US to officially recognise Somalia government
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21053071
The US is to officially recognise Somalia’s government in Mogadishu after more than 20 years, says a US official.
The move could pave the way for US and international economic aid for the Horn of Africa nation.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce the news on Thursday at a meeting in Washington with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
He took office after the first vote of its kind since military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
“When the secretary meets with Hassan Sheikh tomorrow, she will exchange diplomatic notes with him and recognise the Somali government in Mogadishu for the first time in 20 years,” Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson told reporters.
The move recognised the new government’s progress towards political stability and “breaking the back” of an al-Shabab insurgency, Mr Carson added.
Al-Shabab, a group with links to al-Qaeda, had seized control of southern and central parts of Somalia before Ethiopian, Kenyan and African Union peacekeeping troops undertook a counter-offensive, supported by the US, to restore order.
The US never formally cut diplomatic ties with Somalia.
But the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident, when 18 American servicemen were killed after militia fighters shot two US military helicopters out of the sky, marked the country’s descent into anarchy.
Mr Mohamud’s government was fostered by a UN-backed and regionally supported effort to end nearly two decades of fighting.
Mrs Clinton is not expected to announce new aid measures for Somalia, which already receives US assistance for drought, famine and refugee relief.
But a senior US official told the Reuters news agency: “The fact that we recognise a government there will allow us to do things through USAID [US Agency for International Development] that we have not been able to do before.
“The fact that we recognise them as a legitimate government will allow the World Bank and the [International Monetary Fund] IMF to do things that they would not have been able to do before. This is major and it is significant.”
Mr Mohamud has met World Bank and USAID officials on his trip to Washington.
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takes 20 years..they wait till you are exhausted and spent then recognize you so they can come marching in..the rape and pillage of Africa is well underway..
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Time to rape Africa by the good guys, the U.S.A.!
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no one has dared to face the truth that Michael Jackson has in his songs. All, followers, including the family, and the opportunists, ramble, with the covers, with videos, with the surface, but not too deep, or the songs he wrote, nobody cares Dangerous or Annie, or Invinsible, or she, the woman, talking about Michael in This Is It, and he says: .. I never heard a single word about you ..
Everything Michael did, by himself, has a soul, and THEY keep trying to kill the soul of the work of Michael. because she is Dangerous for them, but at this point, I think they feel very safe, everyone is swallowing what they want, one lie after another, and many are earning a lot of money ..
very few realities of Michael, are coming to light, in fact, have even removed many videos on the net, making statements alone, crying, saying his life was in danger, interviews, videos playing himself in dramatic confrontation, a very dramatic reality we live … but who was only fought was him, I was so scared, because I did not know what was happening.
I am glad that in This Is It, Michael says: .. feel my son, we can sey …
because it really necessary to say what happened in Michael’s life, because it is absolutely everything, very serious. Monsters?? Yes THEY are monsters, he was surrounded by monsters and monsters controlled, just like me.
monsters gathered here, from there, with monsters in here.
I have a 54, and I have understood that my road will be long. I fought all my life for truth and love, and not the time to stop, yet, lack the good.
I saw that Gary mentioned sometimes to Michael Jackson.
I do not know if I’ve posted this here … anyway … I leave here for gary.
When I finished this video, I thought I should also do speaking English .. maybe one day I find inspiration, to start with speeches in English
thanks Rosario