# Berbera Corridor project manager resigns: what the 2020-07-09 report said

> Somaliland Standard reported on 2020-07-09 that Berbera Corridor project manager Eng. Mohamud Abdi Mohamed Dhudhi tendered his resignation.

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 30 September 2026
- Format: News story (reported from one named public source)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Business and Costs
- Tags: project-management, construction-risk, procurement
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/berbera-corridor-project-manager-resigns-2020

## Key points

- On 9 July 2020, Somaliland Standard reported that Eng. Mohamud Abdi Mohamed Dhudhi, project manager for the Berbera Corridor Highway, had tendered his resignation, and that President Musa Bihi Abdi accepted it.
- The report said the resignation was linked to differences with road and transport minister Abdilahi Abokor over reporting lines, and that Isse Yusuf Mohamed Hamari was named to replace Dhudhi.
- The report does not establish what has happened since 9 July 2020: no appointment record, no resignation date, no acceptance date and no subsequent project status are cited.

On 9 July 2020, Somaliland Standard reported that Eng. Mohamud Abdi Mohamed Dhudhi, the project manager for the construction of the Berbera Corridor Highway, had tendered his resignation. The same report said President Musa Bihi Abdi accepted it.

The report described Dhudhi as recently appointed. According to Somaliland Standard, President Bihi named him to the role in an official letter to the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development dated 3 June 2020. That letter is not reproduced in the report. Citing it only as the addressee, the report said the letter did not cite a role for the road and transport ministry and that the team would report directly to the president.

## What the report said caused the resignation

The publication's unsourced account linked the resignation to differences with the minister of road and transport, Abdilahi Abokor, over reporting lines. According to that account, Abokor insisted that the newly appointed team in charge of the corridor report directly under his command. Somaliland Standard reported that the grievances reached President Bihi along with an offer to resign.

[Read the original report](https://somalilandstandard.com/somaliland-berbera-corridor-project-manager-resigns/).

## A replacement was named

According to the same report, Isse Yusuf Mohamed Hamari, former national electoral commission chair, was named to replace Dhudhi. The report cites no appointment letter or appointment date. It does not say whether Hamari took up the post.

## Progress cited in the report

The report said President Bihi was discontented with progress on the corridor highway because only 12 km had been accomplished since the project started almost a year earlier. The figure is not defined in the report as completed, surfaced or a particular section, and no measurement date or baseline is given. No project start date, total length or completion percentage is stated.

> **Note:** The report does not state the corridor's total cost, contract value or funding amount, and it does not identify the contractor. The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development appears in the report only as the addressee of the 3 June 2020 letter, not as a confirmed funder.

## What is not established

The report does not cite a resignation letter or a resignation date, and it gives no date for the acceptance. It does not report a response from the ministry of road and transport or from Abdilahi Abokor. It does not state whether work on the corridor continued, stopped or changed pace after the reported change of manager.

No post-9 July 2020 development is established here: no further resignation, no confirmation of the replacement in post, no contract award and no funding decision. On the evidence of the 9 July 2020 report alone, the status of the Berbera Corridor Highway after that date is not established.

## Questions

### Who was the Berbera Corridor project manager?

Somaliland Standard reported on 2020-07-09 that Eng. Mohamud Abdi Mohamed Dhudhi was the project manager for the construction of the Berbera Corridor Highway.

### Why did the Berbera Corridor project manager resign?

According to Somaliland Standard's 2020-07-09 report, whose account was unsourced, the resignation was linked to differences with the minister of road and transport, Abdilahi Abokor, over reporting lines.

### Who replaced the Berbera Corridor project manager?

The same report said Isse Yusuf Mohamed Hamari, former national electoral commission chair, was named to replace Dhudhi. No appointment record is cited, and the report does not say whether he took up the post.

## Sources

- [Somaliland: Berbera Corridor Project Manager Resigns](https://somalilandstandard.com/somaliland-berbera-corridor-project-manager-resigns/) — Somaliland Standard, 2020-07-09