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It's the right thing for the @LSENews and @LSEHealthPolicy to immediately cancel the hosting of Hergeye, a proponent advocate for #LasAnod #Genocide. The decision to host a culprit who caused human suffering is unacceptable, and we demand that LSE take the right action. 2/9
From February 6 to October 25, 2023, LasAnod City, the capital of the Sool region of Somalia (now the headquarters of @SSC_Khaatumo), experienced destruction by Northern secessionists, Somaliland, which many believed that the human cost and destruction amounts to #Genocide.

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@DalsanTv's X Space attracted many Somalis incensed about Finfinne's aggression in Somalia. Despite the space being based on the preference of known people, @KhadarGulaid was impressive in clarity and ingenuity, as well as in debunking some disrespectful questions. 2/19
MP Mahdi explained the historical animosity between Somalis and Abyssinians, with Ethiopia being expansionist and seeking access to the Somali Sea. The Somalis were in a position of protectionism, leading to several bloody wars in the region, including two in recent history.

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@RVInews peddled a PR intended to be legatee for @HassanSMohamud's infamous coup attempt, with the sellers being @MAbdirizak (MA) and @AhmedMoFiqi (AMF) moderated by @abdirizakatosh, in a place where @Dibjir's disinformation was usually featured. 2/9

The venue planned to be selective, censored who should speak; the time to talk and attempted to direct the discourse on technical issues. But thanks to many inquirers: Qali Farah, Abdi Hooshoow, Noor Abdi, Garad and Cirro, who busted & exposed the disinformation factory.

@HassanSMohamud and some heads of the FMS have attempted to overthrow Somalia's flimsy system in their favour systematically by dissolving the constitution and altering the parliamentarian and the powersharing systems. Thread 🧵 1/5 A commission is working to review and finalise the constitution overseen by selected parliamentarians. Therefore, any amendment had to go through them and follow the process outlined in Article 132(1, 2, and 5(a-f)). Hence, the five elders have no role to play. 2/5

Somalia’s statebuilding was established to start with city-states based on consensual and decentralised until trustable institutions could be found. The IC supports decentralisation to avoid the resumption of conflicts. 🧵1/6 Notably, institutions that are waiting to be established to complete the debt relief, as mentioned by @AHHirad, include:
—completion of the provisional constitution,
—equitable resource sharing,
—defining intergovernmental fiscal relations or authority over fiscal resources. 2/6

This Twitter Space had baffled with two theories: Constitutionalism and the social contract. Constitutions, according to IR, are of two types: flexible and rigid. Thread 🧵 1/11 Consensual governments usually are federal and have a division of power between the central and regional governments; have a solid bicameral legislature; a neutral arbiter who can resolve conflicts, and a strong judicial review uing a rigid constitution. 2/11

While the government of @HassanSMohamud focuses on the fringes in the fight against Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab displays its strength to the residents of Mogadishu. May Allah forbid, but the government strategy appears to be adrift and doomed. Thread 🧵 1/10 The thread examines how Al-Shabaab tightens its grip on the people of Mogadishu and uses the recent contention between Al-Shabaab and minister Al-Adaala as an example of how the terrorist group tries to trample on the knees of those who are purportedly fighting them. 2/10

My thoughts on the election timeline and reflecting on post-election analysis. A thread 🧵1/39
of two parts 1/25 followed by another 1/14 in the response.

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Somalia was in an election fervour for more than a year, which marred public cohesion. 2/25
It divided the country into two groups with previously existing cleavages: a public camp dubbed NN, which stands for Nabad&Nolol (peace and life), versus national elites, including aspirants of the presidential candidates.

The blemishes of Jubbaland State narratives.

A threat.

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The Jubaland issue has geopolitical and local-level conflicts during the 17 September agreement era.

Nothing changed, and here is the tally.

The country to country-level: the impasse at Jubbaland... 2/16
existed between #Somalia and #Kenya since Kenya's unilateral invention to Somalia, aka "Operation Linda Nchi." It also affects superpowers courting HoA and regional interests. This might be the reason why many #Somalis lost their confidence with the likes of @KFosterFCDO.

For good or bad, Robert Oakley, the UNOSOM head in 1992, dragged the UN into the Somalia conflict. By din of the current political impasse, the UNSRSG of Somalia, Mr Swan, seem to be proposing similar dilemmas. Unless diverted, the result can be as the preceding history. 1/15 On 28 June 2020, the head of the Electoral Commission (NIEC), Halima Ibrahim, asked the parliament three (manual) or nine months (biometric) more months to proceed with the MPs elections expected at the end of 2020, which was a precursor of the presidential election. 2/15

My take on the #LSECOVID19 event
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Alex de Waal: conversed how these countries lacked lockdown strategies and how they cannot control the pandemic. Hang-on, that was the feeling of everybody! He added ‘their’ lockdown was politically motivated: