David Olanana

Dedicated to Serve

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Somalis wrote and dedicated this song to Patrice Lamumba of Congo, after his assassination in 1961.

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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Three thousand ships are anchored in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty thousand seafarers are aboard them. Fresh food ran out two weeks ago. Perishables are rotting in refrigerated holds whose generators are burning through the last reserves of diesel. Water is rationed. Mental health is deteriorating. No mass evacuation plan exists. No humanitarian corridor has been negotiated. No international body has the authority or the means to move twenty thousand people off three thousand ships through a five-nautical-mile channel controlled by the IRGC.

These are the people who move the global economy. Every barrel of oil that reaches a refinery was carried by a seafarer. Every container of goods that stocks a shelf was loaded by one. Every tonne of fertiliser that feeds a field was shipped by one. The war has trapped the invisible workforce that makes globalisation function, and the world has not noticed because the world never notices seafarers until the shelves are empty.

The ships themselves are worth tens of billions. The cargo aboard them is worth more. Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, urea, ammonia, consumer electronics, automotive parts, and 200 cryogenic containers of helium that are boiling off at a rate that no engineer can reverse. The stranded fleet is a floating warehouse of every molecule the global economy needs, and the molecules are degrading while the crews ration drinking water. The cargo is valued higher than the people guarding it, and neither can move.

The IRGC’s Larak corridor clearance system does not only control entry. It controls exit. A vessel that wants to leave the anchorage zone must obtain the same clearance code, submit the same documentation, and receive the same pilot escort as a vessel seeking to transit. The customs border works in both directions. These crews are not stranded by geography alone. They are stranded by bureaucracy, the same bureaucracy Iran wrapped in the language of sovereign maritime governance when the parliamentary committee approved the Hormuz Management Plan. The toll booth charges for passage through. It also charges for passage out.

No centralised evacuation exists because evacuation at this scale would require IRGC approval, and requesting approval would legitimise the system the United States refuses to recognise. So the crews wait. The International Transport Workers Federation issues statements. P&I clubs cover individual medical evacuations by helicopter. Flag states, predominantly Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, register ships but do not operate navies. The system that made global shipping cheap by divorcing flag from nationality has left twenty thousand people without a government willing to retrieve them.

The seafarers are from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia. Countries whose workers crew the world’s merchant fleet because the monthly pay of $1,500 to $3,000 exceeds anything available at home. They signed contracts to deliver cargo across oceans. They did not sign contracts to become indefinite residents of a war zone, rationing water on a ship whose cargo of ammonia could feed a million people if it could reach a port that is 40 nautical miles and one IRGC clearance code away.

The helium boils off. The fertiliser waits. The crude oil sits. And the people who carry it all drink less water today than yesterday.

The supply chain has a human body at the very bottom of it. The body is thirsty.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@kamauwaruhiu Two things; you will retire and need to live in a serene environment. What will villagers think if you go back to a shack after all those years? Image is every thing! Also, there is sentimental value. Money, you will always make.

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@KoinangeJeff
Was there an early warning alert to residents to keep safe based on the weather forecast? If not, why?

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@KoinangeJeff
Was there an early warning alert to residents to keep safe based on the weather forecast; if not, why?

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@Unabombaar He will not know at all

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

Brute

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

She sure is

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@Portfolio_Bull Where?

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@mohammedhersi Poleni sana; I remember Paul was once our Colleague at KCB.

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@ChifeDr @gechife Pole; RIP

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@mohammedhersi @amenya_nelson @BehiwotTilahun How is it outside Addis?

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@amenya_nelson Send another photo of the rural areas too we compare

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@realnorma_kay Nice one there

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@peace_igho Nothing

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@ledamalekina This is good Senator; However, it is good to put them through some basic education program for their sustainable livelihood.

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@Gustavo__254 I disagree. Jaribu Muomboko bwana.

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@blackishpress Blame her beauty

[David Olanana @loolpapit]

@joselyinechap Running downhill?