⁍ Somalia’s parliament ousted Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a no-confidence vote on Saturday.

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⁍ Khaire and President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed have been tussling over whether to delay a national election due in February next year.

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⁍ The president’s allies have also accused Khaire of failing to stabilise the security situation.

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– A no-confidence vote against Somalia’s prime minister on Saturday was followed by what one official calls a “dark day” in the country’s government. Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire was removed from his post by parliament, which voted against him after he refused to delay a national election that President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed wanted to hold in February, the BBC reports. “The government failed in its promise on the preparation of a clear plan for the one man, one vote election,” said Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman, the speaker of parliament, referring to the first direct election since the country’s 1991 civil war. Reuters reports that Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Mohamed Guled was elevated to acting prime minister.