'Sacked' Somali PM vows to continue his job

Somalia’s prime minister vowed to continue his job today as MPs passed a confidence vote after the president attempted to fire him.

The prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein, survived a no-confidence vote in parliament by 143-20, with seven abstaining. The vote went ahead even though President Abdullahi Yusuf fired Hussein yesterday, accusing him of paralysing a government plagued by “corruption, inefficiency and treason.”