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Somali officials apologise to ousted UN envoy Haysom in political ploy

The South African diplomat Fink Haysom was declared persona non grata in Somalia by the former president Farmajo in 2019. Some regional officials have now apologised to him, in an apparent ploy to undermine South West state president Abdiaziz Laftagareen. [...]

Published on 26/09/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Abdiaziz Laftagareen
Abu Mansur
Al-Shabaab
Farmajo
Hamza Abdi Barre
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
HSM
James Swan
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
Mohammad Osman Jawari
Mukhtar Robow
Nicholas "Fink" Haysom
United Nations
UNMISS

Somalia
Cash-strapped PM cuts salaries of ministers, civil servants

Late last month Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre requested ministers pay be temporarily cut by 20 percent and civil servants' pay by 5%.

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Kenya, Somalia
South-West State leader cuts Hassan Sheikh out of diplomatic loop

From his Baidoa base, Abdiaziz Laftagareen is busy networking and making his influence felt. He was recently in Nairobi for talks with the new administration of William Ruto, without having cleared this first with the federal president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud.

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President of Somalia's South-West State, Abdiaziz Laftagareen, in Baidoa on 3 September 2022.

Somalia
President's entourage divided over drought strategy as risk of famine looms

Consensus is sorely lacking in when it comes to tackling Somalia's humanitarian emergency and likely famine, to the detriment of international aid cooperation and the country's citizens.

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Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (right) and newly appointed Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, in Mogadishu, 15 June 2022.

Ethiopia, Somalia
Abiy goes behind Hassan Sheikh's back to talk border security

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is going behind new Somali president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's back in discussing the threat from Al-Shabaab directly with state governors.

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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed talks to Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh during his inauguration in Mogadishu, Somalia June 9, 2022.

Somalia
President Hassan Sheikh bets the house on containing Al-Shabaab

As well as carrying out a rare attack on Ethiopian territory, the Al-Shabaab terrorist group is taking advantage of the disarray among the security forces to take up position around the Somali capital. Somalia's recently elected president is looking to secure the resources he needs to wage the open war he has declared against it.

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Somalia
Hassan Sheikh looks to build bridges with London and Washington

During his previous presidency, relations between the newly elected Somali head of state Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his Western allies were far from ideal, yet this could be about to change.

Subscribers only Politics 24.05.2022

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Kenyatta aims to get the Horn of Africa on to Security Council agenda

The Tigray crisis and the security situation in Somalia will be given close attention by Martin Kimani, Uhuru Kenyatta's new permanent representative to the United Nations.

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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta during the 73rd United Nations General Assembly.

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Abdiaziz Laftagareen
Abu Mansur
Al-Shabaab
Farmajo
Hamza Abdi Barre
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
HSM
James Swan
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
Mohammad Osman Jawari
Mukhtar Robow
Nicholas "Fink" Haysom
United Nations
UNMISS

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Somalia
Somali officials apologise to ousted UN envoy Haysom in political ploy

Somalia
Cash-strapped PM cuts salaries of ministers, civil servants

Kenya, Somalia
South-West State leader cuts Hassan Sheikh out of diplomatic loop

Somalia
President's entourage divided over drought strategy as risk of famine looms

Ethiopia, Somalia
Abiy goes behind Hassan Sheikh's back to talk border security

Somalia
President Hassan Sheikh bets the house on containing Al-Shabaab

Somalia
Hassan Sheikh looks to build bridges with London and Washington

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Kenyatta aims to get the Horn of Africa on to Security Council agenda