Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud delivers a speech on September 10, 2012 in Mogadishu. Photo/AFP/MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
Somali MPs late Monday chose academic Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud as the country's new President, upsetting the pre-election favourite and turning a major page in the search for a peace that has proved elusive for two decades.
It was a result that surprisingly ousted the old order, blamed for many of the ills afflicting the Horn of Africa country, including cronyism and rampant graft.
