Within hours of his election on 15 May Hassan Sheikh Mohamud a 66-year-old former president and founder of a private university was warmly congratulated by international and regional leaders with a couple of exceptions...
PRESIDENT BIDEN SENDS US FORCES BACK INTO THE FRAY Less than a day after Hassan Sheikh Mohamud emerged as Somalia's new President following indirect elections on 15 May United States President Joe Biden announced that about 450 US Special Forces would be redeployed to the country...
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Farmajo's predecessor as president remains an option for Doha (AC Vol 63 No 8 Washington eyes a base at Berbera)...
The sovereignty issues were resolved thanks to the closeness of the then President in Mogadishu Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to then Somaliland President Ahmed Silanyo...
In 2012 he helped Hassan Sheikh Mohamud get elected president by providing funds from Qatar...
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Abgals Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mahamud both former presidents are strong contenders and have agreed to switch their votes to whichever of the two polls the most in the first round...
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Former president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday that soldiers had attacked his residence and pinned the blame on President Farmajo...
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They blocked the streets and there was some shooting between the bodyguards of the former presidents CPC leaders Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with Farmajo's men...
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who was federal President from 2012 to 2016 made a ringing speech against Fahad Yasin and the way the security apparatus was being used by Farmajo (AC Vol 61 No 15 Ugly compromises)...
Yet now Khaire has met key opposition leaders such as Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and Abdirahman Abdi Shakur and apologised for using coercive tactics against them when he was Farmajo's premier...
Two previous presidents Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed objected to the selection method of the 13 Mogadishu senators fuelling the protests...
(The London deal was why former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud did not oppose the Berbera project...