The Somali National Leadership Forum (NLF) opened in the southwestern town of Baidoa, to fine tune processes that will lay the groundwork for the country’s electoral process in August.
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UNSOM Deputy, Peter de Clercq, UNHCR Representative Caroline Van Buren and Somalia Foreign Affairs Minister Abdisalam Hadliye Omar during World Refugee Day
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Participants attend a ceremony to mark Somali Youth Day in Baidoa on May 15, 2016. The day commemorates the founding of Somali Youth League, which was the country’s first political party founded in 1943. SYL was instrumental in the country’s struggle for independence.