Somali MPs Inauguration Ceremony 06

New parliamentarians sit ahead of their inauguration ceremony for members of Somalia's first parliament in twenty years. 211 parliamentarians out of a total of 275 were sworn-in on 20 August 2012, at an open-air ceremony at Aden Abdulle International Airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The MPs were selected by traditional elders and are scheduled to sit the first session of parliament on 21 August where a process will begin to select a speaker of parliament and new president after the current mandate of the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Led by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed expired the same day the new members of parliament were sworn in. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.