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The East African
Wednesday June 30 2021
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In a timeline released by the Somali Electoral Consultative Council, chaired by Prime Minister Hussein Roble, the election initially scheduled to be held after two months of the agreement will now be staggered from July to October.
PM Roble said on Tuesday that the country should have new MPs and a President by October, if the schedule is followed.
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Somalia’s much-delayed presidential election will be held on October 10, according to a new timetable announced by Prime Minister Hussein Roble’s organising team.
The announcement in the capital, Mogadishu, followed two-day discussions by the National Consultative Forum, which comprises the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), the five Federal Member States and the Mayor of Mogadishu.
The East African
Wednesday May 05 2021
Somali MPs attend a special assembly where the president was requesting for abandonment of the two-year extension of his presidential term and immediate elections to ease the recent political crisis at Villa Hargeisa in Mogadishu on May 1, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
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Before his arrival in Mogadishu, he was in Somaliland where he met President Bihi.
Dr al-Qahtani is well known in Doha and Washington for steering negotiations between the Taliban and the Afhani government which would allow US forces to depart without leaving a security gap.
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Qatar has sent a special envoy from the office of the Foreign Minister, Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani, to Somalia to engage with the country s political rivals in what could be a change in tack for the Gulf country that has been siding with President Mohamed Farmaajo.