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Within hours of Guelleh's victory announcement Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' sent congratulations (AC Vol 52 No 5 Stirring the regional pot)...
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In the Horn it has drifted into a cold war with Abiy Ahmed's Ethiopia and locked horns with Somalia's Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed 'Farmajo' over a long-standing maritime boundary dispute which further complicates increasingly hostile relations (AC Vol 61 No 25 Farmajo breaks with Nairobi)...
Geopolitical experts believe Abiy wants a regional body – run with help from President Issayas Afewerki of Eritrea and President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' of Somalia – that would help both him and Issayas resist foreign pressure in the future...
If President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' does not meet the opposition protesting his authoritarianism half-way there are fears that splits in the security forces could lead to a return to civil war...
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Opposition candidates demand that President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed aka Farmajo step down immediately after his term expired on 8 February and insist that he should not be allowed to contest a second term because they say he sought to rig the electoral commission...
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On paper Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo''s presidential term will end on 15 February...
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Ahead of Somalia's indirect presidential elections Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' needs the support of Premier Abiy Ahmed and there have been talks about security arrangements outside the ambit of the AU operation...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- AFRICAN UNION
Incumbent President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' will face a challenge from Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and rifts with the regions in the federation and schisms within the Somali National Army...
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The international community has backed President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' for too many years to be in a good position to restore balance between the parties (AC Vol 61 No 25 Testing time for elections)...
Vol 61 No 25 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
By expelling the Kenyan ambassador and then doubling down by severing all diplomatic ties with its southern neighbour President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' appears to be hoping that Somalis will respect his raising of the stakes with parliamentary elections due next month followed by presidential polls in February (AC Vol 61 No 24 Testing time for elections)...
