This is a good cabinet, and the next move is to get a competent President since Sharif is absolute crap. The blue print to dealing with Al Shabaab is simple. Look to how Garowe dealt with them in Galgala...

^^^Yeah right , he with other Puntland haters have suffered badly.

The PM first move is positive. Ninnac calm down sis, no need to get stressed, I am sure Yarisow exitis upseting you a great deal..

Gabbal as usual talks the usual cheap shite. The three Ministers represent Puntland, as Goldogob & Buhudle are Puntland as Bosaso and Garowe. Gabbal might not know that the speaker of Puntland State is himself from Goldogob and we already know where the VP hails from and various powerful figures. The problem here is under his logic his sub clan have no region since its all under Al Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna. We have also seen how successful old Hiiraale was in Beled-Hawo.

^^^I think you need to keep things in perspective, its not Puntlad that is in the weaker position today lad..

^^^lol dont worry adeer, as long as you aint recognised I am happy..

^^^No the secessionists are pissed, thats why they are in this thread telling is a Puntlander and not... Why do they care?

^^^You seem to be frustrated adeer, Puntland does not need to be PM or President, it wants to see a viable and a united State. Considering that some thought Farmaajo was an enemy to the State, thus far he got rid of Ibbi and followed President Faroole's advice of not surounding himself with anti Federalists..

^^^lool, Puntlad had the same representation if not less under Omar AbdiRashid. Its Puntland enemies who have been crushed notably Mr Ibbi or was that "Prof" Ibbi, who has seen the door..

^^^lol who are you to label someobe a Puntlander? All three hail from the State and the first one as I have stated earlier was working in the State a few months back. lol@Ninac

^^^lol, none of them are from a Pirate state, but they are all sons of Puntland State of Somalia.. Farmarjo has done well, and Prof Abdiwali was himself in Garowe for three months this summer working with the Ministry of Planning.

3 out of 18 aint too bad. For the state

R/W Ku-Xigeen ahna Wasiirka Qorsheynta iyo Iskaashiga Caalimiga, Dr. Abdiweli Ali Abdirashid Hashi, Wasiirka Hawlaha Guud iyo Dib-u dhisidda qaranka Prof. Cabdikariim Jamac, Wasiirka Warfaafinta postada iyo isgaarsiinta

The state is playing hard ball...

Good list, Maryan Carif is a nice selection also the son of the Ahlu Sunna chief made it instead of Ahmed Abdi Salaan. As long as Ibbi and othe clowns are out its a good thing all round....

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Puntland State of Somalia wins praise 10 Nov 10, 2010 - 10:58:51 AM The UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Somalia, Mr Augustine Mahiga has said that he encountered in Puntland, a semi-autonomous state in North-eastern Somalia, a different place than he imagined. Mr Mahiga was speaking in Garowe town, the capital of Puntland State, 1,000 kilometers north of Mogadishu, at a reception held by the authority’s president, Abdurahman Sheikh Mohamed Farole, on Wednesday. The envoy indicated that he came to Puntland to see the security improvement in the region. He welcomed the facts that Puntland managed to eliminate the threat from terrorists. Mr Mahiga’s remarks came just a week after Puntland declared victory over the militias of the radical Islamist leader, Sheikh Mohamed Said Atam, who have been fighting the authority since July, this year. “Puntland has achieved success in security and stability that must be emulated by the rest of Somalia,” said the UN envoy who hailed the region’s close collaboration with the Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu. Source:Daily Nation

^^Well said my sister...

Puntland has built on its 12 year foundation of peace and the wolrd as is clear by the head of UNPOS has recognized that fact..

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Indeed the success of Puntland is a example to all..

Hiiraan

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Somalia: 'Atom is a terrorist,' says Somaliland after Puntland allegations 9 Nov 9, 2010 - 11:16:16 AM Authorities in Somalia's separatist republic of Somaliland have rejected accusations that Somaliland soldiers fought alongside Al Shabaab militants at war with Puntland's government, Radio Garowe reports. Somaliland Information Minister Abdullahi Osman Geljire told a press conference Tuesday in the capital Hargeisa that Somaliland does not support Al Shabaab insurgents. "We share a border with Puntland there is neighborliness and brotherhood between us and our communities [Puntland and Somaliland]," Somaliland's information minister told reporters. He rejected accusations from Puntland President Abdirahman Farole and Puntland Livestock Minister Said Hassan Shire that Somaliland soldiers "fought alongside Al Shabaab" in Galgala area of Puntland. In early August, Puntland troops launched a massive military offensive in Galgala, a mountaineous area roughy 60km southwest of Bossaso, Puntland's bustling port city and commercial capital. Puntland leaders say they have seized all of the militants' training camps and strongholds in the Galgala mountainous area. President Farole said the insurgents, led by Mohamed Said Atom, had fled to regions west of Puntland, under the control of Somaliland government. "We consider Atom to be a terrorist and we will hunt him down if he sets foot inside Somaliland," said Mr. Abdullahi Geljire, the information minister of Somaliland, in the strongest language from Somaliland government regarding the Galgala conflict. The mountainous regions around Galgala stretches deep into Somaliland regions, considered geographically as part of the Golis mountain range. The anti-Puntland rebels linked to Al Shabaab are hiding out in those mountains, Puntland officials believe. But Somaliland Information Minister Geljire said he wants to "reiterate" Somaliland's calls for security cooperation with Puntland, which President Farole welcomed during a recent interview with BBC. Somaliland and Puntland have clashed several times over an unmarked border since 2002, with both administrations claiming ownership of Sool and Sanaag regions. That 'border dispute' has been resolved yet but both administrations have expressed peace overtures in recent months. Last month, the U.S. government announced the two-track approach for its Somalia policy which would see U.S. direct support to Somaliland and Puntland, whilst continuing to back UN-recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu under African Union protection. In Oct. 2008, Al Shabaab suicide bombers launched five simultaneous in Hargeisa and Bossaso, including a suicide bombing at the Somaliland presidential palace in Hargeisa. Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991 but has not been recognized yet, while Puntland supports the establishment of a future federal Somalia.