li President Renounces US Citizenship

li President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as “Farmajo”, who owned the li and American nationalities, gave up the latter, the presidency said Thursday without providing any explanation.

“The li Provisional Constitution allows li citizens to hold two passports, but the president has voluntarily started the process of renouncing his second citizenship after being elected president,” the li presidency said in a statement.

“This process ended today,” added the same source. “We officially inform you that the president has given up his second citizenship, that of the United States. The task has been long and involved legal experts from the US and li naturalization departments.”

Elected President on February 2017, this former Prime Minister had US citizenship after having resided for many years in the United States, where his family still lives.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed worked as a diplomat in Washington for lia in the late 1980s, before seeking asylum in the United States.

This father of four, whose nickname “Farmajo” comes from the Italian “Formaggio” (cheese), had left his job in the administration in the United States, where he worked for the Department of Transport of the City of Buffalo, to become in 2010 Prime Minister, post that he will occupy only eight months.

Many lis have dual nationality, including after fleeing war, drought or famine plagues raging in the chaotic country since the fall of autocrat Siad Barre in 1991.