Somali parliament approves new PM

  1. Posted on Monday 1 November 2010 - 11:00
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    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Somali legislators on Sunday approved the nominated of Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ending weeks of disagreement between the president and speaker of parliament of that country.
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    “Today we have our prime minister approved 391 parliamentarians attended today’s session and 279 of them voted in favour of the prime minister, while 92 refused and 2 others abstained so the new PM is approved” the parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden told lawmakers.

    The speaker asked the prime minister to build an effective and talented cabinet that may be able to save the people and the country from the ongoing bloodshed.

    Somali president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed appointed a Somali-American on 14 October to be the new prime minister to replace Somali-Canadian Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake who resigned in September.

    But the president and the speaker of parliament had clashed on approving the Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who was educated in the US. The disagreement had delayed passing the PM but he will take the oath of office and form his cabinet in the next few weeks.

    Mohamed is the second prime minister of the two-year-old Somali government led by a former Islamist Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

    The Horn of Africa nation has not had an affective government since warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

    The Al-Qaeda linked group of Al-Shabaab is controlling most of southern Somalia and parts of Mogadishu, where AU peacekeeping force with government soldiers are patrolling only the presidential palace, airport and seaport.

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