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Somalia: Call for Somalia's President and Prime Minister to Resolve Dispute and Complete Elections
State Department, 20 September 2021
Cooperation among Somalia's leaders - particularly President Farmaajo and Prime Minister Roble - is essential to ensure that the country quickly completes its ongoing electoral… Read more »
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Somalia: Somali PM Dismisses Farmaajo's Directive Withdrawing His Powers
East African, 17 September 2021
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has rejected President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo directive on withdrawal of his powers. Read more »
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Somalia: President Limits Prime Minister's Powers
VOA, 16 September 2021
Somalia's president announced Thursday that he has suspended the hiring and firing powers of the prime minister during the Horn of Africa country's slow-moving election period. Read more »
Somali Prime Minister Rejects President's Curtailing of Powers
Somali Prime Minister Hussein Roble has rejected an annoucement by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (known as Farmajo) limiting Roble's powers.
On September 16, 2021, Farmajo announced that he had suspended Roble's powers to hire and fire officials. The president said that the suspension of these duties would remain in effect until after elections were held.
Abdirashid M Hashi, Farmajo's spokesman, said Roble had "not consulted with the president, and proceeded to issue decisions that were inconsistent with the laws and the constitution of the country".
The two leaders have also differed following events surrounding the disappearance of Ikran Tahlil, a spy who went missing on June 26, 2021. Roble suspended Fahad Yasin, director-general of the National Intelligence Security Agency (NISA), but hours later, the president overruled Roble and reinstated the spy chief.
According to the electoral calendar, elections will be conducted until October 10, 2021 but there have been delays on crucial parliamentary polls, suggesting that the finalisation of the schedule may drag on.
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Somalia: President Suspends PM's Power to Hire and Fire Officials
Shabelle, 16 September 2021
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended the prime minister's power to hire and fire officials, he said in a statement on Thursday, escalating a destabilizing… Read more »
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Somalia: Somalia President Withdraws PM Roble's Powers to Hire and Fire
East African, 16 September 2021
Somalia's President Mohamed Farmaajo on Thursday said he had suspended his Prime Minister Hussein Roble's powers to hire and fire officials. Read more »
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Somalia: Gen Bashir Gobe Names New Spy Chief for Mogadishu
Shabelle, 15 September 2021
The interim director of NISA, who was recently appointed by Prime Minister Roble Brigadier General Bashir Mohamed Jama, has today appointed Major Muhidin Mohamed Jimale (Warbac) as… Read more »
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Somalia: Mother Rejects President's Committee to Investigate Spy's Death
VOA, 14 September 2021
Somalia's president is forming a committee to investigate the case of a missing spy, declared dead by the country's National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), though the… Read more »
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Somalia Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble suspended Fahad Yasin, chief of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), for failing to provide reliable evidence of ... Read more »
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Somalia's new electoral rules are creating unforeseen fissures in the loose alliance between some federal state presidents and opposition groups. The rules, under a new ... Read more »
