Somalia's interim president, Abdullahi
Yusuf, is expected to arrive in the southwestern town of Baidoa
to hold final consultations with Prime Minister Nur "Adde"
Hassan Hussein before he names his new Cabinet appointments.
President Yusuf left London yesterday
after receiving his once-a-year medical checkup.
The president met with members of London's
big Somali community before leaving for Nairobi, Kenya.
In Baidoa, Prime Minister Nur Adde is
waiting for President Yusuf to review the 18-member Cabinet
before presenting the nominees to parliament for ratification,
sources said.
Meanwhile, violent attacks continue in the
country's national capital, Mogadishu, where thousands of Somali
and Ethiopian troops are struggling to contain a growing
insurgency.
On Saturday, the spokesman for the
Mogadishu mayor's office, Mohamed Muhiyadin Ali, was killed in a
roadside bombing. [Full story]
A day earlier, Somali police boss Gen.
Abdi Qeybdiid was the target of a remotely-detonated roadside
explosion in the outskirts of Mogadishu. No one was hurt in the
blast.
