 Two-thirds of Somalia's cabinet ministers resigned on Saturday, officials said, widening a rift between the president and prime minister that threatened to wreck the country's interim government.
| ... which by any reasonable definition is already a wreck. |
The 10 ministers who quit were all allies of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who has appeared increasingly at odds with Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. Last week, Mr. Yusuf revoked an order by Mr. Hussein that fired the powerful mayor of the capital, Mogadishu. "I have resigned because the government has failed to implement its programs and has gone against the charter," Khadija Muhammad Diriye, the former family affairs minister, said in Baidoa, where Parliament meets.
She said she and her colleagues tendered their resignations, four of them from overseas. Somalia had 15 ministers. |