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جريدة الشرق الأوسط صحيفة عربية دولية تهتم بآخر الأخبار بجميع أنواعها على المستويين العربي والعالمي.

Farmaajo scolds donors after failed poll talks

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: Somali Government has lamented what it termed as foreign interference in the long running electoral disputes even as the country’s leadership fails for the umpteenth time to resolve their internal wrangles. In a letter addressed to the UN Security Council, Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed  Abdirizak said the electoral process is an internal matter. The Federal Government will however be banking on the international community to offset most of the election related expenses including security among other costs. “The Federal Government of Somalia regards any interference in the process of National Elections by external actors as direct interference into our internal affairs in breach of UN Security Council Resolutions, International Conventions and laws,” the statement read in part.

CrisisWatch: March Alerts and February Trends 2021

February 2021 Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state, released them 27 Feb; 26 Feb kidnapped 279 girls in Zamfara state. Meanwhile, Auwalun Daudawa, who masterminded Dec 2020 abduction of 344 students in Katsina state, 8 Feb laid down arms along with five of his troops. Amid rise in herder-farmer and intercommunal violence in south since Jan, clashes between ethnic Hausa and Fulani on one hand, and ethnic Yoruba on the other, early Feb killed two dozen people in Oyo state capital Ibadan (south west). Nobel laureate in literature Wole Soyinka 6 F

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