The President of the Somali Republic announced today that President Mohamed Abdellah Ferramago formally and voluntarily relinquished his US citizenship.

"The legal procedures for the president's waiver of US citizenship have started for a period of time and have now been completed," SUNA quoted the presidency as saying.

Famaggio has lived for a long time in the United States and has various educational and professional experiences.

The Interim National Constitution stipulates that a Somali national has the nationality of another country.

Several senior Somali officials have other nationalities, raising questions about their loyalty to the country.

The announcement came about two weeks after US President Donald Trump's attack on four female minority deputies in the United States, including Somalian-born MP Elhan Omar, whom Trump was asked to return to the Horn of Africa, the Bloomberg news agency reported.