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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland's UCID party
appointed Fadumo Ali Madar to be the party's secretary of foreign
affairs. UCID also appointed Zaynab Muhammad Omar as the chairman of the
women's section of UCID party's London branch. The appointments were
announced by the party in a press release dated on Nov 15, 2009.
Some of Somaliland's women leaders have recently expressed
disappointment with the lack of women in the upper echelons of the
government and the three political parties. The biggest culprit in this
regard is the ruling party which has instituted an unwritten, rigid,
quota system that divides ministerial positions according to clans to
the point that if a ministerial is vacated for some reason, it is filled
with a male from the same sub-clan as the minister who vacated the
position. This system has resulted in the virtual exclusion of women
from top government jobs. President Dahir Rayale Kahin even objected to
the only female nominee to the electoral commission and forced her to
withdraw her candidacy whereby she was replaced by a male.
UCID'S nomination of two women leaders is a positive step in the
direction of women assuming leadership positions in Somaliland's
politics.
UCID celebrated this week the eight anniversary since its establishment.
The celebration took place at Hargeysa’s Imperial hotel, and was
attended by political leaders, sultans, intellectuals and other
distinguished guests. During the celebrations, UCID presented its
development program for Somaliland for the next 10 years.
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