More than 10,000 security personnel have been deployed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, ahead of Thursday’s local elections – the first direct polls in nearly 60 years.
Somalia launched voter registration in April for the first time in decades, as the country has been struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist insurgency and frequent natural disasters.
The local elections, postponed several times, are a step towards universal suffrage and an end to the complex clan-based indirect voting system that has been in place since 1969.
More than 1,600 candidates are running for 390 local seats in the southeastern Banadir region.
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Source: https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20251225-somalia-holds-first-local-elections-in-decades-amid-tight-security?fbclid=IwY2xjawO72vtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeYVRr96IG0rJZn9n1Yd_BgEIkNir9oT9jo6pquiAdpdxASnkLetz99tY4KlU_aem_bT0vnB8KypjbWFwENqtkhA
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