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Africa Horn
Somali-American is new prime minister in Somalia
2010-10-16
[Arab News] Somalia's president named a new prime minister on Thursday, bringing into the government a Somali-American who has taught at a community college in New York state.
Good luck, sir. It would be very good if you could bring some order and sanity to that place. Please do not go too native, that's turned out badly with some of our alumni in similar positions in the past...
Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed replaces Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, who had a long-running feud with the president and resigned last month.

A statement from the hapless Somali government said that Mohamed is a former Somali diplomat. He worked in the Somali Embassy in Washington from 1985 to 1988, according to the government's website.

Mohamed has taught conflict resolution and leadership skills at Erie Community College, a member of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, according to his resume. He has a master's degree in political science from SUNY-Buffalo, it said.

Mohamed will be asked to name a Cabinet within one month.

Mark Bowden, a top UN official with oversight of Somalia, said Mohamed's Cabinet is expected to be smaller than the bloated group of politicians that Sharmarke had control over. Among officials in Sharmarke's Cabinet was a minister of tourism in a violence-plagued country that sees only a handful of tourists each year.
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