Realizing dreams against all odds!
By January 27, 2015, a very relative few people knew Mohamed A. Ibrahim (Farkeeti); the outgoing Finance Minister. He was not well known in the circle of Somalia politics until Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid assigned him to lead the country’s economic institutions and to envision reform policies that drive financial institutions into more transparency, accountability and further improve the government’s capacity to increase domestic revenue – one of the most challenging areas to reform. Today, he is regarded as a reformist, an orator, humble and a friendly economist who embarked policies that helped drive the country’s economic institutions into more progressive ways of development, and drastically changed the traditional way of business process into an automated model. His policies further helped strengthen the country’s effort to restore ties with International Financial Institutions (IFIs). Notwithstanding, Somalia governance institutions still remain substantially weak despi