The Somali capital to celebrate the end of the term of office of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Young people in Mogadishu also turned their arms up, but for just the opposite reason – to express their joy of taking power with Mohamed, popularly known as Farmaajo.
Significantly, the crowd celebrated the defeat of its own clan members in a country that has a profound clan loyalty. Farmayo, a spectacled Somali Americaan living in Buffalo, New York for decades, had defeated two former presidents who had come from the coastal city to seat at the 2017 elections on a nationalistic platform and pledged to wipe out the al-Qaeda-linked armed group al-Shabab.
In many cities across the country of the Horn of Africa similar scenes were witnessed. Farmaajo was also welcomed in neighbouring Kenya’s Dadaab, home of one of the biggest reflight camps in the world housing the thousands of Somalis displaced. But four years’ time, in Somali politics in particular, is long as no president has ever gained a second term.
Data Source: Aljazeera