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Somaliland police forces seize parliament building in Hargeysa.
Text of report in English by Somali pro-Puntland government Garoweonline website on 29 August
Soldiers in Somalia's separatist republic of Somaliland have seized the parliament building on a day a UK embassy official arrived to mediate the political dispute, Radio Garowe reports.
Mr. Abdirahman Muhammad Irro," Speaker of Somaliland's lower house of parliament, the 82-seat House of Representatives, told reporters in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa that he was "informed by the police chief" that the troops do not take orders from parliament's leadership.
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