{"id":286,"date":"2012-10-06T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?guid=a2b768fe3637e40dcce167e4413982f1"},"modified":"2015-02-28T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:12:16","slug":"somali-president-names-political-newcomer-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/286","title":{"rendered":"Somali president names political newcomer as prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\nMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 Somalia\u2019s president has appointed a new prime minister, a businessman who worked as a government economist in the 1980s.<br \/><br \/>Abdi Farah Shirdon was named prime minister on Saturday. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said he appointed Shirdon in part because of his academic background.<br \/><br \/>Shirdon said he would form a \u201cquality\u201d Cabinet that will not tolerate corruption. He said the government he forms will move past the disputes Somali political leaders have engaged in previously.<br \/><br \/>Shirdon studied economics at Somalia National University in the 1970s. He served as an economist in the ministries of finance and agriculture in the 1980s. Shirdon is married to a Somali member of parliament.<br \/><br \/>Shirdon left Somalia in 1991, when the last fully functioning government collapsed. He relocated to Kenya.<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) &mdash; Somalia&rsquo;s president has appointed a new prime minister, a businessman who worked as a government economist in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Abdi Farah Shirdon was named prime minister on Saturday. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said he appointed Shirdon in part because of his academic background.<\/p>\n<p>Shirdon said he would form a &ldquo;quality&rdquo; Cabinet that will not tolerate corruption. He said the government he forms will move past the disputes Somali political leaders have engaged in previously.<\/p>\n<p>Shirdon studied economics at Somalia National University in the 1970s. He served as an economist in the ministries of finance and agriculture in the 1980s. Shirdon is married to a Somali member of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Shirdon left Somalia in 1991, when the last fully functioning government collapsed. He relocated to Kenya.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/286\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}