Reconstruction
Galmudug state has, in spite of limited resources, managed to open eight new schools. Medicine San-franse had promised to fund the schools but that did not materialise after several of their staff were kidnapped in lieu for the withdrawal of the funds to Galmududg state educational programmes. The state also embarked an audacious plan to solicit funds to build a modern port in Hobyo that could be used businesses in central Somali and even by landlocked Ethiopia. A 172 Miles tarmac dual carriage road that would go through Hobyo- Galkacio- and further a field into the Ogaden has been planned in order to boost commercial and transport links in that part of Ethiopia, which is inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis.
Galmudug State military is composed of Loyalist of the Ex-USC/SNA Forces of General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Western military analysts also believe that the Galmudug state forces do indeed hold in their possession a substantial amount of heavy armament that was taken from the former Somali national army which was never used in the civil war by the USC forces of the late Gen M. Aideed. But most of these would in due time be handed back to a genuine Somali government if ever formed. Galmudug state has an ambitious plan to revitalise by way of priority the education system through the importation of highly qualified teachers from India, South Africa and ethnic Somali Teachers from North East province of Kenya. In order to keep costs to the education budget to a minimum in the long run, plans have been made to build teachers' quarters alongside every school that was built in order to provide free accommodation to the teachers. A trust fund has been set up to which UNICEF, the Indian Government, and a number of Dubai-based corporations has promised contributions. A team from Galmudud State Ministry of Education recently travelled to Cairo, London, Manchester, Columbus, Ohio, South Carolina and Minneapolis in an encouraging college graduates from that region in the Diaspora to take up training in the teaching of sciences and mathematics. Scholarships have also been offered in the spirit of fulfillment of the aforementioned education goals by the University of Alexandria in Egypt.
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