Vol 66 No 16 |
- SOMALIA
- TURKEY
Behind those personal failings – serious enough say intelligence sources – lie a catalogue of poor performances by the Somali National Army and other security bodies that analysts lay at the door of national President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was at first reluctant to get involved...
Vol 66 No 15 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud also has to consider Turkey's pressure through an oil exploration deal and mediation efforts in the Somalia-Ethiopia dispute over Addis Ababa's Somaliland port plans...
The easing of the political confrontation between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and high-ranking politicians including the presidents of Jubaland and Puntland is partly because if no elections take place next year the term of the current president must be extended (AC Vol 66 No 10 Ankara and UAE jostle over Mogadishu)...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud seems to be betting on further sophisticated military equipment and a massive Turkish involvement especially if the oil and gas survey is as good as the rumours say (AC Vol 66 No 10 Ankara and UAE jostle over Mogadishu)...
At issue is President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's efforts to generate enough internal resources to liberate him from dependence on his foreign allies – the United States Britain and the European Union in particular – and lay the groundwork for one-person one-vote elections that he is intent on winning...
But Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's fury and more diplomatic criticism from others forced a rethink (AC Vol 65 No 2 Why Abiy and Muse signed a 'memorandum of misunderstanding')...
They also hoped to take advantage of clan conflicts that had developed in Middle Shabelle and capitalise on elements hostile to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud...
DISPATCHES
When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was greeted on the tarmac at Mogadishu airport by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 27 February hopes were raised of a normalisation of relations after the two leaders fell out a year ago over the status of Somaliland...
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One highly positive development is the accord signed in Ankara between Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud brokered personally by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in December which has calmed the crisis (AC Vol 65 No 14 Abiy Ahmed's sovereignty deal with Muse Abdi risks more regional turmoil)...
In mid-December Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan brokered a deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia...