TheSomaliDiary

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...

Despite having serious tensions arousing from whose role it is to maintain security of the election venue ‘Afisiyone’ in Aden Adde International Aiport including controversy over the legitimacy of the parallel election of 16 seats elected in Elwak and Garbaharey, and acts of counterproductive kind of communication such as parallel and opposite nature directives by the offices of the president and the prime minister; the Somali lawmakers have made possible to achieve a major milestone to conclude the leadership of the senate and house of the people of Somalia’ the 11th Parliament which will take charge remaining election processes of a government that has a mandate to run the nation for four years term. On the 25th of April, 16 lawmakers elected in the Elwak district of Gedo region were sworn in at the Afisyone tent in Mogadishu. The swearing-in event was attended by the Interim Speaker of the House of the People Abdisalan Ahmed Dhabanad, the Lower House General-Secretary Abdikarim Ab...