Life through the eyes of a reporter in Somalia Bashny.Net

He writes the author, Vadim Fefilov:

Tickets Moscow-Dubai-Addis Ababa-Djibouti-Hargeisa bought through solid Emirates. Having reached the Djibouti revealed that the aircraft is not in Somalia.
Airline "Daalo" which sold us the tickets Emirates mysteriously has disappeared. That's all there!
That Djibouti Airport, here are our flights and aircraft to Hargeisa there now and no one knows whether it will ever.
Headquarters Emirates shrug - they hung this flight as a living. Realizing that no one we here on the Horn of Africa and the missing aircraft company "Daalo" finds, we decide to go to Somalia by land.





Well, that trip carefully prepared. The pictures on the "expensive bar of soap" Gorlov Kirill on my Ayfon.Granitsa between Djibouti and Somalia at 8 am.



In Somalia, almost all from morning till night, munching grass drug "cat." Perhaps this explains the mood swings from Somalis who then we observed constantly.



Dear people of northern clan Isaac sent us guards.



We have to drive 280 kilometers on the road to the Somali.



Drivers non-stop chewing "cat", but the direction of the faithful do not lose their inner compass nomads.



15 hours of driving met 3 or 4 villages. Wherever we went - all guards us. Three off-road go on the beds of dried-up rivers, the River. For 15 hours only two ways to meet the machine.



In one of the villages have eaten something like this cute kid - boiled. Forgive us - hunger in Africa is not my aunt. Zapili local cola - seized Imodium. For goat Somalis billed quite Moscow. However, w ... pirrraty.



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We always accompanies the man-mountain, the former commander of the Somali "Alpha»



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Banks in Hargeisa, the capital of Northern Somalia, no. Somali Shilin printed in Malaysia. All banking transactions are carried out on rynke.Somalilendskie bankers.



It is known that the more civilized, compared with other place-Somali, Hargeisa - Somali pirates resting place, here they spend money for treatment and recreation. It is not publicly. The man-mountain in the crowd and nervous all the time saying, "Faster, faster, everybody, everybody, let's go!" Order in Somalia Hargeisa military watch. They recently conducted a successful operation to free three hostages - Europeans. This is what we told a local defense minister.



Somali clans are fighting each other for two decades. On the territory of the so-called great Somalia for about twenty military-political alliances, and from seven to ten unrecognized states.



Somali generals in 70 years, graduated from the Odessa Military School. They explained to me that in dire need of new equipment oruzhii.Vsya old saying that spare parts can not reach the hospital in Efiopii.V former Soviet sailors settled local military. The base of the Soviet Navy in the Somali port of Berbera was closed in '73. We were told that since we were the first Russian here. Only in 1972, the Soviet Union has invested in the infrastructure of the Somali Berbera $ 100 million. Who are all dilapidated houses to nevozmozhnosti.V former Soviet military hospital barracks Somali. This dining room and kitchen at the same time.



President of the unrecognized Somaliland gave us to understand that if the international forces are not achieving success in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden, resolved on a land operation in Somalia, then all the feuding between clans is likely to unite against a common enemy. We are a bit like the President of the players awaiting the free-kick.



We were told that the pirates in the Gulf of Aden, all white together for convenience is not called Ince as "dollars". The expression "dollars from the hands float away" here becomes clearer.



Somali sailors were in the 70 years of the last century, a great training in the Soviet uchilischah.Poberezhe unrecognized state of Somaliland in the Gulf of Aden, a few hundred kilometers. Fight pirates difficult.



It argued that the pirates mainly of Puntland, Somalia and the unrecognized state. Borders in our understanding between them, and can not be physically.



The pirates are Somalis because of the terrible poverty and ... historical habits. Piracy has always been here. Gulf of Aden has always been an important transit commercial communications world. Once the most deep-water port silted up the Horn of Africa - for many years we have not been cleaned waters. And in the 70s here could come ocean liners. In Somalia, there is nothing that we close, for example, theaters and cinemas. They do not exist. What there Somali theater? !!! Grid is not present in the country, and diesel generators have very wealthy. Air conditioners, we have seen only the president and the minister of aviation. Minister of Aviation is always in a white suit. Once he finished, "HSE", ie School of the KGB in the Soviet Union. He loves lions. They live in his house. One day a lion ate the maid. The Minister had to shoot pet. Then he had four lions, and now they are seven. Here is a Somali arithmetic. Our Djibouti-somalilendskaya company "Daalo" was never found, and from Hargeisa we flew to another unknown airlines on IL-18 release 1962goda fresh camel on board. The meat was taken to Saudi Arabia and to be quickly freeze Russian pilots climbed to 8,100, although usually Elah fly to 4500. In Djibouti, the Djibouti border guards our flight from Mogadishu checked so that involuntarily recalled arriving in Moscow from Chechnya sample 95th year. Three times, and all things were run through a metal detector, condo did not really work, roasting, cries, screams. Local police enraged. All transit passengers as a result did not have time for your flight, flies to Ethiopia, and then around the world. Somalia do not just let go ...

via v-fefilov



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