Somali Prime Minister Voted out of Office

Lawmakers in Somalia have ousted the prime minister, ending a year of rare stability atop that country's government.Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon lost a no-confidence vote in parliament Monday by a tally of 184 to 65.Shirdon had battled for three weeks to keep his job, after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asked him to resign. The men had been odds over a planned Cabinet reshuffle. In an interview with VOA , the U.N. special representative to Somalia, Nicholas Kay, said the vote...

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