Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed (Farmajo)

Difficulties in Somali region increased in December after the Ethiopian military – with Abiy's OK – acted as an enforcer of the will of the Somali federal government's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed  'Farmajo' arresting and shooting opponents of Farmajo's favoured candidate in the South West State presidential selection process (AC Vol 59 No 24 Poll fight for Farmajo)...

President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo''s administration declared Haysom persona non grata on 1 January after he asked for an explanation for the arrest and detention of Mukhtar Robow Ali 'Abu Mansur' a former Al Shabaab commander by Ethiopian troops five days before he was due to stand in the presidential election in South West State one of Somalia's devolved federal member states...

Madobe is an arch enemy of President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo'...

President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' and his government experienced temporary relief on 2 December when the electoral commission supervising South West State's presidential election postponed the poll – again...

Corruption is an intractable problem for the government of President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' because it needs funds with which to buy support from MPs and soldiers and secure its position in the federal member states where elections are taking place...

The case of a business manager who lost his job because he was not in the inner circle of President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' is discouraging diaspora investors...

Analysts see his appointment to NISA on 1 September as an attempt by President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' and his team to improve their monitoring of their opponents and put Farmajo in a good position for a second presidential mandate...

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)...