The new Prime Minister of Somalia Abdi Farah Shirdon has named his cabinet which for the first time has a female Foreign Minister, Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adanhas. The cabinet is significantly smaller than before with just ten members. Merry Harper reports.

索马里新总理阿卜迪·赛义德任命了新内阁，Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adanhas成为该国首位女性外长。新内阁只有10名成员，比之前的规模小很多。Merry Harper报道。

As Foreign Minister and deputy prime minister, Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adanhas is probably the most powerful female politician Somali has ever had. Another woman, Maryan Qasim has been appointed as minister for social development, a huge role for a country that has been devastated by 20 years of civil conflict, drought and famine. The cabinet has to be approved by parliament which may prove difficult as some of Somalia's clans feel they haven't been properly represented.

Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adanhas身兼外长与副总理，她可能是索马里至今最有权力的女性政治家。另一位女性Maryan Qasim被任命为社会发展部长，对这个遭受20年内战、旱灾和饥荒蹂躏的国家来说，这是重要的一大职位。内阁必须经过议会批准，索马里一些宗派认为自己在议会的席位不够多。

South Sudan says it has expelled a United Nations official who is carrying out an investigation to the human rights situation in the country. A government's spokesman in the capital Juba said the UN investigator had published reports which had no truth in them. UN officials said the expulsion may have been related to a report published in August accusing the army of torturing, raping, killing and abducting civilians. The UN called the expulsion a breach of South Sudan's legal obligations to the United Nations.