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| Last Updated: Apr 3, 2012 - 2:47:55 AM |
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Somalia: Sharif's close associates out in up-coming cabinet reshuffle
26 Apr 26, 2010 - 4:30:46 PM
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A major reshuffle that would trim Somalia’s bloated cabinet and left some influential members out is on offering in the coming days, confidential sources told Garowe Online.
The decision to reshuffle the cabinet is an attempt to end in-fighting within the government was reached by both President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke
"The efficiency of the Somali government was the focus of a meeting held in Villa Somalia between President Sheikh Sharif and the cabinet,” said a minister who requested not to be named told GO.
The minister said many of his colleagues who were stern supporters of the president would find their way out while the premier would stand for reappointment after the president dissolves the government.
Among those who are expected to lose their positions are Treasury minister Abdurrahman Omar Osman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan and Prof. Abdirahman Haji Adan Ibbi, Deputy Prime Minister who is also Minister for Fisheries.
“Once the president dissolves the government, the premier would have to relinquish his positions to be reappointed again, but the main aim is replace Sheikh Hassan Sheikh Adan and Abdirahman Ibbi as deputy prime ministers,” he said
The reshuffle is to accommodate, pro government group Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama, which recently inked power-sharing agreement with the TFG in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Five cabinet positions were allocated for the group.
The fragile western-backed government is faced with internal wrangles between top leaders, which is threatening to lead it into the lane of disarray and ultimate collapse.
The impoverished Horn of Africa nation has been mired in civil war for 18 years, and the fragile administration controls only small pockets of the seaside capital Mogadishu with most of the country’s south and central regions controlled by insurgents.
GAROWE ONLINE
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