Articles by Abdi Ismail Samatar
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An Odious Affair: The UN in Somalia
Abdi Ismail Samatar – Al Jazeera,
9 Apr 2012
The organisation may destroy the country’s political autonomy if there is no immediate pro-Somali intervention. This brief essay examines the particular roles played by two UN agencies – the Monitoring Group for Somalia and Eritrea (MG) and the United Nations Special Representative (SR) – in the reproduction of the disaster in the country. These two agencies have separate mandates, but collectively they have been engaged in activities that undermine Somali efforts to rebuild the country.
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Abdi Ismail Samatar – Al Jazeera,
5 Dec 2011
Several months ago, I wrote an essay entitled “Genocidal Politics and the Somali Famine”. It appears that the coordinator of the UN’s Monitoring Committee for Somalia agrees with the essay’s proposition that nature is not to blame and that powerful human actors are responsible for the catastrophe.
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