There is a famous quote from Somali President @HassanSMohamud that critics often recall. Defending the presence of his children in key government institutions, he said that if they are qualified for the job, “why not hire them and give them the same right as any other?”
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President Hassan Sheikh’s daughter Jihan, acting as de facto foreign minister, wields power without experience, while her husband Adam Hussein Roble was appointed to lead a state bank. Read our report on the nepotism scandal of the Somali presidency.
Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has defended the government’s contentious allocation of public land in Mogadishu to private developers, despite growing public outrage.