Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir, the head of the Somali intelligence services until 2021, has accused Djibouti, and in particular its former police chief, of plotting his disappearance.
Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir, the head of the Somali intelligence services until 2021, has accused Djibouti, and in particular its former police chief, of plotting his disappearance.
The new president sets a new agenda, with new foreign friends and ideas to tackle the Al Shabaab insurgents – all amid a devastating drought, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud s presidency is off to an energetic start with a major reorientation of Somalia s regional alliances, a return to federalist and devolutionary policies, and a purge of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), which was stuffed with supporters of his predecessor, Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed Farmajo , and infiltrated by Al Shabaab.
Parliament looks like picking a new president on 15 May because the incumbent has alienated far too many MPs, Looked at from the perspective of last April, the latest political developments seem improbable, even absurd. A year ago Mogadishu was on a war footing and President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed Farmajo was doing everything in his power to stay on, even if it meant damaging national institutions carefully built up over the years and factionalising the security forces. Some in Mogadishu even accuse him of conspiring with Al Shabaab to postpone the polls by allowing bomb attacks.
Somalia began swearing in new legislators on Thursday in a ceremony taking place at the ‘large tent, a huge lounge within the perimeter of Mogadishu’s Aden