Somalia: Parliament Endorses New Cabinet

Nairobi — The Somali transitional parliament on Thursday approved the new cabinet named by Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi, four weeks after the assembly rejected his earlier cabinet on the grounds that its selection was unconstitutional.

The vote was approved by 169 MPs, while 78 voted against. "The size of those who voted in favour of the government shows that parliament is now satisfied that the prime minister has satisfied their concerns and questions", Abdulrahman Aden Ibbi, minister of state for parliamentary affairs, told IRIN.

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