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| Africa Horn |
| Khatumo administration rejects the proposed outcome of the Somalia-Somaliland talks |
| 2013-07-10 |
| [Shabelle] -The president of Khatumo state of Somalia has opposed the current meeting held in Istanbul between the federal republic of Somalia and the Somaliland administration. Mohamed Yusuf Jama who is the president of Khatumo state has termed the talks as illegal and and added that the talks holds no values to Somalis in general. The president has called on the federal government to terminate the talks and urged the government to continue representing the Somali public in the whole of Somalia. Mr. Jama said that it was unfortunate of a recognized government to hold talks to a single state and sidelining other states in the country. Khatumo community hails from the regions between Somaliland and 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... of Somalia and is seeking recognition from the federal republic of Somalia. |
| Posted by:Fred |