mohamed cheers says:

Whatever the sad causes, the de jure wise Govt of Ato half habashi Silaanyo should
tend to make good sustainable roads throughout the Country. The Ministry responsible
should be given good spending budgets. The Countries Roads and all the associated
scientific knowledges should have the utmost priorities in the Govt spending affairs.
All the Govt Minisitries, Autonomous depts, and NGOs should have good Govt working
oversight regulations, procedures, modern laws in full force, at all levels, in integrated
networking systems of high standard qualities. Where there's a will, there's always a way.
Get started.Btw the IRIN giving this report should have given solutions which is lacking
for whatever reasons!. Gosh but nevermind..IRIN?
Cheers.

Kayse says:

Personally speaking, I can and could in fact more than halve Somaliland region's road toll fatalities within two years. It is not rocket science, it is a matter of focusing what matters most to majority Somalis in the country not only in the north. In the absence of real authority, it is important Councils and municipals do their job probably instead of running around EU and Ethiopia wasting on useless missions such as the never forthcoming recognition search.

In the last twenty years, the Council in the north wasted its entire revenue on explaining three factors; British rule (in reality they were just mutton buyers), June 26 and Siad Bare.

To be honest with you, it would not take a grade 4th student 20 minutes to explain those three things to anyone let alone wasting 21 years.

They went to Ethiopia and knocked doors and knocked some more. They sang sama ku waar, Allah Dhowr and chaired with Maryan Mursal for a while. Drank Shanti and Vimto while waving the Irish/Gambela flag and lied to each others; "waar wan duulnaye….up…up and beyond Pluto"

After 21 years of same drama everyone has turned away, imagine watching Days of Our Lives for 21 years with only three subjects of discussion.

Whenever the ratings are going down, viewers (Somalilanders) are pulled back on to the screen with new catch phrases "mega airport under construction" only to see shovels and broomsticks in an empty useless airport after closing it for 9 months: Please see: http://www.qarannews.com/index.php?option=com_con…

I quote: "Hargeisa(Qarannews)-The much anticipated renewal project of Egal International Airport in Hargeisa was is been funded by the Government of Kuwait to the tune over $4,000,000 US Dollars, and whose local contract was given the a company called China Horn Group, has been reduced to basic manual labour effort, with a few hardy souls pushing wheelbarrow across the damaged tarmac and a peculating tar barrel. Not a single modern piece of equipment in sight, as these pictures show."

When that catch phrase is not enough; they tell them FRENCH company invests in Berbera port, Hong Kong takes over Berbera, Dubai World sees new world in Berbera……but all we see is few rusted ship unloading WFP food for Ethiopia.

Roads are just disastrous because they are as Siad Bare left them, at least he had infrastructure and development, at least we had clean towns and some urban planning. Now zero, just few cry babies telling everyone "we have peace…but no bariis…we have peace but no traffic police….we have peace but no life beyond relaying on NGOs and remittance, we have peace but people are dying in New Hargeisa conflict, Kalshaale, Las Annod, Buhoodle, Dilla farms…

The drama is coming to an end my Somali brothers and everything including the roads are against the cry babies. Somali people regret the lose of lives on these roads but the one responsibility for these lives is the one who isolated and kidnapped everyone in the north.

Let us free them and save them from isolation and more road toll and hunger due to isolation and the council in Hargeisa's inabilities to even build basic roads.

Ilyas says:

recognise me please, please do

Shafici says:

Somaliland is not perfect but it could have been if it was not for the unification with Somalia. From the west to the east, the cities of Somaliland are better developed than they were under the brutal regime of Afweyne. Even the east of Somaliland, better known as Sanaag and Sool have never experienced any sort of governmental development under Barre regime.

It is a common knowledge that when we talk about economic growth in the Horn of Africa, we are talking about countries whose economy was more or less none existant and therefore any sort of economic growth is seen as an improvement when in reality it amounts to nothing in comparison to other countries in Asia and in the west. The delusional and incampacitated Somaliland apponents need to know countries build roads when they have access to global funds and investment, which normally comes with state recognition. Today, without formal recognition, Somaliland citizens and their government is building roads, schools and hospitals when Somalia citizens are reduced to foul mouthing and inability to comprehend Somalia changed 40 years ago and it cannot be put back together as it was.

Mr Borama says:

Well said Shafici.