Uganda Bombings during World Cup 2010
By Atlas Al
If you haven’t already heard about the terrorist bombings in Kampala, Uganda, Flagging Headquarters brings the story to you. Earlier this month, Somali terrorist group, Al-Shabaab, bombed two locations where fans were watching the World Cup. Their motive: retribution for the 6000 Ugandan and Burundian soldiers keeping the peace in war torn Somalia.
The UN-backed Somali government barely controls the capital, Mogadishu, and clans, warlords, pirates, and terrorists do as they please. Since civil war broke out in 1991, pirates have come to control the coastline, and clans and terrorists everything else. Pirates and terrorists even fight amongst themselves, in particular when pirates captured a Yemeni weapon boat in April 2010 intended for Al-Shabaab terrorists. [Read full article here]
Lawlessness abound, it’s no wonder why the international community is paying attention to Somalia’s northwest region: Somaliland.
Somaliland
Map of Somaliland - خريطة الصومال
European Union and African Union delegates have been to Somaliland to discuss the future possibility of cooperation and recognition from other sovereign states. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister even acknowledged the President of Somaliland for the first time in June 2007.
As promising as Somaliland may sound, they’re merely de facto independent and officially under the sovereign rule of Somalia. Hook up with a Somalilander, you got the Somali flag.
