The South-West State of Somalia,is a Federal Member State in southwestern Somalia. It was founded by Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud,leader of the Somalia RRA on 1 April 2002. It was the third autonomous region to be established.
During the civilian administration that existed prior to the seizure of power by the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) in 1969,there were a number of local political parties. Most notable of these early institutions was the Somali Youth League,the nation's first political organization. Upon assuming office,the Siad Barre-led SRC outlawed all extant political parties and advocated a form of scientific socialism inspired by Maoist China and the Soviet Union.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a Somali politician who was the 7th President of Somalia from 2009 to 2012.
Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan is a Somali politician. He is a former Minister of Finance of Somalia,and the last speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP).
Galmudug,officially Galmudug State of Somalia,is a Federal Member State in central Somalia,with its capital at Dhusamareb. It is bordered to the north by the Puntland state of Somalia,to the west by the Somali Region in Ethiopia,to the east by Indian Ocean and to the south by the Hirshabelle state of Somalia.
Indirect presidential elections were held in Somalia on 30 January 2009. Due to the security situation in Baidoa,it was held in Djibouti. President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed won the election.
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke,popularly known as Omar Sharmarke,is a Somali diplomat and politician. From 2009 to 2010,he was the Prime Minister of Somalia. He subsequently briefly served as Somalia's Ambassador to the United States in 2014. In December 2014,Sharmarke was reappointed Prime Minister of Somalia. His term ended on 1 March 2017,and he was replaced by Hassan Ali Khaire.
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed,also known as Farmaajo,is a Somali politician who served as president of Somalia from 2017 to 2022. He was prime minister of Somalia for six months,from November 2010 to June 2011. Mohamed is the founder and leader of the Tayo Party since 2012.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas,also more known as Abdiweli Gaas,is a Somali American economist and politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Somalia from June 2011 to October 2012,and briefly afterwards as an MP in the newly formed Federal Parliament. During his time as premier,Ali is credited with having devised the formal "Roadmap for the End of Transition",a political process that provided clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in the country. On 8 January 2014,he was elected the 5th president of Puntland.
The Federal Parliament of Somalia is the national parliament of Somalia. Formed in August 2012,it is based in the capital Mogadishu and is bicameral,consisting of an Upper House (Senate) and a Lower House.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is a Somali politician who has served as the president of Somalia since May 2022. He is the founder and current chairman of the Union for Peace and Development Party. He was indirectly elected as President of the Federal Republic of Somalia on 15 May 2022,defeating the incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. He previously served as the 8th president of Somalia from 2012 to 2017. A civil and political rights activist,Hassan was previously a university professor and dean at SIMAD University,which he co-founded.
The 2014 Puntland presidential election was held on 8 January 2014 in Garowe,the administrative capital of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia. The third such vote to be held in the state since its formation in 1998,it followed the election of a new Parliament Speaker and Deputy Speakers on 4 January 2014 by the 66-seat regional legislature. Candidates included officials from the incumbent Puntland administration,former government ministers and prominent local entrepreneurs. The ballot saw the election of former prime minister of Somalia Abdiweli Gaas as the fifth president of Puntland,narrowly defeating the incumbent Abdirahman Farole. Parliament of Puntland concurrently elected Abdihakim Abdullahi Haji Omar as Puntland's new vice president in place of Abdisamad Ali Shire.
The Daljir Party was a liberal political party in Somalia. It developed from the tradition of socially conservative Islamism,but officially abandoned this ideology in favour of "conservative democracy".
Indirect presidential elections were held in Somalia on 8 February 2017. Members of parliament elected in the autumn-2016 parliamentary election elected former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed to the post of President of Somalia for a four-year term.
The Kampala Accord was an agreement made in Kampala,Uganda in line with the Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic to bring and end to the transitional phase of the Transitional Federal Government on 20 August 2011. It was signed on 9 June 2011 by HE Sharif Sheikh Ahmed,President of the Transitional Federal Government,Hon Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden,Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament,H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,President of the Replublic of Uganda and Dr Augustine Mahiga,Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations.
The Wadajir Party is a progressive democratic political party in Somalia founded by a group of Somali politicians,intellectuals and social activists from different parts of the country,with a wide range of experience.
Presidential elections were held in Somalia in 15 May 2022. The election was held indirectly and after the elections for the House of the People,which began on 1 November 2021 and ended on 13 April 2022.
In 2021,elections for the Federal Parliament and subsequently the President of Somalia were due to take place,following a national agreement to reschedule them from the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The Political history of Somalia covers the development of the Somali government and institutional systems following the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in 1991.
