This past week, Somalia was concluding the much delayed polls by awarding elected legislators their certificates of victory. Then three things happened to upset the seemingly quiet political period.
One, a key member of the federal government, the South West state, distanced itself from the electoral programme, accusing Prime Minister Hussein Roble of undercutting federal regions; two, the national spy agency, National Intelligence and Security Agency (Nisa), warned of an imminent attack on both the PM and President Mohamed Farmaajo; and three, the PM and president disagreed in public on whether to expel an envoy of the African Union or not.
