Ipsos Limited and Farsight Africa Research recently conducted a Confidence Index Survey on Somali Citizens. The survey covered 6 regions and sought to assess the economic and security perceptions of the Federal Government of Somalia and its institutions.

Popularity of the regional presidents was generally low in the regions. Out of the 6 regions sampled only two regional federal state presidents had more than 50% confidence rating. These are Southwest State with 55% and Jubbaland with 52%. The rest had scores ranging from 43% and 31% with the lowest confidence score registered by Puntland at 31%.

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According the survey findings, 42% of the citizens feel that the general economic conditions have been static over the last one year. Another 48% feel that the country is headed in the right direction. However, there are regional variations such as is the case of Banadir region, which houses the capital city of Mogadishu. Here, 34% of the citizens feel that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Identifiable factors in Banadir attribute this to

perceived insecurity, corruption, misuse of funds as