Anwar Abdifatah Bashir

In the face of a deadly drought, Somalia’s amorphous election discourse could trigger armed conflicts

Somalia is encountering uncertainty due to the long-delayed parliamentary elections. The country was already struggling with protracted droughts, floods, famine and locusts which jeopardised the development. The constitutional mandate of the executive and the legislative branches ended. Article 91 of the Somalia provisional constitution states that “the President of...