Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said his government extended its mandate by a year to finish the war with Islamic insurgents and set up a stable system of governance, Agence France-Presse reported.

The Somali transitional government’s term is scheduled to end in August, the Paris-based news agency said today. The administration now plans to leave office in August 2012, it said. Somali authorities plan to enact a proposed new constitution and organize credible elections, AFP said.

Somali lawmakers in February unilaterally approved a three- year extension to their mandate, the news agency said.

The government, supported by a 9,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, controls sections of the capital, Mogadishu, while Islamic militants hold almost all of south and central Somalia, AFP reported.

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