Somali president retracts plan to extend presidential term by two years and calls for elections

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed called for elections on Wednesday and agreed to not extend his presidential term by two years. [...] Mohamed had signed a law extending his mandate by two years, provoking political violence in the capital Mogadishu.  But Galmudug and Hirshabelle, two Somali states that were formerly aligned with the president, called for the cancellation of the term extension and resuming talks on the national election in a joint statement on Tuesday. Later in the day, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble supported Galmudug and Hirshabelle's appeal and called for preparations for a new election.
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