Villa Somalia’s contested, lopsided elections imperil Somalia’s stability and nation-building
Opinion | A Looming Disaster: Villa Somalia’s One-Sided Election Risks Unraveling Somalia’s Fragile State-Building
Somalia’s promised “one person, one vote” has become the centerpiece of a contentious election push out of Mogadishu. But the model advancing under Villa Somalia’s direction, far from cementing democratic progress, is being carried out in ways that are constitutionally shaky, institutionally partisan and geographically exclusionary. If pursued as is, the process could deepen mistrust between the federal center…