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2019 Puntland Presidential Election
The 2019 Puntland presidential election was held on 8 January 2019 in Garoowe, Garowe, the administrative capital of the autonomous Puntland, Puntland state of Somalia. The fourth such vote to be held in the state since its establishment 1998, it followed the election of a new Parliament Speaker and Deputy Speakers on January 04, 2019 by the 66-seat bicameral legislature. Candidates included officials from the incumbent Puntland administration, former government ministers and prominent local entrepreneurs. The ballot saw the election of former somali minister of planning Said Abdullahi Deni as the sixth president of Puntland, narrowly defeating General Asad Osman Abdullahi. House of Representatives of Puntland, Parliament of Puntland concurrently elected Ahmed Elmi Osman as Puntland's Vice President of Puntland, new vice president in place of Abdihakim Abdullahi Haji Omar. Background 2019 Puntland presidential election, with incumbent Abdiweli Gaas in a tight race, holds signific ...
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House Of Representatives Of Puntland
House of Representatives of Puntland ''or'' Puntland Parliament () is the unicameral legislature of the Puntland. It has 66 members who are elected for a period of five years through universal suffrage. The House of Representatives has the powers and duties to review, approve, reject, amend and create regulations, approve/reject war and implement a peace agreement when the government proposes it. The House of Representatives also elects President of Puntland and Vice President of Puntland. After the establishment of Puntland, the legislature has been directly elected by the people in 1998, 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2018. On 4 January 2019, the legislature elected a speaker and two deputies. This was followed by the successful election of the President of Puntland on 8 January 2019. Next elections are due to take place in 2023. Speakers See also *Puntland Puntland is an autonomous state that considers itself to be part of Somalia, despite not accepting the legitimacy o ...
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Puntland House Of Representatives Vetting Committee
Puntland is an autonomous state that considers itself to be part of Somalia, despite not accepting the legitimacy of Somalia's current governing administration. It was formed in 1998, and was a federal member state of Somalia from its founding until 2024. Puntland is located northeast of Somalia and east of Somaliland. Its capital is the city of Garoowe in the Nugal region. The state had a population of 4,334,633 in 2016. Puntland is bordered by Somaliland to its west, the Gulf of Aden in the north, the Guardafui Channel in the northeast, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, Somalia, more specifically the central Galmudug region in the south, and Ethiopia in the southwest. There are several major geographical apexes in Puntland, including the Cape Guardafui, which forms the tip of the Horn of Africa, Ras Hafun the easternmost place on the entire African continent, and the beginning of the Karkaar mountain range. The name "Puntland" is derived from the Land of Punt mentioned ...
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Ali Abdi Aware
Ali Abdi Aware (, ; born 15 May 1957 in Bayla, Bari, Somalia) is a Somali politician and a diplomat he is the Ambassador of Somalia to Egypt and Representative of Somalia for Arab league. A former state minister of the Puntland Presidency for International Relations and Social Affairs, he has also been a candidate for the Puntland presidential elections in 2009, 2014, and 2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ....https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AN1I4/ Biography Awaare has over the years held various positions in the government of Puntland, including State Minister of the Presidency for International Relations and Social Affairs. In 2008, he ran for president in that year's Puntland elections. He was eliminated in the first round of voting, receiving 4.55% ...
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Mohamed Ahmed Gar
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets in Islam, and along with the Quran, his teachings and normative examples form the basis for Islamic religious belief. Muhammad was born in Mecca to the aristocratic Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh. He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father, Abdullah, the son of tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, died around the time Muhammad was born. His mother Amina died when he was six, leaving Muhammad an orphan. He was raised under the care of his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, and paternal uncle, Abu Talib. In later years, he would periodically seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer. When he was 4 ...
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