US presses Somalia to hold elections immediately
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls on Somali leaders to hold ‘transparent and inclusive elections’.
The United States called on Somalia on Friday to hold elections right away and end a deadlock that Washington says is threatening the strife-torn Horn of Africa country. Somalia missed a deadline to hold an election by February 8 when President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known by his nickname Farmaajo, was due to step down, sparking a constitutional crisis in the already-fragile state. A coalition of opposition candidates now considers the president to be illegitimate and wants him to resign.
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