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Somalia: The Prime Minister's Resignation Print E-mail
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Monday, 29 October 2007
Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi resigned Oct. 29. Ghedi announced his resignation to the country's interim parliament, of which he will remain a member.

Ghedi resigned over a long-standing rift with Somalian President Abdullahi Yusuf, who always kept his prime minister on a short leash. This is not the first time Yusuf has pressured Ghedi to leave; a no-confidence vote against Ghedi was held in July 2006, and although Ghedi was forced out of office, Yusuf reappointed him shortly thereafter in order to demonstrate that his government was representative of Somalia's major clans. (Yusuf hails from the Darood clan, which dominates the northeastern Puntland region, while Ghedi is from the Hawiye clan that dominates the South.)

Ghedi had become a particular thorn in Yusuf's side after he criticized the president July 16 for signing an oil exploration deal with China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC). What irked Ghedi was that Yusuf approved the deal on behalf of the Puntland region -- not the Somalian government. Ghedi, who had been seeking national energy legislation in parliament, was left out of the deal. Furthermore, Yusuf has placed allies from Puntland in parliament, in the Cabinet and in charge of his personal security detail. Essentially, and despite his selection in 2004 to lead Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, Yusuf rules Somalia like a traditional warlord.

Regardless of Ghedi's resignation, Yusuf is still in charge and still has Ethiopia's backing -- a necessity for his survival, given the daily attacks against his security forces and government officials by Somalian Islamists. Recent government efforts to facilitate reconciliation between the country's major clans have not achieved much, and Islamist militants -- the undefeated Supreme Islamic Courts Council -- remain intent on fighting the Yusuf regime and the Ethiopian and African Union troops backing it.

Ghedi's resignation reveals an inability to enact governance in Somalia, but it does not significantly alter Somalia's violent outlook.

 

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