Somalia’s Parliament Votes to Cancel Presidential Term Extension

Somalia’s Parliament Votes to Cancel Presidential Term Extension
Somalia legislators vote by rising their hands to cancel a divisive two-year presidential term extension, inside the lower house of Parliament in Mogadishu, Somalia, on May 1, 2021. Feisal Omar/Reuters
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MOGADISHU—Somali lawmakers voted unanimously on Saturday to cancel a two-year presidential term extension they had approved last month, after clashes in the capital Mogadishu between factions of the security forces, which are divided over the issue.

In a speech following the vote in the lower house of parliament, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble ordered the army to return to barracks and urged politicians to avoid inciting violence.