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MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's weak transitional government has agreed to share power with a faction of the country's opposition, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The agreement was unlikely to change the political chaos in Somalia, however, as the extremist group at the center of a deadly insurgency did not participate.
The power-sharing deal calls for doubling the number of parliament seats to 550, with 200 going to the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia — a relatively moderate group that split from the Shabab extremist group.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's weak transitional government has agreed to share power with a faction of the country's opposition, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The agreement was unlikely to change the political chaos in Somalia, however, as the extremist group at the center of a deadly insurgency did not participate.
The power-sharing deal calls for doubling the number of parliament seats to 550, with 200 going to the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia — a relatively moderate group that split from the Shabab extremist group.
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