In Abu Dhabi he only discussed the current offensive against Al Shabaab and aid in general without touching on Mogadishu's fraught relations with Puntland's President Said Abdullahi Deni even though Abu Dhabi is close to him (see Box Polls pose problems as Las Anod flares)...
Incumbent President Said Abdullahi Deni wants to hold a one-person one-vote parliamentary election in the wake of the 25 May municipal elections in 30 districts (AC Vol 63 No 5 Polls stall as Al Shabaab attacks surge)...
Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni needs the support of Puntland's 17 Dhulbahante MPs to win re-election as president early next year...
Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni has been complaining about the sharing of national resources and refusing to lend his forces to the common cause...
Vol 63 No 17 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
And DP World is reckoned no longer to be interested in investing in Bossaso port because Puntland President Said Dani failed to win the presidency of Somalia and so is not worth wooing...
But she stretched the limits of protocol by only informing the Puntland vice-president Ahmed 'Elmi' Usman of her intentions to travel even though President Said Abdullahi Deni was present in the capital...
Said Abdullahi Deni Puntland leader and contender for the federal presidency was very disappointed...
At one point bodyguards of some MPs and the Puntland president Said Abdullahi Deni exchanged gunfire with elements of the Somali police and officers of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) who were trying to intimidate the interim speaker and further delay proceedings to help Farmajo...
The initiative has a lot of support from Farmajo who hopes to use it as a counterweight against Bihi and against the President of Puntland Said Abdullahi Deni who had just declared himself a federal presidential candidate...
Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni is also getting more authoritarian...
Senators nominated in Puntland included three close relatives of the President Said Abdullahi Deni while the rest were from his inner circle...
Puntland's security gets personal Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni is removing officers from their posts in the Puntland security establishment and replacing them with his own loyalists...