|
|
Somalia: Somali President to Visit Puntland - Report
 |
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
Garowe Online (Garowe)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf is scheduled to visit his home region of Puntland sometime next week, inside sources tell Garowe Online.
President Yusuf will hold private discussions with Gen. Adde Muse, the Puntland leader, during a trip to the port city of Bossaso.
The leaders' upcoming discussions in Bossaso will be focused on oil deals Yusuf and Muse have supported separately in recent years.
According to Garowe Online sources, decisions reached at the upcoming talks between Yusuf and Muse "might change" the way federal and local officials have been pursuing the exploration of Somalia's unproven oil reserves since 2005.
In April, President Yusuf formally endorsed Puntland leader Muse's controversial exploration contract with Australian mining company Range Resources, Ltd.
Since its inception in mid-2005, the Puntland-Range oil deal has faced armed resistance from local clans and growing political pressure for President Muse to abandon the controversial deal.
The Puntland region is undergoing tremendous political, economic and security challenges and local lawmakers have accused the Muse administration of corruption and negligence.
Last night, a Bossaso businessman named Farah Daad Abdi was shot and killed by robbers who took his mobile phone, witnesses reported.
Local police have not arrested anyone for the murder, but police officials say the killing is part of a series of violent nighttime robberies in Bossaso in recent weeks.
|
Somali President Yusuf's upcoming visit to Puntland coincides with the traditional elders' appeal for a conference to 'save Puntland,' which is set to open in the regional capital Garowe on August 20. [ READ: Clan elders postpone 'save Puntland' conference]
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright © 2008 Garowe Online. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make allAfrica.com your home page | RSS Feed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | Subscribe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
