New Speaker of Parliament elected amid controversy

Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, also known as Jama, has been elected Speaker of Somalia's Lower House.

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Somalia’s lawmakers have elected a new Speaker even as the decision ran into controversy.

It means the House of the People, as the Lower House is known, will have a new leader for the next 10 months, the presumptive time of the extended tenure of the current parliament. The tenure has also been a bone of contention.