Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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MOGADISHU. Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi yesterday named a former warlord as the country's police chief and replaced the foreign minister in a shake-up of top officials, a government spokesman said. Gedi appointed former Mogadishu warlord Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdid as the new police commissioner, replacing Ali Mohamed Loyan who was appointed as the country’s ambassador to Tanzania.
Somalia's national planning minister Hussein Elabe Fahiye was named foreign minister, replacing Ismail Mohamed Hurrey who was moved to the education portfolio.
Gedi fired former education minister Ali Abdi Awale for failing in his duties, the deputy prime minister’s spokesman, Abdullahi Muhidin Odka, told a Press conference.
Ali Abdullahi Osbley, who was fired from the cabinet in a February reshuffle, was recalled as planning minister.
Qeybdid was among the warlords ousted from Mogadishu by an Islamist movement last year, only to return early this year when joint Somali-Ethiopian forces chased the Islamists from the seaside capital.
Source: AFP, April 18, 2007