Somalia: Political Standoff
Somalia: Political Standoff increases uncertainties facing Somalia’s future and its recent democratic progress which is remarkable legacy that no body wants to lose it.
Somalia’s current political Standoff brings many at stake e.g. the country’s decade old democratic and peaceful power transfer culture that made Somalia striving and a seemingly very progressive nation, as well as the fight against alshabab.
Stakeholders in Somalia can be mapped as:
1. The federal government
2. The opposition including the council of the presidential candidates
3. USA
4.AMISOM
5. THE ARAB LEAGUE
6.THE EU
7. THE UN
The opposition has recently formed opposition alliance National Salvation Forum held its first meeting in Mogadishu today amid escalated tensions with President Mohamed Farmaajo over the elections stalemate.
Wadajir party leader Abdirahman Abshishakur who is a member of NSF said in a tweet Tuesday evening the forum met in Mogadishu to find a solution to the ongoing gridlock.
Somalia’s international partners are constantly calling for constructive dialogue among the politicians backed by different foreign powers like Qatar and Turkey backing the federal government and UAE and Kenya backing the unpopular opposition.
This latest latest political Standoff is endangering Somalia’s decade old democratic progress and the hardly gained peace in some parts of southern regions in Somalia where alshabab is reduced in to guerilla fighters.
Concerns over uncertainties are growing by the day if no agreement about the presidential election is reached as soon as possible according to political analysts, and local media reports.
Abdullahi Hasan reporting for Somalia Report 24.
