Somalia's
transitional parliament on Sunday began its first session inside Somalia,
19 months after it was formed in neighbouring Kenya.
The
275 lawmakers gathered in a grain silo-turned-temporary seat of parliament
in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, using chairs and desks transported
from Kenya by the United Nations.
The 275-member transitional legislature, which includes President
Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, last met in May
in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Government
members started moving from Kenya to Somalia in June, with some
going to Mogadishu and others, who felt the capital was too unsafe,
to Jowhar, 90 kilometres (60 miles) to the northwest.
Leaders agreed to hold meeting in Baidoa, which is one of
the largest towns in the country and is deemed to be more secure
than the capital. |
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