Somalia’s Supreme Court certified the 1961 referendum results

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Two opposition parties, the Greater Somali League and, more importantly, the now-allied SNL and Somali National Congress, lodged petitions with the Supreme Court alleging that the government had sanctioned irregularities in the plebiscite. On July 4, the highest court in the land rendered its decision by certifying the results of the referendum and dismissing the petitions. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 590