The
month of July comes at a time president Hassan Sheik Mohamud is touring the
neighboring countries in Africa and the Middle East. President Hassan visited
UAE, Kenya, Djibouti, Eriteria and Egypt where he met his counterparts on
strengthening collaboration between Somalia and those countries. Some of these
countries have had political standoff between the recent government such as
Kenya and UAE, Djibouti lost its position as a brotherly nation with Somalia
and Egypt remained skeptical about the closer ties Somalia had with Ethiopia
who’s its renaissance dam draw severe relations over the Nile water shares.
President
HSM have as well paid an official two days’ visit to Turkey for bilateral
relations and steps to enhance cooperation. The Ankara-Mogadishu partnership is
"extremely positive and growing by the day and by the night," said
the visiting Somali president on Tuesday. Speaking at a panel titled
Benefits of the Türkiye-Somalia Partnership, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said:
"Among the key benefits of Somalia's relationship with Türkiye is a strong
political and diplomatic connection, and cooperation in the fight against
global terrorism."
On
the other hand, The Prime Minister of the federal government, Hamza Abdi Barre,
asked the people of Somalia to support the Somali government forces to defeat
Al-Shabaab and strengthen security. Hamza Abdi Barre said that the government
is working on the coordination and cooperation of the Somali people and the
government forces to bring about stability and to deal with insecurity. He
cited the example of the people of the Somali regional government in Ethiopia,
who supported the Liyu Police Force, to fight against Al-Shabaab which resulted
in their defeat.
“The community must be enlightened and made aware of their
strength, and they must come together to end the insecurity menace. We must
believe that we can take one strong step forward to clear the terrorist
threat,” said Hamza Abdi Barre. “We want scholars, businesspersons, students,
women, and all different sections of society to work with our security forces
and fight as long as we can,” said Hamza Abdi Barre. The Prime Minister of
Somalia is expected to form his Council of Ministers by 4 August 2022.
Moreover, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre outlined steps his
government would take to launch operations to liberate territories under
Al-Shabaab. “Our goal is to provide government services in areas to be
liberated with special focus on decentralization,” said Hamza. He said the
government would continue with economic reforms, but the principal focus of the
government would be “a war against Al-Shabaab”.
Noteworthy, The Prime Minister of Federal Government of Somalia Hamza
Abdi Barre, who is still working on the formation of the government, met with
members of the Somali youth, the Somali women leaders, the civil society groups
and the religious leaders asking their collaboration and support the government
on improving security and taking collective measures to fight against
Al-shabaab.
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