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Letter from Mogadishu: Government meets opposition on forthcoming polls

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. [FILE] 

The legislative arm of the regional economic bloc, the East African Community, is now fully constituted after the East African Court of Appeal cleared the way for the nine legislators from Somalia to take up their positions in Arusha, Tanzania.

Somalia, which joined the regional bloc in 2023 and elected its legislators last year, ran into high winds when the East African Court of Justice suspended the swearing in of the nine MPs-elect last November.

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