Somali president promises to name new Cabinet in bid to overcome political paralysis

Published November 17, 2014

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The president of war-weary Somalia says he will name a new Cabinet soon in a bid to overcome divisions that have prevented his government from effectively combating an Islamist insurgency.

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed must nominate new ministers within a month of his speech on Monday.

Analysts say his administration has been crippled by divisions between competing factions. Ahmed also needs to deliver promised positions to a powerful militia that recently signed a power-sharing agreement with the government.

The U.N.-backed government only holds a few blocks of the city capital and comes under daily attack from Islamist insurgents. Somalia has not had a functioning government in nearly 20 years.

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