Two aspects of the Somaliland Minister for Internal Affairs, Mohamed Nour Arale, known as Duur, have contributed to a worsening of his relations with representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United States security bureau in Hargeisa: he has traditionalist Islamic beliefs and the fact that he speaks no western language. However, his conflict with the UNDP dates from early April, when he reproached the United Nations agency for not having kept its promises to the Somaliland police: they had neither supplied the promised uniforms nor built the new headquarters.
Furthermore, during the last few weeks the same minister has been at odds with representatives of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating in Hargeisa. His beef with them is that they constantly harp on about terrorism during their discussions with him. He has asked them to stop it, proclaiming “we have no terrorism in Somaliland”. Since then, he has been entirely at odds with his American interlocutors. This has been exacerbated by his demand for $20,000 a month in aid for his ministry. The Americans responded that such a demand was “illegal” and complained to President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo, who summoned his minister to reprimand him. Silanyo is believed to have apologised to the UNDP and the United States for his interior minister`s unprofessional conduct.
@ give me $20000 every month! crazy guy.
