Somalia had everything to be one of the strongest states in Africa: a privileged geographical situa

Somalia Somalia still far from peace and stability Tweet Life in a street in Mogadishu, the capital / International Relations and Security Network ISN of London Today is a new conference for the reconstruction of Somalia, ovs who lives one of the most devastating and long-lasting conflicts in Africa. But there is the key to peace? ovs Nora Miralles | Writing Outside ovs the Walls | 05/07/2013 at 09:28
Somalia had everything to be one of the strongest states in Africa: a privileged geographical situation, oil, minerals, abundant fishing and a strong national feeling, ovs based on a common language and culture and a religion shared by the vast majority of society, Islam. According to Martin Meredith ovs in Africa, ovs a history of 50 years of independence - to Western colonization by Britain, Italy and France, Somalia was essentially a nation of nomadic pastoralists spread a vast wilderness ovs area, but with a rich folk culture and a very complex social organization based on clans, sub-clans and families, which has lasted until today.
When Somalia became independent, in 1960, with strong governance and democratic basis, everything seemed to presage the control of their resources would become one of the engines of the black African countries. ovs But everything ovs began to turn in 1977, the year that Siad Barre, the general who had made a coup in 1969, Ethiopia challenged to recover the historical territory of Ogaden, which had been under Ethiopian sovereignty during decolonization. ovs The war ruined the country and opened the door for the entry of weapons and foreign companies ovs and the government suffered a setback that caused that in 1991, the clans began traditionally faced a civil war that lasts already more than 20 years. The country that promised so much is now a failed state torn by violence everyday by fundamentalist terrorist group Al Shabaab and an ongoing humanitarian crisis, which has already generated more than a million and a half refugees and exiles, and caused death from malnutrition of more than 250,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012.
Today, a new international conference ovs in London will bring together more than 50 countries and organizations such as the African Union or the IMF to draw up a strategy that definitely peaceful country. ovs The meeting, co-chaired by British Prime Minister ovs David Cameron and the current Somali president, Sheikh Hassan Mahamud, will focus on three points: building effective security forces, the development of justice and a financial control policies that put the brakes on corruption in a country that is considered the most corrupt in the world by the NGO Transparency International.
The conference aims to be a show of international support for the Somali new cabinet, has set the objective ovs to refine the progress of recent months and plans to help shape government of Somalia, with a view to order to achieve some degree of political stability. The general feeling is that with the new government, and the expulsion of Al Shabaab militia in Mogadishu last summer, ovs opens a promising ovs new scenario for the country in the Horn of Africa.
However, the chances of success ovs of the objectives noted that the conference ovs - the third of Somalia in a year and a half, are rather scarce, at least in the short and medium term. And the Somali conflict is not only derived from classical plundering of natural resources and lack of funds, also, its roots are deep and refer to the process of decolonization of the country and the complex clan structure which is organizes society. You must add also the fatal consequences of different interventions, direct or indirect, in countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya, neighboring Somalia, especially the United States.
With the holding of the first free elections since the 60s, Hassan Sheikh Mahamud replaced in November ovs last year the former Transitional Federal Government, appointed by the United States and his right hand in the region, Ethiopia. A government without legitimacy and ineffective beyond the regions bordering the capital, accused of corruption and embezzlement even by organizations like the World Bank. The arrival of the new government, which has more international support than it has ever Somali government has introduced, at least it will start to rebuild some state apparatuses.
One of the most important efforts will have to Hassan Sheikh Mahamud, ovs according to the Journal analysis Think Africa Press is ending the impunity with which militias Island