Somaliland, the self-declared state in northern Somalia said it is working to wrap up a campaign to register voters ahead of the presidential election which is due to held by the start of next year.
The spokesman of Somaliland’s election commission Sa’eed Ali Muse has announced that the campaign is making significant progress as the commission registered many people who are eligible to vote in the upcoming election.
Muse added that Togdher, Sahil Marodi-Jeh and Awdal regions became the first places to register voters as materials have been distributed to voting more than hundred centres in the region.
Somaliland has began the vote-registration last January, but the election preparations have been effected by a drought hit several major regions in the semi-autonomous state in northern Somalia.
