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A group of second-year students is listening closely to the retired police general Jama Mohamed Ghalib as he delivers an hour-long lecture on Somalia’s turbulent political history in a classroom at Simad University.
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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
Electoral official stamps on the ballot paper during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People of the Federal Parliament in Cadaado, Somalia, on 28 November 2016. UN Photo
Electoral officials count votes during the electoral process to choose members of the Lower House of the Somali federal Parliament in Baidoa on 27 November 2016. UN Photo