SOMALIA ELECTIONS

Women line up to vote in Hargeisa during the first multiparty parliamentary elections in the breakaway Somaliland September 29, 2005. Voters in north-west Somali region of Somaliland cast ballots on Thursday to elect lawmakers amid hopes the exercise will bring them international recognition as a sovereign state, nine years after the north-west Somali region declared independence from Somalia. REUTERS/Mohamed Guled

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