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BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's transitional parliament met in a converted grain silo on Sunday for its first session in its own country in the 19 months since it was formed in neighboring Kenya.
The lawmakers gathered in their temporary seat of parliament in the southern town of Baidoa, using chairs and desks transported from Kenya by the United Nations. They met in Baidoa, one of the largest towns in the country, because it was deemed safer than the capital.
The 275-member transitional legislature, which includes President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, last met in May in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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