Eight members of parliament (MPs) were elected to seats in the House of the People allocated to the recently formed HirShabelle state as voting for the lower chamber kicked off in the state capital of Jowhar today. The MPs…

Five more members of the federal parliament’s House of the People were elected in Kismaayo today, including one woman, on the sixth day of voting in Jubbaland state. The total number of members of parliament (MPs) elected in…

Voting for the 37 seats in the House of the People allocated to HirShabelle state will begin tomorrow. The State-level Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT) announced that 13 of the seats will be decided during the…

Jubbaland state completed its fifth day of voting for seats in the House of the People with another six members elected to the lower chamber of the federal parliament. A total of 26 candidates have now been elected to the…

Another six members of the federal parliament’s House of the People were elected today during the fourth day of voting in Kismaayo, the administrative capital of Jubbaland state. The newly elected members of parliament (MPs)…

The State-level Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT) in Puntland has announced that the second phase of voting for 25 members of the House of the People will begin on 14 November. A dozen members of the House of the…

Voting for members of the lower house of Somalia’s Federal Parliament opened today in the capitals of Jubbaland and South West states. Each state elected seven members of the House of the People – as the lower chamber of…

The Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) welcomed the start of voting in Puntland for seats in the House of the People and said that voting for seats in that chamber of the country’s Federal Parliament can…

Puntland has become the first federal member state to start elections for the federal parliament’s House of the People. Voting kicked off early today in Garowe, Puntland’s administrative capital. A total of 37 members of the…

Somali youths discussed options for more active participation in the political transformation of their country during a two-day conference hosted by the United Nations in Somalia in partnership with youth-led organizations…

A delegation led by the deputy German Ambassador to Somalia Markus Bollmohr welcomed the progress made to date in the construction of a Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) centre for former al-Shabaab…

The Chairman of the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team (FIEIT) Omar Mohamed Abdulle has expressed confidence in the electoral process preparations of Somalia’s South West and Jubbaland states. Accompanied by other…