Is Mr. Hassan’s “Election” as “President” Catering to Mr. Guelleh’s Needs or Somalia’s Interests?
Ref. SF/EC-019-2000
Monday, August 28, 2000 (00.30 GMT
After months of coerced pushing and manipulation, the so-called Somalia peace conference is all but concluded with the “election” of Abdulqasim Salad Hassan, Barre’s former interior minister, as “president” on Friday August 25, 2000.
To the international observers, who have witnessed the acute lack of a state for Somalia proper …