Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke has spent much of the last six months locked in a power struggle with President Sheikh Sharif. The Somalia government's Western supporters say their wrangles have stalled efforts to beat back the resurgence of al-Shabaab, an extremist group which has begun to export its jihad outside Somalia. A British man arrested in Amsterdam on his way to East Africa this week is being investigated for links to the Islamist group.
"The fact he's gone certainly clears the way for the president to concentrate more on al-Shabaab, rather than problems in his own administration," said a Western diplomat dealing with Somalia from Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya. "While he and Sharmarke have been bickering, al-Shabaab has dangerously grown in ambition." Read More
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