Friday, 30 July 2010

Somalia: Somaliland president will "take care of" former SNM commrades

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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