A new president elected in Somalia

A new president elected in Somalia
# 31 January 2009 10:18 (UTC +04:00)
Somalia –APA. Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has been elected Somalia’s new president, after a secret ballot of members of parliament on Saturday. APA reports quoting BBC as saying that Ahmed comfortably won a majority in a second round of voting after one of the frontrunners, Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, withdrew. The election followed the resignation of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in December. The Somalian parliamentrains met in Djibouti because of instability in Somalia. Sharif Ahmed is due to be sworn in as president later on Saturday, before representing Somalia at an African Union summit in Ethiopia over the weekend.
Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991, and part of the country is under the control of Islamists.
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THE OPERATION IS BEING PERFORMED