Chronic Failures in the War on Terror - Fast Track Policy for Somalia and Somaliland

Somalia
  • LONDON, 23 APRIL 2008
  • In order to adorn the twilight of his presidency with a success story in his self-proclaimed ‘War on Terror’, President Bush should implement a high-intensity, Fast Track policy for Somalia and Somaliland that pushes the former towards stability and rewards the latter for its significant achievements over the past decade. Fast tracking Somaliland recognition will send a shock wave to Somalia, and send a clear message that peace and prosperity can be rewarded without the need to use overpowering military force. To date, efforts to resolve the crisis that has blighted Somalia have been half hearted and misconceived. Meanwhile, the Horn of Africa’s beacon of stability – Somaliland – continues to toil in relative anonymity, receiving little recognition for its remarkable progress towards creating a viable, stand-alone state...
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    Chronic failures of US-led "war on terror" bolstering Somali and Afghan extremists

    Somalian
  • LONDON, 23 APRIL 2008
  • The current US-led War on Terror approach is creating a political space in which extremists such as Al-Shabab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan have become legitimate political actors, said The Senlis Council at the release of its latest report on Wednesday.
    In its report Chronic Failures of the War on Terror: From Afghanistan to Somalia, The Senlis Council said that a number of abject policy failures of the Bush Administration in Somalia, such as aerial bombings, support of the Ethiopian troops in the country and the ill-timed designation of Al-Shabab as a terrorist organisation had been successfully exploited by the Somali insurgency to boost its support and recruitment bases.
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    The 2008 Red Cross / Red Crescent World Congress on Humanitarian Drug Policy

  • BARCELONA, 5-7 MARCH 2008

  • The Senlis Council participated to this congress, with the participation of over fifty National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent, which aimed at engaging the whole RC/RC movement in the formulation and implementation of humanitarian approaches to drug policy.


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