8 April 2021, 3:30 PM
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Image: ReutersCritics have accused Farmaajo, who is seeking a second term, of delaying the election to extend his current mandate.
Contentious issues include the formation of the electoral commission, the selection of commission members for the breakaway region of Somaliland, and the crisis in the Somalia-Kenya border region of Gedo.
Critics have accused Farmaajo, who is seeking a second term, of delaying the election to extend his current mandate.
“The first thing to say is that there is huge disappointment all across Somalia because of the collapse of the talks, but I think clearly anybody (who) has been following this crisis for some time would probably not be surprised by this turn of events. The writing was on the wall and it was clearly these talks were headed nowhere,” says Horn of Africa researcher at the International Crisis Group, Rashid Abdi.