{"id":422563,"date":"2011-05-12T02:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T02:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/12\/nation-stops-40-mps-from-leaving-country\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T02:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T02:56:16","slug":"nation-stops-40-mps-from-leaving-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/12\/nation-stops-40-mps-from-leaving-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation Stops 40 MPs From Leaving Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"25.5072463768\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/eastafrican180.jpg\" alt=\"The East African (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The East African (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Security officials at Mogadishu airport prevented more than 40 Somali lawmakers from leaving the country, officials told AFP Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security officials at immigration stopped us from travelling after they received a letter from the interior ministry. This was an embarrassment,&#8221; one of the lawmakers, Awad Ahmed Asharo, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers had been due to travel to Nairobi on Monday night to attend a workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the travel ban could be connected to an ongoing row between President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of the lawmakers who were prevented from travelling are pro-speaker and I think the incident has links with the country&#8217;s political crisis,&#8221; a security official at the airport told AFP on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions within Somalia&#8217;s transitional institutions, which were set up in Kenya in 2004 and whose mandates were due to expire in August 2011, are growing deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Both parliament and the government have unilaterally prolonged their mandates and Sharif has said this would result in an automatic extension of his term in office.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105120247.html\" title=\"Nation Stops 40 MPs From Leaving Country\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nation Stops 40 MPs From Leaving Country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 10 May 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Security officials at Mogadishu airport prevented more than 40 Somali lawmakers from leaving the country, officials told AFP Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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