Somali Lawmakers Elect Academic, Activist Mohamoud as Leader
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Somali lawmakers elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud as the country’s next president, marking an end to a transitional administration that improved security in the capital, Mogadishu, even as it failed to end more than two decades of conflict.
Mohamoud, who is 56 and has a master’s degree in education from Bhopal University in India, obtained 190 votes and the incumbent, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, received 79, Speaker Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari said at a ceremony yesterday in Mogadishu. The result was greeted with celebratory gunfire in districts across the city.