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Jan
08
2024
By ABDI SHEIKH
Somalia president signs law nullifying Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal

Somalia president signs law nullifying Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal

NEWS
SOMALIA'S President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a law nullifying an agreement by the breakaway Somaliland region to grant Ethiopia access to the Red Sea in return for recognition as an independent nation, he said. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's stated ambition to secure access to the Red Sea is a source of tension between the Horn of Africa nation and its neighbours and has raised concerns of a fresh conflict in the region. Somalia, which considers Somaliland part of its territory, rejected the New Year's Day deal that would allow landlocked Ethiopia to lease 20 km (12 miles) around the port of…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

NEWS
SOMALIA will start electing its president and other officials by direct vote next year, the government announced, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa country that has endured three decades of conflict and clan battles. Amid widespread insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and weak state structures, in recent years lawmakers voted for the president, while clan heads and elders elected lawmakers in both the federal government and regional states. The country had initially been scheduled to revert to universal suffrage in 2020 but protracted squabbles among politicians and persisting insecurity across the country forced the…
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Jun
25
2022
By The African Mirror
Somali president tests positive for COVID-19

Somali president tests positive for COVID-19

COVID-19
SOMALI President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. Abdikarim Ali Kaar, Mohamud's spokesperson, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates. The official Somali president's Twitter account shows a video of him meeting the president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, with both men wearing masks, dated June 22. He also met Somalis based in the UAE. "My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. So far, I have no symptoms but I…
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Apr
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Soldiers attack ex-president’s residence

Soldiers attack ex-president’s residence

NEWS
FORMER Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has revealed that soldiers had attacked his residence and that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was responsible. His accusation came as Somali soldiers exchanged gunfire in the streets of the capital Mogadishu, in a sign of deepening splits in the security forces between those supporting an extension of Mohamed's presidential term and those opposed. Analysts say the divisions could distract Somalia's security forces from the fight against al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents in the Horn of Africa nation. The president signed a law in mid-April extending his mandate for two years, stoking opposition inside Somalia…
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