Why is somalia lawless

According to Trump the Horn of African country was an anarchic, lawless state and Ilhan wanted America to degenerate to those levels. She Ilhan would like to make the government of our country just like the country from where she came, Somalia.

No government, no safety, no police, no nothing, just anarchy. And now, she is telling us how to run our country, no thank you. No government, no safety, no police, no nothing.

Just anarchy. Payne, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Africa, were trying to do exactly that. Payne and others met with the moderate Islamists and encouraged them to negotiate a power-sharing deal with the transitional government. But the Bush administration again reached for the gunpowder. The United States would not do much of the fighting itself, since sending large numbers of ground troops into Somalia with Iraq and Afghanistan raging would have been deemed insane. Instead, the United States anointed a proxy: the Ethiopian Army.

This move would be Strike Three. The Ethiopian leadership savvily told the Bush administration what it wanted to hear: The Islamists were terrorists and, unchecked, they would threaten the entire region and maybe even attack American safari-goers in Kenya next door. Of course, the Ethiopians had their own agenda. Ethiopia is a country with a mostly Christian leadership but a population that is nearly half Muslim.

It seems only a matter of time before there is an Islamic awakening in Ethiopia. On top of that, the Ethiopian government is fighting several rebel groups, including a powerful one that is ethnically Somali. The government feared that an Islamist Somalia could become a rebel beachhead next door. Not everyone in Washington swallowed the Ethiopian line. The country has a horrendous human rights record, and the Ethiopian military which receives aid for human rights training from the United States is widely accused of brutalizing its own people.

But in December , the Bush administration shared prized intelligence with the Ethiopians and gave them the green light to invade Somalia. Thousands of Ethiopian troops rolled across the border many had secretly been in the country for months , and they routed the Islamist troops within a week. There were even some U.

Special Forces with the Ethiopian units. The United States also launched several airstrikes in an attempt to take out Islamist leaders, and it continued with intermittent cruise missiles targeting suspected terrorists. Most have failed, killing civilians and adding to the boiling anti-American sentiment. The Islamists went underground, and the transitional government arrived in Mogadishu.

There was some cheering, a lot of jeering, and the insurgency revved up within days. The transitional government was widely reviled as a coterie of ex-warlords, which it mostly was. It was the 14th attempt since to stand up a central government.

None of the previous attempts had worked. True, some detractors have simply been war profiteers hell-bent on derailing any government. But a lot of blame falls on what this transitional government has done — or not done. From the start, leaders seemed much more interested in who got what post than living up to the corresponding job descriptions.

The government quickly lost the support of key clans in Mogadishu by its harsh and unsuccessful tactics in trying to wipe out the insurgents, and by its reliance on Ethiopian troops. Ethiopia and Somalia have fought several wars against each other over the contested Ogaden region that Ethiopia now claims.

That region is mostly ethnically Somali, so teaming up with Ethiopia was seen as tantamount to treason. The Islamists tapped into this sentiment, positioning themselves as the true Somali nationalists, and gaining widespread support again.

The results were intense street battles between Islamist insurgents and Ethiopian troops in which thousands of civilians have been killed. Ethiopian forces have indiscriminately shelled entire neighborhoods which precipitated a European Union investigation into war crimes , and have even used white phosphorous bombs that literally melt people, according to the United Nations.

Hundreds of thousands of people have emptied out of Mogadishu and settled in camps that have become breeding grounds for disease and resentment. Death comes more frequently and randomly than ever before. I met one man in Mogadishu who was chatting with his wife on her cellphone when she was cut in half by a stray mortar shell.

Another man I spoke to went out for a walk, got shot in the leg during a crossfire, and had to spend seven days eating grass before the fighting ended and he could crawl away. Few foreign journalists travel to Somalia anymore. Kidnapping is the threat du jour. Nowadays, as soon as I land, I take 10 gunmen under my employ. By late January, the only territory the transitional government controlled was a shrinking federal enclave in Mogadishu guarded by a small contingent of African Union peacekeepers.

As soon as the Ethiopians pulled out of the capital, vicious fighting broke out between the various Islamist factions scrambling to fill the power gap. It took only days for the Islamists to recapture the third-largest town, Baidoa, from the government and install sharia law. The Shabab are not wildly popular, but they are formidable; for the time being they have a motivated, disciplined militia with hundreds of hard-core fighters and probably thousands of gunmen allied with them.

The violence has shown no signs of halting, even with the election of a new, moderate Islamist president — one who had, ironically, been a leader of the Islamic Courts Union in If the Shabab do seize control of the country, they might not stop there. They could send their battle-hardened fighters in battered four-wheel-drive pickup trucks into Ethiopia, Kenya, and maybe even Djibouti to try to snatch back the Somali-speaking parts of those countries.

This scenario has long been part of an ethereal pan-Somali dream. Pursuit of that goal would internationalize the conflict and surely drag in neighboring countries and their allies. Some Kenyan Catholic priests have watched the developments with interest. Recently, there were reports of young Kenyan Muslims pledging allegiance to Islamic State. Father Alfred Muriithi, who ministers in the border town of Wajir, Kenya, said local people believe al-Shabab has left, but they still hear of terror attacks.

Keep Crux Independent. The seizure of the capital Mogadishu and much of the country's south by a coalition of Islamist shariah courts in prompted an intervention by Ethiopian, and later, African Union, forces.

Since , when a new internationally-backed government was installed, Somalia has been inching towards stability, but the new authorities still face a challenge from Al-Qaeda-aligned Al-Shabab insurgents. President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo, was elected by MPs gathered under tight security in a hangar at the airport of the capital Mogadishu in February The dual US-Somali citizen served as prime minister for eight months between and when he gained popularity by ensuring regular payment of army salaries and implementing a biometric register for security personnel.

He has expressed readiness to talk to the Islamist al-Shabab militants.