Fueled by Bribes, Somalia’s Election Seen as Milestone of Corruption (Farmaajo is Somali President!)
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Trajan
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Lol yh.
Private school + son of a legendary figure. Gives you a certain kind of aura.
He's a professional at this speech ting.
I was skimming through some of the vids...Gelle is pretty good as well
. Like he was going off the dome.
thatrapsfan
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Lol yh.
Private school + son of a legendary figure. Gives you a certain kind of aura.
He's a professional at this speech ting.
I was skimming through some of the vids...Gelle is pretty good as well
IOG really knows how to play the Somalinimo card well
That n1cca eating well and protected by the entire world, probably the most secure corrupt dictator in Africa.
Grano-Grano
The Bando
#MSGA 
Broke Wave
The GOAT
Being an Obama era American plant is not antithetical to being a good president
I wouldn't be surprised if he met with Obama and his staff to prepare this whole thing. Quid pro quo, it's the game that needs to be played.
thatrapsfan
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Trajan
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Any particular quotes? He definitely holds American democracy in high regard and is pro-Western
but he's not a ''plant'' per se. The MPs voted on their own accord. In fact wasn't HSM winning at first?Lol we don't need those problems
We just need to be allowed to breathe for a little bit.
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88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Being an Obama era American plant is not antithetical to being a good president
I wouldn't be surprised if he met with Obama and his staff to prepare this whole thing. Quid pro quo, it's the game that needs to be played.
A Kenyan conspiracy emerges.
Tribaligenesis
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Were looking at 50 years of turmoil.if we manage to survive the first 25 years. We can start looking at ways.in which to reach the status of a developing country.
thatrapsfan
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this is basically his life story, which we already knew. What's deflating about this?Unless you thought he'd be a revolutionary, well then
Grano-Grano
The Bando
Any particular quotes? He definitely holds American democracy in high regard and is pro-Western
Lol we don't need those problems
We just need to be allowed to breathe for a little bit.
We definitely do need breathing space word to Hitler. Give it 20 years
Being an Obama era American plant is not antithetical to being a good president
I wouldn't be surprised if he met with Obama and his staff to prepare this whole thing. Quid pro quo, it's the game that needs to be played.
I hope so breh
Any particular quotes? He definitely holds American democracy in high regard and is pro-Western
"He earned a master’s degree in political science at New York State University in Buffalo. His thesis was titled: “U.S. Strategic Interest in Somalia.”"
"In 1999, Mohamed rallied minority voters to support Giambra, a Democrat-turned-Republican running for county executive, and Mohamed registered as a Republican."
"U.S. officials might be feeling equally sunny about his prospects. Here is a man well-versed in the ways of American politics, who is deeply popular in his country"
"According to Abdi Ismail Samatar, a University of Minnesota professor who was part of a commission appointed by parliament to observe the election process and stop the exchange of cash on the voting floor, there is little reason to believe any of the major candidates—Mohamed included—had abstained. “I am quite confident that all of the four or five major candidates were deeply implicated in the buying of votes,” Samatar told POLITICO. “That includes the incoming President Mohamed.”
I had been wondering how he managed to win against opponents who had large amounts of money/state backings... come to find out he wasn't exactly lacking in that area himself.
Unless you thought he'd be a revolutionary, well then
Honestly, I didn't know anything about his background aside from folks excitement and their belief of how clean/incorruptible he is. So yeah, I did kind of think he was a revolutionary
Somalia is basically a UN Trusteeship managed by the US/UK/EU and Arab Gulf states who are the main donors to the government.
There's a lot of dynamic developments with civil society and there was a lot of economic activity going on in the private sector. There are some well to do people but there's no set of oligarchs who control everything.
If Farmaajo has a government that somehow actually made small steps towards a real Somali army and police force and administered its budget efficiently and directly to the constituents... then things could definitely look up
But I'm not gonna hold my breah cause Somali politics is the worst
Rome wasn't built in a day :Farmajo: