In early May at a week-long summit in Garowe, Somali leaders failed to agree on a myriad of issues related to security, elections, political meddling, and revenue sharing. There is no way forward for resolving the key policy differences between the… Read More ›
Earlier this month, Somalia’s National Leadership Forum (NLF) announced a new effort to overhaul the country’s security sector with a new security architecture to define how the government, regional leaders, police, and the army could operate more effectively. The plan lacks specifics in many areas… Read More ›
Hiiraan stakeholders have begun meetings in Beledweyne to form a “standalone” authority as it continues to protest the Somali government’s efforts to combine the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions into one administration as part of the federalism process. Xawaadle sub-clan elders in particular… Read More ›
Elders in Somalia’s Hiiraan region have threatened to establish their own administration as the crisis to form the latest regional state continues to stall. Horn Cable TV has more: “Immediately after we wrap-up the inauguration ceremony to crown Chief Hassan who… Read More ›
Last week, the federal government of Somalia (FGS) published its plan for a 2016 election format after the effort to institute one person-one vote polls was deferred to 2020. The FGS released a communique at the conclusion of the most recent round of negotiations that acknowledged… Read More ›
On 25 December, three districts in Somalia’s Bakool region formed a breakaway administration after claiming its communities were marginalized by the Interim Southwest Administration (ISWA). Upper Bakool (aka Bakool Sare) – including representatives from Yeed, Aato, and Ceel Barde districts… Read More ›
From 19-20 October, Somalia held the next phase of its National Consultative Forum (NCF) in order to determine an election format for 2016. The event came after international and Somali officials previously declared that one person-one vote polls were not… Read More ›
Last week, Somalia formed a National Consultative Forum (NCF) tasked with deciding a format for next year’s parliamentary and presidential elections. Earlier this year on several occasions, Somali and foreign officials made it clear that one person-one vote elections were… Read More ›
The following is the Executive Summary from the Sahan report: SOMALIA’S TROUBLED TRANSITION: VISION 2016 REVISITED. To read the full report, click here. Somalia is politically in far better shape than when President Hassan Sheikh took office in 2012, but much of… Read More ›
The process to form a regional administration in central Somalia is in a tenuous state. While it first appeared that building the Jubaland and Southwest administrations would be the toughest assignments in Somalia’s state formation process, the stakes appear even higher in part because it has reignited border… Read More ›
Since March, a Somali Cabinet Minister, UNSOM’s Nick Kay, and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have stated in different forums that there likely will not be one person-one vote elections in 2016, raising the question of how Somalia will handle the end of… Read More ›
After turbulent efforts to form regional governments in Jubaland and southwestern Somalia, the country is heading toward another political quagmire while trying to establish the Interim Administration for the Central Regions (IACR). The IACR process is currently underway in Adado to form an administration below Puntland. It is hoped… Read More ›
Somalia’s Puntland region “re-suspended relations” with Somalia’s federal government after a controversial agreement hailed by the international community was signed to form an interim Central State administration with Mudug and Galgaduud regions. The interim Central State administration would ostensibly set the… Read More ›
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