By Douglas O. Majwala.

East African Economy flops to doldrums and heading to recession if meltdown in Somalia is not subdued. Disorder in the horn of Africa should swiftly-jointly be pursued with long lasting objectivity. Forging an economic block is never a cure for underdevelopment if security is not prioritized. Sooner or later the world will be paralyzed by the tough painful u-turn decision by the shippers and land- locked to divert to Southern Africa for safer anchoring and it will be to the detriment of EAC. The jealous anti-EAC’s economic growth elements may capitalize in the insecurity to reach decisions whose eventuality will be to overthrow EAC progress. Keen serious leadership is needed to zero- in the situation with strong socio-economic and political will. The renaissance of EAC should not be mistaken for attainment of individual political excellence whilst the status-quo of the citizenry suffers the most.

A joint military reconnaissance along with heavy-duty diplomatic surveillance must be deployed to denounce longstanding global insurgency. Apathy about Somalia ambiguity was first given room by the late ex president Gen. Siad Barre who declared in an OAU meeting when he chaired the body that Somalia will never go off-course [astray] because it is a unique symbol of oneness that has ever existed in the globe and went as far as highlighting religion, culture, language and tribe to be standard for all Somalis in one Somalia including the Diaspora, he did not know it was a serious oversight for him as today what used to be known as Somalia is almost not there including himself [buried in a foreign land].

Strong agendas that need be addressed to rescue Somalia from wiping out of world geo-political atlas are: Appraise the country profile by doing the following: writing an interim constitution, forming national military and security forces which are heavily armed, preaching the positive side [not tit for tat] of religion that emphasizes love for one another as a priority pillar for seeing God, establishing comprehensive judiciary system, arraigning all perpetrators to International Court of Criminology ICC and after proven guilty be given amnesty instead of jail terms “a Mandela’s peace and reconciliation initiative cured all scars of Apartheid”.

Others are; transforming all ethnic parties into legally registered political parties, aligning all war lords to form a government of national unity, assisting the government to beef up marine security and declare Somali waters a buffer zone controlled by international community, re-vitalize government coffers by drawing an economic marshal plan, disarmament, revive a fully fledged diplomatic links including economic diplomacy [naturally Somalis are the Indians of Africa as they are talented in commerce] to make Somalia not look segregated from rest of the world.

It is childish philosophy to leave Somalis alone solve Somali predicament; it will result in regional holocaust beyond control, hence international community, bordering countries and individual country support should top the priority list for finding a panacea to Somali unrest. In this, I agree that many clicks may not spoil the browse.

Douglas O. Majwala [majwalaoriko@yahoo.co.uk]
Rorya-Tanzania.