Cabinet meets in Garowe, a third outside Mogadishu

Prime Minister Hassan Khaire is today holding his weekly cabinet meeting in Puntland’s administrative capital, Garowe, a third of such meetings outside Mogadishu.

Goobjoog News has also learnt that the meeting with be attended by Puntland president Abdiweli Gaas who will serve as a co-chair.

A section of cabinet ministers led by Deputy Premier Mahdi Guled arrived in Garowe town Wednesday evening.

Preliminary meetings between the Federal ministers and their regional counterparts were held before proceeding to the official council of ministers meeting.

Previously, the weekly meetings of the cabinet took place in Baidoa and Kismayo towns, the capitals of South West and Jubbaland states respectively.

This will be the third cabinet meeting outside the capital Mogadishu.

Goobjoog News