Somalia: Clans Yet to Agree On Sharing Seats

A day after the deadline for all Somali groups to show mediators at a reconciliation conference how they would share seats in a proposed parliament, delegates from two of the country's four major clans were still haggling over how to distribute the posts, sources close to the mediators said. Foreign ministers of IGAD member states, who met in Nairobi on 15 and 16 July, had given all clans until 20 July to hand in their lists showing how the seats they had been allocated in the proposed 275-member Somali Transitional Federal Assembly would be distributed among their subclans.