On Home Soil at Last, Parliament Meets in Silo
From Times Wire Reports
Somalia’s transitional parliament met in a converted grain silo for its first session in its own country in the 19 months since it was formed in neighboring Kenya.
The lawmakers gathered in their temporary seat of parliament in the southern town of Baidoa, one of the largest in the country, because it was deemed safer than the capital.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Warlords then carved the country up into rival fiefdoms.
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