“First things first: all Somali pirates to be given detention.”

UK teacher, Mohamed Ibrahim was quietly getting on with his job at a high school in Harlesden, England last month, when he unexpectedly received an email from Somalia asking him to visit his former homeland over the UK summer holidays.

When he returned to war-torn Mogadishu, he was unexpectedly appointed the Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country, which has suffered civil war, famine and drought for decades. A fragile transitional council rules the area around capital Mogadishu, while the rest of the country is lawless, run by warlords and bands of pirates. So, he and the new, new government have their work cut out for them.

Returning to the UK, Mister Ibrahim contacted the headmaster at the school he’d worked at for two years, and asked to be relieved of his post, given he’d been called to one of his own country’s top jobs. Needless to say, headmaster Richard Kolka agreed to waive the one month notice period.

[Source: BBC]