Somalia: Presidential election for hope

A strategic country in East Africa for its control of the Gulf of Aden and the gates of the Indian Ocean, Somalia will hold presidential elections in February 2021 that are important for its future. Faced with Al-Shabab and the risk of dissolution of the country, the candidate Abshir Aden Ferro is today the one who is in a better position to win and hope to put an end to the country’s difficulties.

The Horn of Africa, gateway to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, Somalia has a very rich history of trade, culture and encounters between peoples. Its contemporary history has been marked by a long civil war which is remembered in France by the « Rice for Somalia » operation launched by Bernard Kouchner in 1992 and by the American intervention Restore Hope which ended in the defeat of Mogadishu in 1993. With nearly 3,300 km of coastline, Somalia is a strategic position for the control of the Gulf of Aden, the Straits of Hormuz, and the Bab el-Mandeb where nearly a third of world trade passes through.

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