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Somali presidential vote was ‘enemy project’: Islamists

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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

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Brendan Davis writes for Democracy Chronicles from New York. Checkout the rest of our international team of authors as well. Together, they help cover free and fair elections on every continent with a focus on election reform in the United States.

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