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Since Hassan Ali Khaire was ousted this summer, Somalia has not had a formal prime minister, but it is now clear that Somali Swede Mohamed Hussein Roble will be the country’s head of government. A controversial issue has been the general elections that are scheduled for February, but which the head of state wants to postpone.
Mohamed Hussein Roble He arrived in Sweden in early 1992, right at the beginning of the civil war in Somalia. Just five years later, he became a Swedish citizen. Studies in Sweden include a master’s degree in environmental technology from the year 2000 at the Royal Institute of Technology.
He then moved to different addresses in the western part of Stockholm until he disappeared from the Tax Agency records at the end of 2004 and since the summer of 2007 he has been discharged there on the grounds of “no known address”.
He later had a PhD position at the University of Birmingham and then a job at the UN-linked educational body ITCILO in Turin.
A challenge for Roble will be meeting people’s demands for greater security. Clans, terrorist groups and other extra-parliamentary groups have long been important power factors in the country, which is hard hit by problems such as corruption and drought.
Somalia is highly dependent on development assistance, where Sweden is an important partner with, among other things, SEK 600 million a year.
DN has sought out Mohamed Hussein Roble.
