Somali members of parliament gathered at the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, Sunday and overwhelmingly endorsed new Cabinet ministers appointed by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre last week. During the vote, several mortar explosions hit the capital. Somali parliament speaker Adan Mohamed Nur Madobe told the gathering at the palace’s highly fortified villa Hargaisa…
Among the ministers whom parliament endorsed was Mukhtar Robow Ali, known as Abu Munsor the former deputy leader and spokesman in militant group al-Shabab. He is now becoming the religious affairs minister