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Somalia Doesn t Need Trusteeship – Puntland Post
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Puntland Post story on a comment by Dr Afyare Elmi, Director of Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, on the political situation in Somalia is generating lively discussions in Twittersphere. We reported that Afyare had argued that a failure on the part of the incumbent Somali government to organise elections had resulted in political uncertainties.
Afyare’s inadvertent use of rotation lends credence to the duopoly theory.
“The root cause is that every four years Somalia often has some sort of rotation of power that has not happened under the leadership of the President” Afyare told Al Jazeera. Afyare’s inadvertent use of
By Yahye S. Bulqaas
Mogadishu (Commentary) For far too long the 4.5 power-sharing system has retained an explanatory appeal for political analysts preoccupied with making sense of the Somali political turmoil. Unveiled in 2000 at Djibouti-sponsored Somali Reconciliation Confrence, the power-sharing formula divides Somalis into four major clans and an alliance of clans known as
Others.
Since 1960 the presidency has rotated between two clans Darod and Hawiye. Professor Ahmed Ismail Samatar described this uncodified arrangement as duopoly. This theory works if one pays attention to clan identities of Somalia’s successive presidents. It loses its analytical power if one concentrates on the nature of election outcomes since 2004. Neither the incumbent President of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed nor his predecessor Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was a favourite candidate in 2017 and 2012 respectively.