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Somali parliament to meet for first time but presidential election delayed
[Dawn] War-torn Somalia's new parliament was due to convene for the first time Monday in the latest bid to end two decades of instability, but the election of a president has been delayed, politicians said.Lawmakers would gather not in the city's parliament building, but rather Mogadishu's heavily fortified airport zone under the protection of African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops, due to fear of attack by al Qaeda-linked Shebab bad boys. The parliament's interim speaker Musa Hassan Abdallah appealed Monday to the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) for an "alternative place of safe haven" to meet, the UN said in a statement. Selection of the new legislature was the first performed inside Somalia for more than 20 years. Previous efforts were conducted outside the country because of the danger of attack posed by a range of warlords and Islamist fighters. Posted by: Fred 2012-08-21 |
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