There's a new dawn in Somalia after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was on Monday, May 23 inaugurated as President of Somalia for a second time in just five years. In a ceremony held at the Presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, Mohamud took the reigns of power from outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo who was his successor in 2017.
History. The first president of Somalia was Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, one of the leaders of the Somali Youth League (SYL), who took office on 1 July 1960, the day on which Somalia was declared a republic. Since then the office has been
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) - Somalia'spresident Sheikh Mohamud was inaugurated on Thursday in a ceremony held behind blast walls at Mogadishu airport, where the leaders of Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya pledged closer ties with his administration.. On Wednesday night, mortar shells were fired towards the venue for the inauguration ceremony, hours after a curfew imposed by the government to ...
Somalia has a new president. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud beat the incumbent Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo in a long-delayed election. It’s not Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s first stint as leader, the 66-year ...
A former Somali president voted out of power in 2017 has been reelected to the country's top job after defeating the incumbent leader in a protracted contest decided by legislators in a third ...
Mahmoud, the primary Somali president to win a second time period, has promised to show Somalia right into a "peaceable nation at peace with the world". He'll inherit many challenges from his predecessor, together with a devastating drought that threatens to drive hundreds of thousands into hunger.
