He had just been elected, unopposed and unanimously, to Somalia’s new Parliament. “We have elected the most handsome candidate,” a female delegate said triumphantly, draping herself on Mr. Mudey’s shoulder. An electoral agent closes ballot boxes with cable ties as he awaits their collection in Kismayo, Somalia, on Nov. 15, 2016. In Adado, a town in Somalia’s central region of Galgadud, 55-year-old schoolteacher Abdirahman Hassan Omar said the process was corrupt. “In the past we had a one-city nation,” Mr. Raghe said from a guarded electoral center in Kismayo.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2017 12:00 UTC