New Somali leader to be sworn in
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Somalia's president-elect, tasked with setting up the first national government in 13 years, is due to take the oath of office in Kenya.
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Somalia's new prime minister may by reappointed, and then put to a vote of confidence, officials say.
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Somalia's interim government and rival Islamists are to begin key talks on the country's future.
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The newly elected president of Somalia says the country's businesses must disband their militias.
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AFGHANISTAN&#39;S first democratically elected president was sworn in yesterday - vowing to crack down on drug traffickers and the last of the Taliban.
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The Somali government took a fresh  step toward establishing itself on home soil on Sunday when a  second team of officials including a senior minister flew from  Kenya to Mogadishu to assess security in the failed state.
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Members of Somalia&#39;s new transitional Parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing its first national government since 1991.
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, leader of the Barod clan, one of the four major clans of Somalia, was elected president of Somalia, parliament speaker Shariff Hassan Shek Adan announced here Sunday.
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A former separatist rebel is sworn in as the first directly elected governor of Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Somalia&#39;s parliament has approved Mohammed Ali Gedi as the country&#39;s new prime minister, nearly two weeks after rejecting his nomination.
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afrol News, 14 October - Somalia&#39;s first President in 13 years, Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf, has taken his oath in a Nairobi ceremony and Somalia yesterday was re-granted its voting rights at the UN.
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Members of a new Somali parliament, which is sitting in Nairobi, vote on Sunday to elect a president. It is the culmination of two years of talks in the Kenyan capital, aimed at ending more than a decade of lawlessness in Somalia.
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Somalia inaugurated a transitional parliament Sunday, taking an important first step toward forming a new government for the devastated country even as rivalries continue
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as  Afghanistan's first popularly elected president on Tuesday at a  ceremony attended by two of the men most responsible for easing  him into power.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president today, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country three years after the fall of the Taliban.
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Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, has sworn in a new cabinet that sidelines powerful militia leaders in favour of reformers.
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International mediators have begun swearing in members of a new transitional parliament for Somalia, nearly 13 years after the collapse of the nation&#39;s central government.