Tag: local elections

Mogadishu’s local council was sworn in today following the city’s first-ever one-person, one-vote elections—a landmark shift from indirect clan-based selection to direct democracy at the municipal level.

The African Union mission AUSSOM has welcomed peaceful local council elections in Mogadishu’s Benadir Region, calling the first direct local vote since 1969 a major step in Somalia’s democratic transition.

Southwest State President Abdiaziz Laftagareen hails Banadir’s peaceful one-person, one-vote local elections, calling them a major milestone in Somalia’s democratic transition and a signal for broader direct polls.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud voted in Mogadishu’s Benadir Regional Council elections, the country’s first direct local polls since 1969, seen as a key test of Somalia’s democratic recovery.

South West State’s October 14 Brigade seized 10 landmines in the Number 50 area, blocking an alleged Al-Shabaab plot to bomb Mogadishu amid tightened pre-election security.