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MOGADISHU, November 14 2026 Two Somali opposition groups led by former Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke and former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo have agreed in principle to accept President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s invitation to talks, a source close to their meeting told Dawan Media.
The National Unity Alliance, led by Sharmarke, and the Nabad iyo Nolol (Peace and Life) party, led by Farmaajo, reached the decision at a meeting on Friday evening, the source said.
The two groups will continue efforts to ensure the talks are inclusive and bring together all relevant parties, the source added.
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“We have not been informed of the venue for the talks proposed by the president. Therefore, as things stand, we do not know where we are expected to go,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The decision came as another opposition bloc, the Somalia Future Council, said it would boycott the talks, which the president had called for Saturday at Villa Somalia. The council has told an international mediation quartet of the United States, Britain, the European Union and Türkiye that it remains open to negotiations but wants them facilitated by the quartet, sources told Dawan Media.
The talks come amid a deepening dispute between the government and the opposition over constitutional amendments, the terms of office of state institutions and the format of elections.