A Hundred Angry M&M’s

Congrats Europe. Tens of millions of dollars wasted. Soldiers lives needlessly put at risk. And all to prop up a joke government that doesn’t even control all of own capital city. What a joke. Europeans are so scared of being accused of not caring for others, that they act downright ridiculous. Why aren’t your soldiers in the Sudan where there is a genocide going on? Atleast there they would make a difference. Somalia is screwed. They need to solve their own problems. The UN has been there for decades and the situation has only gotten worse.

The European Union says it will pledge at least 60m euros ($78m) towards boosting security in Somalia at a donors meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

The international donor conference aims to raise 200m euros ($260m) for the African Union peacekeeping effort and to create national security forces.

Those forces could include a 6,000-strong national security force and police force of 10,000 officers.

Correspondents say such forces might contain pirates off Somalia’s coast.

The world’s attention has largely focused on Somali piracy recently, especially since the high seas drama in which US Navy Seals killed three pirates rescuing Richard Phillips – the abducted US captain of a cargo ship.

Benchmark

One of the aid agencies operating in Somalia, the International Rescue Committee, has urged donors not to allow the piracy to divert attention from the humanitarian crisis which, the agency said, was affecting hundreds of thousands of Somalis.

The EU hopes the announcement of its financial pledge will be a benchmark for other donors at a time when the situation could hardly be more critical, says the BBC’s world affairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge.

The EU, which is hosting the conference with the United Nations, considers Somalia now has its first credible government in many years, though in reality it currently controls little beyond a few areas of the capital, Mogadishu.

from the BBC