The Somalia of the 1970`s did not look anything like the modern Somalia. Somalia at the time was nicknamed the Switzerland of Africa.

Siad Barre ruled Somalia during this period. He managed to succesfully introduce core Socialist tenets into Somalian clan based society, like initiating a massive literacy campagin and expansion of education.

The Somalia of 1970s had everything going according to plan. Somalia was achieving real economic development, and inter-clan conflicts were minimal since Siad Barre managed to satisfy the needs of clan members. It had one of the best militaries in Africa, and had the support of Soviet union and key Arab states. As shown below in those pictures, it had well kept and tidy urban centers.

So, now is the opportune time for a war.

Somalians of the time had a mini-imperialistic aspiration which they called ``greater Somalia``. They believed that neighbouring countries own a land that rightfully belonged to them because there are ethnic Somalis living in the area. According to them, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya all owned lands belonged to Somalia.

By the 1970s, Ethiopia, unlike Somalia, was a troubled country. A famine swept throughout the nation and killed countless number of people. Ethiopia was in a midist of a chaotic socialist revolution which involved a lot of violence. Its military was largely disorganized, and it did not have the foreign support Somalia had.

In 1977, Somalia`s Siad Barre invaded Ethiopia without much of a warning. Somalia`s had a superior army, and initially controlled large swathes of land in Eastern Ethiopia.

However, since God always listens to Ethiopia`s prayers at the worst times of its history, Somalia`s allies like the USSR and Southern Yemen betrayed Somalia and sided with Ethiopia. Cuba`s Fidel Castro personally sent troops to Ethiopia , and with the combination of allied help and Ethiopian valor the Somali army was eternally crushed at the battle of Kara-Mara in 1978.

The failure in this war marked the start a dramatic and rapid downward spiral for Somalia. Somalians wasted large amounts of manpower and resources in the war, and many within the country blamed Siad Barre for the loss. The country became politically divided. Siad Barre, realizing that he can not enjoy the support he had in the country in the past, instead sought support in his own clan. The clans to the north of the country supported his rebels, and Siad Barre bombed his own people in Northern Somalia and killed countless number of people there. Soon after he was ousted from power.

Thus, Somalians divided themselve along clan lines and started to kill each other, and everybody knows the situation they are in at present. They are plagued by terrorism, famine, political instability and weak central authority.

https://www.quora.com/What-went-wrong-with-Somalia

Greedy Africans I guess

Kei144:

Thus, Somalians divided themselve along clan lines and started to kill each other, and everybody knows the situation they are in at present. They are plagued by terrorism, famine, political instability and weak central authority.

What finally destroyed Somalia was the action of the great leader of Somalia, Siad Barre, who resorted to arming the people of his clan so that they began to kill people of other clans. Unfortunately, a similar thing is happening in Nigeria. The great leader of Nigeria disarmed Vigilante groups in other clans while arming the people of his clan with AK47 rifles so that they could easily kill people of other clans, with the intention of forcing them to provide lands for RUGA.

Nigeria is surely headed in the direction of Somalia.

This is what the fulanis are planing to do- to arm themselves and kill other tribes just to takeover their ancestral land.

I think those somalis are Fulanis too

Nice history.. Africans can misuse power!

The west. They never wanna see a prospering African Nation.

RikudoSennin:
The west. They never wanna see a prospering African Nation.

Siad Barre Came from the western world, thanks for letting us know

iykofias:
Siad Barre Came from the western world, thanks for letting us know

Lol like he did not have the backing of Ronald Reagan?

RikudoSennin:


Lol like he did not have the backing of Ronald Reagan?

same way buhari had the backing of Obama and UK, will you also blame his utmost incompetence to lead to the west too

iykofias:
same way buhari had the backing of Obama and UK, will you also blame his utmost incompetence to lead to the west too

Dude they know they can literally steal the country resources cos they have the backing of the westerners. They can loot Nigeria resources and stash them in the big banks abroad. If they do not have the backing of the westerners, none of this would be happening.

RikudoSennin:


Dude they know they can literally steal the country resources cos they have the backing of the westerners. They can loot Nigeria resources and stash them in the big banks abroad. If they do not have the backing of the westerners, none of this would be happening.

so who are we to blame? The Americans never blamed Putin over trump’s failure

duduade:
Greedy Africans I guess

Just as the Ukraine-Russia war is because of Greedy Europeans.

Quintopia:


Corruption is an international racket like drug trafficking. If you don't stop the western banks acting as accessories to theft, and safe repositories of stolen funds, how can you end corruption?

your words can also be reversed, if our African leaders don’t embezzled and loot funds, there won’t be any stolen money to be deposited in Western bank. Even our local banks play as much part if not more as their foreign counterparts.