As of Thursday, just 23 of 142 parliamentary seats (16 percent) and 10 out of 43 senate seats (23 percent) had been won by women. MEN, GUNS, MONEYClan and tradition are at the heart of Somalia's electoral process, which means women are not. Faced with the ruling on a female quota, many clan leaders do not wish to be represented by women and regard female seats as wasted. The reluctance means that the 30 percent quota is unlikely to be met, said Michael Keating, the UN's top representative in Somalia. As minister for women in 2011, Aweis was an early fighter for a quota of females in politics.

Source: Daily Nation November 26, 2016 05:01 UTC