Leeloo Sabaa

While there has been an obvious  shallow understanding and analysis of the root cause for lack of :peace, security, stability and prosperity in the region of the Horn of Africa ,   ignorance of the  selfish and   unjust regional and  international system always operating to thwart the road to peace  and   direct actions or  deliberate connive to maintain the status quo that perpetuates dependency of the region and    enhance the   control over this region by the international powers and their stooges, we have observed state managed celebration,  glorification of regional leaders who bought  their scheme, bombardment by  colonial pundits  analysis and propaganda  aimed at hoodwinking the people of this region that with the demise of Ziad Barie of Somalia and  Mangistu Haile Mariam, independence of Eritrea and South Sudan, the region of the Horn of Africa would be heaven of :peace, democracy and prosperity.

However, twenty six years after the demise of Ziad Bare, 25 years after the overthrowal of Mangistu and independence of Eritrea, there has never been: peace, stability and prosperity the people of this region have been yearning for.  With the aim of weakening and finally destroying its imagined threat that can come from Somalia to its colonial domination in  Finfinne, clan politics was purposely designed, financed and exported by the current Ethiopian government into Somalia with the consequence of the birth of Al-Shabaab and deep clan division and disunity in Somalia. Al-Shabaab that claims to have been born to counter Ethiopia’s uninvited intervention and meddling in Somalian affairs, has been designated as a terrorist organization against which the World has been waging a war but used by Ethiopia as a bargaining chip in its international diplomacy and as a cash cow through which it has been amassing huge: financial, military weapon and training assistance from the USA and European countries, greater proportion of which has been deployed also to crash peaceful Oromian protesters for freedom.  The same ways Western powers argue that the presence of Assad as Syrias president is a magnet that attracts jihadist and terrorist to Syria, the presence of Ethiopia in Somalia has remained a magnet that attracts youth from East Africa toward Al-Shabaab. This strategic blunder by Ethiopia that have created breeding ground for Al-Shabaab and division within Somalia remains the major threat to: peace, security and prosperity in this ever turmoil region of the Horn of Africa.Eritrea and Oromian independence