Somalia crisis deepens as president withdraws PM’s powers
Al Jazeera
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed suspends Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble’s power to hire and fire officials.
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has suspended Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble’s power to hire and fire officials, the latest development in a destabilising feud that has plunged the country into fresh crisis.
The dispute between the two leaders marks an escalation of months of tension, threatening to throw an already fragile electoral process into deeper peril.
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