The SYL formed an eleven-member reconciliation committee to heal internal division.

Evidence

After a series of meetings chaired by the acting secretary-general of the party, progress was made in healing the rift in the SYL. Hussen’s challenge to the party was that these internal divisions might force him to form a coalition government, which would not be good for the SYL. The party formed a reconciliation committee that consisted of eleven members, six pro-Hussen and five against him, with a mandate to resolve the debate and make binding recommendations to the party. Through this process, Yassin Nur Hassan was readmitted to the party but not to the central committee. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 758