Somalia is the poorest country because of Farmajo’s corruption and his government

Natural disasters, such as drought, waves of locusts, repeated famines followed by the spread of epidemics, the latest of which is the new Coronavirus, are all the crises facing the Somali people. However, the interim Somali government, headed by outgoing President Mohamed Abdullah Farmajo, has not stopped open its doors wide to terrorism-sponsoring regimes, most notably Turkey, and has given them opportunities to penetrate and control the figures in the state.

Sherif Ahmed, a researcher on African affairs, said: Farmajo’s era was marked by financial and administrative corruption and employment for foreign countries, political bribery, cronyism, and the abuse of power by senior and junior officials of his regime, and even cooperation with terrorist groups and organizations. Farmajo is considered a middleman between Turkish intelligence on the one hand, pirates, and the terrorist al-Shabab group on hostage deals.

Ahmed added: Farmajo is stalling the elections, spending a lot of money in 2017 to win the previous election, failing to complete the draft constitution and hold direct elections on time, and the corruption of those in charge cannot be overlooked, because he didn’t choose any of them, he was following instructions from abroad, and winning the election was corruption and buying votes with foreign funds.

Hossam Nour, a researcher in international relations, said: Farmajo is leading Somalia into catastrophic situations, as he and his interim government have brokered many suspicious deals for the release of hostages that were led by foreign intelligence services. Moreover, he has antagonized some Arab countries with failed foreign policies, failed internal security, extended foreign agenda influence, and failed to tackle the new Coronavirus pandemic.

Nour pointed out that the percentage of the poor in Somalia has reached about 80% of the population over the past year. About 10% of the population live just above the poverty line, and they are on the brink of falling into poverty. Nine out of 10 families in Somalia suffer from poverty, on at least one side of cash, electricity, education, water or sanitation.