MOGADISHU
The Somali parliament on Saturday voted to withdraw confidence from Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and his government.
Some 153 MPs voted in favor of a motion to withdraw confidence from the Premier, while 80 legislators voted against.
Last month, 165 MPs drafted a bill in the 275-member assembly withdrawing confidence from the premier, who fell out with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud over a cabinet reshuffle.
However, the parliament had failed over three sessions to vote on withdrawing confidence from Ahmed over chaos triggered by opposition MPs.
Under the Somali Constitution, the Somali President has a 30-day period to name a new premier.
Somalia has remained in the grip of on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.
Earlier this year, the country appeared to inch closer to stability after government troops and African Union forces – deployed in the country since 2007 – drove the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group from most of its strongholds.
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