General Somalia 2-3 - Its location of changes in the Horn of Africa -Khaled Hassan Yousef

General Somalia 2-3
- Its location of changes in the Horn of Africa
Khaled Hassan Yousef
Team Mohamed Ali Samter worked on preparing the war that Somalia fought with Ethiopia during the period 1977-1985, not as it was abbreviated between 1977-1978, the period in which the great confrontation raged compared to the subsequent phase, leading to the normalization between the two countries since 1986 during Meeting of Presidents Mohamed Siad Barre and Mengistu Haile Meriam at the IGAD Founding Conference
The war of the Ogaden region (Western Somalia) was not surprising for the Somali political leadership, but it was well planned since 1974 since the fall of the monarchy in Ethiopia. The leadership in this country has advanced relations with the Soviet Union, Account for the leaders of Somalia, who had ties with Moscow then strong relations, although the obsession between the war between the countries of Somalia and Ethiopia was present before 1974 by the harassment of the latter and the presence of Somali support for the rebels of the Ogaden region
However, Addis Ababa's ideological move towards the Soviet Union was a serious concern for the rulers of Mogadishu, including then Brigadier General Mohamed Ali Samer, before being promoted militarily to a team and politically as a political office member of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and vice-president
Both countries in the Soviet Union, who saw Somalia as an end result in their constituency, became important in absorbing the Ethiopians quickly before the experience of the new military aborted and the country returned to the US circle
Which was called upon by them to play the role of Godfather with the imposition of their orientation on the Somali leadership, especially in 1976-1977 before the outbreak of war and cut off Somali-Soviet relations in the last year, after Somalia refused to rapprochement with Ethiopia at the expense of the issue of Ogaden, Relations with the socialist bloc led by Moscow
- His role in the war of the Ogaden
Under these historical circumstances, Samer led the Somali army and represented with General Abdullah Mohammed Fadel, Colonel Mahmoud Jili Yusuf as an exception from within the group known as the Supreme Council of the Revolution, which ended to the Political Bureau and the Central Committee of the ruling party at that stage on the military planning, That the group did not engage in direct military leadership of the war despite its military presence, while using some of their military colleagues angry against them, such as Colonel Mohammed Farah Hassan (Aidid) and Colonel Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed
The Sommer was able to arrange for war with the other in the leadership and the Somali military in a good manner and the perception of the geography of the fronts in the regions of the Ogaden of Gijia, Uari, Zaghpur, Dirtba, Kabri Dahr, Harar and others. On the Territory
Which resulted in the intervention of Moscow and its allies to go to war directly in favor of Ethiopia, and although the perception of the Somali national prevailing as a cause for the war, but there is another view that the military pressure descended from the tribal tribalism and Mgartin, led the leadership to enter the war, On its quest for a military coup, as confirmed by Maj. Abdul Razzaq Ahmad Aqli, which ended with the Somali opposition, to Raad Reeb program for the channel century
It was therefore motivated by the occupation of the Somali army in that war, not to mention the spread of those regional military cadres, as confirmed by this source, in the provinces of Bay and Banader and away from the geography that descended from them in anticipation of their political and military mobilization regional
- Its location of the Somali-US military relations
At the first level, Somalia engaged in a military alliance with the United States, resulting in military exercises involving Somali and American soldiers in the 1980s, and the granting of facilities at the Barbara military base to Washington. , Which resulted in the sarcasm of Moscow and its allies in place of the Somali opposition
As a result, the Somali army is getting US arms and training for Somali officers on its territory, which has created a state of terror for Moscow and its allies and the Somali opposition, especially after Samer became vice president in 1982
On the economic side, US funds were given to the Somali government or by the International Monetary Fund to grant financial loans to Somalia and return to the oil discovery sector. In 1985, Americans retreated from large loans that were expected to be granted to both Somalia and Sudan. This resulted in Washington withdrawing its efforts to support the Somali economy. Ended the deterioration and towards the consumer trend, which came on the role of agricultural producers specifically
On the political front, the Somali regime was consistent with the US. This did not prevent Washington from punishing the Somali government from the perspective of the human rights violation
Despite the alliance, Washington did not take any serious steps to save its allies after the end of the Cold War, which coincided with the fall of the Somali regime in 1991. He left his fate in the face of civil strife and was not assimilated to the American- 1991 with the arrival of new political players and the preservation of Ethiopia's unity as a state
Khaled Hassan Yousef
 Source Facebook Road to Mogadishu