Dahabshil Money Transfer: Fueling Bloody Civil War in Northern Somalia.

Dahabshil (a.k.a Dhiigshiil) is one of the merchant for a new generation of money transfer and arms dealers who play a critical role in areas where the weapons trade has been embargoed by the United Nations. Unprecedented U.N. Monitoring group investigations have begun to unravel the mystery of these broken embargoes, many of them imposed on Somalia involved in bloody civil wars. At the heart of this unfolding detective story is the identification of a group of East European arms merchants, with Dahabshil money transfer the first of them to be publicly and prominently identified. The U.N. investigative team pursued leads that a Mr. Dahabshil [aka”Dhiigshiil” in Somalia] was pouring small arms and ammunition into northern tribal secessionists (Somaliland), making possible massacres on a scale that stunned the SSC regions of Somalia

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Despite being pursued for years by a flinty group of investigators, a positive visual ID of this United Arab Emirates-based arms merchant only became available when two Somali journalists ran into him at an airstrip in remote secessionists-held Buroa area. And it was only recently that his name became familiar in the UN monitoring group, following press reports of his role in arming the Northern tribal secessionists Militia (Somaliland) in Somalia last fifteenth years. If not for this link to secessionist’s leader warlord Siilanyo, it is probable that Dahabshil (aka Dhiigshiil) would still be a low-profile character in the clandestine world of illicit arms trading.

That accusation and the heat it generated in the media eventually flushed Dahabshil into the open. From the apparent safe haven of Secessionists, Siilanyo himself gave Press, among others, on-the-record, on-camera interviews rebutting the allegations against him (Dhiigshiil).
The case of Dahabshil personifies the exceedingly difficult task of keeping small arms out of the world’s bloodiest and most destabilizing conflicts. Perhaps most striking is the fact that while Dahabshil money transfer has been accused by investigators, the press and intelligence sources, no government has yet charged him with gun-smuggling.

Since the U.N. has no law enforcement powers –Somali Media coverage has been vital to that effort, and coverage has increased with the release of each new U.N. monitoring report. The story is huge. It spans several continents and involves a large network of shady individuals, front Dahabshil Money Transfers and Northern tribal militia leaders; clunky old Soviet cargo planes with clandestine army landing at small airplane strips at Buroa area.

Khatumo State News organizations around the SSC regions of Somalia pressing hard to break new stories about ARMY DEALER DAHBSHIIL , along with western officials eager to be seen as fighting terrorism may be inflating DHABSHIIL’s significance in describing him as heading “what some officials call the largest arms trafficking network in the horn of Africa.” Such claims were never made before evidence emerged linking Dahabshil to the Al-Shabab and Northern Tribal secessionists (Somaliland). And even if true, the mandate of the U.N. arms investigations – limited to violations of country-specific embargoes – and the nature of the illicit arms trade make it impossible to confirm.

Most experts would agree that he is the largest known illicit trafficker in Horn of Africa. Beyond that, the extent of his activity is very difficult to pin down.

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