Somalia forms central government
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After years of anarchy, Somalia is poised to set up a new parliament which will elect a president.
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Somalia&#39;s new prime minister is Ali Mohamed Ghedi, a Member of Parliament from the capital, Mogadishu. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed announced the appointment at a news conference in Nairobi.
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NAIROBI, 23 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Some 206 members of the Somali transitional federal parliament took oath of office on Sunday, paving the way for the formation of a government in the Horn of Africa country that has been ravaged by factional violence since
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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NAIROBI, June 22 -- In another sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, fighting erupted Friday among hundreds of government soldiers belonging to two rival sub-clans.
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MOGADISHU -- The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia said yesterday he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south. Puntland President General Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears ...
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Somalia's interim government and a rival Islamist militia agree in principle to establish a national army.
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Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain.
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afrol News, 23 August - In Mogadishu, large crowds of Somalis celebrated the formation of the country&#39;s first parliament in 13 years.
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A delegation from Somalia's exiled government goes to the ruined and divided capital, Mogadishu, to pave the way for its return.
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Islamists and opposition leaders are set to join forces to try to overthrow Somalia's transitional government.
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Somalia's Islamic Courts militia says it will defend the country against what it calls Ethiopian violations of its territory.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 22 -- Members of a new Somali transitional parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing the country&#39;s first national government since 1991.
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Russian government has welcomed the election of the new Somali president, Col Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr Aleksandr Yakovenko, said that his government hopes the remaining
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Somalia's first parliament for 13 years is expected to be sworn in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Sunday.
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NAIROBI, 15 October (IRIN) - Eastern and central African leaders said on Friday they would recognise &quot;with immediate effect&quot; the new government in Somalia, which will be led by the newly elected President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and urged the UN to send a
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, stamping his authority on a government seeking to reassert itself in the chaotic nation after driving out rival Islamists.