The president is elected in Somalia by the parliamentarians and senators. A record 36 people this time ran for president. The election took place in a high-security hangar at the airport in the capital Mogadishu.
Originally, the elections were supposed to have been more than a year ago, when Farmajo’s term had expired. However, the poor and unstable country in the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts in recent decades and attacks by the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab, which is fighting the Somali government. As a result, the elections had to be postponed several times.