# Somalia’s cabinet has endorsed legislation to allow a one-person-one-vote system for elections for the first time in more than half a century in the troubled Horn of Africa nation. The law aims to replace a complex clan-based indirect voting system that has been in place since 1969, when the dictator Siad Barre seized power. However, it will have to go to parliament for approval before it can be officially signed into law by president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Somalia’s cabinet endorses one-person-one-vote legislation