Somaliland: Welfare instead of Warlords.
Ahmed Kheyre
May 27, 2008
According to reliable sources, including Qarannews.com a humanitarian donation of equipment including vehicles, machinery and food from the United Arab Emirates Red Crescent society recently arrived at the port of Berbera.
The donations comes after the President of Somaliland, Mudane Dahir Rayale Kahin's visit to United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier this year. These equipment include water drilling rigs which are designed to drill wells in order to alleviate the water shortage caused by the recent drought in the country.
According those above mentioned reliable sources, these humanitarian donations will be distributed among the areas severely affected by the recent drought in country which has recently abated due to the arrival of the much anticipated rains across Somaliland.
Somaliland has been making some headway in its relationships with Arab nations, and the arrival of these donations in Somaliland, directly, is a sure sign that more and more moderate Arab nations are willing to engage Somaliland. The reality in Somaliland is that of a nation and its people who are willing to help themselves.
Somaliland is a nation based on responsibility and self-help. A mark of a civilised nation is how it looks after its poor and unfortunate citizens, only in Somaliland can you find, for example, a maternity hospital funded by a retired UN worker or a health centre dedicated to those in need of prosthetics, locally manufactured and supported by European charities. Along with these valuable donations from UAE Red Crescent that include water drilling rigs, one gets the impression that Somaliland is serious about the well-being of its citizens, sadly, the same cannot be said of some its neighbours.
Somaliland takes pride in helping those in need from anywhere in the Horn of Africa, and the people of Somaliland would like to see some kind of normal life resume for these blighted people of parts of the Horn of Africa.
The donations comes after the President of Somaliland, Mudane Dahir Rayale Kahin's visit to United Arab Emirates (UAE) earlier this year. These equipment include water drilling rigs which are designed to drill wells in order to alleviate the water shortage caused by the recent drought in the country.
According those above mentioned reliable sources, these humanitarian donations will be distributed among the areas severely affected by the recent drought in country which has recently abated due to the arrival of the much anticipated rains across Somaliland.
Somaliland has been making some headway in its relationships with Arab nations, and the arrival of these donations in Somaliland, directly, is a sure sign that more and more moderate Arab nations are willing to engage Somaliland. The reality in Somaliland is that of a nation and its people who are willing to help themselves.
Somaliland is a nation based on responsibility and self-help. A mark of a civilised nation is how it looks after its poor and unfortunate citizens, only in Somaliland can you find, for example, a maternity hospital funded by a retired UN worker or a health centre dedicated to those in need of prosthetics, locally manufactured and supported by European charities. Along with these valuable donations from UAE Red Crescent that include water drilling rigs, one gets the impression that Somaliland is serious about the well-being of its citizens, sadly, the same cannot be said of some its neighbours.
Somaliland takes pride in helping those in need from anywhere in the Horn of Africa, and the people of Somaliland would like to see some kind of normal life resume for these blighted people of parts of the Horn of Africa.
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