Why Somalia PM ouster raises the stakes in election ruled by clannism

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Former Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (left) after Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo (centre) was elected new President of Somalia in Mogadishu, on February 8, 2017. PHOTO | ANADOLU AGENCY

The first universal suffrage poll is this year, a first in 50 years but wrangling, lack of proper laws, money and security, have conspired to make it impossible

Hassan Khaire, a former oil executive and humanitarian worker, may never have guessed that Saturday July 25 was going to be his last day as prime minister of Somalia.