{"id":460225,"date":"2026-05-10T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=460225"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:29:21","slug":"deputy-prime-minister-chairs-meeting-with-eu-ambassadors-highlights-progress-on-direct-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/deputy-prime-minister-chairs-meeting-with-eu-ambassadors-highlights-progress-on-direct-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Prime Minister Chairs Meeting with EU Ambassadors, Highlights Progress on Direct Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 The Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E. Salah Ahmed Jama, on Friday chaired a bilateral meeting between the Federal Government and ambassadors of European Union member states supporting Somalia.<\/p>\n

The meeting focused on key national priorities, including security, completion of the country\u2019s constitution, ongoing one-person-one-vote elections, economic development, and state-building reforms.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Saalah Ahmed Jama stated that parts of the country are today witnessing direct integrated elections, where residents of South West State are electing their leaders, describing the process as a clear sign of Somalia\u2019s progress toward democratization and the establishment of an inclusive electoral system.<\/p>\n

He also expressed appreciation to the European Union for its continued support to Somalia, particularly in the areas of security, institution-building, economic development, and the democratic process.<\/p>\n

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Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 The Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E. Salah Ahmed Jama, on Friday chaired a bilateral meeting between the Federal Government and ambassadors of European Union member states supporting Somalia. The meeting focused on key national priorities, including security, completion of the country\u2019s constitution, ongoing one-person-one-vote elections, economic development, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":460227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-460225","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\/460225","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=460225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460234,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460225\/revisions\/460234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}