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Somalia's Lone Female Presidential Candidate


Somalia's Lone Female Presidential Candidate
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Somalia holds its long delayed presidential election on Sunday. Thirty-nine candidates paid $40,000 each to be eligible for the elections. In a highly conservative and patriarchal society, only one woman, Fawzia Yusuf Adam, is on the list of politicians aspiring to be the next president of Somalia. A past foreign minister, Fawzia has her supporters, as Mohamed Sheikh Nor reports from Mogadishu. Videographer: Mohamed Sheikh Nor

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