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Michael Keating told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the decision this week was the culmination of almost six months of intense consultations and “may be a watershed moment, marking the growing political maturing of a federal Somalia.”
But he also stressed that Somalia’s Islamic extremist insurgents, al-Shabaab, remain “a potent threat.”
Keating says the elections model envisions a 275-member lower house which maintains a power-sharing formula among clans and a 54-member upper house based on equal representation of existing, emerging and prospective federal states plus additional seats for Puntland and Somaliland
