Dagaal Sweden iyo Norway ku dhexmaray Batroolka Somaliya (Norwegian-Swedish war for oil in Somalia)
Halkan ka akhri warkaan meeshaan kasoo xiganay isagoo ku qoran luuqadda swedidhka
Norsk-svenskt krig om olja i Somalia
HOLHOL / STOCKHOLM A Swedish-Norwegian oil war going on in Somalia.
Two oil company, Lundin sphere’s Africa Oil and Norwegian DNO International, has signed contracts with two unrecognized regimes on the same oil field – the regimes battles with guns on the range.
– They invest where people are being evicted and becoming refugees in their own country, says ex-Lundin consultant Ali Abdullahi told Aftonbladet.
In a dry stony area of Holhol in Northern Somalia is a small modest plate marked “Nogal-1”. During the stones resting great wealth in the form of oil.
Few dare talk about oil
Get local residents dare talk about oil with Aftonbladet’s reporter on the scene, Kerstin Lundell, author of Guldspade-winning “Businesses in blood and oil. Lundin Petroleum in Africa” (2010) and “The Black Gold” (2013).
In Somalia, the ravages of civil war since 1991. Two regions of Puntland and Somaliland, have touted themselves as independent sub-regions but not recognized as states and internationally.
They fought over oil-rich border region, where international oil companies are willing to pay to the regime that claims to check the ground.
Lundin Petroleum hired in September 2005, the consultant Ali Abdullahi to explore possibilities of business in Puntland.
In June 2006, Abdullahi report to Lundin Petroleum’s board of directors where he advised the company to consult with both the governments of Puntland and Somaliland and Somlias head government.
“Will be ready ‘
– Before we were peaceful and had meetings with them. But now we come to fight back. They do not leave our country, we will be ready, he told Aftonbladet after the meeting.
It dismisses the consultant Ali Abdullahi indignation Lundin Petroleum’s advance.
– They break the law in many different ways. They invest where people are being evicted and becoming refugees in their own country, he says.
According to Abdullahi’s no doubt that the company knows what they are doing.
– They know that human rights violations are committed, but in the reports, they downplay the sensitive data.
Kerstin Lundell, Lisa Röstlund
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