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Pretty much. The better term should be 'resident' instead of 'citizen'.

Even then there's no constitutional court to what's right or wrong. If I remember correctly, Roble did say he would prioritise the establishment of a constitutional court, but that hasn't happened yet.

Pretty much. The EU and US goals are keeping the Horn Africa stable. Due to distance from one of the world's sea trading lanes (Red Sea and Gulf of Aden). Right now in the Horn, Somalia and South Sudan are both recovering from a devastating civil war, Sudan is in an unstable transition to...

I disagree, they probably don't want Ethiopia to balkanise like Yugoslavia but instead more like the Soviet Union. They did say "that neither the internal nor external borders of Ethiopia will be changed by force or in contravention of the constitution". Contravention by definition just meaning...

Didn't SL leadership only go for parliamentary elections because EU was threatening to cut off aid support?

That wouldn't be the case if political parties would give a party manifesto, so they would be voted on what ideas or what they would do when in power. But they don't, so everybody votes clansmen instead.

Should have executed him for committing treason

Main reason why there's no constitutional court (CC) to resolve political issues. The recent example were everyone was arguing around legality of term extension of Farmaajo. If the CC was established it would resolved the issues but also how power should be divided and managed between feds and...

Somalia's foreign affairs minister is expected in Washington today for a week-long diplomatic trip aimed at negotiating a way out of the political crisis. In early April, Somalia's ambassador to Washington, Ali Sharif Ahmed, hired US lobbying firm LFA Holdings. Its president and founder, Luis...

Read the article before you yap away. The title is click bait in itself. It said in a informal meeting UN security council members rejected not the council itself. It's seem mostly the European oppose it. American haven't seem to say anything so far.

Yes and no. Your right that Somalia is a defacto semi presidential system. However that's due to the fact Somalia uses the 4.5 electoral system which discourages for the formation of political parties which a prime minister's requires. You saw this during the negotiations between Farmaajo...

Yeah, I don't believe this one either. Every country east Africa had received their patch first before Somalia.

Honestly, I can see why some people have lost hope for this country. The opposition and ruling parties are both corrupt. The only reason I had support Farmaajo this far even knowing he did a lot of dodgy stuff in the past four years was that I saw Farmaajo as the lesser evil and seeing...

Commenting. Want more info. Had my suspicion since Farmaajo picked Kheyre who had close ties to Soma Oil and Gas. It felt fishy. The oil and gas deposit is a golden opportunity for Somalia to rebuild itself. So hearing how Farmaajo is fucking, has to go now in my opinion. The only issue who's...

Am actually subscribed to the economist. It's a pretty good company. The only problem with foreign media is that they get Somali politics wrong badly 9 out of 10 times. Assuming most of them and including the Economist doesn't have Somali translators which make's their work harder to do. Meaning...

I got the same though as well. Especially, when they were referring to the Southwest state election. When Robow wanted to win the state election. Robow was still on US sanction lists, killed thousands, used child soldiers and hadn't renounced Alshabaab's ideology but just had falling out with...

Somalia’s progress towards democracy has been faltering. The country has not had a direct election since 1969, more than three decades before most Somalis were born. Yet it seemed to be on the right track in 2017, when it held “indirect” elections, whereby members of parliament were elected by...

A fucking circus show

True but dictators have tendencies of not giving up power peaceful. They would rather stay and fight. Or what happens when you have an incompetent and corrupt dictator who poorly governs a country. Then what? Secondly, how do you know what you show is the true state of that country? After if go...

Kenyatta aims to get the Horn of Africa on to Security Council agenda Kenya's new permanent representative to the UN Martin Kimani made no mention of the security situation in the Horn of Africa when he attended his first meeting of the United Nations Security Council on 4 January. It is...