In a first for Somalia, Mr. Mohamed announced his choice on Twitter on Thursday, a day after his inauguration. The nominee, Hassan Ali Khaire, 48, is an oil industry executive and former aid worker who has dual Somali and Norwegian citizenship. “I request you to work with him,” Mr. Mohamed wrote on Twitter. At a news conference at the presidential palace later in the day, Mr. Mohamed’s chief of staff, Ali Fiqi, read out the formal decree nominating Mr. Khaire. The Shabab have called the new president, Mr. Mohamed, an apostate and an American puppet.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2017 19:18 UTC