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Somalia: UN Security Council Welcomes Agreement On Prompt and Peaceful Elections
UN News, 29 May 2021
The Security Council welcomed the agreement reached on Thursday by the Somali federal government and the federal member states leaders on the implementation of the 17 September… Read more »
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Somalia: Leaders Agree On Political Deal for Elections
East African, 27 May 2021
Somalia's political stakeholders on Thursday signed a definitive agreement that paves the way for the country to hold indirect elections, likely before August this year. Read more »
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Somalia: Leaders Agree to Hold Election Within 60 Days
VOA, 27 May 2021
Political leaders in Somalia agreed Thursday on a framework for long-delayed national elections, hoping to avert a crisis that could push the fragile Horn of Africa country into… Read more »
Leaders Strike Deal That Paves Way for Elections in Somalia
Political leaders in Somalia have agreed on a framework for long-delayed national elections, hoping to avert a crisis that could push the fragile country into political violence, Voice of America reports. The agreement signed by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and the leaders of five regional states laid out a path to parliamentary elections to begin within 60 days. The agreement comes after four days of heated talks in Mogadishu between the prime minister, representing the federal government, the leaders of five federal member regional states and the administration of Mogadishu.
Somalia was scheduled to hold elections last year, but the polls never happened due to complications, political disputes, and continuous security threats by al-Shabab militants. Talks for holding elections between the federal government and regional leaders began in March, but broke down in early April, as the two houses of parliament clashed on the status of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known popularly as Farmajo.
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Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo is sworn in as president after he was declared the winner of the election held at the Mogadishu Airport hangar in Mogadishu on February 8, 2017.
