Federal lawmakers will be elected by popular vote and, in turn, will elect president, marking partial departure from Somalia's traditional indirect electoral model, in which clan elders select MPs who ...

Dhusamareb, Somalia - Saadaq Omar Hassan, widely known as Saadaq Joon, has been elected to seat HOP#248 of the House of the People in Somalia's Federal Parliament, following a by-election held on ...

Somalia’s key opposition figures have differed sharply on the future and mode of the country’s elections, with some endorsing a deal with the federal government to adopt a parliamentary system.

Tensions are rising in Somalia as opposition leaders and civil society groups voice growing concern over the government's commitment to holding a long-promised one-person, one-vote election before the ...

Amran Ahmed Hassan has made history as the first woman elected Deputy Speaker in Somalia’s newly-formed Northeast State.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - For the third time this year, Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a meeting with several opposition leaders, with the contested constitutional amendments featuring even ...

Somalia is on the brink of making history towards conducting an election after about 56 years. This comes after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud officially registered as a voter for the country's ...

Recent clashes in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Jubaland region are alarming experts, exposing cracks in the country’s federal ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s groundbreaking presidential election moved into a second round today as the number of candidates dropped from 21 to three, while a security lockdown closed ...

One of their most powerful tools is Suugaanta, a form of traditional poetry and storytelling. In Somali culture, women have ...