When Al Shabaab attacked an African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) base on 26 May and killed up to 100 Ugandan soldiers and taking prisoners it struck a powerful blow against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's long-running offensive...
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President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government is edging towards an agreement with the international financial institutions that could slash its external debt by 90% after a completion of a review by the IMF's Executive Board...
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International pressure on President Muse Bihi Abdi was strong enough eventually to result in a late March phone conversation with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud which was followed by the assembling of a mediation team of clan elders in Mogadishu...
The picture that emerged was of signal successes in the anti-Al Shabaab campaign in the last six months since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the military campaign his highest priority building on new clan alliances to keep up momentum (AC Vol 64 No 1 Trouble ahead for Hassan Sheikh's united front)...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has bigger fish to fry keeping his anti-Al Shabaab offensive on track and Puntland has no reason to be in Las Anod because it does not support the goal of self-government there – it wants the region to be part of Puntland...
And institution-building a key strategy of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud remains more verbal than real (AC Vol 64 No 1 Trouble ahead for Hassan Sheikh's united front)...
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At the end of last year Issayas hosted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Kenya's President William Ruto as part of his plans to reorganise the regional Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to give Eritrea a greater role...
This is the backdrop to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's continuing commitment to fight Al Shabaab hard...
The horrific Al Shabaab bombing in Mogadishu on 29 October which killed 100 and wounded more than 400 showed the jihadists' defiance in the face of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's new government which has promised to redouble the counter-insurgency campaign intelligence sources are saying (AC Vol 63 No 12 Hassan Sheikh takes Mogadishu by storm)...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud strongly pushed for the Soma deal when he was in office eight years ago...
In Middle Shabelle fighters from the Abgal clan – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's own – are not engaging Al Shabaab...
