- Title: [SW Governance](founding memo)The Somali Peace Alliance (SPA)
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- Date :[]August 13, 1999
The Somali
Peace Alliance (SPA
(source - the founding
memo, translated from Somali)
INTRODUCTION
Starting from the year 1960, the date Somalia gained its hard-worn
independence, Somali people experienced great disappointment from the successive
Governments, both elected civilian and military administrations. Having failed their
mandated national goals, they lost the trust of the Somali people. Throughout the country,
there had been widespread mal-administration, corruption, nepotism anarchy, injustice and
a vicious kind of tribalism. To express the discontent of the people with then the
performance of the leaders of the country, internal political opposition parties and exile
armed factions had been forming over the decades. Unfortunately, these political parties
and armed factions were disorganized, extremely divided and had no well thought political,
economic and social programs to replace the then prevailing failing structures of the
successive Somali Governments.
Finally, the year 1991 had seen the collapse of the Somali State and disappearance of the
public institutions at all levels, followed by a vicious civil war, total destruction of
the nation's political, economic and social achievement. There had been huge loss of
lives, displacement of people internally and into the neighboring states and numerous
massacres. This brought about danger to the national sovereignty and loss of confidence of
the international community in our ability to re-institute the Central Somali Government.
Today, the Somali people are on the brink of losing their sovereignty and the Somali
national flag to be removed from the line-up of other national flags at regional and
international organizations and communities of nations.
Therefore,
Whereas all conferences of Somali National Reconciliation held outside the country,
starting with Djibouti Conference of July 1991, followed by Addis Ababa Conference of
January and March 1993, Cairo Conference of 1994, Jeddah Conference of 1995, Sodere
Conference of 1996 and finally, Cairo Conference of 1997 and other smaller meetings,
abysmally failed, for reasons explained below:
1. Participants or forerunners of those conferences did not have either the trust or the
mandate of the people they claimed to represent.
2. Some of the faction leaders who participated in those series of conferences were
actually forceful, illegal occupiers of other peoples' lands and regions. Thus, they were
not interested in either peace or national reconciliation.
3. Multiplication of separate uncoordinated initiatives on Somali National Reconciliation
by a multitude of countries contributed considerably to the failure of those conferences.
Whereas severe droughts and other natural calamities struck the Somali people with no
national state to speak on their behalf and without much humanitarian intervention from
the international community,
Whereas some Somali Faction leaders (War Lords) rekindled and renewed the Civil War by new
escalation of violence, attack of other regions and aggressively seizing them, thus
eliminating any hope for national peaceful reconciliation in Somalia,
Whereas fulfilling their national obligations and responsibilities, and for the common
good and interests of the entire Somali people, a Consultative Peace Conference had been
held in the City of Garowe, Puntland State of Somalia, on the August 7-13, 1999 by:
1. Puntland State of Somalia
2. Somali Consultative Conference (SCC)
3. Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA)
4. Somali National Front (SNF)
Whereas this Consultative Peace Conference was
concluded in an Agreement under the name of the Umbrella: The Somali Peace Alliance (SPA),
Whereas the SPA has been founded on the terms of the following articles:
Article One
Objectives of the SPA
a. SPA represents for all the residents in the regions of the signatories of this SPA
Agreement.
b. SPA takes upon the responsibility of restoring peace, trust of the people, unity,
national sovereignty, and end of the Civil War and re-institution of a Central
all-inclusive Somali State.
c. SPA takes upon the responsibility of the security of the Somali people and defense of
the country.
d. SPA has the obligations to come to the defense of each of its members if
threatened by enemy (ies).
e. To safeguard this Accord, the unity of SPA and its objectives, no member of the SPA can
enter into separate an agreement with entity (ies) outside the SPA Umbrella.
f. SPA membership is open to Somali regional state(s), regional administration(s) and
organization( s) who believe in the principles and objectives of this Umbrella.
g. SPA shall promote socio-economic relations between all Somali regions.
h. All Signatories of the SPA Accord strongly believe in the establishment of regional
states/administrations, leading to the re-institution of a Federal Somali Government.
i. SPA believes in the resolving conflicts within the Somali society by means of dialogue.
j. SPA believes in and shall promote good neighborliness, mutual respect,friendship and
inter-regional cooperation.
k. SPA shall respect all international and regional treaties, and all accords entered into
by previous Somali Government (s).
Article Two
The Structure of the Somali Peace Alliance (SPA)
The Standing Committee of the SPA is composed of 27 (twenty seven) members whose names are
to follow:
(A)
1. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed member of the Presidium
2. Ahmed Sheikh Ali member of the Presidium
3. Omar Hashi Aden member of the Presidium
4. Mohamed Omar Mohamed (Maxamed Dheere) member of the Presidium
5. Hassan Mohamed Nur ( Shaargaduud) member of the Presidium
6. Sheikh Aden Mohamed (Madoobe) member of the Presidium
7. Mohamed Abdi Hashi member of the Standing Committee
8. Ahmed Awad Ashara member
9. Ali Ismail Abdigir member
10. Mohamed Aden (Dhagaweyne) member
11. Gen.Osman Mohamed Samater member
12. Mohamed Sayid Aden(Sayid) Member
13. Ahmed Aden Osman (Waraabe) member
14. Abdullahi Mohamed Samater (Black) member
15. Eng. Garaad Osman Omar member
16. Aden Mohamed Aden member
17. Abdullahi Abdi Soome member
18. Mohamud Abdullahi Hussein ( Cadaawe) member
19. Mohamed Omar Mohamud member
20. Aden Farah Mohamed member
21. Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed member
22. Dr. Cabdalle Deerow Isaak
member
23. Ibrahim Muse Heerow member
24. Madoobe Nuunow Mohamed member
25. Ali Mursal Mohamed member
26. Ibrahim Ali member
27. Ali Aden Haaji (Ganay) member
(B) The SPA Standing Committee has a Presidium of six members.
(C) The Standing Committee shall have sub-committees whenever they become necessary for
its operations.
(D) SPA shall have a unified military wing whose Headquarters shall be in the City of
Beled Weyne, Hiraan Region of Central Somalia.
Article Three
Duty of the SPA Standing Committee
The Standing Committee is responsible for:
a. Issuance of rules and regulations governing SPA activities
b. Political, military, economic and social programs of the Umbrella
c. Debate on and approval of the reports and recommendations submitted by the Presidium.
d. Debate on and approval on internal regulations of the SPA Umbrella
Article Four
Duties of the SPA Presidium
The Presidium of the SPA
a. Implements the decisions and the program of the Standing Committee
b. Prepares draft laws and internal regulations for approval by the Standing Committee.
c. Reach decisions collectively on consensus.
Article Five
Head Office of the SPA
a. The Head Office of the SPA Umbrella is temporarily agreed upon to be the City of
Garowe.
b. SPA can have other offices in other Somali regions when it becomes
necessary.
Article Six
Implementation of the Accord
This SPA Accord is effective immediately after its signature by the
following leaders:
1. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - President of Puntland State of Somalia
2. Omar Hashi Aden - Chairman of the Somali Consultative Council
3. Ahmed Shiekh Ali Ahmed (buraale) - Chairman of the Somali national Front (SNF)
4. Shiekh Aden Mohamed Nur - Vice Chairman of the RRA
City of Garowe, August 13, 1999
(Translation from Somali; The Somali version of the Accord is the original and true
reference). Victory for Somalia!
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