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.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a Somali politician who was the 7th President of Somalia from 2009 to 2012.
The transitional federal government (TFG) was the government of Somalia between 2004 and 2012. Established 2004 in Djibouti through various international conferences,it was an attempt to restore national institutions to the country after the 1991 collapse of the Siad Barre government and the ensuing Somali Civil War.
Villa Somalia in Mogadishu,is the palace and principal workplace of the president of Somalia. The current occupant of Villa Somalia is President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM).
Sheikh Mukhtar Robow,also known as Abu Mansur,is a former deputy leader and former spokesman of the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab. In 2015,he defected from Al-Shabaab due to ideology issues after years of hiding in his hometown. In 2022,Robow was appointed as the Minister of Religious Affairs in the Somali government.
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.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is a Somali politician who has served as the president of Somalia since May 2022,having previously held the office from 2012 to 2017. 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. A civil and political rights activist,Hassan was previously a university professor and dean at SIMAD University,which he co-founded.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) is the national intelligence agency of the Federal Republic of Somalia. It is headquartered in Mogadishu. The NISA is also closely intertwined with the Somali Armed Forces and regularly cooperates with them.
Bashir Mohamed Jama "Goobe" is a politician and former Somali Armed Forces officer. He is currently the Director-General of the Somali Agency for Construction and Development. He served twice as the Chief of the Somali Custodial Corps and also served as the Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency from 2013 to 2014. He received the highest rank of Lieutenant General and served as the only Lieutenant General since the former Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Samatar retired in 1991.
Abdullahi Mohamed Ali "Sanbalolshe" is a Somali politician. He subsequently briefly served as the director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency in 2014,In April 2017,Ali was reappointed as the director of NISA. 7 months later he was fired by Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.
Operation Indian Ocean was a joint military operation between the Somali military,AMISOM and the United States military against the Al-Shabaab militant group aimed at eliminating the remaining insurgent-held areas in southern Somalia. It officially began in August 2014.
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.
Mohamed Hussein Roble is a Somali politician who was the prime minister of Somalia from 23 September 2020 to 25 June 2022.
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.
Events in the year 2021 in Somalia.
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.
Ikran Tahlil Farah was a Somali civil servant with a background in international human rights law and international relations,who was employed by the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency. At the time of her disappearance,in June 2021,she had been working in NISA's cybersecurity department.
Events in the year 2022 in Somalia.
Abdisaid Muse Ali is a Somali politician and was the National Security Advisor to the President of Somalia from 2017 to 2021,and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia to from 2021 to 2022. Ali was forced to leave office after he was suspended by then Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble over an alleged crime which was later dismissed,and has not run for political office since. As Foreign Affairs Minister,Ali increased cooperation between Somalia and China and fought against growing Somaliland–Taiwan relations.
