Alliance for the Future

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Chair: Abshir Aden Ferro (@AbshirFerro)

🇸🇴 Hope 🇸🇴 Peace 🇸🇴 Security

Anti-corruption. One person, one vote.

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Before politics, Abshir spent four years volunteering with disabled children in London and supporting Somali refugees rebuilding their lives in Britain. Service, not status.

#HopePeaceSecurity #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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XIM Chair @AbshirFerro enjoyed meeting Lord Oates, co-Chair of the parliamentary @AfricaAPPG, in the House of Lords last week. Abshir updated Lord Oates on the African Union's Somalia Mission withdrawing from the country and on his plans to empower #Somalia's young people.

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For 50 years, corruption has been the cost of doing business in Somalia. I refuse to pay it. Somalia's wealth belongs to Somalis.

#MrCleanSomalia #EndCorruption #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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Three million Somali children are out of school, vulnerable to exploitation and recruitment. Abshir will fight for their right to an education.

#EducateSomalia #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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20 years of AU troops in Somalia are ending. Villa Somalia still isn't ready. Abshir Aden Ferro says it's time Somalia stood on its own feet, not on foreign crutches. 🇸🇴

#HopePeaceSecurity #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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Al-Shabaab has attacked Somalia over 8,000 times since 2020, stealing the aid our people desperately need. My plan cuts off their funding and restores real security.

#HopePeaceSecurity #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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They have taken our oil, our fish, our coastline, and called it aid. That arrangement is over.

#SomaliSovereignty #NewSomalia #AbshirFerroForSomalia

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Somali women held this country together through war, famine and displacement. Abshir believes their voice belongs at the centre of Somalia's rebirth - in politics, in business, in every room where decisions are made.

#WomenEmpowerment #Somalia

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Somalia's Supreme Court just annulled Villa Somalia's rigged Galmudug vote. This is what the fight for a real One Person, One Vote electoral system looks like. Abshir fought for this for years - others are now listening to him 🇸🇴

Read Abshir's blog: https://t.co/S4feqbGNsb

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Somali piracy is surging again. Our chairman @AbshirFerro sets out how cutting off ransom money and empowering young Somalis with real economic opportunity can end the crisis for good.

Read his blog: https://t.co/wMjiUfIdiN

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Abshir sat on the UN Counter-Piracy Contact Group and has advised UK Foreign Office ministers plus the French government and the EU on piracy since 2004.

Real international experience, not just talk.

#SecureSomalia #AbshirForSomalia

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12 journalists killed in Somalia since 2018. 50 more detained. For simply doing their jobs.

Do you think this is right?

#PressFreedom #AbshirForSomalia

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50,000 metric tons of fish caught off Somalia's coast - Somalia feeds the world. Imagine what's possible once corruption and instability stop holding that potential back.

#NewSomalia #AbshirForSomalia

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Somalia's youth unemployment is over two-thirds. Abshir will fight for real opportunity, not the false promise of extremism.

#NewSomalia #AbshirForSomalia

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Somali women held this country together while the men tore it apart. They will lead its rebirth.

#WomensEmpowerment #EqualSomalia #AbshirForSomalia

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90% of Somalia's oil, allegedly given away to Turkey. Somalia's resources should build Somalia's future - not someone else's.

Do you think this is right?

#SomaliSovereignty #AbshirForSomalia

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Piracy off Somalia's coast has surged past the last six years combined. It's not criminality - it's desperation. My plan: naval reform, coastal jobs, real opportunity.

#HopePeaceSecurity #AbshirForSomalia

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Somalia isn't poor. 🇸🇴 With Africa's longest coast, fisheries & untapped oil & gas, the real barrier to prosperity are secretive contracts, economic standstill & failure of leadership.

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Al-Shabaab has attacked Somalia over 8,000 times since 2020, stealing tens of millions in aid every week. Abshir's message is simple: lay down your weapons, or face Somali justice in Somali courts. Security is non-negotiable.

#Somalia #HopePeaceSecurity

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I fled war in Somalia as a child, but it gave me a purpose: to make sure no child has to flee again.

#HopePeaceSecurity #AbshirForSomalia