Somalia to delay elections

BY SAMUEL GALANDI

The president of Soma­lia and the Speaker of its parliament have agreed to extend the mandate of both government and parliament for a year and hold elections by August next year. This agree­ment, called the Kampa­la Accord, was signed in Kampala before President Museveni and a special representative of UN Sec­retary General Dr Augus­tine P Mahiga. The mandate for Somalia’s latest transitional government was meant to expire in August but President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed,

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