
“Somalia’s newly appointed legislature will elect the country’s next president Monday, in a fresh bid to end two decades of unstable central government, completing a complex process set in motion through a UN-backed agreement aimed at ending eight years of rule by Somalia’s graft-riddled, Western-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG). With several previous attempts at installing a new central government ending in failure, the international community has done everything to ensure that this latest deadline of August 20 succeeds.”
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