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Garowe Online (Garowe)

Somali ministers voted to extend the government's mandate for another one year on Sunday, government officials told Garowe Online.

Somali cabinet ministers held a conference led by Prime minister Mohammed Abdullahi (Farmajo) today in the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu and voted to extend all the government institutions mandate one more year and scheduled to expire on august 2012.

The current mandate is scheduled to expire on August this year, while members of the parliament voted early on February this year to extend their own mandate for three years and the president and the prime minister described it as unconstitutional.

Power struggle continues in the Horn of African nation as Prime Minister Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed sides with President Sharif Ahmed whose rival and current parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden is plotting an attempt to oust the president when his term comes to an end in the upcoming August.

Somalia was without functioning government since 1991 when clan warlords overthrew Siad Barre's administration.