Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS; Somali: Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya, DFS; Arabic: الحكومة الفيدرالية الصومالية) is the internationally recognised government of Somalia, and the first attempt to create a central government in Somalia since the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic.
By 2012, Somali powerbrokers agreed on a provisional constitution with a loose federal structure and established a central government in Mogadishu called the Somali Federal Government (SFG).
Somaliland, which declared independence from Somalia in 1991 amid a descent into conflict, has sustained its own government, currency and security structures despite lacking international recognition. Over the years, the region has built a stable political environment, contrasting sharply with Somalia’s ongoing struggles with insecurity.
Somalia, easternmost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of Arabia and southwestern Asia.
The Office of the Prime Minister, Federal Republic of Somalia is focusing on these six pillars Liberation and Security Architecture, Justice and Independent Judiciary, Economic Growth, Social Development, Somalia Peace with Itself and the World.
As rival warlords tore the country apart into clan-based fiefdoms, an internationally-backed unity government formed in 2000 struggled to establish control, with separatist movements in the two...
Afflicted by decades of conflict, recurrent climatic shocks, disease outbreaks and poverty, Somalia was often called a ‘failed state.’ The narrative is now changing and, although fragile,...
Somalia’s federal and state government are weak – dependent on international aid agencies working through local partners to deliver humanitarian relief. The political gridlock has diverted what little attention tends to be paid to those critical humanitarian needs – which includes the close to 3.5 million people threatened by the worst ...
The Security Council welcomed the agreement reached on Thursday by the Somali federal government and the federal member states leaders on the implementation of the 17 September Electoral Model.
Somalia has won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council - hailed as a significant step for the war-torn nation.