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Northeastern State of Somaliavotes against the president's extended mandate Somali state legislature Northeastern State voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to deny the outgoing president another two years in office after extending his term. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo provoked condemnation at home and abroad after signing an extension of his mandate to law this week. His…

In Somalia, the lower house of parliament voted on Monday, April 12, to extend the term of the outgoing president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, known as "Farmajo" by two years. This vote is intended to block the political crisis that the country entered into on February 8, when the president's term had expired and the presidential election could not be held. Since then, negotiations with the opposition, which no longer recognized its legitimacy, had yielded nothing. In the middle of the afternoon, with a show of hands,…

In Benin, Patrice Talon has been in place for five years and the opposition does not want him to stay another second. The amendment to the constitution and the election calendar gives it an extension of one and a half months. Its political opponents from the diaspora demand that they take to the streets. A sensitive day that worries Cotonou, especially when incidents were reported during the night.…