GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: The UN should conduct parliamentary elections in Hiiraan and Gedo regions, a Mogadishu based think-tank has said, urging the UN body to take an active role in pressing the country’s leaders to break the electoral deadlock.
Heritage Institute for Policy Studies (HIPS) said in a new brief the Federal Government and the respective Federal Member States should pull out from the electoral process in the two regions owing to their partisan interests.
“Given the volatility of the situation, we propose that the UN electoral support team is given an exclusive mandate to organize the elections in those provinces with the support of the state electoral management body,” HIPS said.
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Rivals Challenge Ghani’s Legitimacy, Renew Call For Interim Govt
President Ashraf Ghani’s rival candidates on Tuesday once again challenged the legitimacy of the incumbent government and reiterated the call for the establishment of an interim government in the country so that the upcoming elections are held in a free and transparent way.
Ghani’s election rivals who now operate within the structure of the Council of Presidential Candidates staged a big gathering in Kabul on Tuesday where they described Ghani as a “tyrant and egoist leader” and a “violator” of the law.
Presidential candidate Mohammad Haneef Atmar, who addressed a big crowd at a sports stadium in Kabul, the incumbent government hinders the way for peace and is spreading discord among the people of Afghanistan.
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Somalia Opposition Politicians say president Farmajo is using the Turkish trained Harama’ad-Cheetah police unit against them
Ankara is planning to send 1,000 G3 assault rifles and 150,000 bullets to Harama’ad police unit
Somalilandsun: Somalia’s opposition has urged Ankara not to send a shipment of weapons to a special police unit because they fear that Somali president could use them for “rigging” the approaching national elections. The call has put Turkey’s engagement in a country torn apart by civil war for decades under the spotlight.
Opposition candidates wrote to Turkey’s ambassador in Somalia and expressed their concern about these weapons coming into the country in such a “sensitive election period.”
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