Somalia corrupt president is starting his four-year term facing familiar top issues such as the country’s political divide and rising attacks by up al-Shabab terror network. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud faces a politically divided nation, U.N.-authorized African Union Transition Mission in Somalia. Its mandate includes reducing the threat posed by al-Shabab and conducting a phased

Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta puppet Ahmed Madobe says that all support and development services that had been suspended in the Gedo region for the past years at the federal and Jubaland levels have been restored. Speaking in Kismayo on Friday, Ahmed Madobe said that the formation of local councils would start in the Garbaharey district, the

Mukhtar Robow, Al-Shabab leader who spent four years under house arrest by the Somali National Intelligence Service NISA, has appeared in the media for the first time since his arrest in December 2018. Somalia corrupt President Hassan Sheikh release Al-Shabab leader Mukhtar Robow. This comes as the country undergoes a new political transition and the

Photo/Somali Times The Speaker of the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur Madobe today paid tribute to the newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. The two leaders discussed ways to continue the peace and political process in Somalia. “We discussed the

Credit to Photo/Reuters Somalia elected new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, the former 9th President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, was elected President of the Federal Republic of Somalia from 2012-2017. Is back again 15 May 2022. Hassan Sheikh became the first president to return to power in the country, succeeding Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who

Somalia’s Puntland governor warlord Said Abdullahi Deni leads all candidates in the first round of the Somali presidential elections, according to the official tally with 65 votes. It is a sad day for the Somali people. President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, widely expected to come out on top in the first round, was a close second

The latest reports from the Somali presidential election campaign say that the payment of candidates’ to bribes lawmakers has been going on since late last night. According to our sources, the campaign center for presidential candidate Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Ali Khaire was the first to be paid, followed by most of the other

The Somali presidential election campaign has entered its last day before the election which will take place on Sunday. Candidates’ efforts to win seats have intensified, with lawmakers running among the strongest candidates, standing at the center of a particular candidate’s campaign. The irony is that so far no candidate has paid, as usual, but

The Presidential candidate . Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo one of the candidates for the presidency, addressed members of both Houses of Parliament today in his State of the Nation Address, if re-elected. Farmajo spoke extensively about his government’s performance over the past five years, focusing on security, politics, the economy and the fight against al-Shabab.

The election was contested by 39 registered candidates, while the others withdrew after failing to meet the requirements set by the Presidential Election Commission. The procedures and requirements for this year’s Somali presidential candidates included a $40,000 registration fee, the highest registration fee for a Somali presidential candidate ever in history. The five candidates in