Somaliland Presidential Election Chronicles – PART II
By Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar
ADDIS ABABA, 28 FEB 2003 (ADDIS TRIBUNE)--In last week’s article we posed that the survival of the Somaliland State, in its fatal confrontation with the clearly disorganizing and destructive clan principle, will depend upon the acceptance of the absurd position of adopting two dialectically opposed principles at the same time. I will call this specific need of accepting opposites the Tribal Dialectic.
· Absolute acceptance of the clan system
· Absolute rejection of the clan system.
Why do I consider this issue as a cultural shock of critical importance, why do I pose the absurdity of marrying the opposites above? I have promised to answer these questions. I will do so today. But first a primer on clan psychology:
Tribe (Clan) Psychology
A child is born in an incomplete state. He cannot walk, talk or fend for himself in any meaningful way. He has to learn all these as his development progresses. But that is not all. At birth the child does not know that he is an entity that is separate from his mother in whose body he grew from a single cell into a viable infant with head, eyes, heart etc. At birth the child does not have a formed an identity.
Saturday, March 01, 2003
Somaliland Presidential Election Chronicles- Part I -
By Dr. Abdishakur Sh. Ali Jowhar
ADDIS ABABA, 21 FEB 2003 (ADDIS TRIBUNE)--Presidential elections are scheduled in Somaliland for April 14, this year. This series of articles will provide an in-depth analysis of the election. Two diaspora- based Somalilanders- a political scientist (Dhimbiil) and Psychiatrist (Jowhar)- will provide the analysis on alternate weeks. A Primer on an Embryonic Democracy
Somaliland gained its independence from the British Empire in late June of 1960 and lost it 4 days later, in a fit of postcolonial delirium, by merging with its southern neighbor to form the Republic of Somalia on July 1st of the same year. The union was driven by a chauvinistic ideology of “Greater Somalia”, a scheme of “freeing and uniting” all Somali-speaking people in the Horn of Africa. The Somali Republic, formulated on this basis, disintegrated and failed - the first modern state to simply disappear and vanish. The Somali Republic no longer exists as a state.
By Dr. Abdishakur Sh. Ali Jowhar
ADDIS ABABA, 21 FEB 2003 (ADDIS TRIBUNE)--Presidential elections are scheduled in Somaliland for April 14, this year. This series of articles will provide an in-depth analysis of the election. Two diaspora- based Somalilanders- a political scientist (Dhimbiil) and Psychiatrist (Jowhar)- will provide the analysis on alternate weeks. A Primer on an Embryonic Democracy
Somaliland gained its independence from the British Empire in late June of 1960 and lost it 4 days later, in a fit of postcolonial delirium, by merging with its southern neighbor to form the Republic of Somalia on July 1st of the same year. The union was driven by a chauvinistic ideology of “Greater Somalia”, a scheme of “freeing and uniting” all Somali-speaking people in the Horn of Africa. The Somali Republic, formulated on this basis, disintegrated and failed - the first modern state to simply disappear and vanish. The Somali Republic no longer exists as a state.
Somaliland Presidential Election Chronicles- Part I -By Dr. Abdishakur Sh. Ali Jowhar
ADDIS ABABA, 21 FEB 2003 (ADDIS TRIBUNE)--Presidential elections are scheduled in Somaliland for April 14, this year. This series of articles will provide an in-depth analysis of the election. Two diaspora- based Somalilanders- a political scientist (Dhimbiil) and Psychiatrist (Jowhar)- will provide the analysis on alternate weeks. A Primer on an Embryonic Democracy
Somaliland gained its independence from the British Empire in late June of 1960 and lost it 4 days later, in a fit of postcolonial delirium, by merging with its southern neighbor to form the Republic of Somalia on July 1st of the same year. The union was driven by a chauvinistic ideology of “Greater Somalia”, a scheme of “freeing and uniting” all Somali-speaking people in the Horn of Africa. The Somali Republic, formulated on this basis, disintegrated and failed - the first modern state to simply disappear and vanish. The Somali Republic no longer exists as a state.
ADDIS ABABA, 21 FEB 2003 (ADDIS TRIBUNE)--Presidential elections are scheduled in Somaliland for April 14, this year. This series of articles will provide an in-depth analysis of the election. Two diaspora- based Somalilanders- a political scientist (Dhimbiil) and Psychiatrist (Jowhar)- will provide the analysis on alternate weeks. A Primer on an Embryonic Democracy
Somaliland gained its independence from the British Empire in late June of 1960 and lost it 4 days later, in a fit of postcolonial delirium, by merging with its southern neighbor to form the Republic of Somalia on July 1st of the same year. The union was driven by a chauvinistic ideology of “Greater Somalia”, a scheme of “freeing and uniting” all Somali-speaking people in the Horn of Africa. The Somali Republic, formulated on this basis, disintegrated and failed - the first modern state to simply disappear and vanish. The Somali Republic no longer exists as a state.
Annan Calls On Somali Factions to End Hostilities, Recommit to Peace
NEW YORK, 28 FEB 2003--United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a report issued today, calls on Somalia's faction-ridden leaders to cease "serious hostilities" and urges international donors to contribute generously and speedily to humanitarian and peace-building programmes there.
"It is those that have the weapons of war who continue to hold the people of Somalia hostage to the cycle of violence," the Secretary-General says in a <"http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2003/231">report to the UN Security Council, noting that individual faction rivalries and criminal activity rather than wider issues are behind the violence. "The Somali people and the international community will no doubt hold them accountable for their actions if they persist on the path of confrontation and conflict."
NEW YORK, 28 FEB 2003--United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a report issued today, calls on Somalia's faction-ridden leaders to cease "serious hostilities" and urges international donors to contribute generously and speedily to humanitarian and peace-building programmes there.
"It is those that have the weapons of war who continue to hold the people of Somalia hostage to the cycle of violence," the Secretary-General says in a <"http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2003/231">report to the UN Security Council, noting that individual faction rivalries and criminal activity rather than wider issues are behind the violence. "The Somali people and the international community will no doubt hold them accountable for their actions if they persist on the path of confrontation and conflict."
SOMALIA: Monitoring committee meets after heavy fighting in Mogadishu
NAIROBI, 28 FEB 2003 (IRIN) - A newly-formed committee, set up to monitor a shaky ceasefire accord between the warring sides in Somalia, met on Thursday following clashes between rival warlords in Mogadishu.
The monitoring committee - made up of the US, EU, AU, Arab League and the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) - met at the venue of the Somali peace talks in Mbagathi near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, sources close to the talks told IRIN on Friday.
NAIROBI, 28 FEB 2003 (IRIN) - A newly-formed committee, set up to monitor a shaky ceasefire accord between the warring sides in Somalia, met on Thursday following clashes between rival warlords in Mogadishu.
The monitoring committee - made up of the US, EU, AU, Arab League and the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) - met at the venue of the Somali peace talks in Mbagathi near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, sources close to the talks told IRIN on Friday.
Some 12 persons killed in fighting between warring militias in Somalia
MOGADISHU, 28 FEB 2003--Seven persons were killed in fighting between warring militias in the south west of the Somali capital Makadishu raising the number of killing to 12 persons who were killed within two days of confrontations.
Chiefs of tribes said that seven persons were killed yesterday with the renewed confrontations following a calm night, but did not explain if the murdered persons are civilians or fighters.
MOGADISHU, 28 FEB 2003--Seven persons were killed in fighting between warring militias in the south west of the Somali capital Makadishu raising the number of killing to 12 persons who were killed within two days of confrontations.
Chiefs of tribes said that seven persons were killed yesterday with the renewed confrontations following a calm night, but did not explain if the murdered persons are civilians or fighters.
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Somali clashes claim 12
MOGADISHU, 27 FEB 2003-- At least 12 people have been killed and 18 wounded in two days of clashes in the Medina enclave of the Somali capital on Wednesday, residents said on Thursday.
"Three civilians and two gunmen were killed and seven other people wounded on Wednesday, while seven more were killed and 11 wounded after violence resumed on Thursday," elders said.
MOGADISHU, 27 FEB 2003-- At least 12 people have been killed and 18 wounded in two days of clashes in the Medina enclave of the Somali capital on Wednesday, residents said on Thursday.
"Three civilians and two gunmen were killed and seven other people wounded on Wednesday, while seven more were killed and 11 wounded after violence resumed on Thursday," elders said.
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