Mogadishu
Somalia’s president and prime minister say they have struck a deal to speed up the process for long-delayed elections, ending a simmering feud that threatened to plunge the Horn of Africa nation into fresh crisis.
The two men had locked horns over top security appointments and dismissals in a month-long dispute that stoked fears for Somalia’s stability, distracting from efforts to confront a long-running Islamist insurgency.
But in a joint statement released late Thursday, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble said they had “agreed to accelerate the election process by calling on the federal member states to start the election of the (lower house of) parliament in the next couple of weeks”.—APP
