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The new foreign minister is Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan. She said on her appointment that selecting a woman for the post was an historic precedent that was bound to change the political scene in Somalia.

"Particularly for the women of Somalia,“ she said, “it turns a new page for the political situation of our country and will lead to success and prosperity.”

Another woman named to the new government was Maryan Qasim Ahmed, who be minister for development and social affairs.

She had previously served as women's minister.

Since the collapse of the central government in Somalia in the early 1990s, Somali women have largely been left in charge of their families with the men either unemployed or at war.

To support their families, Somali women worked in trade or other menial jobs men refused to take.

After long discussions with stake holders from Somali society , Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid said the new cabinet would only consist of ten me