Farmajo new president of Somalia

mogadishu - Somalia Wednesday after elections installed a new president. It is a former diplomat and Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who also has US citizenship. He was born in 1962, of the influential clan Marehan. In the eighties he went to the United States.

He worked in the Somali Embassy in Washington, and he studied history and political science at the American Buffalo from 1989 to 1993. In those years the collapsed state of Somalia with the dictatorship of Siad Barre (1919-1995) in. Somalia is still torn up after more than a quarter century of war and anarchy without a government that has authority over the whole country.