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| PM Barre fires at Deni, accuses him of derailing debt relief process |
| 2023-05-10 |
| [GOOBJOOG] Prime Minister Hamze Barre has lashed out at Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... president Abdullahi Deni over what he termed as his attempts to sabotage the debt relief process in what is perhaps the harshest criticism against the embattled leader from the Federal Government. Speaking during a function Monday night in Kaaran district of Mogadishu, Barre said Deni’s failure to participate in key decision-making forums such as the National Consultative Council was tantamount to sabotaging the debt relief process. Somalia is anticipating reaching the Completion Point of the debt relief process under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative next year. "I am telling the Somali people from Puntland, my brothers, they do not deserve a black history to be written in Puntland, to say that Somalia’s debt forgiveness has failed, that it was failed by Puntland, that cannot be accepted, we ask that development and politics be separated," Barre said. |
| Posted by:Fred |