New regional adminstrations and a police
force haven't stopped the clan conflicts
A peace settlement still seems as far away as ever in Somalia, with
no firm indication that any promised national reconciliation
conference will take place in the foreseeable future. But
decentralisation still isn’t really taking off. Puntland, the northeastern
area in the point of the horn of Africa, is being courted by
donors. However any chance of creating an administration in
Jubaland in the south-west - west of the Juba river and intended to
include Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Gedo - seems to have been
lost in the continued rivalry of Marehan and Harti/Majerteen for
control of Kismayo over the last few months. In the latest fighting,
11-12 December, the Majerteen militia of General Mohammed
Said Hirsi ‘Morgan’ held onto the city, and onto the militia bases
they captured two years ago, against heavy attacks by Gen. Ahmed
Warsame’s Marehan militia: both sides suffered dozens of
casualties.
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