Somalia skips international community-attended meeting with Somaliland in Nairobi

Villa Somalia’s absence from a meeting it previously agreed to, despite a formidable participation of the international community, is a preview of intent – observers note

The weak, internal community supported government at Villa Somalia, Mogadishu, chose to absent itself from a meeting it previously agreed to with the organizing Geneva-based international agency.

The meeting between the two sides was to have been facilitated by the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue.

The agenda was spelled out by the heading which read ‘Consensus Building Meeting for Somalia-Somaliland Dialogue Process’, and was slated to open at 9:30 in the morning of Tuesday, 25 June 2019, at the Windsor Golf and Country Club Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya