Somalis vote in the first one-person, one-vote local election in decades

Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever ...
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Somalia tightens security before historic elections

MOGADISHU: Somalia will deploy more than 10,000 security personnel in the capital, Mogadishu, ahead of next week's local elections — the first direct polls in nearly 60 years t ...

Somalia's capital votes in first step toward restoring universal suffrage

With the exception of votes in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland and the breakaway region of Somaliland, Somalia last held direct elections in 1969, months before military general, Mohamed Siad ...
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Somalia pushes for direct elections—but must win over its critics first

Once in a while, Somali government officials come forth to declare the next elections will be direct voting, some kind of universal suffrage. This week, they told the diplomatic corps and the ...
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Somali Election Observers Trained on Objective Election Assessment

On Wednesday, 27 October 2021, eighteen domestic election observers completed a two-day training workshop in Mogadishu. The training was aimed at enhancing their capacity to observe elections for ...
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Somalis vote in the first one-person, one-vote local election in decades

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969. Analysts say it ...