Africa: Somalia - a Government With One Foot Out the Door

[African Arguments] Somalia's foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight

Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid Haji, arrived at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport aboard a flight from Mogadishu. Kenyan immigration officers stopped him at th