Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969.

Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969.

Somalians turned out in droves on Thursday to vote in local elections in the capital Mogadishu – the first by universal suffrage in nearly 60 years – with the city locked down amid security concerns.

Somalis queued in the capital Mogadishu on Thursday to vote in local elections by universal suffrage for the first time in nearly 60 years, a historic test for democracy in a country grappling with insecurity…

Somalis vote in a historic one-person, one-vote local election, amidst controversy and opposition claims of a flawed process.

Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969.