Another round of talks to resolve Somalia’s election deadlock has ended without a deal in Mogadishu with Information Minister Osman Dubbe blaming leaders of Puntland and Jubbaland regional governments for the failure of the talks.
At a press conference Dubbe said leaders of Somalia’s regional States Puntland and Jubbaland are not willing to hold elections based on the 17th Sept. agreement and the 16th Feb. agreement.
The negotiations collapsed as the international community pressed Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo and leaders of federal states to reach a deal.
Some issues of contention include the forming of the electoral commission, selecting commission members for the breakaway region of Somaliland, and the crisis in the Somalia-Kenya border region of Gedo.
Critics have accused President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo who is seeking a second term, of delaying the election to extend his current mandate which officially expired in February.
The electoral impasse has plunged Somalia into a political crisis and there are concerns that terrorist group Al Shabab might exploit the disagreement to further undermine the fragile security of the Horn of Africa.
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