How Somalia is changing the country after the war

[King Harlem]

I'm in Mogadishu right now. First time in my life in Somalia.

My dad started coming back in 2011. But left corporate America to start a new business with property my grandfather left him and my uncle in 2012.

I am amazed at what he's built here. It was the former Egyptian Embassy and they rented from my grandfather. My dad has made it into a business center and built more space for tenants. There's a restaurant renting from him using the roof of one of the buildings.

Mogadishu is relatively safe. I've hit the streets at night this week. Going to the beach last night to eat dinner had a bunch of checkpoints by police/soldiers. Many areas of the city have stepped up those security measures after Al-Shabaab bombed Liido Beach and other places in recent years..

If Somalia hits big with oil/gas, there is no reason why the city can't properly rebuild the roads, sanitation, plumbing, and including green spaces. They need way more sanitation engineers on the streets.

There are still areas you can see destroyed from the civil war in the 1990s. You also see high rises coming up and private businessmen are beautifying those spaces and their own private roads.

No urban planning to meld what the Italians built during colonialism, what was built post-independence, and the current era.

In terms of the people... the population is so young. But there's a lot of talented young people. They have no connection to the civil war and a lot of them don't want to migrate but build their country. I like to see that. Politicians are so corrupt though.

Dope post.

 

[FAH1223]

How are the sisters there?

A lot of them. They say they’re more educated than the brothers.

Someone like @Malcolmxxx_23 could snap his fingers and marry one tomorrow. The family wants that dowry.

One of my cousins married one here and she’s trying to get to the states but how? Trump is in office. Going to be impossible

 

[FAH1223]

You have to wonder how much of that 1 billion is actually going to making the country better. I know folks have to be hesitant to pay taxes when it's just going to be siphoned away by corruption.

It's an absolute shame that you guys aren't a shipping powerhouse similar to Singapore because of your strategic position in shipping lanes. With your only competition being janky Yemen on the other side of the sea, an ideal Somalia would be killing the game.

There’s a lot of forces that want to see this place stay in poverty.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

A lot of them. They say they’re more educated than the brothers.

Someone like @Malcolmxxx_23 could snap his fingers and marry one tomorrow. The family wants that dowry.

One of my cousins married one here and she’s trying to get to the states but how? Trump is in office. Going to be impossible

I saw a Somali Kenyan when I was in Mombasa and was stunned at her beauty. I'd take my shahada tomorrow if I met the right one, as long as they and the community know that Brothers Khalid and Malcolm (pbut) are my eternal Imams.

 

[3rdWorld]

Islam is the root cause of all their problems..until they eradicate it and free their minds of Arabizes imperialism, nothing will ever change.

 

[Oldschooler]

Islam is the root cause of all their problems..until they eradicate it and free their minds of Arabizes imperialism, nothing will ever change.

I agree to a certain extent but it's deeper than religion. Remember religion is just a tool to control people. That's it. The ideology itself is good in all world religions but it gets used to divide people and turn it into tribalism. Which is literally what's happened to Somalia throughout its history.

 

[3rdWorld]

I agree to a certain extent but it's deeper than religion. Remember religion is just a tool to control people. That's it. The ideology itself is good in all world religions but it gets used to divide people and turn it into tribalism. Which is literally what's happened to Somalia throughout its history.

When Islamic societies fall they hardly ever recover..Somalia will always be a failed state because the mindset to change things is non existent in that country..they will always succumb to islamist terror ideology.

 

[FAH1223]

Islam is the root cause of all their problems..until they eradicate it and free their minds of Arabizes imperialism, nothing will ever change.

When Islamic societies fall they hardly ever recover..Somalia will always be a failed state because the mindset to change things is non existent in that country..they will always succumb to islamist terror ideology.

Somalis been Muslim for 1,200 years. You guys sound ignorant.

The issue with us is that we are the most homogenous nation on the planet. Same culture, language, religion, etc. The cause of the Somali Civil War was the clan system and the patronage that Siad Barre, who ruled from 1969-1991, instituted as the dictator. Once nepotism became rampant and the country started to go broke, it was over. Especially after the failure of the Ogaden War in 1977-78 which saw the Soviets and Cubans push back the Somali military from occupying the Somali areas of Ethiopia in a bid to create 'the greater Somalia' dream where all territories of Somalis are united under one flag.

 

[Phitz]

They've come a long way

 

[thatrapsfan]

Puntland is an Emirati colony Colombian mercenaries and Somalis are being sent by the Emirati intelligence to fight on behalf of the genocidal RSF militia to massacre civilians in Sudan

I dont support the Emiratis but you Sudanis are capping about Somalis fighting in your war, no Somalis are traveling to fight in Sudan. I do believe the Emiratis are using Bossaso as a logistical hub though.

 

[thatrapsfan]

I'm in Mogadishu right now. First time in my life in Somalia.

My dad started coming back in 2011. But left corporate America to start a new business with property my grandfather left him and my uncle in 2012.

I am amazed at what he's built here. It was the former Egyptian Embassy and they rented from my grandfather. My dad has made it into a business center and built more space for tenants. There's a restaurant renting from him using the roof of one of the buildings.

Mogadishu is relatively safe. I've hit the streets at night this week. Going to the beach last night to eat dinner had a bunch of checkpoints by police/soldiers. Many areas of the city have stepped up those security measures after Al-Shabaab bombed Liido Beach and other places in recent years..

If Somalia hits big with oil/gas, there is no reason why the city can't properly rebuild the roads, sanitation, plumbing, and including green spaces. They need way more sanitation engineers on the streets.

There are still areas you can see destroyed from the civil war in the 1990s. You also see high rises coming up and private businessmen are beautifying those spaces and their own private roads.

No urban planning to meld what the Italians built during colonialism, what was built post-independence, and the current era.

In terms of the people... the population is so young. But there's a lot of talented young people. They have no connection to the civil war and a lot of them don't want to migrate but build their country. I like to see that. Politicians are so corrupt though.

Dope post breh, stay safe and enjoy your trip.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

I dont support the Emiratis but you Sudanis are capping about Somalis fighting in your war, no Somalis are traveling to fight in Sudan. I do believe the Emiratis are using Bossaso as a logistical hub though.

 

[FAH1223]

I was near the Turkish Embassy which is massive and this story came out today

https://archive.is/Fm2xg

 

[thatrapsfan]

The picture is from Puntland not Sudan. Its already known that the UAE trains and pays some of Puntland's security forces but I havent seen anything credible showing Somalis are fighting in Sudan. Keep in mind Somali political twitter is all propaganda with opposing political factions slinging mud at each other.

 

[Strapped]

Just wait till Uncle Sam drops couple more airstrikes