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| Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has been taken to hospital in the Kenyan capital, the BBC has learnt. | |
| There has been no indication yet as to his condition but he has had a liver transplant and is in poor health. | |
| He is to be flown to London for treatment and has cancelled a meeting on Wednesday with regional leaders. | |
| The news comes as four ministers resigned from the cabinet named by Mr Yusuf's newly appointed Prime Minister Nur Hussein Hassan. | |
| The ministers complained that their Rahanwein clan was under-represented in the government. | |
| Mr Yusuf, 73, had been due to travel to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa for Wednesday's meeting between regional leaders and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. | |
| He was appointed by the transitional parliament in 2004 after years of talks in Kenya. | |
| He is a northerner, from Puntland, and a member of the Darod clan who had been an army commander during Siad Barre's rule and subsequently a guerrilla leader. | |
| President Yusuf controversially enlisted the help of the Ethiopian army to oust the Union of Islamic Courts from the capital, Mogadishu in December 2006. | |
| The past year has seen increasing levels of violence as the Islamists battle the Ethiopian-backed government, rendering Mogadishu too unsafe for the government which has been forced to operate out of Baidoa. | |
| Somalia has not had a functioning national since 1991. |