{"id":206221,"date":"2021-10-25T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/un-in-somalia-welcomes-holding-of-direct-elections-in-three-districts-in-puntland?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:02:06","slug":"un-in-somalia-welcomes-holding-of-direct-elections-in-three-districts-in-puntland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-in-somalia-welcomes-holding-of-direct-elections-in-three-districts-in-puntland\/","title":{"rendered":"UN in Somalia welcomes holding of direct elections in three districts in Puntland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/42516285e89ffce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/42516285e89ffce\" alt=\"United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/42516285e89ffce\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the United Nations today visited Qardho in a show of solidarity with the people of Puntland as citizens participated in a &lsquo;one person, one vote&rsquo; electoral process in three districts of the Federal Member State.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations in Somalia believes that the successful completion of &lsquo;one person, one vote&rsquo; elections in Qardho, Eyl and Ufeyn would be an important step in showing the feasibility of universal suffrage elections at local, state and national levels across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations in Somalia commends the Transitional Puntland Electoral Commission (TPEC), the government and people of Puntland for their commitment to holding direct elections, as enshrined in Puntland&rsquo;s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Representatives from the United Nations today visited Qardho in a show of solidarity with the people of Puntland as citizens participated in a &lsquo;one person, one vote&rsquo; electoral process in three districts of the Federal Member State. The United Nations in Somalia believes that the successful completion of &lsquo;one person, one vote&rsquo; elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-206221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/un-in-somalia-welcomes-holding-of-direct-elections-in-three-districts-in-puntland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}