MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Former diplomat Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has been named the new prime minister of Somalia.
BAIDOA, Somalia, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf says he has dismissed his prime minister for failing to do his job as the government fights Islamic militias near the capital.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Eleven Somali Cabinet ministers received large sums of money to resign their positions as part of a political attack on the prime minister, sources allege.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 5 (UPI) -- Pirates boarded a French yacht off the coast of Somalia and took 30 crew members hostage, authorities said Saturday.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigned Monday amid accusations he failed to quell the country's Islamist insurgency.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 3 (UPI) -- Six people died Sunday when a truck bomb exploded outside the home of Somalia's interim prime minister.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The prime minister of Somalia survived an assassination attempt this weekend.
LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Britain celebrated the 80th birthday of its former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a big party that included Queen Elizabeth.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 27 (UPI) -- Pakistan's newly-nominated Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said former Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz will be the next prime minister.
PARIS, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin testified before a judge Monday
