among other middle  federal poverty level you share their income or household mogadishu people had been called down to submission a transitional federal government is put in place but it is based outside of the country and is a government in name only protected by african union peacekeepers the t f t controls only a few city blocks in mo on the eighth of june two thousand and eleven a conference is organized in kampala by the united nations political office for somalia it is to be attended by somali government representatives and the international community it is a political process to succeed the security situation needs to be confronted no one felt in two thousand and eleven that the country was really right  in august two thousand and eleven under pressure from amazon and its allies withdraws from mogadishu airport bringing together all major political players from across malia as well as international partners holding such a high profile event in mogadishu would have been unthinkable just a few weeks earlier for the first time in two decades representatives of major regional administrations such as point land and as well as the moderate religious group come together with the transitional federal government in a spirit of unity for peace community that change is coming we want to send a message that this was a different process a process with integrity a process with a transparency the meeting adopts an ambitious plan the road map it sets benchmarks in the key areas of good governance reconciliation constitutional reform and security and critically it sets a firm date of august two thousand and twelve to complete the transitional tasks somali civil society is widely consulted in preparing the document and with assistance from the international community the road map in december two thousand and eleven the united nations secretary general makes a landmark visit to mogadishu confirming the un's commitment to the road map and to somalia i will always think t it was another option the ongoing security threats rules out the possibility of public elections however the appointment of a new parliament to represent the somali people is a comprised a number of somali actors intellectuals women and men it also had a number of international observers as well as to non voting numbers including myself the technical selection committee is main responsibility is ensuring that all candidates are well educated and fully qualified and a key provision of the roadmap is the exclusion of the seven people we knew by heart who is war lord and who was not war where the technical selection committee felt changes needed to be made and certain people with history of violence and intimidation had to be replaced they actually did that but not everyone in somalia is pleased with this democratic and transparent approach to political transition shabaab begins to strike back many of the main stakeholders of the roadmap process are directly targeted by the insurgents that we're not going to be scared from those people who had threatened the people many years they want to kill us let them give us our time is up but it is this time that we need to be on the side of the so before the constitution is adopted it needs to be ratified by a wide range of stakeholders called the national constituent assembly but getting agreement on some of the more contentious issues contained within the constitution will not be easy the issue of women's participation in government will also prove controversial the somali women for the last twenty years that their political capital has declined young ladies were listened to school jobs have been lost the you know completely male dominated one of the elders came to me and  eventually after eight days intense deliberation the prime minister announces the conclusion the end of the day the thirty percent was a line we could not hold even with the strong intervention of our our our colleagues our female colleagues fifteen percent to me is much acceptable than what it used to be the one before that i think it was like two or three percent so it's and now my advice to the somali woman is now you have four years to build your political  selected two hundred seventy five parliamentarians are a mix of former government officials professionals civil servants the business community women's groups and social activists they are also the most qualified legislature in somalia's history on august twenty eighth the vote count takes place in front of all the candidates in the  process moved into a decisive people to get stronger and stronger positions the methods deployed more and more intimidating and sometimes very very negative almost a year progress hangs in the balance it is the defining moment for the somalia peace process but there are rumors of corruption and intimidation to elicit votes there were rumors that those people who could produce a cell phone photograph of their ballots paper with the right name would be paid and some amount of money and what's those people did not count on was the the role the count begins national and international news teams are recording world watching the president is sworn in on sixteen september