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Wednesday December 13, 2023
Mogadishu (HOL) – Somali Prime Minister Hamsa Abdi Barre fired the Somali Academy of Sciences & Arts chairman, Abdulkadir Nur Hussein Maah, and appointed Ismail Yusuf Osman as acting chairman on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister did not provide further details on the appointment of the new acting chairman. However, this decision came a few hours after Maah sent a letter to the Minister of Justice and the Constitution of Somalia demanding the complete exclusion of the Maay-Maay dialect from the Somali constitution. He argued that this dialect does not unite the Somali people.
The former chairman’s statement has sparked disagreement on social media over the last few hours, with thousands of people urging the government to remove him from office.
According to Article Five of the Somali constitution, the official language of the Federal Republic of Somalia is Somali (Maay and Maxaa-tiri), and Arabic is the second language. However, efforts are underway to revise the current provisional constitution.
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