12 More Officials Quit Cabinet Posts
From Times Wire Reports
Twelve more ministers resigned from Somalia’s fragile Western-backed government, less than a week after 18 senior officials quit.
Minister of Minerals and Water Mohamud Salad Nur and the others quit after Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi called for postponement of peace talks with rival Islamists who have seized the capital, Mogadishu.
“We believe if the talks are postponed again it will affect the reconciliation efforts,” said Hassan Abshir Farah, minister of fisheries and marine resources.
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