Somalia on edge as president, PM clash over intelligence chief
Al JazeeraOpen row between Somalia’s two most powerful leaders intensifies after they name different men to head the intelligence service. Somalia’s two most powerful leaders were locked in a deepening standoff on Wednesday after they named different men to head the politically unstable Horn of Africa nation’s intelligence service. The president called Roble’s move unconstitutional and, late on Tuesday, named a third man, Yasin Abdullahi Mohamed, to head the agency. Roble accused Mohamed of “obstructing effective investigation of Ikran Tahlil Farah’s case”, referring to the agent who went missing while working in the intelligence agency’s cybersecurity department. ‘Rapid resolution’ Meanwhile, the United Nations, African Union Mission in Somalia, the United States, the European Union, and East African bloc IGAD pressed the country’s leaders to end their dispute as a matter of urgency.
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