Hiiraan Online
Tuesday March 21, 2017
FILE PHOTO: Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire
Mogadishu (HOL) - Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has named his cabinet ministers on Tuesday, weeks after being nominated as the countries Prime Minister. The cabinet is made up 26 ministers,1 deputy minister and includes 6 women. 19 Federal MP’s have been appointed as Ministers.
Mahdi Ahmed Guled Khadar has been named the Deputy PM and former BBC Journalist and Somali Ambassador to the UN has been promoted Minister of Foreign Affairs. The former foreign minister and election commission chair Dr. Abdirahman Duale Beyle has been named the Finance Minister.
Former Somali Ambassador to Kenya, Gamal Mohamed Hassan has been named as the Minister of Planning and International Cooperations. Dr. Maryan Qasim, the former Minister of Education and Health has been named the Minister o Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management. The former Governor of the Bay region is headed to Mogadishu as the Defense Minister.
The list of ministers will be put before the Parliament for approval before they can formally assume their posts.
The new cabinet ministers of Somali Federal government
Mahdi Ahmed Guled (Khadar), Deputy Prime Minister
Yusuf Garad Omar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Abdi Farah Said, Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation
Dr. Abdirahman Dualle Beyleh, Ministry of Finance
Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed, Ministry of Defense
Abdirahman Dahir Osman, Ministry of Education
Abdirahman Hoosh Jibril, Ministry of Constitutional affairs
Maryam Qasim Ahmed, Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management
Jamal Mohamed Hassan, Ministry of Planning, investment and economic promotion
Maryan Aweys, Ministry of Ports and Marine transport
Mohamed Abdullahi Salad, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation
Abdi Anshur Hassan, Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and Technology
Sheikh Nur Mohamed Hassan, Ministry of Livestock
Khadra Ahmed Duale, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, Ministry of Public Works and Reconstruction
Iimaan Abdullahi Ali, Ministry of Religious Affairs
Deeqa Yasin Hajji Yusuf, Ministry of Women and human rights
Mohamed Abukar Islow Duale, Ministry of Internal Security
Said Hussein Iid, Ministry of Agriculture
Fowsiya Abiikar Nur, Ministry of Health and Social Care
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdi Hashi, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources
Khadija Mohamed Diriye, Ministry of Youth and Sports
Eng. Abdirahman Omar Osman, Ministry of Information
Hassan Hussein Hajji, Ministry of Justice
Salah Ahmed Jama, Ministry of Works and Labor
Salim Aliyow Ibrow, Minister of Power and Water