Tough choices for Puntland, Hargeisa and Sool leaders [Ana

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by Liban Ahmad, Libahm@gmail.com
Garowe Online contributor

ANALYSIS | President Farole's predecessors used policies that took the support of Sool politicians and traditional leaders for granted.
Nearly two years have passed since Somaliland government forces captured Laas Caanood, the administrative capital of Sool region and brought to an end the Puntland government's five year rule. Somaliland and Puntland administrations claim Sool on two different grounds: in the case of Somaliland, Sool was part of the former British Somaliland and "is now a part of Somaliland". Puntland's case rests on shared genealogy: Central government collapsed in 1991 and clans returned to traditional faith in shared cultural institutions based on territory and customary laws to elect a council of elders, a president and a vice president. Since 2002 Somaliland has had two successive presidents— Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal and Dahir Riyale Kahin —from the same party UDUB; Puntland has had four presidents ( Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Mohamed Abdi Hashi , Mohamud Muse Hersi (aka Adde Muse ) and Abdirahman Mohamud Farole ).
President Farole's predecessors used policies that took the support of Sool politicians and traditional leaders for granted. When fierce political struggle between the former Puntland Vice President, Hassan Dahir Afqudhac, and former Puntland Interior Minister Ahmed Abdi Habsade started in 2006 , the Puntland leadership did not seek ways to diffuse the tension. Only traditional leaders from Buuhoodle tried to raise the matter with the former Puntland president. The outcome did not soothe the fears of Habsade—that the former Puntland president and vice president were out to sack him. The sacking of Habsade in 2007 from a Cabinet post had led his supporters to throw their weight behind Somaliland administration, making Punltand political franchise lose its lustre gradually: unpaid salaries, run-away inflation, and piracy conspired to undermine Adde Muse's administration.
Somaliland opposition parties did not address the question of sharing power equitably now that Sool region's administrative capital in under Somaliland. Habsade has clarified his position on Somaliland political impasse and voter registration. Like the ruling UDUB party, he is against the use of voter registration system for Somaliland elections on the ground that registration of voters did not take place in all Harti populated areas (i.e Sool and Sanaag regions) in Somaliland. Its use would disadvantage Harti constituencies electorally, Habsade said.
How does Puntland see the Sool territorial dispute with Somaliland? In a speech marking the eleventh anniversary of Puntland, President Farole vowed to retake Laas Caanood. The president did not specify what strategies his administration will use to make Laas Caanood into a Puntland city, nor did he address the role of Sool traditional leaders in resolving political problems that caused many Sool people to regard Puntland as a partial administration.
The Punltand president has inherited political and social problems. Pinning the blame on his predecessors will not solve problems but will surely create new problems. It is not clear if the group of Sool traditional and political leaders who will attend an All- Dhulbahante conference in Nairobi in October have found an answer to the major question: Will Sool remain a part of Puntland? How will they address the political realities ranging from divided loyalties; divided traditional leaders and politicians who change their loyalties whenever the political administrations they support fail to accommodate their demands? Will they be a third political force that competes for representation privileges either in Puntland or Somaliland or the Transitional Federal Government? Or will they aim to be a group that will work towards making Sool political and traditional leaders accountable to the people they represent politically and traditionally? Some analysts believe that the Nairobi conference may add another layer of complexity to the Sool politics but the organisers cannot ignore the two opposing administrations that draw support from different Sool constituencies. Puntland, Somaliland and Sool leaders have tough choices to make to prevent the northern regions of Somalia that enjoy relative peace from slipping into a maelstrom of anarchy.
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[GENERAL_SNM]

Cry me a river. Wait till Silanyo takes office then you discussing sool and sanaag will be seen as an act of war...

[Abdi_Razak_84]

Generalsnm, you are about to have civil-war in hargeysa and you are thinking about las-canod!!!! Sxb ee orood guska gadabursi iska bixii horta before u talk to others don't ya think. Gurigaga hargeysa baa niin samaroon kugu hor waseyo!!! Adiguna waxaad is-orooneysa wa wax fican. Damn you str8 up doqon!!! SNM is dead they can't do shit in hargeysa and if they could...they would of done it a long time ago!!! wake up there is new king in hargeysa and you isaaq have become his "xaaska xaafada"!!!! marka calacaalka xaaska xaafada hanoo illa imaan fadlan!!!

[The_Emperior5]

Generalsnm, you are about to have civil-war in hargeysa and you are thinking about las-canod!!!! Sxb ee orood guska gadabursi iska bixii horta before u talk to others don't ya think. Gurigaga hargeysa baa niin samaroon kugu hor waseyo!!! Adiguna waxaad is-orooneysa wa wax fican. Damn you str8 up doqon!!! SNM is dead they can't do shit in hargeysa and if they could...they would of done it a long time ago!!! wake up there is new king in hargeysa and you isaaq have become his "xaaska xaafada"!!!! marka calacaalka xaaska xaafada hanoo illa imaan fadlan!!!

what civil war yaa is dillaya sxb we dont have guns we dont have miltia like majeeertenia
Waxayagu wa udub kulmiye ucid wax wax dhaafsiisan ma jirto
Samaroon are part of somaliland and they always will be
The supreme house of elders is snm The Spokes man of daahir riyaale kahins Party is snm heavyweight waliba.

[Abdi_Razak_84]

Emperior niin somaliland waxaa ka jirto samaroon, inta kale wa xaaska xaafada...marka hit the door bitch!!!!

I don't speak with bitches

Ps: Do you want to know the truth, everyone in the somali community looks at isaaq as samaroon bitch. Even in your house you can't even talk or move or big-daddy rayale will whoop your ass. LOL. Marka walal go free up the ceeb from your ass and when u become a man come and talk to me...ma ceeb ba taas? Koley anigu niin majeerteen ah sayyidka tried to come to my land, usc tried...they all failed!!! But i am always searching for new land like jubba and erigavo(gaheyle) and wardheer

On another note, at least we don't have thugs in our office. Adigu tuugo baaba xaafiskaga ku jiro, because your streets has nothing but tuugo!!! at least me my house i have tuugo on the streets but no tuugo in office. Because i have halal population to choose from, where-as u have nijaz population 100% and that explains why u always have gangsters in your office.

Not to mention 95% unemployment rates in cardiff wales, your ppl are even a failure in the west, iska baa dhaafe africa!!! where-as majerten are creating software programs like somali spell-checker, warsans creating postage stamps technology that is used by all american post offices and many more range of inventions coming from the harti.

[The_Emperior5]

Emperior niin somaliland waxaa ka jirto samaroon, inta kale wa xaaska xaafada...marka hit the door bitch!!!!

I don't speak with bitches

Ps: Do you want to know the truth, everyone in the somali community looks at isaaq as samaroon bitch. Even in your house you can't even talk or move or big-daddy rayale will whoop your ass. LOL. Marka walal go free up the ceeb from your ass and when u become a man come and talk to me...ma ceeb ba taas? Koley anigu niin majeerteen ah sayyidka tried to come to my land, usc tried...they all failed!!! But i am always searching for new land like jubba and erigavo(gaheyle) and wardheer

On another note, at least we don't have thugs in our office. Adigu tuugo baaba xaafiskaga ku jiro, because your streets has nothing but tuugo!!! at least me my house i have tuugo on the streets but no tuugo in office. Because i have halal population to choose from, where-as u have nijaz population 100% and that explains why u always have gangsters in your office.

Not to mention 95% unemployment rates in cardiff wales, your ppl are even a failure in the west, iska baa dhaafe africa!!! where-as majerten are creating software programs like somali spell-checker, warsans creating postage stamps technology that is used by all american post offices and many more range of inventions coming from the harti.

Oke if we follow your logic every Darod majeerten is , hawiyes bitch ileen sh dalxiis is the president usmano i thought u was smarter then that

[Babygirl-]

Generalsnm, you are about to have civil-war in hargeysa and you are thinking about las-canod!!!! Sxb ee orood guska gadabursi iska bixii horta before u talk to others don't ya think. Gurigaga hargeysa baa niin samaroon kugu hor waseyo!!! Adiguna waxaad is-orooneysa wa wax fican. Damn you str8 up doqon!!! SNM is dead they can't do shit in hargeysa and if they could...they would of done it a long time ago!!! wake up there is new king in hargeysa and you isaaq have become his "xaaska xaafada"!!!! marka calacaalka xaaska xaafada hanoo illa imaan fadlan!!!

[ToughGong]

Cry me a river. Wait till Silanyo takes office then you discussing sool and sanaag will be seen as an act of war...

YOU HEAR THAT CUSMANO

[abdalla11]

what civil war yaa is dillaya sxb we dont have guns

No, only your Mp's have guns in the parliament
Wallahi it is unseen that a Mp wants to kill another MP
I have seen MP's fighting eachothers(TFG, China and Turkey)but nobody put a gun up
Emperior is acting as if bringing a gun into a frigging parliament is the order of the day, don't be delusional and be realistic