Somali parliament approves new cabinet after MP assassinated
Members of Somali parliament have approved a new cabinet proposed by the country’s prime minister following the assassination of a lawmaker by al-Shabab militants in the capital, Mogadishu.
Somali parliament speaker, Mohamed Osman Jawari, said on Monday that out of 220 lawmakers present, 191 endorsed the new cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
Jawari added that 26 ministers and 40 deputy ministers voted in favor of the new administration.
MP’s assassination
The Somali lawmaker, Abdulahi Qayad Barre, was shot dead earlier on Monday as he left his house to cast his vote in the parliament.
Barre’s killing was the latest in a string of assassinations of politicians in the war-torn East African country as at least five MPs have been killed in 2014. Barre was the first legislator to be assassinated this year.
The al-Shabab militant group, which is fighting against the government of Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al-Shabab says it is targeting the legislators as they permitted foreign troops to be deployed to the country.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly clashes between government forces and al-Shabab militants since 2006.
The militants have been pushed out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), which is largely made up of troops from Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
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