Qatari special envoy in Somalia over electoral impasse
Somali MPs attend a special assembly where the president was requesting for abandonment of the two-year extension of his presidential term and immediate elections to ease the recent political crisis at Villa Hargeisa in Mogadishu on May 1, 2021.
Before his arrival in Mogadishu, he was in Somaliland where he met President Bihi.
Dr al-Qahtani is well known in Doha and Washington for steering negotiations between the Taliban and the Afhani government which would allow US forces to depart without leaving a security gap.
Qatar has sent a special envoy from the office of the Foreign Minister, Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani, to Somalia to engage with the country's political rivals in what could be a change in tack for the Gulf country that has been siding with President Mohamed Farmaajo.
