Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed (Farmajo)

This time Ethiopia's head of government was full of smiles and kind words for his Somali counterpart President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo'...

At the meeting of donor countries in Brussels on 17 July the European Commission pledged €200 million to President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo's' government...

But the election of Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' as President in early 2017 marked a turn in the tide (AC Vol 59 No 1 Cracks in the federal system)...

Abu Ubaydah had predictable words for President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' repeating Farmajo's own admission that the Somali National Army does not know what it is fighting for...

In the background however conflict is also developing over the centralising anti-regionalist tendencies of President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' and his administration...

Speakers wild: how the chamber made its pick Mohamed Jawari largely lost his battle to retain the speakership of the Mogadishu parliament because he had chosen to confront President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' over the latter's growing authoritarianism...

The reaction of President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' and the Prime Minister was not to wait to see if Jawari would find a way to stop the motion but to build up a large group of MPs to demand the Speaker's resignation...

President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' and the parliament dispute Somaliland's right to make any deal over territory it regards as integral to Somalia and also object to Ethiopia taking a 19% stake in DP World's Berbera port project a deal it regards of critical strategic importance...

UAE diplomats are also trying to undermine the Mogadishu government by sponsoring its allies to table an impeachment motion against President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo'...

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' despite his country's close ties to Turkey and Qatar tries to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and the UAE which help to finance his government...

No one could have predicted that Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' would have lost so much popularity and become so dictatorial less than a year after becoming president (AC Vol 58 No 4 MPs reject foreigners' choice)...