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HARGEISA, Somalia (AP) - Residents of the breakaway Somaliland voted Thursday in the first multiparty parliamentary elections since the region separated from Somalia more than a decade ago.
The region's three political parties have fielded 246 candidates to compete for seats in the 82-member legislature. Somaliland has had a parliament since 1991, but until now lawmakers have been chosen by their clans through a process of consultation rather than voting.
Somaliland is a former British colony, which in 1960 merged with the Italian colony of Somalia to form the independent republic of Somalia.
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