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SOMALIA: Parliament Mandate Extended

SOMALIA: Parliament Mandate Extended Incompetent and hobbled by weak leadership, the TFG must reform itself. Shabeelle Media Network reports that Somalia’s parliament has extended its mandate for three more years following a meeting held in Mogadishu on February 3rd. “Following a vote by parliamentarians I announce that the mandate of the parliament has been extended for three more years beginning from August 2011,” said Parliament Speaker, Sharif Hasan Shaykh Adan . The move comes few days after a regional bloc IGAD recommended the extension. The current term of the parliament expires in August. (Shabeelle Media Network website, Mogadishu 3/2) The top United Nations official for Somalia voiced disappointment at the transitional parliament’s extension of its mandate beyond the August deadline by which it was to enact a new constitution and hold general elections in the war‐torn country. Somalia has not had a functioning central government for 20 years and has been riven by factional fighting, currently between the internationally recognised Transitional Federal Government (TFG), supported by a UN ‐backed African Union ( AU ) peacekeeping force (AMISOM), based in Mogadishu, the capital, and Al Shabaab and other Islamist groups, which control much of the country, especially in the south. “This is a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2011
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2011.03702.x
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Abstract

Incompetent and hobbled by weak leadership, the TFG must reform itself. Shabeelle Media Network reports that Somalia’s parliament has extended its mandate for three more years following a meeting held in Mogadishu on February 3rd. “Following a vote by parliamentarians I announce that the mandate of the parliament has been extended for three more years beginning from August 2011,” said Parliament Speaker, Sharif Hasan Shaykh Adan . The move comes few days after a regional bloc IGAD recommended the extension. The current term of the parliament expires in August. (Shabeelle Media Network website, Mogadishu 3/2) The top United Nations official for Somalia voiced disappointment at the transitional parliament’s extension of its mandate beyond the August deadline by which it was to enact a new constitution and hold general elections in the war‐torn country. Somalia has not had a functioning central government for 20 years and has been riven by factional fighting, currently between the internationally recognised Transitional Federal Government (TFG), supported by a UN ‐backed African Union ( AU ) peacekeeping force (AMISOM), based in Mogadishu, the capital, and Al Shabaab and other Islamist groups, which control much of the country, especially in the south. “This is a

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Mar 1, 2011

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