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Former Interim President of Somalia Passes Away in Nairobi
Mogadishu (PP News Desk) Ali Mahdi Mohamed, a former Interim President of Somalia and one-time hotelier, has passed away in a Nairobi hospital. The cause of the death was Covid-19. United Somali Congress installed Ali Mahdi as an Interim President in 1991, shortly after the overthrow of the military regime led by Mohammed Siad Barre. He was a member of the USC Central Committee.
Although his political clout waned Ali Mahdi Mohammed was critical of the incumbent Federal Government of Somalia.
Born in 1938, Mahdi was a key signatory of the historic 1990 Manifesto that called for Siyad Barre to relinquish power. General Mohammed Farah Aidid, a leader of USC military wing, had objected to the nomination of Ali Mahdi as an Interim President in July 1991 in Djibouti where reconciliation conference was held for representatives of Somalia’s armed opposition organisations.
Бывший президент Сомали Али Махди Мохамед умер от COVID-19 regnum.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from regnum.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Syad Ali Jama
The federal system of Somalia was adopted in 2004. Its utility lies in addressing causes and effects of the state failure: centralisation, warlordism, dispossession and marginalisation. The federal system proved agile in addressing the first three predicaments. It has had mixed results on the fourth predicament.
In a paper entitled Dysfunctional Federalism and published in July the Heritage Institute argues “the unitary mindset of Somalis is an obstacle to the federalist devolution of power…” It is anarchical temperament of certain segments in Somalia that opposes the federal system. Unitary is a shorthand for centralisation favoured by supporters of the former Union of Islamic Courts. The alternative to federalism proposed by the likes of Aala Sheikh and Damuljadiid, two Somali politico-religious cliques, is a clannish theocracy that reduces Somalia to haven for transnational terrorists.