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A group of members of the newly elected Somali Transitional National Assembly
(TNA) are in Abuja, Nigeria, for an African parliamentary conference. Speaker
of parliament, Abdullahi Abdullah Derow, was invited to the conference after the
Djibouti-hosted Somali peace talks elected president Abdiqasim Salad Hasan on
26 August, diplomatic sources told IRIN. Attendance of the African conference
marks the first formal international recognition of the newly elected MPs, said
the source. |