Voter registration begins in Sanaag region

The breakaway northern Somalia region of Somaliland has officially began to register voters in Sanaag region ahead of presidential elections in the region which held previous elections.

The electoral commission deployed all the necessary equipment to registration centre in the town.

They also revealed that they had designated 200 centers for the registration of the residents in the town.

Residents living in the region who are all eligible to vote will be enlisted to vote in the forthcoming presidential elections.

Somaliland has earlier announced that it will hold presidential elections in 2016, amid political uncertainty over the current presidential controversial term extension last year which sparked protests and counter-accusations by the government and opposition parties.

Somaliland, a breakaway region in northern Somalia has declared a unilateral independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991.