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Six candidates were elected to the House of the People as voting for Somaliland and northern regions commenced today in the Somali capital.
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A female delegate casts her vote in the Somaliland election to vote a member of parliament into Somalia's House of the People in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 6 December 2016. UN Photo
Journalists cover the electoral process in Mogadishu, Somalia on 4 December 2016. UN Photo
A delegate casts her vote during the electoral process in Baidoa, Somalia on 5 December 2016. UN Photo
Students of Simad University, a premier private university in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend a lecture on 3 December 2016. UN Photo
A delegate votes during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People in Jowhar, Somalia on 4 December 2016. UN Photo
A delegate votes during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People in Jowhar, Somalia on 3 December 2016. UN Photo
"I believe cultural change will favour women, especially when we move to party politics, where leaders are elected on the basis of their manifestos and not gender,” the words of Suldan Warsame Suldan Alio Ibrow, an influential clan elder from Somalia’s South West state.
Mohamud Hassan Elmi, Deputy Chair of the Jubbaland State Level Indirect Electoral Independent Team says they benefited greatly from the support of the state authorities which gave them the independence to conduct their work unhindered.
A delegate casts her vote during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the people in Baidoa, Somalia on 1 December 2016. UN Photo
A delegate walks past the ballot box during the electoral process to choose representatives to the House of the People of the Federal Parliament in Mogadishu on 30 November 2016. UN Photo