Breaking news: Sheikh Sharif Endorses Puntland Agreement

[Liibaan]

 

 

Somalia's interim president has endorsed an agreement with the Horn of Africa country's Puntland State government for the first time since the deal was signed last month, Radio Garowe reports.

 

Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the Somali president who is currently in the U.S., said the agreement signed between Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake and Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole in August was a "positive step in the right direction."

 

Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed

"The agreement between the [Transitional] Federal Government (TFG) and Puntland was to strengthen relations between the Federal Government and administrations existing in the country," the Somali president said.

 

He noted that a deal signed by TFG Fisheries Minister Abdirahman Ibbi in Djibouti, which stirred controversy with Puntland, was an "understanding among eight countries" in the region to strengthen cooperation in the anti-piracy campaign.

 

"The duty of the [Transitional] Federal Government is to works towards uniting the Somali people and the agreement with Puntland is part of this," explained President Sheikh Sharif, who praised the relative peace in the northern Somali enclaves of Somaliland and Puntland.

 

The TFG-Puntland deal allows the latter to remain an integral part of Federal Somalia, but gives Puntland the authority to attend international conferences, sign development and commercial deals with foreign partners, and establish a Somali naval base in Puntland.

 

It is the first time President Sheikh Sharif has publicly spoken about the Puntland deal since Prime Minister Sharmake signed it in the Puntland city of Galkayo on Aug. 23, 2009.

 

Puntland, located in northeast Somalia, maintains its own government, parliament and security forces and has pledged to remain part of Federal Somalia.

 

The region is stable and relatively peaceful, while much of south-central Somalia including the capital Mogadishu is engulfed by an insurgency that threatens to overthrow President Sheikh Sharif's interim government.

 

 

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Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake has defended an agreement he signed with the president of Puntland, a self-governing regional authority in northern Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.

 

A group of lawmakers in Somalia have rejected a new deal between the governments of Somalia and Djibouti, which states that Djibouti will be the base for anti-piracy training and operations, Radio Garowe reports.

 

The president of Somalia's Puntland State government has reportedly sent a clear warning to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG)

[Liibaan]

Good move,

 

Sheikh Shariif need the support of Puntland, and any other regoin or town in Somalia. Because only Villa Somalia is not enough

[xiinfaniin]

@breaking news

[Liibaan]

Sharif needs to survive

[Haatu]

mate he will survive but might lose presidency

[NGONGE]

Yet they call him weak!

[xiinfaniin]

Originally posted by NGONGE:

Yet they call him weak!

That is Garowe Online talking. A website that is angry at the TFG for no apparent reason

[Haatu]

Because their ina adeer does not run it dee

[NGONGE]

^^ As I recall Duke once saying (and I listen to all he says, even though most of don't), the site is run by the sons of the president of Puntland. An offical mouthpiece if you like.

[xiinfaniin]

^^It's not an official mouthpiece of the PL.

[NGONGE]

^^ I think I will wait for Duke to confirm or deny.

[xiinfaniin]

^^Well duke will support Garoweonline when they write stuff against Sharif, oppose them when they support Sharif as they eventually will

[Abwaan]

Originally posted by NGONGE:

Yet they call him weak!

Bullying towards the Somali adminstration from certain groups who play the clan card for their own agendas will not weaken the Somali cause Insha Allaah.

[Che -Guevara]

Bullying towards the Somali adminstration from

certain groups

who play the

clan card

for

their own agendas

will not weaken the Somali cause Insha Allaah.

[Cowke]

Duke, is just a kid and don't see the bigger picture of a stable nation, he is of the mind-frame 1 tribe will always rule somalia and that is just not going to be the case. If it was then the government will collapse and we will return back to the way we were with no national government.

 

Mature people know that their needs power-sharing and their needs to be presidency switch to each tribe. Sure people can hate sharif but he won't be last of the hamar elite to rule somalia and it's best we just accept if we want a nation we got to share, if you want a tribe then we will live another 20 years the same way we have previously.

 

So Don't take duke serious, he just wants to get pay-back for hamar elite dissing his uncle, he can't see past the big picture of having a future stable nation.