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Sep
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia on edge as president, PM clash

Somalia on edge as president, PM clash

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA’S two most powerful leaders were locked in a standoff after they named different men to head the intelligence service of the politically unstable nation in the Horn of Africa. The row between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble, nominally over a murder investigation, marks an escalation of months of tension between them in a country riven by militant attacks and clan rivalries. On Monday, Roble suspended Fahad Yasin, director of the National Intelligence Service Agency, saying he had failed to deliver a report on the case of an agent who disappeared in June.…
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Oct
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Somali women demand guarantee of 30% of parliament in 2021 election

Somali women demand guarantee of 30% of parliament in 2021 election

NEWS
NITA BHALLA and MOHAMMED OMER  WOMEN’S rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's general election. Women hold 24% of the 329 seats in Somalia's lower and upper houses of parliament, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), up from 14% in the previous election. In June, Somalia's lower house approved a bill allowing for 30% of parliamentary seats to be reserved for women, but the bill has not been tabled before the upper house for approval. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed…
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