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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Somalia has registered a record 39 candidates for the presidential elections on May 15, a parliamentary committee tasked with organising the long-delayed polls in the fragile Horn of Africa nation said Tuesday. The election is well over a year behind schedule, marred by deadly violence and a power struggle between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known as Farmajo, and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble. Lawmakers and senators will choose the next head of state inside Mogadishu’s heavily-guarded airport complex in the country battling a decade-long Islamist insurgency. The candidat…