Business as usual : l’ordre dans le désordre, chapitre somalien sous direction US

On n’en finit pas, avec une lassitude fataliste, de comptabiliser les mêmes initiatives, les mêmes emballements, les mêmes certitudes, selon la même façon d’“écraser” le problème en lieu et place de le résoudre. Et le même résultat. Dernier chapitre en date : la Somalie.

Il y a deux mois, les USA s’étaient enfin préoccupés du problème. Ils intervenaient. Ils cognaient. On avait tout compris. Ils amenaient un nouveau gouvernement, manufacturé en Ethiopie, qui allait rétablir un ordre décent, quasi-occidental, après avoir chassé les islamistes absolument impies. Autant en emportent les vents de sable.

C’est un cas historique extraordinaire, cette volonté, cet entêtement presque surhumain à repousser, écarter, mépriser, dénoncer la réalité, pour lui substituer l’ordre américaniste. C’est un cas psychologique qui n’a pas de comparaison.

Ah oui, le Soudan… Bien sûr, pire que jamais, selon l’honorable New York Times, tout frais du jour, qui prend le ciel à témoin.

»Fierce mortar attacks killed at least 15 civilians in Somalia on Tuesday, and for a country that had seemed on the verge of ending 16 years of chaotic violence this is the new status quo.

»Nearly every day, government forces and insurgents shell each other across Mogadishu’s already dilapidated neighborhoods, scattering bodies and any remaining traces of hope. Gun prices are soaring and more clans are joining the underground, while an outbreak of cholera sweeps the countryside.

» “To tell you the truth, I’m pretty worried,” said Mohammed Ali Mahdi, a top clan elder. When the government came to Mogadishu, “I felt we were going the right way. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore and soon it’s going to be too late.”

»It is hard to believe, but Somalia is actually becoming a more violent and chaotic place. That is not how it was supposed to be. Nearly two months ago, an internationally-supported transitional government ousted the Islamist forces and steamed into Mogadishu, the capital, with great expectations. But confidence in the government — never very high — is rapidly bleeding away.

»Somalia seems to be just shy of total collapse — again — because the Ethiopian troops who provided the muscle to throw out the Islamists are withdrawing, yet none of the peacekeepers promised from other African countries have arrived.

»Hundreds of families are streaming out of Mogadishu, hoisting mattresses on their backs and following pitted roads to villages where there is no electricity, medicine or even the faintest hint of government, but at least no warfare. At least, not yet.

»“We can’t stand the shelling anymore,” said Hassan Mohammed, a father of four, who was headed to a village in the south.»

Et ainsi de suite…

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