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Why has the Puntland state of Somalia been unable to conduct a ‘one person one vote’ election for over 24 years?

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Somalia has not held multiparty elections since late 1969 when the military seized power from a democratically elected government in a bloodless coup.[1]  The military remained in control until 1991, followed by thirty years of civil war and political instability. After the collapse of the central government, major clans, notably those in the northwest and… Read more »