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UN envoy for Somalia, Michael Keating, tours the livestock market on a working visit to Beletweyne, Somalia on 5 January 2017. UN Photo
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia Michael Keating visited Belet Weyne on Thursday, to assess the impact of the drought in Hiiraan region.
PRESS STATEMENT 01/2017
Hayle Jimale one of 200-plus members of parliament who will elect the next president of Somalia. He is also from the minority Tumaal clan and says the acceptance of minorities in the electoral process is itself democracy.
Forty-year-old Yusuf Hayle Jimale is one of the 200-plus members of parliament who Somalia will rely upon to elect the next president who will steer the country for the next four years.
New parliamentarians are sworn in during an inauguration ceremony for members of Somalia's Upper House and the House of the People in Mogadishu on 27 December 2016. UN Photo.
The tenth Parliament of Somalia was inaugurated in a ceremony today that saw 283 members of parliament (MPs) take their oaths of office.
Sahra Yusuf Ege, the winner of a seat in the House of the People for Somaliland, gives a victory speech to delegates during Somalia's ongoing electoral process in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 25 December 2016. UN Photo.
Delegates from Somaliland and the northern regions today elected four more candidates to the House of the People including two women, bringing the number of members of parliament (MPs) elected from these respective areas to 34.
PRESS STATEMENT 32/2016
MP-elect Hussein Isse Arab delivers a speech moments after being declared winner during the electoral process for Somaliland and the northern regions held in Mogadishu on Thursday, December 22, 2016. UN Photo.
Four more candidates from Somaliland and northern regions were voted into the House of the People today, raising the number of members of parliament (MPs) elected from that part of the country to 30.
Electoral officials count votes during Somaliland's ongoing electoral process in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 19 December 2016. UN Photo.
Seven more candidates have been voted into the House of the People to represent Somaliland and northern regions in the latest round of voting, bringing to 26 the total number of members of parliament (MPs) thus far elected from that part of the