Hambalyo, President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” for winning the most expensive election, per vote, in history! By BBC News, Somalia’s MPs have elected a Somali-US national as the country’s new president in a vote held in an aircraft hangar. Ex-Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” Mohamed beat President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a surprise result. The vote […]
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Amid huge cases of corruption, Somalia prepares itself for Wednesday’s presidential elections. But is this really an election? By Mohamed Olad Hassan | VOA News, Election observers in Somalia say corruption is running rampant ahead of Wednesday’s presidential election, with candidates giving gifts and large sums of cash to lawmakers to secure their votes. Twenty-three candidates […]
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Ethiopia is desperately trying to get Hassan Sheikh Mohamud re-elected as a president of Somalia. Its renewed agenda, however, goes against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Somalis and members of the Somali Federal Parliament. By Farhan Jimale | BBC News, Somalia’s outgoing Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, has accused the neighbouring countries of intervening […]
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By Abukar Mohamed-Wardi, Let’s start with the basic facts: Ethiopia is desperately trying to get Hassan Sheikh Mohamud re-elected as a president of Somalia. The evidence of this effort was encapsulated in a recent report by a think-tank affiliated with Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry and external intelligence. Ethiopia’s renewed agenda goes against the wishes of the […]
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Miss some news this week? Catch up on a few of the stories with this quick weekly news digest. Djibouti Agrees to a Saudi Military Base on its Territory (Al Arabia) – Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said that his country welcomed a Saudi military base to be built on its territory. “I took […]
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Miss some news this week? Catch up on a few of the stories with this quick weekly news digest. General Prices of Goods and Services in South Sudan Rise 835.7% (CCTV Africa) – South Sudan’s inflation raced to a whopping 835.7 percent in the year to October from 682.1 percent in September. The rate has […]
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By Al Jazeera, A Somali general and several bodyguards have been killed after their military convoy was hit by a suicide car-bomb blast that was claimed by the hard-line Al-Shabab group. General Mohamed Roble Jimale, also known as “Goobaanle”, and several Somali soldiers died in the attack in Somalia’s capital on Sunday, police colonel Abdikadir […]
Continue Reading“Practically speaking, no one in Somalia actually voted for anyone who chose the new President of Somalia” By Thomas C Mountain, While the international media might trumpet “Somalia’s First Free and Fair Elections in 50 Years” reality on the ground in Mogadishu reveals a truly grand farce of an “election” process. First of all, the […]
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