Follow the oil drops in Somalia

With today news: US Somali air strikes ‘kill many’ and U.S. says Soma­lia must not become ter­ror haven

Because Soma­lia inher­ited weak­nesses from the African con­ti­nent, multi-tribal and eth­nic system…etc, includ­ing the strate­gic loca­tion, which hit between Africa and the Mid­dle East, con­trol­ling Bab El Man­deb Red-sea gate, and the long coast­line on the Ara­bian Sea, not to men­tion — more impor­tantly — the wealth of oil and gas poten­tial, this poten­tial and the geopo­lit­i­cal nature of this coun­try, forced the west­ern impe­ri­al­ism to trig­ger the weak­nesses fac­tor in Somalia.

The story starts with the rule of for­mer Somali Pres­i­dent Mohamed Siad Barre at the begin­ning of the 70s until the 90s. At that time, the United States con­firmed with­out any doubt the exis­tence of huge oil reserve in Somalia.

Amer­i­can oil com­pa­nies (CONOCO, Emyco, Chevron…and many oth­ers) invested one bil­lion dol­lars in exploitation.

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THE OIL FACTOR IN SOMALIA

FOUR AMERICAN PETROLEUM GIANTS HAD AGREEMENTS WITH THE AFRICAN NATION BEFORE ITS CIVIL WAR BEGAN. THEY COULD REAP BIG REWARDS IF PEACE IS RESTORED.

This prompted Wash­ing­ton to appoint Robert Oak­ley [an intel­li­gence offi­cers and one of the archi­tects of what is known as the Iran-Contra scan­dal] as a spe­cial envoy to Somalia.

Iron­i­cally, and sig­nif­i­cantly that Oak­ley man­aged the busi­ness, and his country’s embassy in Soma­lia, from the head­quar­ters of Conoco Petro­leum com­pany in Mogadishu!

How­ever, the time was too short for Wash­ing­ton, since Moham­mad Farah Aidid one of army gen­er­als revolts against Berre, and Soma­lia went into a civil war.

Many of the oil-rich wells were cam­ou­flaged and detailed maps are pre­served until return­ing once again with a friendly, loyal regime.

Why Now?

Chi­nese oil com­pa­nies are mov­ing into Africa, includ­ing Soma­lia, in order to pre­vent of what hap­pened to the Sudanese oil. The United States del­e­gated Ethiopia the task on their behalf, to avoid the rep­e­ti­tion of the failed oper­a­tion car­ried out under the umbrella of the United Nations in 1993.