Reports from jowhar saying Traditional elders attending the inter-state formation conference for Hiiran-Middle Shabelle regions have voted to assign Jowhar as the new state capital.
where still they are Discussion either it will become or not.
Jowhar city, which is hosting the second phase of the inter-state conference, was unofficially appointed as the capital for the forthcoming state, following a vote by over 200 delegates amid the absences of prominent elders from Hiiran region, which boycotted the conference, citing the process is “unfair”. It is still unclear whether the voting was official or not, as some of Hiiran prominent elders still boycotting the conference.
Hiiran-Middle Shabelle is the only remaining Federal member state to be formed before country’s polls due to concludeNovember 30.
Continuous disagreements and mistrust between the Federal Government and traditional elders from both regions, led to the collapse of previous talks aimed to facilitate state formation.
The conference is attended by Somali government officials and some clan leaders, sponsored by Somalia’s Interior Ministry, which announced that the conference will be wrapped up in mid October with the formation of new state, while the upcoming third phase will conclude with the selection of new parliamentarians and new head of state.
The process which was set to end last year has failed, after regional elders accused Somali government of interfering with the selection of delegates to the conference, a matter which degenerated into the collapse of the state formation process.