20100922 africanews
Abdiwahid Elmi Gonjeh has been appointed as the acting Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, a day after Omar Abdirashid Ali sharmake resigned from the post, according to Alshahid.
The president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed announced the appointment shortly before he took his flight to New York in the USA.
He is to join the meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Somalia issues.
Elmi has been the deputy Prime Minister and Minister for transport in the government before he was appointed for this new post.
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