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Somali President, PM trade accusations over delays to ongoing elections

Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble at the Global Education Summit in London, Britain. [Reuters]

Somalia's president and prime minister each accused the other on Sunday of holding up ongoing parliamentary elections, in a spat analysts say may distract the government from its fight against the al Qaeda-linked insurgency al Shabaab.

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