A former Prime Minister in Somalia's U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will become the country's new envoy to the European Union, government sources said.
Mr. Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein, who became Prime Minister in Nov. 2007, will soon be appointed as Somalia's EU Envoy by current President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.
Nur Adde will also hold the post of Somali Ambassador to Italy, the sources added.
The current Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake, is attending an anti-piracy conference in Rome.
The Italian government became the first nation in the West that declared plans to reopen its embassy in Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia.
In 2008, when then-Prime Minister Nur Adde was embroiled in a bitter power struggle with then-Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, the Italian government supported Nur Adde. Unconfirmed reports suggested Rome "requested" Nur Adde to become the Somali Ambassador to Italy.
Nur Adde hails from the Abgal clan of the larger Hawiye clan-family of President Sheikh Sharif, who was a leading opposition figure last when Nur Adde was the Prime Minister.
Source: WorldNewsJournal
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