Somalia: MPs want more women in new parliament

Women members of Somalia's newly created transitional federal parliament plan to move a motion seeking a constitutional amendment to increase the number of seats reserved for women in the assembly, one of the MPs said on Monday. The women have complained that delegates attending the Somali national reconciliation conference in the Kenya capital, Nairobi, flouted the National Charter when they failed to adhere to the provision that at least 12 percent of the members be women.