Somalia’s international partners have withheld funds insisting that Lower House elections must be held before the end of the year.
Details emerged on Thursday that the Trioka of US, Norway and the United Kingdom, the main financiers of the electoral programme, wrote a letter addressed to Somalia’s Prime Minister Hussein Roble, the five Federal Member State Presidents, the chair of the Federal Electoral Implementation Team and the Respective State Electoral Implementation Teams (SEITs urging all sides to stick to the latest electoral timeline.
