NAIROBI, Jan. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi announced his government here on Friday and will submit the relocation plan to the parliament immediately after the cabinet gets the vote of confidence, which is expected by next Monday.

    Ghedi named a new cabinet of 42 ministers, 42 assistant ministers and 7 ministers of state without portfolio. A total of 89 cabinet members are men and there are three women drawn from Somalia's different clans.

    The cabinet immediately took oath of office at a ceremony attended by Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in Kenyan capital Nairobi.

    The new cabinet is expected to be submitted to the parliament for approval by next Monday, Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohammed Ismail told Xinhua by telephone.

    "Immediately after the cabinet gets the vote of confidence, theprime minister will come up with a relocation plan and present it to the parliament for approval," Ismail said, adding that will be complete by the end of this month.

    "At today's ceremony, the president has said he hopes the government will go back to Somalia as soon as possible," Ismail added.

    All Somali factions were represented in the new cabinet, with some faction leaders being given key ministerial positions.

    The post of deputy premier and minister for interior went to Mogadishu-based warlord Hussein Farah Aideed. The post of ministerof commerce went to the Mogadishu-based faction leader Muse Sudi Yalahow, while another Mogadishu-based faction leader Osman HassanAtto is the new minister of public works and housing.

    Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail, another faction leader, is the new foreign affairs minister.

    Kismayo-based faction leader Barre Hirale becomes the minister for reconstruction. Baidoa-based faction leaders, Hassan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud and Adan Madobe, become agriculture and justice ministers, respectively.

    "After long consultations with various Somali parties, I have come up with a broad-based, all-inclusive cabinet," Ghedi said during the ceremony.

    However, Somali women leaders decried the lack of gender balance in the new cabinet, which has only one full woman ministerfor gender affairs and two assistant ministers.

    A Somali woman MP who sought anonymity said that the appointment of one woman minister and two assistants would be "an injustice against Somali women and a breach of the charter."

    "There should have been at least five women ministers and some assistants," the MP told reporters.

    Ghedi, who himself was reappointed three weeks after parliamentvoted him out, said he had named a government of reconciliation which he urged to work as a team to implement its agenda in Somalia.

    "Our people must unite and reconcile for the benefit of peace in Somalia," he said.

    The biggest task facing the government is to disarm thousands of gunmen, some loyal to faction leaders opposed to the peace process, others freelance bandits, and return security to the devastated nation, analysts said.

    Ghedi created the ministry of militia and training to handle military affairs, saying he has been busy meeting various groups to deepen the reconciliation.

    Kenyan Regional Cooperation Minister John Koech welcomed the appointment of the cabinet, saying it will deepen reconciliation among the Somalis.

    "We have been working together and we support it. I think this is going to make the people of Somalia to come together. I have talked to them now and they are very happy and that will usher very well in relocation," Koech told reporters.

    "The important thing about this cabinet is that all warlords have been incorporated into the cabinet. So if they work together,then they can do disarmament together and it will enhance the law and order in Somalia," Koech added.

    The Somali transitional parliament approved Ghedi's re-appointment as prime minister on December 23, 2004, nearly two weeks after the assembly rejected his initial selection.

    The parliament had complained that President Yusuf had failed to submit his prime minister-designate to parliament for approval when he first appointed Ghedi.

    In October, members of the transitional federal parliament, sitting in Nairobi, elected Yusuf president at the end of a two-year reconciliation conference sponsored by the Inter-GovernmentalAuthority on Development.

    Somalia has been without an effective government since 1991 when the regime of Muhammad Siad Barre was toppled, following which the country plunged into anarchy and factional violence.

    Since the breakdown of the Somali central government, conflict and famine have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Enditem