Confederation in Somalia separation project by Khalid Hassan Yusuf

00:02 AM March, 04 2020

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The two neighbors are preparing for a confederate state where their politicians and intellectuals have gathered in the framework of a political debate prepared by the PDRC, which represents a modest regional center for the preparation of cantonal policies.The confederation adopted by politicians who attended such deliberations, such as Abdi Farah Said, Ali Abdi Aware and others, contrasted with federalism.
Under a confederation, its political units or states, each with their own political identity, thus have multiple nationalities, even within the framework of a common state.

Thus, they are established entities in their own right and have the right to unite among themselves.
The international boundaries of a federal State are also contingent on the boundaries of the political entities within it, which means that these entities can transmit their powers on the boundary in isolation from the federal State and deal with other neighboring States.

There is a possibility of war being fought by the Confederate sub-entity, without returning to the federal state, despite the political, social and economic implications that in turn affect the common state.
Each entity in the Confederation has the right to withdraw from and leave the Union, and consequently to secede from the Federal State, and declare a new and distinct political identity from its former partners.

The federal model in the UAE, which is inferred by Mr. Abdi Farah Saeed, has nothing to do with the confederation. This model comes under the sovereignty of the UAE federal state, which was established according to a federal constitution and political contract, which defined the powers of the state and the seven emirates. In each emirate, however, this is done in the context of the General Federation and an Emirate cannot determine its fate in isolation from the Federal State.

Senate members of the Federal Supreme Council represent the emirates of the seven emirates and represent a sovereign authority that is higher than the federal government.
However, the seven emirates of the UAE were established as a federal state between political structures that were independent of themselves, prior to its founding in 1971, and paradoxically that the UAE is inferred as a confederation, while its political system is federal and different from the classification and patents of Somali politician Abdi Farah Saeed.

While Somalia has been a coherent political unit since the birth of the state in 1960, the call for the establishment of a confederate state comes in the context of tearing Somalia apart and redrawing its political features.
On the ground, the Daarood canton, which has taken itself from the city of Garowe as a center, exercises the powers of the Confederate State, in light of its boycott of the Federal Government and its direct contact with the international community, and allowing an Ethiopian diplomatic mission to be present in Somali territory, in isolation from the return of the Federal Government. Confederation.

The Confederate model referred to seeks to become the Daarood canton and other cantons as independent states, a measure that wishes to market that the control of the federal government in Somalia requires a transition to this political phase, while the canton itself is in the midst of a political conflict.
Not to mention that he has not yet fulfilled many of the requirements preceding his talk about the Confederate option, such as the uncertainty of his geopolitical conflict and its dispute with the Ishaq canton, the absence of a census, and the absence of a popular choice demanding confederation even at the cantonal level itself.

The racist cantons in Somalia want to gain powers beyond the limits of what they are prescribed under the federal state, and therefore work on the political escalation with the federal government, to achieve the reformulation of the system and the state features towards the confederation, and then move towards secession.

In their view, the impulses of the federal government for secession, the illegitimacy of the federal government to organize and formulate policies related to the establishment of federal states in Somalia, and that this must be based on an option left to the cantons that are currently being prepared to the state phase, and be given direct powers to achieve confederal reality, The role of the present federal state is undermined.

Khalid Hassan Yusuf