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Somalia Elections Series: Farmaajo’ s report card, a year after his mandate ended
Editor’s Note: Garowe Online is today launching an analysis of Somalia’s main election contenders, chosen based on their influence, networks, political experience, and significance from opinion polls. We will analyse the most prominent aspirants’ past successes, failures, and chances in the upcoming presidential election. The first candidate in our series is the incumbent, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo.
Mohamed Farmaajo, 60, should have been the hope of Somalia. Instead, he became the symbol of a broken country: unable to complete an election in time and whose office stay only pleased him.
But it was never like this. For a man named after cheese, he represented Somalia’s recent trend: Educated sons returning to Somalia after years abroad to try and rebuild their country.
In February 2017, after spending months campaigning and lobbying from his Nairobi office, Farmaajo surprised many when he won an election. At the time, his only prominence in Somali politics had been that...
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