The day after the Lower House of the Somali Parliament voted in favour of a de facto two-year extension of the mandate of the Somali president and federal government, on Tuesday 13 April the EU increased its pressure, threatening sanctions.
The vote came on the same day that representatives of the EU, AU, IGAD and UN had called for the immediate resumption of dialogue between Somali leaders to break the deadlock on the electoral process that should have been finalised by 8 February, the end...