As
Puntland
Breaks Ties
&
Journalists
Under Fire,
Where's UN in
Somalia?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 6 --
What's wrong
with the UN on
Somalia,
Kismayo and
Puntland?
Inner City
Press at
Tuesday's UN
noon briefing
asked for
any UN comment
on Puntland
severing ties
with
Mogadishu,
assuming
there would be
one. But
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
said he would
have to check.
Where
is UN Envoy
Nicholas Kay
on this? Inner
City Press has
tweeted at
him, as it
did on the
still
unanswered
questions
about the use
of
armed
guards by the
UN in Somalia:
are they from
Denel, which
some
say has a
drone better
than the crash
prone drone
procured from
Finmeccanica's
Selex ES
for MONUSCO
under Herve
Ladsous? Or
some
other company?
There
are also
attacks on
journalists:
an attempted
assassination
in
Kismayo on
Abdikhadar
Iman Dhaqane
in Farjane,
and the
banning at the
Mogadishu
airport of
journalist
Mascud
Abdulahi Adan
from traveling
to Nairobi for
an operation
to remove a
bullet from
his backbone.
The UN had
nothing on
this as well,
just after the
speeches in
the
Security
Council on
protection of
journalists in
conflict.
The
Free
UN Coalition
for Access
works
on such
issues, on
Somalialand
(click here)
and elsewhere.
What is the
UN's position,
for example on
Puntland?
And
where is the
response, from
Ladsous and
the UN Mine
Action
Services, to
the
whistleblowers'
unrebutted
complaint that
UNMAS' David
Bax shared
genetic
information
from bombings
with US
intelligence,
through
Bancroft
Global near
the same
Mogadishu
airport
Mascud
Abdulahi Adan
was banned in?
Watch this
site.
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