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Somali presidential vote was ‘enemy project’: Islamists

AFP

Somalia’s Islamists on Tuesday dismissed as illegitimate the vote which saw outsider Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected president. “The process in which Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was chosen was run by the enemies of Somalia,” Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, spokesman of the Al Qaeda-linked Shebab, told AFP. “Nothing