爆破s echo across Somali 資本／首都 on eve of 選挙
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU, Feb 7 (Reuters) - About three 爆破s, かもしれない from 迫撃砲 爆弾s, echoed on Tuesday across the Somali 資本／首都 where the 当局 had 課すd a 安全 lock 負かす／撃墜する on the eve of a 大統領の 投票（する）.
There were no 即座の 報告（する）／憶測s of 死傷者s or （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of 責任／義務, although the Islamist al Shabaab group often 開始する，打ち上げるs attacks in Mogadishu and says it wants to 混乱に陥れる／中断させる Wednesday's 投票（する） to be held behind the airport's 爆破 塀で囲むs.
After months of 延期するs, 329 newly sworn-in members of 議会 will choose whether to 支援する 大統領 Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for a second 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 or one of 21 競争相手s.
In 準備, the 当局 封鎖するd main roads in the 資本／首都 and 妨げるd 乗り物s from 運動ing 近づく the airport, which is patrolled by African Union （国連の）平和維持軍s AMISOM and surrounded by high 固める／コンクリート 障壁s.
"All those 伴う／関わるd in the 選挙, 直接／まっすぐに or 間接に, are apostates," Al Shabaab 広報担当者 Sheikh Ali Mohamud 激怒（する） had told Reuters earlier in the day.
He said the group would take "堅い 対策" against those 伴う／関わるd and （刑事）被告 foreigners of guiding the 投票（する） in a nation ひどく 扶養家族 on international support as it 再構築するs after years of 衝突 and 戦う／戦いs the Islamist 暴動.
大統領の 候補者s have 約束d to 改善する 安全 and the economy. Until now, a construction にわか景気 in the 爆弾d out 資本／首都 has yet t o spread far across the 残り／休憩（する） of the nation. A 厳しい 干ばつ is 脅すing a new 国家の food 危機.
競争相手 候補者s have also （刑事）被告 each other of 投票（する）-buying, a practice Western 寄贈者s have sought to stamp out. 外交官s say 汚職 continues to 妨害する 開発.
Al Shabaab, which once 支配するd most of Somalia and wants to 課す its strict 解釈／通訳 of Islam on the nation, often 開始する，打ち上げるs gun and 爆弾 （警察の）手入れ，急襲s in Mogadishu. But it now 支配（する）／統制するs ますます smaller pockets of 領土.
直面するd with the impossible 仕事 of 安全な・保証するing 投票ing 駅／配置するs across the nation, the 政府 and its Western 支援者s dropped an 初期の 計画（する） to give each adult a 投票（する）.
Instead, about 14,000 一族／派閥 年上のs and 地域の 人物／姿／数字s chose the 275 members of the lower house of 議会 and 54 members of 上院. Those 国会議員s will 選ぶ the 大統領，／社長 on Wednesday.
The system is a modest 改良 on 2012, when just 135 年上のs 選ぶd 議会, which chose the 大統領，／社長.
専門家s said 大統領 Mohamud, who has had to fend off 告訴，告発s by Western 寄贈者s of 汚職 in his 政府, can rely on the 忠義 of about a third of the new 国会議員s, giving him an 辛勝する／優位 but not a 保証（人） of victory. (令状ing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Alison Williams)
