THE INSIDE STORY OF SOMALIA'S POLITICS OF INFLUENCE AND POWER BROKERS

Kanini Evans Kariuki

PRESIDENT SHARIF´S REGIME VIS-À-VIS HIS PREDECESSOR ABDULAHI YUSUF AHMEDPRIME MINISTER NOOR HASSAN HUSSEIN VIS-À-VIS HIS PREDECESSOR PROF ALI GEDIAFTER the failure of 13 reconciliation conferences, the Nairobi reconciliation conference which took two years subsequently produced six fatally important reports which were the road map for the Transitional Federal institutions for the Somali republic.The transitional charter which was the main principal document, stipulated the selection of 275 members of parliament based on clan formula, whereby 4.5 of these lawmakers had to elect the speaker and two deputy speakers and subsequently the 275 members of parliament were also stated in the charter to elect the interim state president whose term in office would be five years, the same life period of the Transitional Federal parliament...more..http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/106241