Somalia’s leaders have failed to break a deadlock over the country’s elections, with no clear path to a vote just days before the government’s mandate expires.
The country is likely to miss the February 8 deadline for choosing a new president.
This is after days of negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed on Friday, the Guardian reports.
In 2017, Somalia's MPs elected Mohamed Farmajo - a Somali-US national - as the country's new president in a vote held in an aircraft hangar.
Ex-Prime Minister Farmajo beat President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a surprise result.
The vote was held at the heavily guarded airport complex in the capital, Mogadishu, as the rest of the country was too dangerous.
Traffic was banned and a no-fly zone imposed over the city to prevent attacks by militant Islamists.
