President reinstates mayor, calls for regional elections
MOGADISHU, Somalia Aug 1 (Garowe Online) - Somalia' s interim president has issued a secret government memo reinstating ex-warlord Mohamed "Dheere" Omar Habeb as mayor of the capital, inside sources tell Garowe Online.
Abdullahi Yusuf, president of the Horn of Africa country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), returned to Mogadishu last Tuesday, hours after the Cabinet voted to formally remove Mohamed Dheere from the mayor's office.
Private discussions among the government's top leaders "collapsed" on Thursday, with insiders saying that Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein rejected recommendations detailed in a letter from Yusuf, which was also sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Sources privy to the letter's contents confirmed to Garowe Online that the Somali president called on the Prime Minister to rescind Mohamed Dheere's dismissal and requested that "regional elections" be held in Banadir to elect the next administration.
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