MOGADISHU — Somalia's lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Monday for political newcomer Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to be the country's next president, with the streets of the capital erupting into celebratory gunfire.
The country's lawmakers were voting in the first poll of its kind in decades. The vote was billed by the United Nations as a milestone in the war-ravaged country's quest to end more than 20 years of violence, graft and clan feuds.
