Militants of Al-Shabaab stand guard with their weapons inside Bakara open-air market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu December 15, 2008. REUTERS/Omar Faruk (SOMALIA)Somalia's Fractured Government Slides Into Chaos -- Yahoo News/Reuters
BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) – Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf named a new prime minister on Tuesday, snubbing a vote by parliament to reinstate sacked premier Nur Hassan Hussein and further deepening rifts in the fractured government.
The split at the top of the Western-backed government is blamed for stalling a U.N.-hosted peace process and threatens to tear the weak administration apart at a time Islamist insurgents are camped on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu.
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