Mogadishu (PP Information Desk) — The Federal Authorities of Somalia expressed to IGAD its issues concerning “the disregard for Somalia’s sovereignty proven by Matt Bryden, the founding father of Sahan Analysis, throughout a latest convention in Ethiopia.” The curiosity in Bryden’s extradition course of stems from statements made by Bryden at a convention in Addis Ababa, the place he referred to Somalia as a failed state and described the maritime Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopia and the Somaliland administration as “authorized.”
In 2021, Bryden was sentenced to 5 years in jail by the Benadir Regional Court docket for leaking state secrets and techniques. The Director of Nationwide Intelligence and Safety Company(NISA) Abdullahi Mohamed Ali (aka Sanbaloolshe) is reportedly overseeing communications with the IGAD government on the matter. Underneath Sanbalolshe and his predecessor, Mahad Salad, NISA coordinated with the Ethiopian intelligence company in 2017 for the extradition of Abdikarim Qalbidhagah to Ethiopia and in 2023 with the Nationwide Intelligence Service for the extradition of Sufyaan Taakeeye from Kenya to Somalia.
A senior Somali authorities official, who requested anonymity, said, “NISA has been tasked with utilising its extradition experience to have interaction with Kenya concerning bringing Matt Bryden to justice to serve his custodial sentence in Mogadishu.” The Federal Authorities of Somalia has advocated with a number of IGAD member nations to make the Guiding Ideas and Guidelines of Procedures of IGAD binding and to align them with the articles on sovereignty within the African Union Constitution.
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