GAROWE, Somalia -- Amidst damaging political deadlock, Somalia donors gathered for a summit discussing New Deal Compact for Reconstruction and Development on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
More than 140 countries attended the two-day high level partnership forum on Somalia that is being co-chaired by Federal Government of Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and United Nations under-secretary general for political affairs Jeffrey D. Feltman.
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Speaking at the event, President Mohamud noted that New deal Somali Compact became a testament to the partnership between the war-ravaged horn of Africa nation and the international community. He added that his administration laid the basic building blocks of state reform, developed legal frameworks, re-structured key institutions, developed the path for political reform and put in place the architecture for linking international support to Somalia priorities through the New Deal Compact.
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On his side, D. Feltman told participants that Somalia can't afford to relapse into anarchy and division.
The political infighting between President and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed was also raised in the two-day ministerial forum on Somalia, with the donors asking the two to bring the dispute to an end. |