Keywords: somalia mogadishu politics government mps members parliament inauguration ceremony un unpos amisom Augustine Mahiga, Special Representative of the UN Secretay General and head of the UN Political Office in Somalia (UNPOS) [centre] greets the Somali Chief justiceofficial 20 August 2012, ahead of an inauguration ceremony for members of Somalia's first parliament in twenty years. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in on 20 August 2012, at an open-air ceremony at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on 21 August where a process will begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Led by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed expired the same day the new members of parliament were sworn in. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE. Augustine Mahiga, Special Representative of the UN Secretay General and head of the UN Political Office in Somalia (UNPOS) [centre] greets the Somali Chief justiceofficial 20 August 2012, ahead of an inauguration ceremony for members of Somalia's first parliament in twenty years. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in on 20 August 2012, at an open-air ceremony at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on 21 August where a process will begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Led by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed expired the same day the new members of parliament were sworn in. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE. Augustine Mahiga, Special Representative of the UN Secretay General and head of the UN Political Office in Somalia (UNPOS) [centre] greets the Somali Chief justiceofficial 20 August 2012, ahead of an inauguration ceremony for members of Somalia's first parliament in twenty years. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in on 20 August 2012, at an open-air ceremony at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on 21 August where a process will begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Led by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed expired the same day the new members of parliament were sworn in. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE. politics ceremony parliament un government inauguration somalia members mps mogadishu amisom unpos |