- Title: SOMALIA: USC REBELS HOLD MOGADISHU/ALI MAHDI MOHAMED BECOMES INTERIM PRESIDENT
- Date: 30th January 1991
- Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (30 JANUARY 1991) 1. JUBILANT USC REBELS AT MOGADISHU AIRPORT 2. USC REBELS WITH ASSORTED GUNS AT AIRPORT 3. USC REBEL LEADING CHANT OF U.S.C. 4. TRACKING SHOT OF CAR DRIVING INTO MOGADISHU PAST WRECKED CAR, DAMAGED BUILDINGS 5. HOMELESS WOMEN SITTING OUTSIDE WHAT WERE ONCE THEIR HOMES. 6. ARMED USC MAN 7. WRECKED TANK IN ROAD 8. DAMAGED MOSQUE AND HOUSES 9. BODIES OF FORMER PRESIDENT BARRE'S TROOPS IN GROUNDS OF HIS RESIDENCE. 10. ANOTHER BODY SURROUNDED BY AMMUNITION BOXES 11. INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF UNITED SOMALI CONGRESS, DR HUSSEIN HAJI MOHAMED BOOD SPEAKING AS NOTED (ENGLISH) 12. NEW PRESIDENT OF SOMALIA, MR ALI MAHDI MOHAMED SPEAKING AS NOTED (SOMALI, WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION) (PG/DF) Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
- Country: Somalia
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA8ZL8EHVGGUPO5F8X1AC17BF37
- Story Text:Somalia's interim President Ali Mahdi Mohamed approved a caretaker government on Saturday (February 2), a week after rebels overran the capital Mogadishu and ended the 21-year rule of president Mohamed Siad Barre.
State radio named 10 ministers in the cabinet and said they would be sworn in on Sunday (February 3).
Rebels of the United Somali Congress (USC), one of three major rebel groups which fought to overthrow Siad Barre, forced the ageing president to flee Mogadishu a week earlier, ending four weeks of fierce street battles in the city.
The President of the USC, Dr Hussein Haji Mohammed Bood, said he recognised the problems facing Somalia, but added that the new government was in place and would begin to tackle them.
Some factions of the USC and of other rebel groups abroad protested at President Mahdi Mohamed's appointment, saying it was too was too hasty. Mahdi Mohamed's appointment, saying it was too hastily. Mahdi Mohamed acknowledged that no government in the world yet recognised him as President.
Aid workers and journalists visiting Mogadishu, devastated by January's fighting, report looting and sporadic shooting. They say the city is still not completely calm.
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