{"id":445602,"date":"2025-07-22T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=445602"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:52:15","slug":"senior-officials-register-for-upcoming-elections-in-baidoa-urge-citizens-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/senior-officials-register-for-upcoming-elections-in-baidoa-urge-citizens-to-participate\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Officials Register for Upcoming Elections in Baidoa, Urge Citizens to Participate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baidoa, (SONNA) \u2013 Two senior government officials officially registered today at the Electoral Commission Office in Baidoa, marking a strong show of support for Somalia\u2019s ongoing democratic process.<\/p>\n

The officials included Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr. Isaaq Mahmoud Mursal, and Deputy Minister of Planning for South West State, Mr. Mohamed Aden Mohamed.<\/p>\n

Both leaders underscored the importance of public participation in the voter registration process, encouraging citizens\u2014particularly in South West State\u2014to take part fully. They emphasized that registration is the first step toward exercising one\u2019s constitutional right to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoter registration is not only a right but a responsibility,\u201d said Deputy Minister Mursal.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery vote carries the power to shape the future of our nation,\u201d added Deputy Minister Mohamed.<\/p>\n

The National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) continues to lead efforts to ensure the process is transparent, peaceful, and trustworthy, aiming to build confidence among voters and strengthen democratic governance.<\/p>\n

Baidoa is a vote. Register to cast yours.<\/p>\n

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Baidoa, (SONNA) \u2013 Two senior government officials officially registered today at the Electoral Commission Office in Baidoa, marking a strong show of support for Somalia\u2019s ongoing democratic process. The officials included Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr. Isaaq Mahmoud Mursal, and Deputy Minister of Planning for South West State, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":445603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445618,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445602\/revisions\/445618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}