Farmaajo Arrives Dhuusamareeb

Somalia’s president flew from Mogadishu yesterday to attend the Dhuusemareeb third phase of the  conference.

At the preliminary separate sessions, President Abdilahi Farmaajo invited  the highest officials of Galmudug, Wabi Shabelle, and SouthWestern states–who were already present and waiting to participate in the grand conference on security and elections– to the Galmudug Presidential Palace where he is residing. The president wanted to leave no stone unturned to ensure that the conference would turn out successful. Among his top priorities was holding elections without dispute and a relatively ‘successful’ general one man, one vote elections. Above all, he foregrounded the fact that elections ought not to be delayed no matter what.

Presidents of Puntland and Jubbaland were expected to arrive in Dhuusamareeb yesterday.

If all concerned parties from the central government to regional admin states leaders attend the conference, the communique would be unifying and conclusive. The result will be binding upon on all, and the expected success would likely be achieved through this consensus.

Unlike previous years of ever soaring division among warring factions, Somalia’s politics seemed to have witnessed a less hostile environment of bloodshed and mass killings in recent years.

For Somalia, this meeting will either serve as a milestone or instigate new political crisis.