Four candidates were elected to the House of the People in Galmudug and HirShabelle today as electoral bodies in the two states prepared to conclude the electoral process.
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A delegate votes during the electoral process to choose members of the House of the People in Jowhar, Somalia on 6 December 2016. UN Photo
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Students of Simad University, a premier private university in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend a lecture on 3 December 2016. UN Photo
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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
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"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.
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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.