Two thirds of Somalia's cabinet ministers resigned on Saturday, officials said. The 10 ministers who quit were all allies of President Abdullahi Yusuf, who has appeared increasingly at odds with Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. This week, Yusuf revoked an order by Hussein sacking Mogadishu's powerful mayor. "I have resigned because the government has failed to implement its programmes and has gone against the charter," Khadija Mohammed Diriye, the former family affairs minister, told Reuters in Baidoa, where parliament sits.
