Vol 66 No 20 |
- AFRICA
- ISLAMISM
In July 2022 Somalia's president Hassan Sheikh Mahamud launched the first real offensive against Al Shabaab in over a decade...
18 Mar – Mogadishu Somalia: Al-Shabaab roadside bomb targeted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's convoy near Villa Somalia killing 10 people and injuring 20...
DISPATCHES
But the pledging conference on the sidelines of the General Assembly chaired by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and co-convened by the AU UN and the United Kingdom delivered plenty of rhetorical support for AUSSOM particularly from troop-contributing neighbouring countries Ethiopia and Kenya but little in the way of cash (Dispatches 7/1/25 Row over troop numbers jeopardises AU mission)...
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The United Arab Emirates has puzzled many observers with its hostility towards the Somali federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and its active support of his opponents in the capital and in the federal member states in the last two years...
Relations between Somali federal President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and then Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo were cordial...
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...