Somalia: Is Puntland Drifting Towards Collapse?

HARGEISA, 15 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Puntland president, Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, is facing security challenges that his predecessors did not face.

President Farole was in Kenya and having a photo-op with American Embassy officials in Nairobi when a judge and a member of Puntland people’s assembly were murdered in Bosaso and Garowe respectively.

A hand grenade was thrown into Punt land’s local government offices in Galka’yo in the same day. Almost two weeks ago the Puntland president asked people in Puntland to trust in the ability of his government’s security forces to deal with mounting insecurity and violence in Puntland. Without having solid evidence president of Puntland implied that people coming from other parts of Somalia and Somali populated territories in Ethiopia endanger Puntland security.