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The threat of the World Bank the European Union and the United States pulling the plug on funding appears to have forced President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' to backtrack on his plans to delay general elections and extend his term by two years and go back to the negotiating table (AC Vol 62 No 5 Battle lines in the capital)...
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With local regional and international officials objecting to the bid by President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' to extend his term by two years ostensibly to organise direct elections the crisis is splitting the security forces...
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President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' is proving a weak link in the grand regional lash-up...
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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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