Somalia’s first cabinet crisis was resolved after ten days of negotiation

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But Sharmarkee could select only twelve deputies for the various portfolios, since that limit was set by the law of the republic. The prime minister designee’s task was made particularly difficult by the refusal of former prime minister Abdullahi Issa to accept a ministerial post. Sharmarkee was seriously worried that a sufficient number of MPs who were loyal to Abdullahi Issa, as well as others who felt belittled for not being appointed, would vote against the government in the confidence motion. Issa finally accepted the assignment of foreign minister ten days after the nomination. Egal had already agreed to take up the defense portfolio. This concluded what many considered to be the nation’s first political minicrisis. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 514