Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen has agreed to host Somalia's former President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed who resigned last month amid an internal power struggle, but no asylum has been granted to him yet, a senior Yemeni government official said on Wednesday.

The official said the ex-head of state, who arrived in Sana'a on Tuesday, has not applied for political asylum in Yemen.

"He expressed his wish to live in Yemen, but no permanent asylum has been discussed yet," the official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Sana'a, Yemen  - Somalia's former Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who resigned last month amid an internal power struggle, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana'a Tuesday seeking political asylum, Yemeni officials and a Somali diplomat said.

Yemeni officials said Yusuf had expressed his wish to receive political asylum in Yemen until he decides a permanent residence.

A Somali diplomat said Yusuf was accompanied by his wife and 17 other family members and security guards upon his arrival in Sana'a.

Mogadishu - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Tuesday appointed a new prime minister, defying a vote by parliament not to approve his decision to sack Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein.

"After I consulted lawmakers, I today appointed Mohamed Mohamoud Guled Ga'madhere as prime minister," Yusuf told reporters in Baidoa, the seat of the Somali parliament. "I appointed the premier after I carefully considered the wrong decision parliament took yesterday."