2022 in Somalia
Events in the year 2022 in Somalia.
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Incumbents
- President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
- Prime Minister: Mohamed Hussein Roble
- Speaker of the House: Abdi Hashi Abdullahi
- First Deputy Speaker: Abdi Wali Ibrahim Ali Sh Mudey
- Second Deputy Speaker: Mahad Abdalle Awad
- Minister of Foreign Affairs: Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud
Events
Ongoing – Somali Civil War (2009–present); COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia
January
- January 10 – Somali leaders announce they struck a deal to complete presidential and parliamentary elections by February 25 after repeated delays.[1]
- January 18 – At least four people are killed and ten others injured in Mogadishu by a suicide bombing at a tea shop near a military base.[2]
February
- February 19 – February 2022 Beledweyne bombing: An al-Shabaab suicide bomber kills 14 people at a restaurant in Beledweyne, including a candidate in the parliamentary vote.[3][4]
- February 24 – Only 175 of the 275 MPs are reported to have been elected for the elections set to take place the next day as the federal states continue debates over venues, delegates, and fairness of the polls.[5]
- February 25 – The scheduled presidential and parliamentary elections are again postponed to March 15.[6]
March
- March – Nearly 90% of the country's districts are affected by a historic multi-season drought. 14 million people are severely food insecure across the Horn of Africa, including Somalia.[7][8]
- March 15 – The presidential and parliamentary elections are again further postponed to March 31 in order to complete the election of the Lower House or House of the People.[9]
- March 16 – The United States applies visa restrictions to individual Somalians the United States felt were responsible for failing to meet the March 15 deadline to finish parliamentary elections.[10]
- March 17 – United States senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), and Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota), introduce a bill titled the Somaliland Partnership Act, calling for closer U.S. engagement with the offically unrecognized nation.[11]
- March 19 – Governor of Puntland Said Abdullahi Dani announces his candidacy in the Lower House elections.[12]
- March 23 – Al-Shabaab kills at least 48 people and injures at least 108 in a series of attacks in Mogadishu and Beledweyne, including Somali female Member of Parliament Amina Mohamed Abdi.[13][14]
- March 27 – Al-Shabaab militants overrun the Af Urur military base in Puntland, killing four soldiers.[15]
- March 30 – A prayer meeting is held in Mogadishu for MP Amina Mohamed Abdi who was killed in Beledweyne on March 23.[16]
- March 31
- The 2022 Somali presidential election are scheduled to be held.[9]
- The U.N. Security Council votes unanimously to endorse the African Union’s new transitional mission in Somalia ATMIS, which will replace AMISOM which had been present in the country for fifteen years.[17]
April
- April 1 – A large fire destroys main market (Waheen Market) in the city of Hargeisa, destroying an estimated 2,000 shops and stalls and injuring 28 people.[18]
- April 4 – Mogadishu offers to send $11.7 million to Hargeisa to help those who lost their lives and property in the Waheen market fire.[19]
- April 6 – PM Roble orders African Union Ambassador to Somalia Francisco Madeira, persona non grata to leave the country within 48 hours because of "engaging in acts that are incompatible with his status," after an audio emerged of him criticizing government officials for not dealing with national security problems. President Mohamed immediately rejects the expulsion.[20][21]
- April 10
- If no aid is brought to Somalia by the summer of this year, "350,000 of the 1.4 million severely malnourished children in the country, will perish," warns OCHA member Adam Abdelmoula.[22]
- The Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance launches an iftar program, in the presence of representatives from Saudi Arabia and Somalia, to distribute food to help people break their fasts throughout Ramadan.[23][24]
- April 11
- Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT) chairman Muse Guelleh Yusuf travels to Baidoa to help solve a dispute over four Lower House seats that were nullified by the commission. The trip is a success, and two seat disputes are resolved, and a re-run is organized for another candidate who won (Saredo Mohamed Abdalla), but did not meet the age limit.[25]
- National security advisor Fahad Yasin files a petition with the nascent Supreme Court over an election dispute.[25]
- April 14
- The Lower House or House of the People elections finally conclude after four months of delay, swearing in 205 new parliament members. 54 senators and over 246 Lower House members took their oath for the upcoming presidential elections. There is wide criticism following the elections though, that only a few thousand people of the 16.3 million in Somalia voted for a member parliament. "Massive corruption, abuse of power, and disregard of the election's rules," are all reasons to blame according to the BBC.[25][26][27]
- National security advisor Fahad Yasin does not receive a FEIT certification for his seat after it is nullified by the electoral commission for electoral irregularities and is scheduled for a re-run.[25]
- The first women-run radio and television company opens in Mogadishu. Supported by the United Nations, Bilan Media plans to produce stories important to women and their rights.[28]
- April 16 – A new ATMIS leader is expected to come to Somalia to replace Francisco Madeira after a controversy on 6 April soured relations.[21]
- April 18 – Terrorist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a mortar fire attack on Somalia's parliament that injures at least six people during the joint session.[29]
- April 19 – The Somali government and a U.S. based company Coastline Exploration Ltd. dispute over the validity of an oil exploration agreement reached in February in Istanbul. Minister of petroleum and mineral resources Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed is happy to implement the oil deal, which after a 5% royalty would split profit 50/50, while Somali President Mohamed and PM Roble reject the deal, declaring it "null and void," citing government decrees banning all ministries and government agencies from signing agreements with foreign governments and organizations until the ongoing parliamentary elections are finalized.[30]
- April 22 – An Al-Shabaab suicide bombing takes place at the Pescatore Seafood Restaurant in Lido Beach, killing at least six people and injuring seven.[31]
- April 25 – Two legislators accuse intelligence agents of opening fire on a lawmaker's car and getting into a shootout outside a hotel where parliamentarians were being sworn in. This alleged attack is condemned by PM Roble.[32]
- April 26
- Speaker of the House Abdi Hashi Abdullahi is reelected in a vote by the 54-seat Upper House of Parliament. In the vote, Abdullahi won 28 votes while his rival Salah Jama got only 24 votes. Osman Dubbe won the remaining 2 votes.[33]
- PM Roble authorises ATMIS peacekeepers to secure an aeroplane hangar in Mogadishu where a speaker of the lower house of parliament should be voted on on 27 April, and to take care of the necessary security responsibilities for a successful election as well. President Mohamed countermanded the order, saying police are responsible for security.[32][34]
- April 27
- Internal Minister of Security Abdullahi Haji Hassan Mohamed Nuur, close ally of PM Roble, suspends the Chief of Police, Maj. Gen. Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar for "sabotaging" elections and taking instructions from Villa Somalia, which are supposed to conclude today with the Lower House electing the leadership of the new parliament. In order to still ensure the security of the elections, the work of the Commander will continue with the Deputy Commander.[32][34][35]
- Before his dismissal, Maj. Gen. Hijar insisted he wanted the lower house elections today to be postponed because he could not guarantee proper security.[34]
- Police try to block the entrance to the aeroplane hangar organized yesterday for lower house parliament elections to take place in, but Roble's security forces ordered them to leave, according to Reuters journalists at the scene.[32]
- April 28
- Lower House parliamentary elections conclude, electing Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur in a vote that was delayed most of the previous day due to disagreements over security of the venue of the vote. Nur beat his nearest rival 98 to 74 votes.[36] Both President Mohamed and PM Roble send congratulatory messages on their Twitter accounts.[37][38]
Upcoming
- May 17 – Elections must be concluded by this date for the nation to continue to receive funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced in February.[32]
Deaths
- March 23
- Amina Mohamed Abdi, 40, politician, victim of suicide bombing.[14]
- Hassan Dhuhul, unknown age, politician, victim of suicide bombing.[39]
- April 3 – Zahra Jama, 80, one of the first Somali immigrants to Britain, unknown death.[40]
See also
External links
- Somalia encourages foreign investments to fix its energy crisis (Early 2022 Development in Somalia)
References
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