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Somalia ex-minister’s presidential quest tests rigid patriarchy
Friday July 16 2021
Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs minister Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam who has announced her candidacy for president. PHOTO | COURTESY
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If the federal electoral commission accepts her candidacy, she will be only the second woman in Somalia’s history to contest the presidency.
In 2004, Asha Ahmed Abdalla sought Somalia’s top leadership position. That vote was held in distant Kenyan capital Nairobi as Mogadishu then was an arena for warlords.
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When Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs minister Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam announced her candidacy for president in the next elections, the reaction in Mogadishu was mostly muted.
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Monday July 05 2021
An MP of Somalia’s Jubbaland State casts her vote during the presidential election in Kismayo, on August 22, 2019. Somalia is halving the registration fees for women candidates to encourage more participation in the upcoming elections. PHOTO | AFP
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Somalia will conduct indirect elections this time, again, where delegates from the five federal states, appointed through clan elders and the NEC, are sent to designated venues to vote.
The country does not nominate MPs like other countries do to increase minority groups in parliament.
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Somalia is halving the registration fees for women candidates to encourage more participation in the upcoming elections.
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