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Washington: The US has raised the threat of sanctions if Somalia troubled missed his latest deadline for the election.
Somali leaders on Sunday announced that the general election to be concluded last year will take place on February 25.
“Somali selection is more than a year behind the schedule. The US is ready to take steps against the spoiler if the new national consultation council timeline is not fulfilled,” the African Department of Foreign African Bureau in a Twitter post.
President Mohamed Mohamed Abdullahi Mohammed, better known as Farmajo, ended in February 2021 and extended controversy in April, triggered deadly wind porridge on the streets of Mogadishu.
The world’s power has voiced the fear that the postponement of elections, and ongoing disputes between Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble, could trigger new problems for a country that did not have stable governance for three decades.
Somalia fought against a deadly rebellion by the extremists of Al-Shabab and in the grip of drought that had left one in four people who faced acute hunger, according to the UN estimates.
Some people died on Wednesday in a bomb blast of a suicide car in Mogadishu, which was claimed by Al-Shabab.
The government said in a statement on Twitter that the explosion killed four people and injured six others, while a local government security officer previously told AFP that at least six people were killed.
