Puntland president appointed new cabinet ministers, only one female showed up
Puntland’s president Said Abdullahi Deni has installed his long waited new cabinet ministers with only one female minister appeared in the line-up, presidential decree issued overnight said. He made 18 ministries, composed with deputies and state ministries. Hassan Shire was appointed as minister of finance, Abdisamad Gallan as minister of security and DDR, where Amina Osman Hajji who is the only female minister around will lead at the ministry of women and family development. Situated on the Gulf of Aden near the entrance to the Red Sea, Puntland became semi-autonomous in 1998 and had escaped the worst of Somalia’s civil war. It’s now tackling an insurgency by al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked group that’s inflicted mass casualties in southern Somalia, as well as a breakaway faction that swore allegiance to Islamic State and has been targeted by U.S. airstrikes.