Voting to elect Somali president goes to second round

Somali lawmakers are checked by security forces as they arrive to cast their vote in the presidential election, at the Halane military camp which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May 15, 2022. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP)

Somalia’s presidential vote is proceeding to a second round after the first round of voting did not produce a decisive winner.

Legislators are choosing the country’s next president in the capital, Mogadishu, which is under lockdown measures aimed at preventing deadly militant attacks.