Mogadishu’s local council was sworn in today following the city’s first-ever one-person, one-vote elections—a landmark shift from indirect clan-based selection to direct democracy at the municipal level.
Kenyan opposition politician Farah Maalim has accused Ethiopia of meddling in Somalia’s internal affairs for three decades, alleging a coordinated alliance involving Al-Shabaab, Western intelligence, the UAE, and “sellout Somalis” working to maintain Somalia’s failed state status.