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...“I usually ascribe whatever is happening in Somalia not to the leader but to the community surrounding the leader,” says Nuruddin Farah, the famed chronicler of the country....
...“Their [Ahlu Sunna’s] plan is to just take the opportunity in this . . . vacuum time of the elections to press on,” said Farah Abdi Moalim, Guriel’s district commissioner and himself a former Ahlu Sunna...
...Guelleh, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, defeated his rival, the businessman and political newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah, who dismissed the results as “far-fetched and incorrect — impossible”....
...The main opposition rival, newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah, said that “99 per cent has never happened in the world, except in a country of extreme dictatorship”....
...“The election has been managed very transparently and accountably,” says Mohamed Farah, the director of the Academy for Peace and Development, a research institute in the capital Hargeisa....
...Abdi Farah Shirdon, Somalia’s prime minister, said the decision would continue a vital service for millions of ordinary Somalis....
...Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid has asked Barclays to reconsider its decision....
...“The fact is that our enemies are in decline and retreat across Somalia,” said prime minister Abdi Farah Shirdon following the attacks. “… This pointless and pathetic act will have no effect on our government...
...“More than 35 per cent are [owned by] diaspora,” says managing director Abdi Dorre, himself a one-time refugee who was taken in by Sweden in the 1990s....
...“Somalis are business-minded people,” says Abdi Wali Abdullahi, a former army captain who entered Kenya as a refugee in 1991....
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