The vote was peaceful, but it followed an indirect model in which most have no voice.
- ICG
The re-elected president should reconcile with opponents while Somalia draws wider lessons from a failed experiment with democratisation.
Puntland, Somalia’s oldest federal state, held polls on 8 January, an exercise that came off peacefully despite concerns that bitter disagreements over the electoral model would trigger violence.
Under considerable pressure, President Said Abdullahi Deni had agreed just a…