From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 06:53:57 EST
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Yemen Grants Asylum To Ex-Somali President - Source
Wednesday January 21st, 2009 / 11h18
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SANA'A, Yemen (AFP)--Yemen has granted political asylum to former Somali
president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned in late December after a row
with his prime minister, a Yemeni presidency source said Wednesday.
"The president of Yemen granted Somalia's president the right of political
asylum last night," the source told AFP.
The ex-head of state has been given a permanent home in Yemen, which faces
Somalia on the other side of the horn of Africa.
Yusuf stepped down on Dec. 29 after having tried and failed to sack Prime
Minister Nur Hassan Hussein.
The president's bid to push Hussein out of his job was thwarted when
parliament backed the prime minister with a massive vote of confidence.
Yusuf clashed with Hussein over their approach to the opposition. During his
time as president, Yusuf had poor relations with the opposition, who accused
him of obstructing the peace process.
Conflict in Somalia and power struggles that erupted since 1991 have
hampered successive initiatives to restore any semblance of order to the
country, where the government is facing a military campaign by Islamist
fighters.
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