 Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) began life without a home - conducting business in a Kenyan sports center. Since returning to battle-scarred Somalia in February, it rapidly found itself without a country to govern. By early June, Islamist militias seized the capital, Mogadishu, and took control of wide swaths of central and southern Somalia. | “38 ministers and assistant ministers have quit in the past nine days...” |
Now, the TFG is facing complete collapse after 38 ministers and assistant ministers have quit in the past nine days. "What we need is the prime minister to have a clear policy to deal with moderates in the Islamic courts. As a government we have to have our principles and a strategy to talk with them," says Ibrahim Isaac Yerow, sipping a spiced cup of coffee outside the former grain warehouse where Parliament sits in the dusty provincial town of Baidoa. "We don't have that at the moment." Before resigning Wednesday, Mr. Yerow was the assistant minister of national property. Four more ministers quit Thursday. |