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The Somali federal government has expelled the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia Simon Mulongo, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, obtained by Somali Times. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has written to the African Union Commission informing Simon Mulongo to leave the country