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Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed ousted in vote of no confidence

Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed ousted in a vote of no confidence
Ousted Somalia Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed

Mogadishu, Somalia: Members of parliament voted Somalia's prime minister out of office on Saturday for the second time in a year, a move Western donors had warned would threaten the war-torn nation's fragile recovery.

Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed had been embroiled in a row over a cabinet reshuffle with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who had overruled his changes.

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