An Advice to PRESIDENT HASSAN SHEIKH by Isaac Muhammad President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, you're now the tenth president of Somalia and the first leader elected twice as head of state in the nation's history. After your election victory, you vowed to...
by Abdisalam Garjeex May 15, 2022, became a day that would go down in infamy and as a supreme disgrace through our failure by electing Hassan Sheikh as Somalia’s second president. I was in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia...
Newly-elected Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) and former president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Mogadishu on May 16, 2022. Baseless rumours of a military coup spread online following his election ( AFP / HASAN ALI ELMI By Gaelle Faure A video...
President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, in his first term, arrives for a meeting with then-British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London, February 4, 2013 This Sunday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made history as the first...
Somalia’s controversial and long overdue elections have finally been concluded, both the chairmen of the higher and lower houses have been elected as well as the president of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mr. Hasan Sh. Mohamoud, And the...
Somalia Election Presidential candidates, former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, center, and incumbent leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, right, attend a voting session for the presidential election at the Halane military camp which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, in Mogadishu, Somalia...
By Sadiq Abdullahi Abdirahman The Somali parliamentary committee tasked with preparing for the presidential election has rapidly set the date of May 15, 2022, as the day polls will be held. The combined legislators from both upper and lower houses...
Two former presidents will face off against the incumbent in Somalia's long-delayed presidential vote on Sunday behind blast walls to protect lawmakers from Islamist attacks and meddling by factions within the security services. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is among 39...
Somali lawmakers wait for their turn to cast their ballots during the presidential vote at the airport on Wednesday in Mogadishu. (Feisal Omar/Reuters) MOGADISHU: Somalia will hold presidential elections on May 15, state TV announced Thursday, broadcasting a statement by...
By Abdirizak M. Diis Somalia’s peace-building process and state recovery have suffered in the last five years under the leadership of former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo. Confidence in the armed forces eroded, separation of powers between the legislature and the...