old enough to take responsibility of his mess.

[Dal Aqoon]

For those of you that do not ponder history, name calling is not something new to Somalis. I remember at a young age, my neighbors harassed by Siad Barre’s Red Berets on the grounds that they were SSDF or SNM sympathizers. Of course, many people remember Kulmis, Mahbar, **********, etc. What amaze me is the fact that the same people that once where the victims of ‘name calling,’ accuse others of being Argagixiso/terrorist and the like. I am sure many of you in this forum understand what I mean.