{"id":4336,"date":"2020-12-06T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2020-12-07T01:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T01:46:31","slug":"somalia-expels-kenyan-envoy-lucas-tumbo-over-poll-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2020\/12\/06\/somalia-expels-kenyan-envoy-lucas-tumbo-over-poll-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Expels Kenyan Envoy Lucas Tumbo Over &#8216;Poll Interference&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202011300170.html\">Article Link:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Kenya and Somalia have been having diplomatic issues and have been close to cutting ties. In February, the President of Somalia signed a law allowing citizens to vote in parliamentary elections, but Jubaland kept their bill to hold indirect elections. Preparations for the election began in the beginning of November, but now Somalia believes that Kenya has been interfering with their elections in the Jubaland State (southern Somalia). The Foreign Affairs Secretary of Somalia recalled their ambassador to Kenya and forced the Kenyan ambassador, Lucas Tombo, to leave Mogadishu as a result of these suspicions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia has already been having a lot of internal issues, especially between Mogadishu and Jubaland, and is a very fragile state. In September, they both reached an agreement to let Jubaland have indirect elections as long as Mogadishu administered it and counted the polls. Recently, the President of Jubaland reneged from the agreement, and the central government blamed Kenya for the interference. By using Kenya as the scapegoat, Somalia may be hoping to put off violence. Citizens in Mogadishu have been arming themselves, and in hopes of avoiding violence against citizens in Jubaland, they pointed the finger at Kenya.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia is a prime example of the realist school of thought. The country is divided into provinces like, Mogadishu and Jubaland. Although they are united by one state, each province still looks out for their own interests. Provinces are resisting Mogadishu\u2019s laws because they think they are gaining too much power, which is why Jubaland wants to keep it\u2019s indirect elections in place. The state of distrust will continue to create tensions among each province, especially the capitol and Jubaland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Link: Recently, Kenya and Somalia have been having diplomatic issues and have been close to cutting ties. In February, the President of Somalia signed a law allowing citizens to vote in parliamentary elections, but Jubaland kept their bill to hold indirect elections. Preparations for the election began in the beginning of November, but now Somalia believes that Kenya has&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2020\/12\/06\/somalia-expels-kenyan-envoy-lucas-tumbo-over-poll-interference\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}