Hassan Sheikh: Somalia's new president facing challenges of security, governance and progress
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is once again the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia. On May 15, 2022, after more than a year of delay in the national electoral process, the Somali Parliament chose him to succeed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo who had held office in February 2017 and he aspired to his re-election in office. Since February 2021, when Farmaajo had to leave the presidency, violent protests have rocked the country, which has plunged into internal conflict and political factionalism while the jihadist group Al Shabaab tried, through extreme violence, to blow up the political future of Somalia. Aafaaqnews From now on, Hassan Sheikh - who already held the presidency between 2012 and 2017 - faces important challenges to pacify, democratize and develop the country, in addition to fighting against the effects of the devastating drought, which has increased emergency levels of humanitarian crisis and famine of the Somali population. In the first place, he must address the...