On 28 August 2013, the autonomous Jubaland regional administration signed a national reconciliation agreement in Addis Ababa with the Federal Government of Somalia.

Endorsed by Mohamed on behalf of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the pact was brokered by the Foreign Ministry of Ethiopia and came after protracted bilateral talks.

Under the terms of the agreement, Jubaland will be administered for a two-year period by a Juba Interim Administration and led by the region's incumbent president, Ahmed Mohamed Islam.

Prime Minister Ahmed likewise hailed the oversight body as a significant state-building initiative, and indicated that the commission's members were each knowledgeable on constitutional affairs.

The Judicial Service Commission is the first supreme body in over two decades that is empowered to at once nominate, approve, discipline and oversee the work of sitting district, regional and federal level judges.

According to Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia had initially signed the agreement in May 2002, later committed to adopt it in November 2013, and eventually honoured that pledge in September of the following year.

[13][14] It sparked a political standoff that lasted over a month, which culminated in the replacement of Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and his Cabinet, including Farah Sh.