September 3, 2010
Features: SSC Leadership Council and the Challenges of Political Partnership in Puntland - By Liban Ahmad
In June 2010 Puntland president, Abdirahman M. Farole, lashed out at Sool, Sanaag and Cayn leadership headed by Saleban Ahmed Isse (aka Xaglatoosiye) who lost to president Farole during Puntland presidential selection of 2009. “The former TFG president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed told me that he would not have set up an armed opposition group if he could have foreseen the disintegration of Somalia at the hands of opposition groups,” President Farole said. In his speech president Farole criticised several men from Sool “who were chewing Qat in a hotel when Somaliland forces captured Las Anod in October 2007. Reaad Garowe Online
