🚨 MOGADISHU MOVES AHEAD WITH NEARLY $90 MILLION IN SOLAR AND BATTERY PROJECTS
Somalia is taking steps to improve Mogadishu’s energy infrastructure through two major solar and battery-storage projects.
Together, the projects are expected to deliver:
110 MW of solar power
320 MWh of battery storage
The initiatives involve companies from:
🇺🇸 United States
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇨🇳 China
🇳🇬 Nigeria
The contracts have been awarded to two international partnerships:
Jazeera: A U.S.–Turkish–Saudi consortium developing one of the projects
Daynile: A Chinese–Nigerian consortium responsible for the other
If completed as planned, the projects could help Mogadishu reduce its dependence on diesel generators and provide residents with more reliable electricity. They could also improve the stability of the city’s power system, expand clean energy generation, and strengthen Somalia’s wider energy infrastructure.
Deputy PM, @SalahJama officially opened the #Somalia–#China Business Networking Forum in Mogadishu, bringing together government officials, diplomats, business leaders and investors from both countries.
He urged Chinese companies to explore investment opportunities in Somalia, particularly in infrastructure, manufacturing, fisheries, agriculture, energy, transport and logistics, stressing that stronger trade ties should create jobs and boost domestic production.
The Shabelle River in southern Somalia 🇸🇴
Somalia has 3 rivers and nearly 9 million hectares of cultivable land.
To put this into perspective, Somalia’s cultivable land alone is larger than the entire UAE, which covers about 8.36 million hectares (83,600 km²).
Somalia’s economy is leapfrogging legacy systems, driven by mobile money density and dynamic fintech innovation. 🇸🇴💡
👉 Read the full analysis on Somalia’s booming digital economy:
https://t.co/NczF8GGHUC
The Deputy Prime Minister, @SalahJama addressed the Somalia-China Networking Business Forum in Mogadishu, highlighting Somalia’s untapped potential for investment opportunities.
The forum brought together Chinese and Somali businesses, investors, companies, and government representatives to explore trade, investment, and partnership opportunities.
Local vendors in Mogadishu are being forced out of their shops to secure presidential motorcades while displacement camps receive zero aid
Demolishing small businesses to secure an illegal stay is targeted economic violence
Misusing international aid funds to buy clan loyalties instead of supporting public hospitals and schools ruins our credibility
Diverting state resources into political bribery directly harms citizens
Foreign aid belongs to the Somali nation, not Villa Somalia
President @HassanSMohamud received Letters of Credence from the following Ambassadors at the Villa Somalia Presidential Palace:
1. Mohamed Alim, People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria
2. Joao Alfredo dos Anjos, Federative Republic of Brazil
3. Dr. Adarsh Swaika, Republic of India
4. Dr. Madou Diallo, Republic of Mali
5. Aung Min Oo, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
6. Danlami Ibrahim, Federal Republic of Nigeria
7. Aqsa Nawaz, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
The former National Security Advisor to President Hassan Sheikh, Hussein Moalim, who also serves as an opposition member of the government he once advised, initiated a political critique against the new Speaker of the Somali Parliament, Hon. Jama.
This event took place shortly after he received an expression of gratitude from his Turkish counterpart.
The Hussein Moalim's message conveyed was: "#Cyprus is a country recognized by the international community and is a member of the #EuropeanUnion .
This issue is a red line for us." Moalim implied that a response undermining our territorial sovereignty could be incited by a seemingly innocuous phone call intended to capture his photograph.
He further remarked that the mistakes and internal challenges faced within the country are now being exposed and exploited internationally, thus emphasising the fragile state of our national unity and sovereignty.
#Somalia
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud @HassanSMohamud has received the Letters of Credence of seven new ambassadors at Villa Somalia, representing Algeria, Brazil, India, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan.
The ambassadors were received with full diplomatic honours and a guard of honour from the armed forces. The President heard their plans and the priority each attaches to strengthening cooperation with Somalia across politics, the economy, development, security and social affairs. Among them is Aqsa Nawaz, the first woman Pakistan has sent to Somalia as ambassador.
@TheVillaSomalia #Somalia