# Mogadishu Pledges Road Reconstructions in 2017

> On 8 January 2017, Goobjoog News reported that Mogadishu's local government pledged to reconstruct several roads. No follow-up evidence exists.

- 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: Infrastructure and Services
- Tags: roads, drainage
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/mogadishu-pledges-road-reconstructions-2017

## Key points

- Goobjoog News reported on 2017-01-08 that Mogadishu's local government pledged to reconstruct several roads.
- The report names no roads, no start date, no completion date, no contract values, no budgets and no funding sources.
- It is not established whether any of the pledged work was carried out.

On 8 January 2017, Goobjoog News reported that the local administration of Benadir region had pledged to reconstruct several roads in Mogadishu. The report states that the pledge followed talks between the Mogadishu mayor, Jama'a Hussein Jim'aale, and the district commissioners from all seventeen districts across the city. Goobjoog News attributed the pledge to the local government; it did not publish a list of roads, a start date, a completion date, a contract value, a budget or a funding source.

The same report attributes a statement of intent to the mayor, who "said that his administration will soon commence a project to renovate several roads which hindered vehicles to access that area." That is a statement about what the administration intended to do, not a record of work under way.

According to the report, the project was to be implemented by the Benadir region administration in collaboration with the residents of the city. Goobjoog News also reported that roads in Mogadishu remained mostly unpaved, with tarmac only on certain streets where most businesses and government offices are located. It further reported that the local government had upgraded some of the city's roads in the last two years, without specifying which roads or to what standard.

At the same meeting, one commissioner, identified by the report only as a commissioner and not by name, said contracts had been given to Somali companies to upgrade and construct roads in the city. That is a claim by an unnamed attendee. The report does not name any company, does not give a value for any contract and does not identify the roads concerned.

> **Note:** Goobjoog News does not report a follow-up after 8 January 2017. It does not establish whether the pledged reconstruction was funded, started, completed or abandoned, how many roads were involved, or what any of the work cost.

## What the report does not establish

- Which roads were to be reconstructed.
- When construction was to start, or whether it started at all.
- Any contract value, project cost, budget or funding source for the work.
- The names of the companies said to have received contracts.
- Whether the contracts described by the unnamed commissioner were awarded, signed or performed.
- Any completion date or total number of roads reconstructed.

The only document in this file on the pledge is the Goobjoog News report of 8 January 2017. Without later reporting on the same roads, the gap between the pledge and any built surface cannot be closed.

## Questions

### Which roads were to be reconstructed?

The Goobjoog News report of 2017-01-08 does not name any of the roads.

### When was construction to start?

The mayor is reported as saying his administration would soon commence a project to renovate several roads. The report does not give a start date, and does not state that work has begun.

### What did the project cost and who paid?

No contract value, project cost, budget or funding source appears in the report.

## Sources

- [Mogadishu local government pledges to reconstruct several roads in the city](https://en.goobjoog.com/mogadishu-local-government-pledges-reconstruct-several-roads-city/) — Goobjoog News, 2017-01-08