african leaders, somaliland is calling, do you hear us?
Honorable sirs, we know you are good at shoring up only dictators and tyrant regimes; you did it in the past with Siyad Barre, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Hussein Habre, Mobutu Sese Seko, Jean-Bedel Bokassa and many others and you are doing it now by toasting with your host Omar-Hassan El Bashir and Zimbwean dictator Robert Mugabe on the banks of the Blue Nile. Honorable leaders, we know your hands are full and the issues on your table are heavier than mountains, so we assume. We also know that Somaliland is not one of them; because it doesn’t have the hallmarks it needs to be qualified to attract your attention. How can it appeal to you when there are no warlords, no smoking guns and no bloodshed; not even mass movement across the border or desperate boat people running away from genocide. For heavens sake, what a dull country it is! We can hear you say. Just peace, stability and democracy; dismiss it; next point, please. Honorable sirs, we know you are good at shoring up only dictators an
