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programs will be with documentaries and. subscribe to you she would slash al-jazeera english. political dispute turns into a gun fire on the streets of the somali capital that has delayed elections so well so molly politicians find a common ground on what this crisis to rael the recent progress to word stability this is inside story. hello welcome to the program hashem somalia has been working to west a bit since its 1st democratically elected government in that cate's came to power

into a 1012 but a dispute about this month's delayed election is fueling divisions and worsening lambaste grievances the presidential vote was missed after the government failed to agree with the regional leaders on how the poll should be held now there is anger and confusion as to whether the president should remain in office after his term expires and the standoff led to gunfire on the streets of mogadishu on friday we'll bring in our guests in a moment but 1st this report from katherine sawyer. barely heard a protest march started in the other airports when this happened. an intense firefight between government forces and paul opposition fighters the demonstration had been called by opposition presidential candidates and was being led by some of them they included somalia's former prime minister of hiding and opposition leader abdul rahman of. delays in holding

a presidential election and the continued. life for my job and the top post after his stomach speired 2 weeks ago the opposition blames government forces for provoking the fight on. today security forces opened fire against peace rally in mogadishu this happened as the event was being widely watched in the media and the world as a result of this some have died and others were wounded the prime minister mohammed was saying says opposition fighters fired the 1st shots every citizen has the right to demonstrate peacefully and for the security services to be the ones to guard the demonstrators and ensure their safety but we will not accept demonstrations guarded by forces outside the state parades this is unacceptable the constitution does not accept and we won't accept any shape or form. several people were injured in buildings around the airport destroyed by rocket propelled grenade launched by an

identified man. 3 other presidential candidates were also quite happy in an exchange of gunfire between security forces and unknown gunmen at a hotel in the city on friday the president of ordering the attack saying it was an attempt to assassinate them mogadishu is now calm but tense many people say they want an end to the security and sat in but they also know the longer their political leaders feel to agree on how an election will be run and who will be in charge of the country in the meantime there was a situation can get catherine sorry al-jazeera. let's take a closer look at somalia's long struggle to restore stability it hasn't had a stable central government says line 991 when the regional leaders overthrew the battery led to decades of civil war in 2007 fighters advanced into southern and central somalia and controlled last ways of the country they were pushed back by

its european and african forces in the years that followed by 2012 somalia's 1st for parliament in more than 2 decades was sworn in by the government struggle to assert control beyond what god is sure now the nation is facing the continuing attacks by a covert 19 and a locust infection that's created for shortages. let's bring in our guests in mogadishu hossain shaikh founder and chairman of the think tank here is that you that in birmingham the. political analyst and doctoral student of the university of birmingham in minneapolis minnesota muhammad ali has and founder and president of the so mali american peace council war welcome to you all her saying why haven't elections been held on time as per the

per the law. well is the question that everybody is asking why is is not the 1st time actually that the. election is delayed from its. date but this time what is. happening is this. is coming at a time that there is no agreement on a mobile the. and it would have to call agreement where all actors are happy with that kind of model that people have. a shot. on this elections so. 2012 it was delayed almost a year 201678 it was delayed and at 5 months

but that was what was tabled and this because this time it's more contentious and the current president not be forthcoming and giving the big stick almost a confidence that the when ted from the cabinet and it's ok muhammad who should we blame for this but to delay the political it establishment represented by a president for muscle or is it the situation is very difficult with covert 19 of therefore it's about time to give the country a chance to get its act together before moving to the ballots. well i blame president for my job because the previous guy's a law that extended 6 months or one year you are going through a process if you cannot make an agreement with the regional governments it's very difficult to could make some concessions like indyk in the case of good old.

generosity coming under a jubilant and i tell you the other problem is so malia one thing they were good about it because the side of the military she was always having a peaceful reconciliation this time prevented her margin is a mistake should be dropped the ball so i blame squarely the problem although there was also some problems to go around most of the problem goes because the buck should stop with the president of do what it is it about the modality of the vote which is not any way a perfect thing for a country like somalia because it's a process where come people. agree on a superdelegate a valid delegate is going to choose the parliament the parliament in its own turn would choose the president is this the particular problem there is they sing the nation as we speak now i think before i go into that my fellow countryman necessary. to simply simplistic to point a finger to one person and.

instead 'd of discussing about the. situation of somalia someone is take hold is. once the outcome to a hole in it this including the regional governments that includes the gulf states and money is take hold the. money is in a situation where the government. is not able to execute what the lows of the country what has been agreed upon and that was the bug or the foundation of all the more that. there was. a mole. in october 2020 which. was an annex to agreement or 17 september which was the model which further member states for the government have agreed upon. the timeline and the mortality off of the election

and that low low number 20 allows the government letter institutions including for the member states the government and the prime minister having the president to be in to be in power while they will be replaced i think and pointing the finger to any particular is too simplistic the other thing i want i want to add into the. simplistic things. and the opposition. i put it this in 2 presidential aspirants who called themselves presidential. candidates the presidential candidates also mali is more than 100 because there was a professional or official. political party all of the candidates or more than 10101 in. this presidential candidates which

includes 2 former presidents are. part of that i am what they put their courage on to for their member states rather then putting their cart into a political party where there was and party lost but this is this is this has all mission always has always been there the nature of political landscape in somalia let me just go to i'll get back to before the time being let me go to her saying she highly percent was it smart or for the opposition to decide that after february that a normal recognition of the of the digital mysie of president for marshall. well i'm not i'm a legal expert but clearly. for my dual use in very. difficult and unknown territory where

we haven't been before because the area extensions that we were talking about. where some sort of an agreement with the rest of the stick with us this time. a favorite past why the big cut and president have no agreement to me that is they called us to accept that he will be in charge in the country until the election happens so that's why the equipment of the opposition figures and even some of the region are. doing the brazilian team in the bill of somebody illegally and and then that is not clearly explaining himself. even the difficulties the kind of go around. there every time that the public want to hear from him his excuses he goes

about blaming everybody else but themselves including 14 states and this is the most ridiculous you know in the last year in such a particular situation normally any other decent country would have the highest cause to tuition of oddities coming forward and saying basically this is the situation the way it is and this is our own interpretation of the constitution and therefore this is the way it should be moving forward. this looks like a politically motivated move by all the parties just to gain more political advantage to the point where jubilant. leaders for example are saying the reason why they're concerned about the modalities of the vote they think that's just trying to manipulate the votes of the own area from mogadishu. absolutely right now let me respond to my plan. briefly please if you don't mind yes it is not basically simplistic my answer i just answered the question i was

without you really can't seem to recall the backstop to the president this kind of president quayle trouble a big time the other 3 you've got me siding with the manipulated it well it grows to use the tool you doing gerrymandering and the other that just will not go other present before and before him eventually compromised and they want some election so the blame have to go to the president ok i'm not making some mistake about the other question that you ask if you're right we don't have a good model to college already and i think it's my choice i would have said the government that's not very strong to do kids are sheep in a particular trying to be this presently doesn't work we don't need to have every region to share a prison usually when president in another time there is a lot of problems until one of course but ok should i blame squarely the guy who left united states was like elected. all right just listening to you it's quite obvious that somalia has its will take some time for the somalis to move forward

and forget about the case of civil war twice and regional politics up to one if this is a decides if year for somalia either you have elections more forward or the nation could descend into further chaos and anarchy is there a general sentiment among the huge sections of the society that is sabella time for the somalis to set aside all those regional differences for them to build a unified country. i think. i believe the somalis and most of the summons wants. to move forward to get out of this. and they wanted an election to happen and that is also. where they stand or. the. international community including the us and e.u. . they wanted. the agreement the 17 october agreement to

go ahead they do not want to. process it and that is what the somali people want ok the federal government the federal government yes we can point the finger but we have to let them. excuse that but if we if we blockade that and a lot of people are saying they severe that for michael will repent and he's a more popular than any other us friend and that is why they wanted to to force him out from the office and to go and to go back to or this is to put the model of 2001 this is something that would have to be ultimately decided by the by the by the saudi voters although i think we should agree that this is not a perfect. political model because the election itself is is really not reflective of what society should be doing look at the other neighboring countries

they have got a long way when it comes to representative democracy and transparency hosain big shots here in the election you have former president you have the current president financial former president hasn't my mom or don't you have said if and also you have the former prime minister who stands strong chances to elect as president. but with the long johns as well i we're not there yet to be honest because. we need to know exactly how things pan out in terms of the mortal and them without these and. because here in somalia the election more than he's another one person one vote where the day needs as and many other stakeholders involved but obviously the big names that you mention dad tells us because of you mentioned

. the biggest chances but there's also other people will be. part of the because he shouldn't have been campaigning very long time so it would not. put my bet yet mohamed do you have any concerns that if the summit is missed this particular approach should it to 2021 the could we go back to the years of civil war. well i agree that will never happen that was a bad lesson that's why i'm blaming the kind of president you derive in some sort of concession from your site because he's the main guy there there would have been a chance perhaps in our lifestyle or our way of life you chase you too will come when you shut up about some crowd god given who is going to become a major world nobody's expecting to come up and everybody including myself when unfortunately you are not popular the way you might say to someone in memphis he actually knows in trying to do all these gerrymandering out of the 5 regions field

them you manipulate the people who are there in the other 2 i'm glad now good learn enjoyable and refuse it because otherwise you can easily become we need a straight between issue that's not going to do the commission electric to be fair some people from the secular charities and and the government did they did the most important part is do so my loneliness well in mogadishu all these years who want to unity they tried to manipulate little rock there to protest through just next year . so much or which i really admire the guy he went down in the group came up he said we were not part of this petition will be may not make it we should never do that. in the country so i really would like to teach and that leader in greenville was a president some beach front is a trap really didn't matter that you could go to the good people and didn't know it he's that you are the reason why you ask me about the potential for this edition

and into anarchy and civil war there we go to abdul ali you know the grievances you're talking about are the same that were replicated since the eighty's when people were frustrated with c.s. barry and they said he dismissed other clans and he favored his own clan into government was saying seeing the same pattern being replicated across the political landscape in somalia sob dewani how are you optimistic that tomorrow is going to be a better day for somalia. i believe. but today for somalia and i it will for the opposite. for my jaw is pains to strain climb as i am a little bit. bernie who are the regional authorities who are going to say he saw in that sense i cannot see any any. tribal forces and playing a big role in the somali politics today. and what was happening in mogadishu

also was a reflection that. the presidential aspirants who are. not mobilized the people often additional yesterday so that is not the case i have a confidence in the in that and the other things and the big the big and obvious to me the points that this election has is the case which has been mentioned and the somaliland case and the case of again the region in particular the gather. and was in power for 9 years and he has never controlled get the region particularly and got a bihari they never recognized him and yes never been president i have been listening and he repeated 3 times calling some former president. instead presidents

to choose what the reality on the ground is i am a mother who has never been the president or. one region is controlled by shabab and another region was free for all men years and here confidence if you call it is within kiss my ok so pointing the finger to talk for far is this is not good all right so now instead of the how to move forward because of others to cover her if you don't mind. about about some other line case ok most is very well to. say do you have any concerns that this could play into the hands of a suburb they will take advantage of the situation they see the political impasse the popular disenchantment over their political leaders and they could just states a comeback like they did in the in the thousands. well i think these are the atrocities there are drivers the opposite situation he had in where. we had

about 20 minutes discussion and this is the 1st time we're mentioning a shot and we're not alone here in this discussion even in the addition where it. is the biggest. tax collector minority in the capital and in the entire country who are controlling most of the city or somebody that is completely out of the picture for me i just talking about. you know a lections and that the speed of the british as you know betty or anything and. if. the situation continues that we. obviously. they are the ones who can easily take a date and they can run over you know many many seats that is in our hands dinny mohamedi less than 30 seconds do you have the same concerns that the gains made

over the last 10 years could be easily wiped off and we will see. regain control of the capital mogadishu of the situation remains the way it is 30 seconds please well my friend you still go about the actually should they do a good job will they do it in mogadishu double takes or should actually one of you know robin we're not talking about michele the privilege about which i do with you guys we know your region but as the region is being taken there right i wish what living martin kady you know the most part which city in the world where. they have it we have it let's say these pictures you go to britain to ship it to much to thank you very much you can achieve say i get 30 people this is going to be i'll regional economy and this is going to be my last question to you ali what a country a voice to the fortunate is the gatekeeper to the red sea gateway between the indian ocean and the red sea the longest coastline in the african continent still with talking about the same problems the country has been grappling with for

decades and decades i think there was a lost opportunity. which the presidential aspirants. stick to. one man one vote which they missed and they delegated to for their remember the states i mean they missed to stick to electoral roll which was their an electoral commission which we take part in by omission but i think that was an opportunity which was missed ok thank you i really appreciate that. there are no control how do you get woodman would vote it's what you know are do i do i. got out there and. but you know what the end of the day this is going to this is my hope i just hope that the somalis were set aside those differences look at their neighbors in west africa countries that have gone through the same tragedies but at least managed to put together stitched together a vibrant democracy look at rwanda look at other countries in the west african. the

west out of the western part of africa thank you i really appreciate it and we will continue to revisit this story in our next episodes has saints a highly i do only go 130 has we appreciate your contribution thank you thank you and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website c.n.n. dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for was last a.j. it's a story you can also join the conversation on twitter a.j. and so i saw it from the hash mark but i and the entire team here in doha. the stage is set and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on asking me questions now as a new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only

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