Africa Intelligence: Musa Bihi Abdi isolated over the Emirates military base

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The Somaliland president has been unable to wrap up a deal on the UAE base, and members of his own government are now starting to defy him…

Even as Musa Bihi Abdi (MBA) champions the accord - still unsigned - to construct an Emirates military base in Berbera (ION 1471), the Somaliland president is losing control of the dossier. In a sign of his weakening authority over members of his own government, Somaliland's representative in Dubai Bashe Awil Omar, who is the son-in-law of the former president Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud (aka Silanyo), declared on 7 April without MBA's approval that UAE offensives against Houthi militia in Yemen were being conducted out of Berbera. Somaliland is thereby leaving itself open to reprisals, since the Houthis, who are supported by Iran and the Lebanese Shia militia organisation Hezbollah, have already proved they have the capacity to launch medium-range missiles, having targeted Riyadh back in November 2017.



Bashe Awil Omar is not the only one taking liberties with the official presidential line: the Somaliland foreign minister Saad Ali Shire, instructed by MBA to prepare the ground for the signing of the contract for the Emirates base (ION 1471), has been dragging his feet and failing to move the negotiations forward. In order to speed the whole process up, the Saudis have begun to mediate between Abu Dhabi and Mogadishu. On 27 March, through its ambassador to the United Nations Abukar Dahir Osman , Somalia requested the Security Council to intervene to prevent the construction of the military base in Berbera, and MBA is now fearful of an alliance between the Emirates and Somalia that will isolate him.



This series of hitches on the international stage is serving at home to strengthen the position of the leader of the Wadani opposition party Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi, aka Cirro, not least because the finance minister Yusuf Mohamed Abdi has come in for a lot of criticism over the amateurism of the budget that he presented to parliament on 22 March. And one final sign of the shakiness of MBA's authority is the snub inflicted on him by his interior minister Mohamed Kahin Ahmed, who this week refused to approve the appointment, as desired by MBA, of Mukhtar Mohamed Ali to the post of head of the regional administration of the interior ministry. Mohamed Kahin Ahmed claims not to have been consulted in advance about this appointment. MBA's leadership is all the more vulnerable to internal dissensions because the region is being destabilised by the Arab crisis.
 
BANTU

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Here's your favorite website again, it's clearly an anti-SL publication but you worship it because it comes from the white man kkkkkkk



It's going to happen and we don't need some hearsay, tabloid b.s. with not a single source to cast doubt.
 
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Jim Crow said:
Whoever has a subscription can you open these?

DP World opts for Bosaso over Berbera
https://www.africaintelligence.com/...ld-opts-for-bosaso-over-berbera,108260711-art

Why the speaker of parliament found himself in the firing line
https://www.africaintelligence.com/...ound-himself-in-the-firing-line,108306935-art

Ankara unhappy about being excluded
https://www.africaintelligence.com/...ra-unhappy-about-being-excluded,108296661-art
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DP World ops for Bosaso over Berbera

It is virtually game over for Bashe Awil Omar, Somaliland's representative in Dubai and the son-in-law of President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud, known as Silanyo, and first lady Amina Mohamed Jirde. According to our information, the Emirates port operator DP World appears to be poised to abandon the Berbera project. The reason? The increasing political instability in Somaliland as Silanyo's term draws to an end. But another factor is that P&O Ports, a subsidiary of Dubai-based DP World, has obtained a concession to manage the Port of Bosaso in Puntland (Somalia) for a period of thirty years (IOL 783). The agreement was concluded in April by the President of Puntland, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, and the CEO of DP World, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem.



This serious setback for Somaliland sheds a different light on comments made in early June in Buro by the leader and presidential candidate of the country's ruling Kulmiye party, Musa Bihi Abdi. He voiced his reservations to senior party officials over the idea of an Emirates military base being established in Berbera (ION 1455).


Why the speaker of parliament found himself in the firing line


Threatened with a vote to remove him, the speaker of parliament Mohamed Osman Jawari stepped down on 9 April after clashes in the Assembly which prompted Ugandan troops from Amisom (Mission of the African Union in Somalia) to intervene on 4 April.



Jawari had denounced corruption among government MPs to push through a bill to legally prohibit the signing of a contract with DP World to manage the port of Berbera in Somaliland. Although he is from the Rahanwen clan, Jawari has been targeted by the President of South West State Sharif Hassan (despite both being from the same clan) because the speaker of parliament is a federalist and thus an advocate of greater autonomy for the new provinces. By contrast, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo is a centralist (ION 1450). Sharif Hassan, who hitherto had been a federalist, sided with the president after the presidential chief of staff Fahad Yasin Tahir, a former member of the Wahhabi movement Al-Ittihad al-Islami who is close to Qatar, tried to oust him. The PM Hassan Ali Khayre also advocates centralisation. Unlike Qatar, the United Arab Emirates supports decentralisation. Abu Dhabi would like to control the ports and engage militarily in Somalia following the pattern of its attempts to establish a military base in Berbera (ION 1471). In the process, the UAE is hoping to bring about a rapprochement with Addis Ababa and play a mediating role in the quarrel between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (ION 1468). Meanwhile, the Saudis have deployed a small contingent to Aden to prevent the Emirates from backing an anti-Saudi group that might take power if South Yemen succeeds in recovering its independence.
 
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Ankara Unhappy About Being Excluded

The political dialogue between Mogadishu and Hargeisa, which was suspended in March 2015, is set to resume in late March in Djibouti in the presence of Ismail Omar Guelleh. With the support of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, it is then due to continue in Geneva. The Somalian president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo and his Somaliland counterpart Musa Bihi Abdi have both welcomed Swiss mediation, supported by Sweden and the United Kingdom, in preference to the Turkish reconciliation efforts which led to deadlock in 2015. Ankara is not best pleased with these developments, and in a meeting with Farmajo on 23 February the deputy prime minister Hakan Cavusoglu expressed Turkey's displeasure at being excluded from the negotiations Farmajo is therefore now trying to secure a monitoring role for Turkey. The Somalian and Somaliland presidents, faced by strong opposition within their respective countries, are hoping to exploit the talks to domestic ends.



For Somaliland, which has little chance of obtaining international recognition, an improvement in relations with Mogadishu may enable Hargeisa to secure the lifting of the ban on exporting cattle to Saudi Arabia, an accord on the sharing of the revenues generated by the joint management with Somalia of the countries' air space, and access to natural resources.



 
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IslamIsTheAnswer said:
Here, I'll save you some money:




The Somaliland president has been unable to wrap up a deal on the UAE base, and members of his own government are now starting to defy him…

Even as Musa Bihi Abdi (MBA) champions the accord - still unsigned - to construct an Emirates military base in Berbera (ION 1471), the Somaliland president is losing control of the dossier. In a sign of his weakening authority over members of his own government, Somaliland's representative in Dubai Bashe Awil Omar, who is the son-in-law of the former president Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud (aka Silanyo), declared on 7 April without MBA's approval that UAE offensives against Houthi militia in Yemen were being conducted out of Berbera. Somaliland is thereby leaving itself open to reprisals, since the Houthis, who are supported by Iran and the Lebanese Shia militia organisation Hezbollah, have already proved they have the capacity to launch medium-range missiles, having targeted Riyadh back in November 2017.



Bashe Awil Omar is not the only one taking liberties with the official presidential line: the Somaliland foreign minister Saad Ali Shire, instructed by MBA to prepare the ground for the signing of the contract for the Emirates base (ION 1471), has been dragging his feet and failing to move the negotiations forward. In order to speed the whole process up, the Saudis have begun to mediate between Abu Dhabi and Mogadishu. On 27 March, through its ambassador to the United Nations Abukar Dahir Osman , Somalia requested the Security Council to intervene to prevent the construction of the military base in Berbera, and MBA is now fearful of an alliance between the Emirates and Somalia that will isolate him.



This series of hitches on the international stage is serving at home to strengthen the position of the leader of the Wadani opposition party Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi, aka Cirro, not least because the finance minister Yusuf Mohamed Abdi has come in for a lot of criticism over the amateurism of the budget that he presented to parliament on 22 March. And one final sign of the shakiness of MBA's authority is the snub inflicted on him by his interior minister Mohamed Kahin Ahmed, who this week refused to approve the appointment, as desired by MBA, of Mukhtar Mohamed Ali to the post of head of the regional administration of the interior ministry. Mohamed Kahin Ahmed claims not to have been consulted in advance about this appointment. MBA's leadership is all the more vulnerable to internal dissensions because the region is being destabilised by the Arab crisis.
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Interesting.
 
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BANTU said:
Lol, this trash website :mjlol:

First they say Muse Bixi doesn't want a UAE base and now he wants the base but can't get it done :drakelaugh:

Thanks @IslamIsTheAnswer
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Your spinning game is trash and amateuristic. It's too transparent. I would've handled differently :trumpsmirk:

Maybe your spinning game sucks because of your bad reading comprehensions? Nobody talked about Siilanyo's son.....

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Kkkkkk, Silaanyo's son is defying his father's wishes. What an caasi kid if it's true :comeon:
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:drakelaugh:
 
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Abdalla said:
Your spinning game is trash and amateuristic. It's too transparent. I would've handled differently :trumpsmirk:

Maybe your spinning game sucks because of your bad reading comprehensions? Nobody talked about Siilanyo's son.....



:drakelaugh:
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It's not spin, this website is trash. How many times has Bohol posted this qashin and not once did their "analysis" bear fruit.

There are no facts here to dispute, no need for spin :manny:

Are we supposed to believe if a minister is defying the president, he wouldn't be fired? :duck:
 
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BANTU said:
It's not spin, this website is trash. How many times has Bohol posted this qashin and not once did their "analysis" bear fruit.

There are no facts here to dispute, no need for spin :manny:

Are we supposed to believe if a minister is defying the president, he wouldn't be fired? :duck:
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Bohol is a Majeerten wallahi he think hes slick abti no isaaq would ever talk the way you do you fucking sheegato
 
Zero

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Bohol said:
Folks stay on topic and take your MJ obsession somewhere else. I am not even related to them.
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So why is every topic you create one that puts Somaliland in a bad light? I have never seen you make a single topic about the house that is Somalia nor the broke punaniland.Someone told me your father was Darood.So is he MJ? :dead:
 
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