Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke ,left ,with Abdiwahid elmi Gonjeh, the minister of oil and energy, right, address a press conference in Mogadishu ,Somalia, Tuesday ,May 18, 2010.

The prime minister of Somalia is publicly disputing the president’s right to dissolve the U.N.-backed government, further deepening the political turmoil that prevents the administration from effectively fighting al-Qaida linked Islamist insurgents.

Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke insisted he is still the prime minister at a press conference Tuesday despite President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed’s announcement a day earlier that he was dissolving the Cabinet. (AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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