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Somalia’s Farmaajo faces tough battle to break jinx of one term

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, during the inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu, Somalia on February 22, 2017. [Courtesy]

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo goes into this year’s election knowing that the country has a history of not having re-elected an incumbent since some semblance of democracy was restored with the election of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (2004-2008).

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