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MOGADISHU, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Somalia’s cabinet approved a bill on Thursday that, if confirmed by parliament, will revert the country’s election system to universal suffrage for the first ...

MOGADISHU - Somalia's cabinet approved a bill on Thursday that, if confirmed by parliament, will revert the country's election system to universal suffrage for the first time in decades, ending a ...

Hot, verdant Jamaica is a richly productive Crown Colony in the British West Indies, but the bulk of its black inhabitants lives in poverty. The war has strangled its exports of rum and bananas ...

1944 - Universal adult suffrage introduced; new constitution providing for a popularly-elected House of Representatives promulgated. 1958 - Jamaica becomes a member of the British-sponsored ...

One of the quirks of the English language will surely raise its head when those that choose to do so exercise universal suffrage today. While the word has come to be known as “election” it didn’t ...

Garvey died in 1940. 1944 – Granting of Universal Adult Suffrage Influenced by Norman Washington Manley Norman Washington Manley, the founder of the People’s National Party, was born in 1893 in ...

This landmark decision, paving the way for one-person, one-vote electoral process, was reached on 28 May after a four-day conference held in Mogadishu. Following intensive consultations, the National ...

Home News World Somalia to introduce direct universal suffrage in 2024 The reform aims to "encourage the multiparty political system" that is independent and "corruption free".

On Thursday, Somalia held its first elections by universal suffrage since 1969, in a local ballot in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland.

Mogadishu (AFP) – Somalia's government and federal member states said Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2024.