{"id":25059,"date":"2016-05-03T01:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-security-council-to-visit-somalia\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:44:19","slug":"un-security-council-to-visit-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-security-council-to-visit-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council to visit Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The 15 envoys will also travel to Nairobi during the May 17-21 trip.}<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council will travel to Somalia this month to show support for elections scheduled in August, Egypt&#8217;s UN Ambassador and this month&#8217;s council president, Amr Aboulatta, said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 envoys will also travel to Nairobi during the May 17-21 trip and hold meetings in Cairo with the Arab League, Aboulatta said, presenting the program of work for the month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The council will be going to Somalia to push for the elections,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The election is supposed to be held in the month of August and we will try to give the support of the council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote will be Somalia&#8217;s second since 1991, when warlords ousted president Mohamed Siad Barre, plunging the country into years of war and chaos. The last elections took place in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Security Council heard a report on the situation in Somalia during a special meeting in New York attended by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the upcoming general elections will take place through electoral colleges, but the council has said it should be a stepping stone to one-person, one-vote elections in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Under the electoral model, 30 per cent of seats in parliament will be reserved for women.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12066 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/841940-01-02.jpg\" alt=\"Somali federal government forces patrol a street of Mogadishu on February 18, 2015. The UN Security Council will travel to Somalia this month to show support for elections scheduled in August. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The 15 envoys will also travel to Nairobi during the May 17-21 trip.} The UN Security Council will travel to Somalia this month to show support for elections scheduled in August, Egypt&#8217;s UN Ambassador and this month&#8217;s council president, Amr Aboulatta, said Monday. 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