{"id":12030,"date":"2022-03-31T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:04:22","slug":"somalias-economy-is-hanging-by-a-thread-due-to-postponed-elections-according-to-finance-minister-beileh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/somalias-economy-is-hanging-by-a-thread-due-to-postponed-elections-according-to-finance-minister-beileh\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s economy is hanging by a thread due to postponed elections, according to Finance Minister Beileh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While Somalia is still fighting a low-level insurgency led by Al-Shabaab, the country has recovered from the point where it was on the verge of &#8220;melting away as a country,&#8221; according to finance minister Abdirahman Beileh. The country has the potential to become more self-sufficient, but political instability and security threats are impeding its progress. Beileh tells The Africa Report that the country&#8217;s delayed presidential election is a major roadblock.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beileh is a well-known poet and lyricist. Somalia&#8217;s finance minister&#8217;s latest song expresses his dissatisfaction with the country&#8217;s political leadership. His lyrics implore irresponsible politicians to look out for the Somali people above all else.<\/p>\n<p>After President Mohamed &#8216;Farmaajo&#8217; Abdullahi Mohamed&#8217;s mandate expired on February 8, the country was set to hold an indirect presidential election last year. However, disagreements over the implementation of a new electoral model have repeatedly pushed the election back. The first round of parliamentary elections was held at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Somalia is still fighting a low-level insurgency led by Al-Shabaab, the country has recovered from the point where it was on the verge of &#8220;melting away as a country,&#8221; according to finance minister Abdirahman Beileh. The country has the potential to become more self-sufficient, but political instability and security threats are impeding its progress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dhaqaalaha"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}