Somalia beefs up security ahead of first local elections in decades

MOGADISHU: Somalia will deploy more than 10,000 security personnel in the capital, Mogadishu, ahead of next week’s local elections — the first direct polls in nearly 60 years — the security minister said on Sunday. The East African country is struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody insurgency and frequent natural disasters. In April, the country launched voter registration for the first time in decades, a step toward universal suffrage and an end to the complex clan-based indirect voting system in place since 1969.

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