Under incredible pressure to include as many MPs as possible in his government, Egal finally made his cabinet lineup public. He retained Foreign Affairs in ad- dition to being prime minister. In all, the new cabinet was expansive and in- cluded seventeen ministers and ten deputy ministers for a total of twenty-seven. Such a cabinet size was much in excess of the last one. Ironically, Sharmarkee and Egal had been the most caustic critics of Hussen for marginally expanding his cabinet in 1964.

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 978