The federal government has announced that elections for district commissioners in the Banadir region will begin immediately after the Eid al-Adha holiday, with newly...
The National Electoral Commission has begun dispatching election materials to South West State, days before the region’s landmark one-person-one-vote polls scheduled for 15 May...
Somalia’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) launched a training program for election staff in the town of Afgooye on Monday, preparing for the country’s first...
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 says the Benadir Regional Council elections in Mogadishu mark a historic shift from indirect rule to direct, constitutional voting, testing wider one-person, one-vote reforms.
More than 700 Somali political leaders opened a Somali Future Council conference in Kismayo to seek a consensus electoral model as disputes with the federal government over upcoming elections intensify.
