My (very) inside source in the Somali peace talks sent me this (he/she does not want to be identified): "The fine and nice peoples of the Security Council left us today (I don't know if I have to cry or joyfully dance on the beaches)...They met separately the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and his self-proclaimed president Abdillahi Youssouf and the Islamist courts movement and the Allaince for the Re-liberation of Somalia. Abdillahi Youssouf asked only one thing and repeated that demand many times: that the Security Council should leave up the arms embargo concerning Somalia so he can buy more arms and go back doing what he does the best as a past warlord leader. And just for free provocation of the other side he added that he will never ask the Ethiopian occupation troops to leave Somalia but instead he will even ask more to come in the future. For their part the Islamist and the Alliance demanded the creation of an International criminal courts to judge all the past and present warlords of Somalia and others who did atrocities (the local and international media did not dare to ask if these peoples includes themselves in the hypothetical case of creation of such a tribunal)....Today, after a final pictures show within the vicinity of Kempinski, the 'honorables' guests of the Security Council met with the local and international press where they were all bragging how successful their mission was. And immediately after that, they headed to the airport and left for Sudan. Meanwhile, I just learned at that moment that Abdillahi Youssouf left Djibouti at 3h00am in the morning. A very smart move to avoid meeting others welcoming mortars at the Mogadisho airport I guess. An anecdote (not confirmed although): one of the security guard told me that he didn't sleep last night and he was quiet furious. When I asked him what happen, he told me that Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the ousted head of the Alliance came in Djibouti with his 2 wifes (both of them are staying at the ImperialHotel). But during the lats couples of days, he took a third wife in Djibouti and he decided that last night he will go and past nightime with his djiboutian wife (how nice!). So approximately 10 guards were forced to go with him and stay on guard without sleeping around the house where he was having fun with his newly wed wife! This afternoon, at my surprise, both parties agreed to come togheter and participate at the same workshop. At first, I was kind of surprise and I was thinking that maybe this was a shifting moment specially from the Alliance part.... until I learned about the content of the workshop! This was a workshop organized and presented by the World Bank about the reconstruction of Somalia, by the same organization who was behind the economical destruction and deconstruction of the somali society!!! I was so angry and boilling man, you cannot imagine how furious I was! In his book '' The Globalization of Poverty – Impacts of the IMF and World Bank Reforms, (Penang, Malaysia: Zed Books, Ltd., 1997)'', Michel Chossudovsky says in p.101: The IMF-World Bank intervention in the early 1980s contributed to exacerbating the crisis of Somali agriculture. The economic reforms undermined the fragile exchange relationship between the "nomadic economy" and the "sedentary economy", - i.e. between pastoralists and small farmers characterized by money transactions as well as traditional barter. On his part, T. Craig Murphy reports in ''The Collapse of Somalia and Economic Considerations'' available at: "' The banana industry is one sector that Strutural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) focused on. As a result of IMF-World Bank adjustment, there was growth in this industry, an increase in exports, and increased profitability. Financial institutions often point to this data as an example of SAP success, but they fail to include the details of the banana industry's "success." Abdi Ismail Samataar ("Structural Adjustment as Development Strategy? Bananas, Boom, and Poverty in Somalia," Economic Geography -Vol. 69, No. 1, January 1993) investigates structural adjustment as a development strategy by using Somalia's banana industry in the Shabelle valley as a case study. Samataar shows that while SAPs did lead to growth in the banana industry, the primary beneficiaries were foreign investors (in this case the Italian company De Nadai) and growth came at the expense of employing child labor on the plantations. Samataar states, "Nearly 75 percent of earnings from [banana] exports were realized by overseas interests, depriving Somalia of an important source of capital for reinvestment. Furthermore, the profitability of banana production depended on the poverty of child labor." Samataar goes on to show how the banana industry in Somalia refutes the basic idea that SAP liberalization leads to development and that adjustment "deepens inequality and worsens the poverty of working people."

And these peoples, each one claiming to fight for the people of Somalia, came running to assist togheter and listen carefully to the senior expert guy from the Worlb Bank! Man, hypocrisy have no boundaries, neither faith... For people interested to know more about the ongoing discussion about Somalia, please find here the website of the Somali Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) & the Somali Reconstruction & Development Programme (RDP) conjointly run by the United Nations Development Groups (UNDG) and the World bank: I should leave the final word for today to the courageous U.S. Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff who said that: "The presence of the Ethiopian troops is a consequence of the intra-Somali conflict, and similarly their departure will be a consequence of reconciliation" I have to go and take some sleep, will keep you informed about this tragic circus show..."