Commenting on the clan make-up of the Somaliland cabinet appointed by the new president, Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud (aka Siiilaanyo), the Somali journalist Bashir Sheikh Omar Goth told the VOA Somali Service that less than 30% of the new cabinet “belong to non-Isaaq clans” who did not support the now-defunct Somali National Movement (SNM), one of the clan-based opposition groups that failed to form a national government after the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1991. Is it too early to mark Siilaanyo down for the cabinet he put together one day after he was sworn in as the fourth president of Somaliland?
Three main ministries — Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance— are headed by men from the same clan but under president Dahir Riyale Kahin the three ministries were headed by three men from the same clan. During the elections campaign, president Siilaanyo vowed his party, Kulmiye, would appoint ministers on the basis of competence not on the basis of clan representation.Read More
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