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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Somalia: UN Representative Identifies Challenges before Elections

UN News posted on 24 February 2020 an article titled "Somalia: Further Consensus-building Needed Ahead of 'Historic' Election."

Jim Swan, special representative of the UN secretary general and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, laid out the challenges facing Somalia before parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2020. This will mark only the third time that Somalia has had universal suffrage elections since gaining independence in 1960.