Federal government of Somalia has on Thursday announced it has set up a fact-finding committee over a controversial gender law passed by the cabinet ministers.
The move came after Somali religious council clerics have issued a communiqué against the new gender law which they say is partially against Islam and could not be accepted in Somalia.
In response to the countrywide concern, the government of Somalia has formed a committee that is tasked to give further explanation on the signed sensitive gender issue.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Somali religious council Sheikh Bashir Ahmed was invited at the weekly cabinet meeting held at the PM’s office on Thursday, where he changed his mind and made a statement contradictory to his previous judgment.
Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, the chairman of the Somali religious council has in the past said in a press conference held in Mogadishu that several articles in the newly approved gender policy are contrary to the Islamic religion.
Somalia, the horn of Africa country is the only nation in the world, where its population is 100% of Sunni Muslim.
