In Somalia, politics lives in two different worlds. In Mogadishu’s Villa Somalia, it is debated in conference rooms over clan formulas and delayed elections. _Hassan Ibrahim, writing for CAJ International Magazine from Mogadishu,_ reports that in Baidoa’s IDP camps, in Bakara Market, and on the road to Jowhar, it is lived as hunger, displacement, and fear. For more than 17 million Somalis, every political fallout between the federal government and member states, every stalled policy, every security vacuum has a human cost. While leaders argue over power, ordinary people pay with empty markets, closed schools, and journeys for water. This is the story of Somalia’s political crisis, told not from parliament, but from the people bearing its weight.
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