AFP 2012-08-20 21:56:50 -
A handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on August 20, 2012 shows new Somali parliamentarians sitting in Mogadishu before their inauguration ceremony for Somalia's first parliament in twenty years. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in today at an open-air ceremony at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on August 21, 2012 were a process will be begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) expired today. AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE
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